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Telefónica collaborates with Brocade, Cyan, Intel and Red Hat to showcase an orchestrated End-to-End Network Function Virtualization Architecture
Telefónica (News - Alert) announced today that it has presented an end-to-end
network-functions virtualization (NFV) instantiation demonstration in
collaboration with Brocade, Cyan, Intel and Red Hat at the Mobile World
Congress event in Barcelona.
The demo uses the network virtualization framework based on the ETSI (News - Alert) ISG
NFV approach and developed by the Telefónica NFV Reference Lab. It
showcases a Brocade VNF service chain deployed using standard Topology
and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA)
information models through the enhanced Cyan Blue Planet NFV
Orchestration engine onto a network virtual function infrastructure.
The goal of the demo is to demonstrate how an advanced and multi-vendor
implementation of the ETSI ISG NFV architecture with intelligent
orchestration of resources is capable of providing carrier-grade
performance, while a regular cloud infrastructure is insufficient. The
demo shows an NFV service orchestrator instantiating and
operationalizing a virtual network function (VNF), both with and without
enhanced platform awareness optimization techniques that take advantage
of VIM (Virtual Infrastructure Manager) and the Intel (News - Alert)® Open Network
Platform Server features to deliver better performance and resource
utilization.
In order to show the differences, two scenarios were launched in
parallel and compared in terms of performance results: a cloud-like
scenario, where the VIM is forced to allocate resources in a
non-optimized way; and a NFV-ready scenario, where VIM is used to
allocate resources in a deterministic way.
The demo highlights the importance of:
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Industry standard, open and extensible information models such as
TOSCA and Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF)
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Exposure of the performance enablers (NFVI attributes) in the virtual
infrastructure manager (VIM) and OVF Descriptors
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End-to-end NFV service delivery with NFV intelligence built in at each
layer: the VNF, orchestrator, VIM and NFVI
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The ability to intelligently match the performance requirements of
services and VNFs with the available NVFI by optimally placing VNFs on
compute resources
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Demonstrate the differences of optimization techniques (NFVI
attributes) on the VNF and highlight the full utilization of NFV
hardware infrastructure processing capability
In this collaboration, Cyan's Blue Planet SDN and NFV platform is used
as the NFV service orchestrator, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter is used
as the VNF and Telefónica's VIM is providing the virtual infrastructure
manager role, with all running on NFV hardware infrastructure utilizing
Intel processors.
To schedule a live demonstration at Intel booth #3D30 at Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, March 2-5, 2015, contact [email protected].
Telefónica NFV Reference Lab
"Telefónica NFV Reference Lab aims to help the ecosystem of partners and
network equipment vendors to test and develop virtualized network
functions leveraging on an advanced NFV orchestration framework and
proper capabilities for deterministic resource allocation in the pool.
NFV Reference Lab drives this adoption through the release of open
source code, thus encouraging software developers to explore new NFV
possibilities and all this from a well-designed and tiered architecture
proposal. Its aim is to promote interoperability and provide a more open
ecosystem so that telecommunications providers adapt and expand their
network services more easily," said Enrique Algaba, Network Innovation
and Virtualisation Director, Telefónica I+D- Global CTO.
Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter
The Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter is the industry-leading virtual router
leveraging Intel DPDK that showcases superior levels of performance and scale by full utilization of Intel®-based NFV hardware for telco
providers. Brocade's extensible and open operating system also
highlights the ease of advanced interoperability for intelligent network
service orchestrators like Cyan by utilizing common and open data models
providing telcos with the ability to deploy critical VNF's with
confidence.
"This multi-faceted demonstration highlights precisely the advantages of
the New IP in an open networking ecosystem: rapid innovation by vendors,
converging into an elegant solution driven by a leading NFV adopter,
Telefónica. The ease of intelligent orchestration allows for true
automation of the full capabilities for all components within the NFV
ecosystem," said Kelly Herrell, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Software Networking, Brocade.
Cyan's Blue Planet SDN and NFV Platform
Blue Planet is Cyan's innovative multi-domain and multi-technology SDN
and NFV orchestration software. Architected to be entirely modular, data
and template- driven, Blue Planet coordinates the intelligent
allocation, creation and management of a wide range of virtual and
physical resources and services. Focused on enabling operators to
leverage the agility, flexibility and dynamism offered by SDN and NFV
architectures, it supports a degree of automation not available via
conventional management systems.
"The intelligent NFV orchestration and placement PoC with Telefónica at
Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) is a clear example of the power of collaboration
as it relates to driving real-world NFV use cases," said Mike Hatfield,
president, Cyan. "The multi-vendor platform provides a unique framework
for showcasing how Brocade's VNF and Telefónica's VIM can expose
performance requirements and characteristics to Cyan's enhanced
infrastructure aware NFV orchestrator. The orchestrator intelligently
places the VNFs on Intel servers to meet the VNF's specific performance
needs and efficiently use compute resources to deliver end-to-end
services. This is an important issue that needs to be solved by the
industry for deployment of NFV-enhanced services at massive scale."
Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA)
The demonstration shows a whole new level of intelligence for enhanced
platform awareness and VNF workload placement in NFV orchestration. By
employing open data models such as TOSCA and OVF with the ETSI NFV
architecture, the orchestrator is able to intelligently assign VNFs to
the optimal hardware and software to meet new levels of performance and
SLA predictability on Intel® processors.
"The Intel® Network Builders community is committed to advancing SDN/NFV
by enabling a broad and rich set of commercial solutions based on open
source and standards," said Rene Torres, Director of Marketing, Software
Defined Networking Division, Intel Corporation. "The NFV demonstration
with Telefónica is a good example of collaboration between Intel Network
Builders members to drive performance improvements and innovation in NFV
development."
Red Hat Collaboration
Telefónica and Intel also collaborated with Red Hat, the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, on upstream development of, and
testing of many NFV supporting features in the NFV Reference Lab,
including:
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vCPU pinning
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Large pages support
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NUMA aware scheduling, including CPU, memory, and I/O device layout
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SR-IOV device passthrough
As part of this collaboration, Red Hat designed, developed, and
implemented these features in the upstream OpenStack community and
relevant projects, including OpenStack Compute (Nova) and OpenStack
Networking (Neutron).
Red Hat is not only a leader in the upstream OpenStack community, but
also as a provider of carrier-grade, production-ready OpenStack
solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a highly
scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, is emerging as a
leading cloud platform for NFV.
"Building the foundation for an open NFV infrastructure requires
expertise in Linux, KVM, and OpenStack - all areas of open source where
Red Hat is a leading contributor," said Radhesh Balakrishnan, general
manager, OpenStack, Red Hat. "By collaborating on the NFV Reference Lab,
we're not only bringing features and expertise back to the upstream
OpenStack community and our carrier-grade Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack platform, but also enabling CSPs to successfully implement
their modernization plans through NFV."
About Telefónica
Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the
world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. With
its best in class mobile, fixed and broadband networks, and innovative
portfolio of digital solutions, Telefónica is transforming itself into a
'Digital Telco', a company that will be even better placed to meet the
needs of its customers and capture new revenue growth.
The company has a significant presence in 21 countries and a customer
base of more than 316 million accesses around the world. Telefónica has
a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where the company
focuses an important part of its growth strategy.
Telefónica is a 100% listed company, with more than 1.5 million direct
shareholders. Its share capital currently comprises 4.551.024.586
ordinary shares traded on the Spanish Stock Market and on those in
London, New York, Lima, and Buenos Aires.
About Brocade
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world's leading
organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and
information reside anywhere. (www.brocade.com)
About Cyan
Cyan (NYSE: CYNI) enables network transformation. The company's SDN and
NFV solutions deliver orchestration, agility, and scale to networks,
that until now, have been static and hardware driven. Serving carriers,
enterprises, governments, and data centers globally, Cyan's open
platforms provide multi-vendor control and visibility to network
operators, making service delivery more efficient and profitable. For
more information, please visit http://www.cyaninc.com
or follow Cyan on Twitter (News - Alert) at twitter.com/CyanNews.
About Red Hat
Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.,
registered in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered
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trademark/service mark of the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States
and other countries, and is used with the OpenStack Foundation's
permission. Red Hat is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the
OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack community.
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