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Constantine Polychronopoulos

VP & CTO, Telco/NFV

FUT3215BE

#VMworld #FUT3215BE

Leading the 5G and IoTRevolution through NFV Powering the 4th Industrial Revolution Led by Telcos

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Disclaimer

#FUT321BE CONFIDENTIAL 2



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NFV: The much needed transformation has started…



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The CSPs transformation to Service & App Providers cannot wait any longer

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IoT (5G) will intensify competition and open up new opportunities

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Old model is financially untenableCan’t keep up with demand

6Traditional infrastructure Partially or fully virtualized infrastructure NFVI

Netw

ork

Cost

2G+ 3G

3G+HSPA+

1998 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2016 2018 2020

Circuit Switched Circuit- SwitchedPacket- Switched Core

Full IP E2E Virtualization

2014

CDPD1G 2G

4GLTE

LTE & LTE-AdvancedM2M Apps

5G Fully Virtualized

Wireless Data Traffic

Cost of Scaling Network Without Virtualization

Cost of vEPC + Services



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The Impetus for NFV and SDN

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• Shared services over commodity

hardware

• Avoid software & hardware lock-in

• Auto-scaling of network capacity

• Scalable to meet growth in

devices and technologies

• Flexibility in building new

business models

• Reduce service provisioning times

• Economies of Software-Defined

• Programmable networks

• Operational intelligence for

business decisions

• Timely issue isolation and

remediation

• Proactive avoidance and

optimization

• Consolidation of IT and NetOps

5G & IoTClouds

➢ Broad realization that transition to 5G cannot happen on antiquated

infrastructure

➢ NFV is a prerequisite for 5G & IoT

Cost-Effective/Scalable Automation Ops Management



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vCloud NFV: Readying Telco Networks for the 5G/IoT Era

VMware Ready for NFV - VNF Certification Program

Pre-Engineered vCloud NFV NFVi

NFV Reference Architecture -Certified, Tested and Optimized for Carrier Deployments

Management and Operations from Infrastructure to application:NFV Operational Intelligence

Key Orchestration Partnerships,Open Standards: OSM, ONAP, TOSCA Blueprints

Lighthouse Solution Development- vIMS, vEPC, vCPE, SD-WAN, vCDN, IoT

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VMware Integrated OpenStack-CE Key Capabilities Telco/NFV Features

Core VIO 4.0 Features

Dynamic Scaling Enhanced Platform Awareness

Ocata Based

Enhanced NetworkingMulti Tenancy

Advanced Logging & AnalyticsScalability and HA

Native Containers Support

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EnterpriseServiceProvider

VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS)

Purpose-built container service to operationalize Kubernetes

Fully Supported

Mainline Kubernetes Distribution

HA, Security,

Multi-tenancy, Tools

Constant Compatibility

with GKE

Runs on vSphere, VCF

Deep Integration

with NSX-T

Hardened,

Production-grade

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VMware Strategy: Unify Cloud & NFV

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VNF

vSphere NSX

Compute Storage Networking

vCD + VIO

Operations

VNF VNF VNF VNF VNF-Mgr

NFV Orchestration

NF

Vi

VIM

vSAN

vROPS

vRLI

Leader in NFVInfrastructure

NFVi

VMW + OpenStack VIM

VNF-Mgr

NFV Orchestration

Ops

Mgmt

Leader in NFVServices Delivery

VNF VNF

VNF VNF

VNF VNF

VNF VNF

VNF VNF

VNF VNF

vEPC vIMS vCPE

Leader in UnifiedTelco NFV & IT Cloud

Multi Domain Automation & Ops Management

VNF VNFVNF VNF VNF VNF

IT

Apps

IT

Apps VNF VNFIoT

Apps

IoT

Apps

NFV Cloud IT/Private Public Cloud



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VMware NFV Footprint

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Mobile

Subscribers

Production

Implementations

Operators

300M

80+

45+

On going PoCs

& Field Trials15VMworld 2017 Content: N

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So, “Are we there yet” as a community & mature technology?

• No! Porting proprietary solutions onto a hypervisor does not solve the old problems

– Moving from closed HW solutions to a hypervisor on COTS HW is only a small step toward NFV

– Need for a “Cloud-Native” approach to VNF design from ground up

• Introducing a new service and provisioning resources remain too cumbersome

– Instead of connecting & configuring hardware boxes, we now configure VMs

– A bit faster with reduced professional services, but still a time consuming, tedious process

• Auto-scaling infrastructure is only partially here and in a limited way

– A programmable approach to auto-scaling? (see later example)

– SON-like capabilities in software network controllers?

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The Conundrum: Competing in the 21st century with robust 20th

century infrastructure and processes

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S2b

3G

4G

SGi

IP Clouds

& Internet

PGW

S7

New Service



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Leading the Innovation on IoT and 5G

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…by leveraging VMware’s Intelligent NFVi



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Things

Apps

EDGE

Cloud

VMware Pulse IoT Center

Local/Private/Public

LIOTA

Device Management

Operational Analytics

VMware Already an Innovator of IoT Solutions

ONBOARD MONITOR MANAGE SECURE

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OT User

IT User

ON BOARD

Liota Agent on edge systems to enable data orchestration

Automatically detect edge systems and on board and provision over the air

Map edge systems to connected devices

MONITOR

Collect telemetry data about infrastructure health

Detect anomalies in real-time with high accuracy

Set rules to automatically fix OTA when possible

MANAGE

Manage software OTA of any edge type and connected end points

Set rules to automatically upgrade/fix in flexible package combination

Set rules to automatically fix OTA when possible

SECURE

Secure across IoT use case – things, network, data, people

Create segmented data flows with network virtualization

Have complete visibility of all things



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5G will Usher in a New Area of Wireless Networking

NEAR

REAL-TIME

HIGHLY

DISTRIBUTED

10x Higher speed (Gbps to handset)

10x Lower Latency (below 1ms)

New bands above 20Ghz

5G

New Radio

5G

Core Network

5G

Applications

Virtualization and CloudSDN/NFV with AutomationNetwork Disaggregation

New Use Cases & AppsIoT, AR, VR, Remote OpsNew Enterprises Verticals

EXPLOSIVE DATA

GROWTH



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Operators in the drivers’ seat of IoT: Autonomous cars is just an example

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Who said IoT

can happen

outside 5G?

URLLC can only be

delivered through

cellular networks?



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VMware poised to lead the IoT/5G “4th Industrial Revolution”: Hierarchical Dynamic Service Networks

• SDN is at its infancy – Network Virtualization vs Server Virtualization

– Server (network node) virtualization is a requirement

– Innovating in the next-generation virtualized networks: Dynamic Service Networks

• NFV – first manifestation of true wide-are Network Virtualization

– VMware Network Virtualization: Network slicing and DSNs

– VMware NFVi provides the end-to-end, differentiated v-infrastructure for 5G readiness

– Cloudets for Mobile Edge Computing

• Hierarchical Network Slicing and the concept of Dynamic Service Networks (DSN)

– Network slicing is one of the most challenging problems – but a necessity for IoT

– Investing in carrier-centric technologies and solutions for IoT verticals

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Crippling Limitations of Old Architecture

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Monolithic Services | Rigid Cores | Silo’ed NetOpsO

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MRF

IMS

(g) MSC

RNC

2G

GGSN

SGSN

3G

PGW

SGW

4G - EPC

MME

Mobile

HSS PCRFAAAHLR ENUM

Common

ApplicationsVoLTE/

VoWiFiVideo

IoT /

M2M

MNO /

MPNIPTV Broadband

Connected

Devices

EMS

EMS

EMS

NFV provides the foundation for critical requirements

and new innovations in 5G



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Traffic

Detection /

Policy

Control

5G: The need for Adaptive Service Chaining

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Service

Orchestrator

1. New Service

Creation

NSX Manager

Distributed Virtual Switch

ESXi Host 1 ESXi Host 3ESXi Host 2

VNF1 VNF 2 VNF 5VNF 4VNF 3

Service Descriptor:

Service Chain definitions

• S1: VNF1 → VNF3 → VNF4 → Internet

• S2: VNF4 → VNF5 → Corporate DC

3. Provision the network

with new Service Chains

2. Create New

Service Chains

4. Unclassified

Traffic

5. Classified Flows put in

respective Service Chains

Classifier

TSDPI FW VPNLB



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NFV Transformations for 5G Readiness: Network Slicing

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Multi-Tenant | Network Sliced | Agile NetOps

Mobile Edge IT / Corporate / PublicMobile Core IMS Core

vCloud NFV

Connected Car(Slice 3)

LTE 5G-NR v-Appsv-EPC (u) v-EPC (c)

Vi-VoLTE(Slice 2)

5G-NR v-MRFv-CSCFv-EPC (u) v-EPC (c) v-SBC

Broadband(Slice 1)

LTE v-FWv-TSv-EPC

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eNB

WiFi

MME

SGW

PCRFHSS

ePDGPGW

eNB

CDNVideo

OptimizationDPI/PCEF

AnalyticsIMS

Priv/Publ

Cloud

Internet

Priv/Publ

Cloud

COTS x86 Servers (NFV)

Hierarchical Network Slicing: Toward Dynamic Service Networks

Slice 3

Slice 2

Slice 1

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eNB

WiFi

MME

SGW

PCRFHSS

ePDGPGW

eNB

CDNVideo

OptimizationDPI/PCEF

AnalyticsIMS

Priv/Publ

Cloud

Internet

Network Slicing: Network foundations for IoT

Each network slice is an end-to-end compartmentalized

dynamic service network (DSN) with prescribed SLA and

QoS, customized for the particular use case. All realized

on common physical network




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5G Architecture: Flat (3GPP) vs Hierarchical Design

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Access Network

Core Network

Communication Services

AN NSSI 1

CN NSSI 2

CN NSSI 1

AN NSSI 2

CN NSSI 3

NSI A NSI B NSI C

Service 1 Service 2 Service 3 • Management Complexity• Hierarchical vs complex flat management

• Isolation and Security• Hierarchical is more suited to flex security

• 5G Services and Business Models• Flat more restrictive (MVNOs)

• VNF utilization and placement• Flat – better VNF utilization

• Hierarchical – flexible VNF placement

NSI: network slice instance – NSSI: network slice subnet instance



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Network Slicing Extends to the Mobile Edge Computing ModelOn demand bandwidth and VNF allocation

DATA

Internet

4G/5G

DATA

Distributing Data & Apps

50-100ms

DATA

Internet

5G

10-20ms




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5G Necessitates Distributing the Data CenterMobile Edge Computing

DAT

A

Internet

5G

10-20ms

• Hard latency (and bandwidth) requirements

• Distribution of content (CDNs) to edge

• Local security & analytics

• Centralized control and RT analytics

• Improved performance and QoE

• All on COTS hardware (OCP)



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The Conundrum: Competing in the 21st century with robust 20th

century infrastructure and processes

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RNC

eNB

WiFi

MME

SGW PCRF

HLR

GGSN

IuPS Gn

SGSNGiGr

S6a

S3

HSS

S4

X2

S10

ePDG

SWn

S5

S11

S1-u

S1-mme

S2b

3G

4G

SGi

IP Clouds

& Internet

PGW

S7

New Service



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Self-orchestrating, Self-configuring VNFs

• A (logically) central VNF Registry maintains a registry entry for each enabled VNF

– VNF manifest, NFVi manifest, APIs supported, interoperability configuration attributes etc

• Extensions (annotations?) can enable auto-generation of VNF and NFVi manifests

• Marketplace of APIs and format converters can generalize the applicability of model

• A binding process generates the micro-orchestration actions needed to enable the new VNF

• Micro-orchestrator implements configuration set up and brings up the new (VNF) service

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Self-Orchestrating VNFs: Are Plug & Play VNFs Possible?

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vMME vPCRF vHSS vEPC vIMSIoT

Apps

Multi Domain Automation & Ops Management

NFV Cloud IT/Private Public Cloud

vPCEF

VNF

Registry



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Dynamic Micro-Orchestrator

Dynamic Micro-Orchestrator

• Using VNF Manifest from VNF Registry do:

• Connectivity configuration

• Interoperability configuration

• Auto-configure service chaining

• Resource provisioning

• Integrate into monitoring and security infra

• Report & analytics

VNF Manifest • Directory registration

• Permissions/Role access management

• Configuration

• Connectivity

• APIs, protocols, formats

• Reporting & analytics interface registration

Auto-provisioned, Auto-configured VNFs

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VNF Manifest

NFVi Manifest

VNF

NFVi Manifest • NFVi resource allocation

• Scalability profile registration

• …



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Example of Self-orchestrating VNFs

• Auto-capacity planning

• Global optimization of resources

• Smart auto-configuration of infrastructure functions

• Demand/traffic-based scaling

• De-coupling network functionality from physical topology

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Seamless, Adaptive Service Creation and Auto-scaling

VNFVNF

VNF

VNF

Network VNFs

vADC

Request/response

traffic

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vADC

VNFVNF

VNFVNF

LB

VNFVNF

VNFVNF

LB

Network VNFs

Request/response

traffic

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vADC

VNFVNF

VNFVNF

LB

VNFVNF

VNFVNF

LB

GLB

vADC

VNFVNF

VNFVNF

DC 1 DC 2

Private or

Public Cloud

Private or

Public Cloud

Application

VNFs

Network

VNFsNetwork VNFs

Request/response

traffic

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