[CENTRA Webinar]
Date:12/16/2020 from 9-10am (Eastern) by Global *CENTRA project via ACIS Lab, University of Florida.* globalcentra.org
[SPEAKER]
Dr. Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
[ABSTRACT]
Edge and fog computing encompass a variety of technologies that are poised to enable new applications across the Internet that support data capture, storage, processing, and communication across the networking continuum: from Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to edge and cloud data centers. These environments pose unique challenges to the design and implementation of networks: membership can be dynamic, devices are heterogeneous, widely distributed geographically and/or mobile, and potentially assigned private IP addresses constrained by policies of different NAT (Network Address Translation) and firewall middleboxes. This talk overviews EdgeVPN.io, an open-source, software-defined network (SDN) that addresses challenges in the deployment of virtual networks spanning distributed edge and cloud resources. In particular, the talk describes the Evio software architecture, how it leverages standards and open-source software for firewall/NAT traversal (XMPP, STUN, TURN, and WebRTC), how it integrates with open-source SDN software switches (Open vSwitch), and how it supports deployment of unmodified container-based middleware and services (Docker, Kubernetes, and Flannel).
