Laxmi Mukund

Principal Engineer, CISCO
and

Rajesh Tarakkad Venkateswaran

Full stack developer | architect | technology evangelist

Title

Next generation networks – Open, intent based and programmable.

Abstract

Open, extensible, programmable – terms that are for the first time being associated with networks. Network as a platform brings in a lot of possibilities.
As a simple example, consider this scenario. An application that could monitor the activity of a host and based on the activity determine if the host is compromised with malware and then automatically take an action of quarantining the host or limiting the host’s access to the network, and all this by using northbound RESP APIs exposed by the network platform.
Applications like these can now take advantage of the network and become more effective. There are APIs that can give you information about the network with port and packet level granularity. Equipped with such information, very interesting applications can be written that not only monitory networks for health, performance, security but also for taking actions based on some insights. With data comes the power of making real time decisions in the network. With the network becoming extensible and programmable, it is no longer a silo just offering connectivity and speeds. It has the power now to be integrated with different IT and network system processes. The open platform and the developer ecosystem is now available for anyone to create business, security and monitoring applications.

Know the Speakers

Laxmi Mukund is a Principle Engineer at Cisco with about 18 years of experience and a master's degree in computer science and networking. She works on various routing and switching platforms leading and developing features in the areas of core routing, netflow, LISP (Locator Identity Separation Protocol), Vxlan, SDA. Her key focus area for the last two years has been customer interaction - understanding their key requirements and translating them into usable features.

Rajesh has been working on Cisco network management products for the better part of the last two decades working on everything from enterprise and service provider platforms with technologies ranging from voice to VPNs and app hosting. Over the last few years he has been working on the Cisco Edge app hosting team helping formulate their strategy for managing apps in both the IoT and the enterprise domain. A holder of 4 patents around IoT architectures and enterprise management tools, his current areas of interest include exploring cloud tools as a possible option for managing apps at the edge.