Making NFV Easy

April 4, 2017

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To make deployment easy, we need solutions that:

• Perform

• Meet budget

• Fit architecturally

• Scale

• Exist

It’s Time to Deploy NFV!

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The Trends in NFV Are Broader Than Technology

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What Is Needed? Multi-Vendor Ecosystems!

• Insistence on different suppliers at each layer

• Requires cooperation between operator, suppliers AND customer

• Raises importance of APIs and ability to cooperate

• Business case has to work for EVERYONE

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What is Needed? Performance!

Pick the best for the application

Pure Compute(x86 or ARM)

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Performance requirements (throughput, latency, etc.) and cost

DPDK(x86 or ARM)

SR-IOV Hybrid NIDSmart NIC

Small vCPE Large vCPE

Data Center MEC, CORD

Examples:

• ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe

• Juniper NFX250

• Ciena 3938vi

• RAD D-NFV

• Telco Systems CloudMetro 100

Example Functions:

• Switching

• TCP offload

• Encryption offload

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Performance Comparison – DPDK on Atom• Test of Open vSwitch versus ADVA Ensemble Connector

• Atom server – 8 cores, Gigabit offered load

• Extract of EANTC report at Light Reading

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What Is Needed? Deployability!

• Operationally simple (e.g., zero touch)

• Scalable (e.g., embedded cloud)

• COTS hardware - eases import

• Cloud-native software

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What Is Needed? Security!

NFVI

• SELinux enforces mandatory access control policies

• Root OS login blocked on Ethernet ports

• SSH key based login options to eliminate password exposure

• Management firewall protection

• Ability to enable/disable accounts and lock-out on multiple failed logins

• Embedded cloud architecture presents minimal attack surface

MANO/System

• 2-factor authentication at customer site

• LTE enable geo-locking of CPE devices

• Encryption of management and user tunnels

• Radius or TACACS+ authentication options

• Multi-tenant orchestrator

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What Is Needed? Agility and DevOps!

From https://www.collab.net/solutions/development-process

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What Is Needed? Urgency and Focus!

Trying to boil the ocean creates

noise and fireworks, but little

progress.

• Pick a simple use case – uCPE

• Assign a cross-functional team

• Pick partners

• Get started and get a win!

• Apply the lessons learned

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Summary - 2017 Is the Year of NFV Deployments

… especially for operators who can solve the problems encountered when taking NFV from the lab to large-scale rollout

That means collaborating with partners who can offer:

• Software-based services

• Ecosystem of partners

• Solutions for deployment issues

• Optimization of low-cost COTS servers

• Security at multiple layers

• Partnership in an Agile and DevOps model

• Focus and a sense of urgency!

Deployability – Scalability – Security -Agility – Openness – Cost-Efficiency -

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