Peleg Erlich presentation on the Principles and Attributes of NFV Orchestration and Automation at the ETSI Future Networks Workshop from 9-11, April 2013 in SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE.

1. NFV ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION—
PRINCIPLES AND ATTRIBUTES
Peleg Erlich CloudBand Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent
ETSI Future Networks Workshop 9-11, April 2013
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE
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2. AGENDA
1. THE CARRIER CHALLENGE
2. NFV ORCHESTRATOR CHALLENGE
3. NFV ORCHESTRATOR EXPECTATIONS
4. NFV ARCHITECTURE
5. CHALLENGES OF AUTOMATING THE VNF LIFECYCLE
6. NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION PRINCIPLES
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3. VIRTUALIZATION: A (CYNICAL) ENGINEER’S VIEW
VIRTUALIZATION IS ANSWER BUT WE NEED TO BE MORE THAN BLIND
MONKEYS !
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4. THE CARRIER CHALLENGE
FROM THE CARRIER OF TODAY… …TO THE CARRIER OF TOMORROW.
Static and OPEX-heavy, with multiple Increased agility and decreased OPEX, with
management systems and slow time to market. unified orchestration and faster to market.
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5. NFV ORCHESTRATOR CHALLENGES
• How to select tools and techniques for the instantiation, activation, resource allocation
and programming of Virtual Network Function (VNF)?
• How to ensure that actions are performed in consistent way across all physical
resources? and distributed environment ?
• How to ensure that VNF consumes resources effectively across distributed
infrastructure?
• How to monitor all available data about cloud nodes, allocated resources, network and
transactions?
• How to display the data and alerts to user and make them available over open APIs? And
how to apply analytics, trending and prediction and feeding it back into optimization.
• How to trigger events when metrics cross defined threshold?
• How to identify security mechanisms?
• What are the best practices to improve O&M functionality?
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6. NFV ORCHESTRATOR EXPECTATIONS
Life-Cycle
Monitoring
VM
Site A Node
Deployment
Site B
AUTONOMOUS OPENNESS and CARRIER PaaS ANALYTICS- FULLY
MULTI-VENDOR DRIVEN BUSINESS DISTRIBUTED
SUPPORT INTELLIGENT CLOUD TOPOLOGY
FUNCTIONALITY
>REAL TIME >RELIABILITY
>SELF MONITORING >OPENSOURCE API >FULL LIFE CYCLE
>DYNAMIC AND >WORKLOAD
>NORTHBOUND MANAGEMENT MIGRATION
>SELF HEALING PROACTIVE
>SOUTHBOUND >ON BOARDING >FEDERATION
>TRANSFORM >END-TO-END
FAULTS TO >SCALING IN/OUT
CAPACITY >SELF HEALING
REDUCTION ISSUE
>ELASTICITY
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7. NFV ARCHITECTURE
VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3 VNF 4
Virtual Network Function
Life Cycle Management — cPaaS OPEN API
OSS
OPEN APIs
NFV MANAGEMENT & ORCHESTRATOR
IaaS SDN/Network
Controller Controller
Distribute
d Nodes
Distributed Nodes Network Connectivity
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8. CHALLENGES OF AUTOMATING
THE VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTION LIFECYCLE
INSTALLATION LOAD SCALING
BALANCER
WEB WEB
SERVER SERVER
CONFIGURATION
LOAD HEALING
BALANCER
VNF VNF
SERVER SERVER
MONITORING UPGRADES
DATABASE
SERVER
MULTI-TIERED HIGH-AVAILABILITY VNF
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9. NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION PRINCIPLES
REPORTING &
ANALYTICS CAPABILITIES
• LEVERAGES THE NETWORK
• OPENNESS ACROSS ALL
LAYERS
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• DISTRIBUTED, SCALABLE ENABLING
WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT SERVICES CARRIER PAAS
AND APPLICATION
LIFECYLE
• CARRIER PAAS MANAGEMENT
• END-TO-END SOLUTION DATA
OPTIMAL
• NEW OPERATIONAL MODEL LOCATION
MONITORING
CAPABILITIES FOR
ALERTS
NODE
SOLUTION THAT ENABLES COMPLEX NETWORK SERVICE INTEGRATION –
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10. LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH
Peleg.Erlich@Alcatel-Lucent.com
www.alcatel-Lucent.com/cloud
@ALU_Cloud
facebook.com/AlcatelLucentCloud
Learn about Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand — The first platform for NFV
http://bit.ly/CloudBandNFV
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