Red Hat NFV Solution OverviewLevel 201 - version 1

Ali KafelTechnical Product Marketing 10/30/2016

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The promise of NFV

Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview

Successes and differentiation

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AGENDA

Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

84% of Telcos have committed to NFV and another 14% are considering it

68% of Telcos are already using or testing NFV

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Industry trends

By 2021…

Mobile data traffic will increase by

10xThere will be

9 billionmobile subscriptions

>85%of subscriptions will be for mobile

broadband

The cost to support data traffic is increasing, but therevenue from data services is growing much slower.

Source: Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2016.

10X multiplier is between 2015-2021

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Problems with Legacy Telecom Infrastructure

• Mostly based on proprietary HW• Rigid and inflexible• High costs• Limited scalability• Difficult to innovate

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How the industry is responding

Software-based functions on COTS

Automation, Standards, service orchestration

Network Functions Virtualization, SDN

Cloud, Microservices

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Network functions virtualization (NFV)Virtualize multi-vendor network functions onto commodity hardware – with fast elastic scalability and dynamic resource allocation

Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs)

Commodity Networking

Commodity Storage

Commodity Servers

Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure(NFVI) Compute Storage Network

Management and Orchestration (MANO

In layman terms, NFV is all about deploying network functionality (routing, firewalling, load balancing, WAN optimization, etc.) in virtualized environment (virtual machines or Linux containers).

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Benefits of NFV

Dynamic scalability

Lower costs

Increased flexibility

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Why use open source technologies for NFV?

83% of telco operators demand or prefer open systems for their networks

95% of telco operators seeopen source as a positive attribute for NFV solutions

Fast innovation

Choice of vendors

Modern new ideas

Source: Doyle Research, “Open Networking Drives NFV Innovation for the Telecom Industry,” December 2014.

The promise of NFV

Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview

Successes and differentiation

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Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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Community Product Partners

Upstream first innovation

Unified fabric for NFV and IT

Choice via certified ecosystem

Red Hat NFV Strategy

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Red Hat NFV Solution is based on Standard Red Hat products, all open source and “upstream first”• Adheres to ETSI NFV ISG which defines a reference architecture, and OPNFV an open source

reference platform

• A complete understanding of all relevant and separate open source projects

• Experience working, contributing and coordinating with multiple communities

Strategy: Upstream First

Harness open source innovation to drive digital transformation

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Community StrategyLeadership through upstream contribution

1,639 or 12.1%

<100 or <1%

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Linux Kernel 4.3 — Contribution by changesets

https://lwn.net/Articles/654633<100 or <1%

169 or 24%

<25 or <1%

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KVM— Contribution by Employer in 2015

KVM Forum 2015– Keynote (Paolo Bonzini) <25 or <1%

(Red Hat + eNovance) - 38,968 or 17%

2,052 or <1%

24,662 or 11%

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OpenStack — Contribution Ocata Release

www.stackalytics.com

516 or 4%

12 or <1%

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OVS (Open vSwitch) — Contribution Since Inception

www.stackalytics.com

798 or 9%

382 or 4%

182 or 1%

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OPNFV — Contribution Since Inception

www.stackalytics.com

2n

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OpenDaylight (ODL) — Contribution Since Inception

http://spectrometer.opendaylight.org

7% 2,384 or 7%

<100 or <1%

<100 or <1%

● Red Hat is a leading contributor across all the key open source community projects

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Red Hat NFV Solution adheres to the ETSI NFV reference architecture and the OPNFV reference platform

ETSI NFV

Red Hat delivers the entire core NFV infrastructure and Partner Ecosystem

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• Product Approach instead of Customized solution (Introduce NFV features into existing product portfolio instead of creating a dedicated Solution)

• One package for Secure Linux, KVM, OpenStack, Ceph Storage and CloudForms– Ease of Deployment and lifecycle management (in-place upgrades)– Real-Time KVM for low latency– DPDK-Accelerated OpenVSwitch

• Carrier Class at cloud scale Platform– Security– High Availability– Management– Performance

• Vast support of partners - inherits Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified HW catalog • Multiple customers

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Going forward, we will focus on strengthening the areas where the industry has gaps

• We have covered performance and functionality for NFV• Next areas of focus will be:

○ Service Assurance and Operational Management

○ Security improvements

○ Standardized onboarding of VNFs

The promise of NFV

Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview

Successes and differentiation

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Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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Partners

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Red Hat NFV Partners*Management &Orchestration

(MANO)

SDN AND NETWORK PLUG-INS SDS PLUG-INS

* Some of these partners are in the process of being certified - see https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/category/Software?ecosystem=Red%20Hat%20OpenStack%20Platform

VNFsvDPIvDDoS vRoutervCPE vCDNvEPC

vSMSvMMSvPCRFvLB vADC

vIMSVoLTEvSBC

List of certified Telco/OSP partners

VNFs SDS Plug-ins MANOSDN and other Network Plug-ins

Other OSP Plug-ins

The promise of NFV

Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview

Successes and differentiation

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Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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● Multiple groups within Telefonica using Red Hat products for IaaS, PaaS and NFV● elefonica Global Solutions (TGSol) offer international voice services, iP, capacity,

broadband, satellites, mobility, and global solutions. Its services and solutions are used in more than 170 countries

● C.A. Mobile, a leading mobile services provider in Japan, built a flexible infrastructure to support its websites with an OpenStack cloud solution from Red Hat and Dell. Was able to quickly achieve their complex auto-scaling goals with RH OpenStack

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Summary

Red Hat delivers the most comprehensive, open software stack for NFV.

Co-engineered product for Integrated Reliability and

Security

Top Contributor in Community Projects and “upstream first”

Most extensivePartners

Most knowledgeable Support and depth & breadth of products