Accelerating Control Plane for Edge - Hongjun Ni, Intel Management for Edge Networking requires low resource (CPU cores and memory) and fast configuration.Sweetcomb is a new open source project to configure and telemetry Appliances, VNFs and CNFs to meet above needs.It can be leveraged in Edge and Cloud to accelerate control plane, such as uCPE, SD-WAN, 5G, IoT, etc.There are 12 industry founders, including Intel, Cisco, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, China Mobile etc.This paper will introduce Sweetcomb project and contains key elements:1) Software Architecture to provide a common framework with extensive plugins.2) Provides gRPC, NETCONF and RESTCONF northbound interfaces to integrate with ONAP, K8s, ODL and ONOS.3) Supports High Availability and real-time streaming telemetry in Containers.4) Supports IETF Yang models for Telecom and OpenConfig Yang models for Cloud.5) Supports different Data Planes based on VPP, DPDK, Linux Kernel and OVS.6) Deployement in a real SD-WAN use case and lessons learned.
