Network Orchestration

Operationalizing a multivendor VNF ecosystem

Business Challenge
Operators are trying to develop and deliver more versatile and attractive
value-added services in order to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced BSS/OSS
communications industry. However, one of the biggest pain points that many
service providers encounter is that their services are still based on hardware.
This means that services depend on the capabilities of purpose-built hardware Service Orchestration

located on-site or at a customer’s premises. As a result, operators are left

managing a large number of proprietary devices, which makes service design,
Network Orchestration
introduction and maintenance a challenge and increases operational expenses.
End-to-End
Design Environment
The switch from rigid, hardware-centric networks to virtualized Lifecycle Management

network functions (VNFs) helps operators accelerate time-to-market

Fault & Performance
for new services and avoid equipment vendor lock-in. By deploying Monitoring
Active Inventory

VNFs from different vendors, service providers can create flexible,

customer-focused bundles.
Virtual Infrastructure
VNF Management
Managmenent
Although diverse, multivendor VNF ecosystems can introduce critical
new revenue-generation opportunities, onboarding and managing these
environments can also bring about complications. Network orchestration Comprehensive Professional Services
is the required solution to address these challenges. Orchestration maintains
a global view of an individual network function virtualization infrastructure
(NFVI) domain and coordinates operations between multiple VNFs.

A comprehensive network orchestration solution enables operators to support:

“The next phase of the network

BB App store-like catalogs that integrate homegrown and third-party

virtualized network services consisting of multiple VNFs.
virtualization opportunity is
operationalization — the ability
to transition a lab environment into

BB Rapid on-demand service provisioning and decommissioning according

to customer demands.
a live deployment of virtualized
network functions, such as those
addressed in the Telekom Austria

BB Granular service customization and customer-controlled service usage.

Group vCPE trial. As a business partner
with deep expertise in networking,

BB “Try-before-you-buy” experiences for new services.

BSS/OSS, orchestration and
professional services, we are excited

BB NEC/Netcracker’s Network Orchestration enables onboarding of multivendor

VNFs. Part of the end-to-end Orchestration solution, it unifies policy-based
to bring the essential resources
Telekom Austria Group requires
to bring new, virtualized services
service fulfillment and assurance management for virtual networks and
to market.”
controls VNF lifecycles. It also optimizes VNF performance by intelligently
placing VNFs based on security, performance and latency requirements. – Telekom Austria Group

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Details
NEC/Netcracker’s catalog-driven Network Orchestration offering
is fully compliant with ETSI MANO architecture framework and
allows operators to enrich their services portfolios with best-in-class,
multivendor VNFs, applications and services in open, flexible and
unconstrained networks.

The NEC/Netcracker Network Orchestration offering provides

virtualized network service lifecycle management, triggers VNF
lifecycle operations via a corresponding VNF manager and manages
NFV infrastructure (NFVI) resources by interacting with corresponding
virtual infrastructure managers (VIMs), both Netcracker’s and third-party.

The NEC/Netcracker Network Orchestration offering includes the capabilities:

Benefits
Generate Revenue Design Environment

AA Introduce innovative, personalized BB Leverage a template-based DevOps approach to network service and
VNF modeling.
converged services and monetize
partner services. BB Implement user-friendly GUIs with drag-and-drop functionality.

AA Quickly onboard third-party VNFs to

provide a better service personalization.
BB Automate the import of YANG service and resource models and TOSCA
deployment templates.

AA Create and monetize new business

models. End-to-End Lifecycle Management

Improve Customer Experience BB Coordinate VNF lifecycle management with the required VNF managers.

AA Personalize and provide flexible

BB Intelligently place VNFs based on security, performance and latency
requirements.

AA
services.

Introduce new customer-centric

BB Align NFVI resource management with corresponding VIMs.

products quickly and on demand.

Active Inventory
AA Enable self-service capabilities with
online service modeling and activation. BB Access a 360-degree view on network service and VNF statuses.

AA Accelerate service provisioning with BB Enable full traceability from logical topology to virtual and physical
infrastructure levels.
online execution monitoring.

Reduce Opex
BB Facilitate real-time orchestration logic and assurance processes.

AA Operate multivendor network

Fault & Performance Monitoring
environment on a single platform. BB Monitor network service fault and performance metrics and execute fault

AA Support automated, policy-driven

correlation and root cause analysis.
operations with limited (or without)
human involvement.
BB Trigger scaling or healing actions automatically based on monitoring
policies.

AA Deploy smart, proactive network

optimization analytics tools.
BB Enable smart, proactive control decisions via embedded big
data analytics.

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