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Diego R. Lopez
Telefonica I+D
July 2014
Enter the Software Era
- +
SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
+ -
Segmented management: High OPEX, often with low utilization of resources, high complexity, and slow time-to-
market for deploying any kind of network service…
…Makes IT Nonsense
x
• Much less intensive in
human resources x opens the door to the
development of OTT
• Era dominated by services (without
complex and specific operator)
hardware. Software • Software becomes a
appears and is important differentiation asset
• Services defined by telco
Second half of the twentieth century Early twenty-first century
Network Virtualization = SDN + NFV
SDN NFV
• Decouple the control and data planes • Separate functionality from capacity
Gain programmability Increase network elasticity
Simplify data plane elements Reduce heterogeneity
SDN
FEATURE FEATURE
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
FEATURE FEATURE FORWARDING HARDWARE FEATURE FEATURE
OPERATING SYSTEM OPERATING SYSTEM
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
FORWARDING HARDWARE
SDN
Boxes with autonomous
behaviour Decisions are taken out of the box
FEATURE FEATURE
FEATURE FEATURE
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
FORWARDING HARDWARE FEATURE FEATURE
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
SDN
FORWARDING HARDWARE FEATURE FEATURE FORWARDING HARDWARE
OPERATING SYSTEM
SPECIALIZED PACKET
FORWARDING HARDWARE
• Translation: assemblers,
compilers, interpreters, linkers
• Testing and debugging
OVS OVS
DC Orchestrator
about the network
• And then talk to the network to
CDN
BoD
OSS
…
optimize performance
• SDN acts in a similar way to an ESB
(or CORBA, for the old-timers)
An adaptor to go from protocols to
APIs and vice versa ALTO
A translator, which summarizes OFC ...
Server
network properties
A security/policy gateway that
enforces which application is
allowed to learn what and change
what, and who gets priority Network Elements
Network OS
NFV
IDE SDN App
Orchestrator
User Space (/usr)
Northbound Interface
Topology
vRouter
vSwitch
SDN Apps
TE
…
Libraries
Services
App Execution Environment(s)
Distributed OS / Accounting /
State Consistency Namespaces Namespaces and Module Management
Network Elements
Network Functions Virtualisation
Network Functions are based on specific HW&SW Network Functions are SW-based over well-known HW
One physical node per role Multiple roles over same HW
The NFV Concept
COMMON HW
CAPACITY
(Servers & Switches)
The ETSI NFV ISG
VNF Instances
SW Instances
VNF VNF VNF VNF
VNF : Virtualized Network Function
NFV Infrastructure
Os-Ma
OSS/BSS Orchestrator
Se-Ma
Service, VNF and Infrastructure
Description
Or-Vnfm
Vn-Nf Vi-Vnfm
NFVI
Virtual Virtual Virtual
Computing Storage Network
Nf-Vi Virtualized
Virtualization Layer Infrastructure
Vl-Ha Manager(s)
Hardware resources
Computing Storage Network
Hardware Hardware Hardware
Execution reference points Other reference points Main NFV reference points
Architectural Use Cases
User
NSP
VNF Forwarding Graph
VNF Admin
VNF VNF User
VNPaaS
Admin VNF VNF
User
VNFaaS
Hosting Service Provider
VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF VNF
VNF Tenants
NFVIaaS
NFVI
Provider
IaaS NaaS NaaS PaaS PaaS SaaS
It Ain’t Cloud Applied to Carriers
2
Network requires shape GLOBAL NETWORK VIEW IS
(+ E2E interconnection) REQUIRED FOR
MANAGEMENT
Service-layer SDN
Simplify management, closing the gap between business logic and operation
NFV
Separation of HW and SW
No vertical integration
Pool - HW vendor ≠ SW vendor ≠ Mgmt vendor
admin Once network elements are SW-based,
Session
UPnP HW can be managed as a pool of
mgmt
IPv4 / NAT resources
IPv6
NAT
TR-069 DHCP ctrl.
Infrastructural SDN
Virtual backplane
Separation of control and data plane
Easy orchestration with SW domain
An Evolutionary Approach
Home environment
STB
Virtual FW
UPnP
CPE
Access Point Switch Módem IPv4/IPv6
TR-069
DHCP NAT
• Simple, stable along the time and cheaper • Service evolution and operation is supported inside
customer premises equipment telco network
• Monetize cloud and video services (virtual set top
• Quick and transparent migration to IPv6 box)
• Monetize security and digital identity features
• >80 Gbps line rate per server • Flexible data analysis and signature
upgrade
• Stable signatures
• Forensic analysis feasible.
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