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Erlang eXchange 2008: Claes Wikström on Erlang & Tail - F
Erlang & Tail - F
Tail-f is an advanced tech company, that owes its great success to Erlang. Tail-f builds a toolkit/library which we sell to networking device manufacturers such as Qualcom, Nortel, Alcatel and Ericsson.
All devices, such as switcher, routers, VPN gateways etc need to be managed. Traditionally all manufacturers of networking equipment bought their SNMP agents as COTS software and built the CLI and the WebUI in house. This
situation was changed when the NETCONF
protocol was introduced in 2006. An XML based protocol, backed by Cisco and Juniper, the NETCONF
protocol provides a strict machine-machine interface through which a network device can be managed, configuration data information can be retrieved, new configuration data can be uploaded and manipulated.
The Tail-f ConfD product provides a toolkit, which if used on the network device, dynamically renders all four necessary northbound interfaces, e.g. NETCONF, CLI, WebUI and SNMP.
In this talk on Erlang and Tail-f, Klacke will describe and discuss Tail-f's technical strategy, which leveraged the power of Erlang technology to achieve fast time to market, whilst delivering a piece of software small and fast enough to enable successful deployment on low end networking devices.
ABOUT CLAES WIKSTRöM
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Claes Wikström has been involved in the Erlang
community from the very early days, the beginning of the 1990s. He has contributed several significant pieces of softwareto the Erlang community, such as; The ASN.1 compiler, Distributed Erlang,Mnesia
More about Claes Wikström
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