ACTIVE DATA:

DYNAMIC
ASSURANCE

Deploying active, automated testing and monitoring solutions that produce

real time, targeted KPI data will allow operators to assure end user
experiences as they take NFV live.

1 Operators say that dynamic SLA management and

service assurance is key to getting NFV operational

Over 100 network operators and service How do we run NFV with existing networks
providers worldwide participated in and services? How do we assure on-demand
Heavy Reading’s NFV Service Assurance services? And how do we offer dynamic
customer SLAs? Without these answers, service
and Analytics research study*. They rated providers cannot commercialise services and
the following as the top five ‘Massive’ or make the business case for moving to NFV
‘Significant’ challenges to operationalise NFV. and cloud networks.
SANDRA O'BOYLE
Senior Analyst - CEM & Customer Analytics, Heavy Reading

59% 58% 57% 54% 52%

Assuring end-to-end Offering Integration/API Handling volume Assuring hybrid

performance of dynamic SLAs issues between of data from VNFs networks in
multi-vendor VNFs OSS and MANO in real time common platform

*NFV Assurance and Analytics Survey. Heavy Reading (September 2017).

A research survey, including in-depth interviews, of 105 service providers.

2 So what do operators want from assurance?

Here’s how they rate the value of service assurance solutions as they begin utilizing
multi-vendor VNFs and running new services across hybrid NFV and legacy networks.

High value Medium value Low value

Real-time in-line
processing analytics,
telemetry, streaming,
event and faults
correlation layer
72%
24%
4%
For customer-centric service assurance,
Active testing and
service providers need to visualise their
Unified performance
monitoring as a
VNF provisioned
monitoring across
service, network and
end-to-end services, be able to prioritise
issues and avoid faults that impact
automatically telco cloud layers
by an orchestrator
62%
34%
59%
35% customers, and reduce meaningless
4% 6%
data overload.

Ability to measure Automated prioritization Ability to go back to a Active testing

application response and suggested fixes point-in-time to visually complementing passive
times in real time and from AI for faults based replay network route/ monitoring metrics
automate mediation on predicted customer service quality/ (e.g., OpenStack)
impact faults, etc.
52% 47% 46% 46%
38% 43% 44% 51%
10% 11% 11% 4%

3 The question is, how can they do all that?

Operators should adopt new data sources
One answer is to improve intelligence that can measure actual delivered service
and visibility with high quality data. quality in real time and from the customer
perspective – "small data" that can directly
This is achieved with an active testing provide CSPs with relevant service KPIs.
and monitoring solution that:

L7
L6
L5
L4
L3
L2

Is software based Monitors specific Simultaneously tests Can be automated Is flexible and can
SLA KPIs in real time and monitors across and has programmable cover all domains -
network layers APIs to integrate physical, hybrid
MANO and OSS and virtual

4
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