Deployment Case Study of SDN

and NFV Transformation

Marcela Blanco-Luna
Solutions Architect
Advanced Services
Future Network Platform
Service Creation
Service Design | Service Assurance | Cloud Optimization

Cloud-based Services
Analytics
Security

Consumer | Business | IoT | Video | Mobility

Policy

Network Abstraction Self

Orchestration | Automation Healing
Network
Infrastructure
Physical | Virtual | Data Center

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Agenda

1 Introduction

2 Reference Architecture

3 Success Stories - Case Studies

4 Learnings and Transformation

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Transforming Through NFV and SDN

Remember this
Transformation?

How is NFV & SDN

really Transforming SPs?

Source: Overture Networks now ADVA Optical Networking

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Level Setting:
NFV/SDN Overview and Architecture
“SDN is like smart plumbing that can be changed on
command, while NFV is like a soft appliance that can be
installed on demand.”
Prayson Pate on SDxCentral

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ETSI MANO Architecture

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What SP’s are asking for?
NFV
MANO 1 Carrier Class Performance
OSS / BSS
NFVO

2 Use Case Agnostic Infrastructure

EM 1 EM 2 EM 3
VNF-M
(VNF
VNFM
Managers)
VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3
3 Open Standards Based, Modular and Elastic
NFVI
Virtual Virtual Virtual
Compute Storage Network
4 Easy to use with Unified Management
Virtualization Layer
VIM
Open Shared Infrastructure
Compute Storage Network
5 Integrated Solution with Single Point of Ownership

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Cisco NFV/SDN Platform

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Success Stories:
Two Service Provider Case Studies
 Success Story I
Service Provider in APJ
Augmenting Service Offering
through NFV
Objectives
• Orchestration over physical and virtual
infrastructure:
• Requirement to use existing
infrastructure composed of multiple
vendor solutions
• Introduce complementary, VAS services
like virtualized routing and security, on
top of existing IP VPN service offerings
Cisco Solutions
• NSO, CSR1kv, ESC
• OSS Integration for operationalisation
of the solution
• Innovations: Tight integration with
Netcracker for E2E service
provisioning via two stage service
provisioning.
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Outcomes
• New revenue streams without large
upfront investments or risks to the
network
• Shortened new services provisioning time
from months to minutes
• Able to offer NFV services at competitive
• Allow customers to have right-size
deployments
• Able to compete more effectively in
lower-cost market segments
 Initial vision for the Project
Customer Vision – Buying process: Customer Vision: Possible Service Chains:

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Solution Overview

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Two Stage Service Creation
4. Service Bus gets the
Service info from NSO via
5. Netcracker uses VLAN REST API: VLAN IDs
ID to allocate IP Address
and returns to Service Bus
6. Service Bus uses REST
API to set the IP address
value to the NSO service
1. OSS System requests
service creation
2.NSO Creates the
service, allocates
VLAN IDs
3. NSO deploys de service
but fails as it doesn’t have
IP address
7. NSO automatically re-
deploys de service and
commits to the Network
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 Success Story I I
Service Provider in APJ
Virtual managed service for SMB
market
Complex Architectural Design – Network, VNFs, OpenStack & Orchestration
Objectives
• Complex operational model:
• Failure & Recovery of NFVI
• Process-level monitoring of
OpenStack
• Throughput Requirement : 1Mbps per
tenant
• Complex technical solution with new
Cisco products (NFVI, VTS+VTF)
Cisco Solutions
• NSO, CSR1kv, NFVI/OpenStack
• Cisco SDN controller and VNF manager
(VTS and ESC)
• Up to 50 tenants per vCPE + 65 sites per
CSR1k
• CSR1k’s pre-provisioned (10 per UCS)
• Innovations: Virtualized Test
Infrastructure & Automated test scripts
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Outcomes
• Physical CPE connected to Internet
(with NAT/Firewall/QoS) and/or to
Voice and Storage services
• Highly scalable design: 43K initial ->
242K tenants
• Extremely tight schedule: AS
maintaining ready-for-service date
despite 4 month PO slip
 NFV Management and Orchestration
NFV Architecture (NFV MANO)

Descriptors
Os-Ma/PSA
OSS/BSS
Existing OSS
Se-Ma
NFV
Network Services
Orchestrator
Orchestrator (NSO) NFVO

Or-Vnfm

E/NMS E/NMS Ve-Vnfm

Virtual Network Function (VNF)
VNF Elastic Service Manager(s)
domain VNF VNF Controller(ESC) Or-Vi
VNFM
CSR1000v
Vn-Nf Vi-Vnfm

Virtualization Layer Virtual

VTS Nf-Vi
OpenStack Vi-Ha OpenStack(Liberty) Infrastructure
NFVI (SDN
Manager(s)
Hardware Resources Controller)
VIM
UCS/Nexus

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Services and Orchestration Overview
• Connectivity services to Internet and Voice Services
• NSO provisions Physical (DC, PBX and ISP GW) and Virtual (vCPE) resources
• Multi-tenant Virtual CPE services including NAT,FW, QoS

Network Service Orchestrator (NSO)

ESC
OpenStack
pCPE
IPinIP DC-GW DC-SW
DC-SW
IPv6 vCPE Internet
(NGN)
Internet-GW

WSAv UCS
pCPE
vPBX
VoIP GW Future

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SDN Controller - VTS
• Virtual Topology Server virtualises the Data Center
• Automates provisioning and management of complex Network overlays via OS
• Uses VTF (Virtual Topology Forwarder) as software data plane on x86 servers

Network Service Orchestrator (NSO)

ESC OpenStack
REST
VTS
Policy Plane
Control Plane

Overlay Network
pCPE ToR Netconf/Yang

IPv6 VTF vCPE

(NGN)
Border Leaf Border Leaf
DC-GW
Internet
pCPE
Internet-GW
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Learnings and Recommendations
 So, are you ready for the transformation?
Are all area of your
organisation onboard? Prioritise use cases,
Do you know what your
CTO/CIO/CMO must-have, should-
Customers want/need?
have, could-have

Does your staff Have your Virtual

(Ops, Eng, IT) have the skills appliances (VNF) been
they need to succeed? tested and certified?

What to virtualise and

to what extent?
Start small, have quick wins and
win the right to expand
Are you ready to embrace
Agile/DevOps?.. Fail Quick!
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Why is Operations Enablement required?
The Actual solution you get

The Vision of the solution sold

What you really need is Tools, Processes and People!

What Happens on Day 2
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 Success Story I I I
Comms Service Provider in Americas region

Transforming through DevOps

and CI/CD

Objectives Cisco Solutions Outcomes

• Significantly reduce time to market
• Cross-functional teams co-located
and with same reporting structure
• Leverage Agile and MVP
• Implement CI/CD framework:
• Consulting services
• Knowledge transfer and Training
• Next Generation Provisioning platform
• More than 100 releases a year
compared to 4 releases done
previously
• Teams seamlessly working towards
common objective

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Implementing DevOps

• Mind shift comes first

• Holistic system thinking
• Bring together disparate teams under
same leadership
• Rapid, useful feedback
• Collaboration

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CI /CD
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
Q&A
manage

Team User Stories, bug tracking

test
Test environment
Jenkins
CI server

Code Reviewer deploy

review
fetch

static
analysis
push pull push pull

clone
SW Developer
Code repository
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