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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads - Gergely Csatari, Nokia; Lionel Jouin, Ericsson; Doug Smit & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google
Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12
Kubernetes and the cloud native paradigm is beneficial not for web services, but for telecom and networking workloads also. These telecom and networking workloads have more special requirements for the platform due to the nature of their functionality. One big area for these extra requirements is networking. The cloud native ecosystem responded to these needs with a couple of additions to Kubernetes, but these can not provide complete functionality without modifications in Kubernetes itself. In this panel leading experts in Kubernetes networking who are in the forefront of developing and providing these additional features will discuss what are the still missing features, how to find a balance between modifying Kubernetes and providing an add-on components, and what are the limitations of modifying Kubernetes.
Speakers
avatar for Doug Smith

Doug Smith

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network... Read More →
avatar for Gergely Csatari

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia
Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is responsible for open source. In... Read More →
avatar for Surya Seetharaman

Surya Seetharaman

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc
Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems... Read More →
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Lionel Joiun

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology
Lionel Jouin is a Software Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He actively contributes to Kubernetes with a focus on bringing native support for secondary networks and its ecosystem including services and policies…. His contributions span SIG Network... Read More →
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Antonio Jimenez Martinez

Tech Lead Software Engineer, Cisco ThousandEyes
I am a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes, specializing in observability to ensure our customers can effectively monitor their products. My recent work involves using OpenTelemetry to stream telemetry data, enhancing network visibility and performance for our clients.I... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12
  Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

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