This week, May 13-14, ONUG, or the Open Networking User Group, will meet at Columbia University's Alfred Lerner Hall in New York City, NY.

ONUG is the leading user-driven community of IT Business Leaders, CTOs, network architects, especially including those implementing SDN, who are focused on leveraging the power of their engineering and procurement to influence the pace and deployment of open networking solutions.

If you are planning on attending, I'd like to provide you with a quick overview of the activities Cisco will be participating in at the Open Networking User Group.

On conference day 1, May 13, the SD-WAN and the Virtual Network Overlay Working Groups will present their top ten findings and present their work.

Check out the SD-WAN Working Group Update with Cisco speaker, Steve Wood, Principal Engineer, Enterprise Routing, from 10:00-10:45 am.

Then during the Technology Showcase Break, meet Sumanth Kakaraparthi, Product Manager, Enterprise Routing and Bill Reilly, Technical Marketing Engineer, Enterprise Routing who will deliver an IWAN/SD-WAN Demo at the Cisco demo station.

Next, attend the Virtual Networks/Overlays Working Group Update with Cisco speaker, Mike Cohen, Director of Product Management, Insieme Networks, on May 13 from 12:00-12:45 pm.

Following these updates will be a luncheon presentation: "Faster WAN Delivery: Software Defined WAN-as-a-Service" on May 13 from 1:30-2:30 pm delivered by Cisco speaker, Jeff Reed, VP, Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group.  Jeff will be joined by partner speakers: Jeff Gray, Glue Networks CEO and Matt Cook, Forsythe Sr. Director -Network & Workspace Solutions.

From 4:05-5:00pm, there will be a lively debate on "Closed vs. Open Source Software" moderated by Ernest Lefner, Bank of America, between Charles Giancarlo, Silver Lake, taking the Pro Closed position and Lew Tucker, Cisco VP/CTO for Openstack, taking the Pro Open position.  You can carry on the debates yourselves afterwards at the Cocktail Reception from 5:00-7:00.

The next day on May 14 from 2:45-3:45 pm there will be a Town Hall Meeting with leaders from Facebook, Ansible, Nuage, vArmour and our own, Mike Dvorkin, Cisco Distinguished Engineer, Insieme Networks, who will all speak on "Will the DevOps Model Deliver in the Enterprise?".

Finally, that evening join us at a Cisco Sponsored After Party from 5:00 -9:00 pm.

For Further Information

Cisco Intelligent WAN

ONUG Blog -VXLAN Comes of Age with BGP-EVPN

MP-BGP eVPN control plane for VXLAN -SDN is growing up

Cisco Border Gateway Protocol Control Plane for Virtual Extensible LAN

VXLAN Network with MP-BGP EVPN Control Plane

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