NEC’s vEPC Solution

2014/3/5

Kazuya Hashimoto

NEC Europe

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1. SDN/NFV– Moving Towards Mainstream

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SDN/NFV – Moving Towards Mainstream

Light Reading articles about NFV 2012=5

2013=250+

2014=120+(as of Mar.)

Google search result for SDN and NFV

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2. NEC’s Carrier SDN Solutions

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Carrier SDN (SDN/NFV) Concept

Wireline Wireless Dedicated lines M2M

From vertical network silos…

… diversification of services on common

network

Service Order

Fixed-line phones

Mobile

FMC

Dedicated lines

M2M

SDN

M2M Dedicated

lines

FMC

Mobile

Fixed-line

phones

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: Reduced TCO

Economy of scale of the IT industry

Multi-service shared platform based on COTS

Lower HW maintenance fees

Higher automation in operations

Smaller Footprint

Source: NEC’s Study

DC-2

DC-1 DC-3

OSS/BSS

TMS

Real-time

traffic analysis

report

Dynamic

resource

allocation

Real-time

traffic information

vEPC TCO Savings

Real-time traffic measurement and analysis

Real-time dynamic resource optimization

Network

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: Revenue Creation

Service Velocity & Time-to-Revenue Service Chaining & New Service Creation

Open for 3rd Party collaboration

Service Innovation

Broader service portfolio

Faster Time-to-Market

Ecosystem

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: High Availability, High Reliability

Auto-Scaling

Self-Healing

Elastic resource balancing to ease off congestion

Disaster recovery and geo-redundancy

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Open Strategy

▐ Open Architecture and Ecosystem to rapidly and flexibly create value

Applications

Hypervisor

ProgrammableFlow

OpenFlow switch

E2E Management & Orchestration

OSS/BSS

3rd Party

OpenFlow Switch COTS Hardware

IOT

NEC VNF 3rd Party

VNF/Appliance

ProgrammableFlow

Controller 3rd Party

Controller

Open API

OpenSource

Controller

TREMA

SDN NFV

KVM

(Red Hat/

Montavista)

DELL NEC

HP

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OpenSource

Open Strategy (SDN)

SDN Switch

SDN Controller Open Standard Compliant

Gold Member TREMA

Management

Network Visibility

realstatus

Optimization

Load Balancing

A10 Networks

WAN Optimization

Silver Peak

Security

DDoS Prevention

radware

Intrusion Detection

And Prevention

vARMOUR

NEC Virtual tenant

Network

Ecosystem

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OpenSource & CG Performances

Open Strategy (NFV)

Computing Storage Networking

Virtualization Layer

HW Independent Platform

vEPC

vMME … vP/S-GW

vMVNO GW

vPGW …

NVF M&O

Service

Template Service

Template Service

Template

Flexible Platform

NetCracker Orchestration

Auto-scaling

Auto-healing Auto-Provisioning

Monitoring & Control

E2E Service Orchestration

Simpler VNF Orchestration & Mgmt

Elastic C- & U-Plane

Multi-Service Platform

KVM

Dell HP

redhat

MontaVista intel

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Overview of NEC’s Carrier SDN Portfolio

Aggregation

Switches

WDM Packet Transport

Home

Fiber

Office

Packet Transport

Mobile PC Smartphone

Aggregation

Switches

eNB OLT OLT eNB

Core/Metro/

Access

EPC, IMS,

MVNO-GW, etc.

Service Edge BRAS, SBC, CDN,

Security-GW, etc.

Microwave

Data Centers

(1) Data Center SDN

Data Center/

Networks IaaS Platforms

(2) Network Functions

Virtualization

vEPC

vBRAS

vCPE

vIMS

(3) SDN Transport

Packet /Optical

SDN Wireless

SDN

TMS

E2E Orchestration

OSS/BSS

(4) Operation &

Orchestration

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3. NEC’s vEPC Solution

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Why vEPC ?

▐ Efficient network operation Elastic resource allocation and performance design Scalability

▐ Leverage Open Ecosystem Open environment maximizes virtualization effect Take full advantage of the IP-based network (4th generation mobile

core network)

▐ Remove proprietary hardware Leveraging latest COTS server technologies

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Features of NEC’s vEPC

▐ World’s First Virtualization Mobile Core Network

Solution

▐ OpenFlow enabled NFV solution

▐ Carrier Grade Performance and Market Proven

Stability

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Easy Scale-out

vEPC Architecture with

COTS server #1 COTS Server #n COTS Server #2

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

P/S

-GW

(CP

)

P/S

-GW

(DP

)

P/S

-GW

(DP

)

P/S

-GW

(DP

)

P/S

-GW

(DP

)

MM

E

(S1 IN

TF

)

MM

E

(co

ntr

ol)

P/S

-GW

(DP

)

MM

E

(co

ntr

ol)

NFV Orchestration

vEPC

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Performance Assessment Result Example

physical KVM Enhanced KVM

VMware

Memory Access Latency

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Commercial vEPC in Myanmar

▐ In Dec. 2013, NEC deployed the first

commercial vEPC system in Myanmar.

Yangon

Mandala

y

Nay Pyi Taw

30Gbps

(100G

ready

10Gbps

LTE

LTE

LTE R

R

R

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Telefonica

NEC’s recent vEPC activities

Myanmar

Cricket Communications

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4. Summary

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Summary

▐ Carrier SDN (SDN/NFV) is getting mature and commercially ready brings significant benefit to Telecommunications Industry

▐ NEC supports Open Sources & Standard

Interfaces

▐ NEC has achieved equivalent performance to

physical EPC in virtualized environment.

Let’s create Carrier SDN Ecosystem

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