Panel Discussion: (Really!) Outside the Box: Cisco’s Open Source Journey
summary
Cisco describes concrete projects and outcomes: ipv6 support in Kubernetes is under active SIG development and targets the 1.9 release, engineers lead the CNI and DNS integrations; streaming network analytics (SNAS) moved to the Linux Foundation to collect real‑time BGP state at scale; and Cisco runs a production MetaCloud on‑prem OpenStack service and contributes to FD.io/VPP. Internal hurdles include provenance checks, fragmented teams, unclear contribution processes and the need to justify open sourcing with a tangible business‑value and community growth plan.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Ed Damian Hanson
- 2:01Charles Echo
- 4:44Anne McCormack
- 8:48Why Open Source
- 10:56Waves of the Internet
- 11:46Why Kubernetes
- 16:23Audience Question
- 18:38Open Source is a Utopia
- 19:12How to do Open Source
- 20:45Ciscos Open Source Experience
- 22:46How Does Open Source Work
- 23:24How Does Open Source Monetize
- 26:20Why Are You Here
- 27:17Whats Next
- 27:51Open Source and Standards
- 29:06Are you a standards guy
- 29:37When to push for standards vs open source
- 30:36IETF hackathons
- 31:17Which one is sexier
- 31:39Standardization
- 33:32Container Network Interface
- 34:38BGP
- 35:37Open Source
- 36:22Interoperability
- 37:22Open Source Strategy
- 37:52Creating Value
- 39:56Open Source Example
- 41:13Benefits of Open Source
- 41:32Whos in the back
- 42:56Traditional company
- 45:33Thank you
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