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NFV and OpenStack

Sutapa BansalDirector, Product ManagementMirantis

Micaela GiuhatVP, MarketingMetaswitch


A few introductions

Michaela Giuhat | Vice President of Product Marketing, Metaswitch

Micaela brings along more than 20 years of industry experience, with previous executive positions in leading Unified

Communications, Session Border Controller, and IP Networking companies in the U.S as well as abroad.

Sutapa Bansal | Director of Product Management, Mirantis

Sutapa leads the service provider and telco segment, as well as NFV strategy at Mirantis. Before becoming the

Director of Product Management at Mirantis, Sutapa was responsible for product management of Cisco InterCloud

Fabric, a product for enabling secure hybrid clouds across private and public clouds. Prior to Cisco, she spent many

years at Juniper networks in product marketing and engineering roles for the data center products.

Nick Chase | Sr. Technical Content Marketing Manager, Mirantis

Nick is the Editor-in-Chief of OpenStack:Now and Senior Manager of Technical Content at Mirantis. With 20+ years'

experience as a developer and author, Nick has written several books and hundreds of articles as an IBM

developerWorks Certified Master Author.


A little housekeeping

● Please submit questions in the Questions pane.

● We’ll provide a link where you can download the slides at the end of the webcast.


Agenda

● Introductions● NFV overview and benefits● Mirantis NFV Strategy● MetaSwitch SBC● NFV thought leadership● Q&A


Introduction


Pure Play OpenStackOpenStack is all we do;

vendor agnosticSource of the source code; top 3

OpenStack contributor100% open-source

Mirantis: Who we are

VALUEEnabling Open Cloud

STRATEGY

Build software faster

PRODUCT

Be an architect not vendor mgr. Get AWS style cloud in-house

Carrier Grade OpenStack Distribution

Easy to operate Easy to onboard workloads Resilience at scale


Our customer segments

Web/ SaaSEmpower developers, save costs over public cloud. Potentially multi-cloud.

Carriers / Service Providers / Network

OperatorsRoll out services more rapidly, provide IaaS cost effectively.

Tech-Savvy EnterprisesEmpower developers. Coexist with existing infrastructure.


Customer traction


Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Traditional Network Function Virtual Network Function (VNF)

vEPC

STANDARD HARDWARE

Session BorderController

Generic Servers Commodity Storage

VIRTUAL TRADITIONAL NETWORK APPLIANCES

SERVICE PROVIDER APPLICATIONS

PROPRIETARY INTEGRATED SOLUTION OPEN, FLEXIBLE SOLUTION

FirewallDPI WANAcceleration

DNSCarrierGrade NAT

IMSCDN PE RouterEPC

Commodity Storage

vSBC vFW vIMS

Virtual Infrastructure Manager


NFV + OpenStack benefits

• Agile DevOps• Fast VNF

deployment

Rapid service enablement

• Complete choice• No vendor lock-in

Open

• Automation• Manage thousands

of devices

Easy Orchestration

• Increased resiliency• Self-Healing

High Availability

• Scaling on-demand• Scale out vs. scale

up

Elastic


Mirantis Pure-Play NFV Strategy


Management and Orchestration (MANO)

VNF Manager(s)

Typical NFV architecture

Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs)

NFV Infrastructure (NFVI)

Physical Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure

VNF VNF VNF VNF

OSS / BSS

Orchestrator

VNF Manager(s)

VirtualisedInfrastructure

Manager(s)

VIM

EMS EMS EMS EMS

Virtual Computing Virtual Storage Virtual Networking



Mirantis pure-play NFV strategy

VNF partner ecosystem


PartnerVNF

OSS / BSS

VNF Manager(s)PartnerVNF

PartnerVNF

PartnerVNF

2

1

Physical Infrastructure SDN partners Data plane acceleration

partners

Virtual Infrastructure VIM

Virtualised Infrastructure Manager(s)

Mirantis OpenStack

Orchestrator

Partner NFVO

Partner VNFM

Carrier-gradeOpenStack platform

VNF and MANOpartner ecosystem

NFV community contributions1 2


Mirantis carrier-gradeOpenStack platform for NFV

1


Mirantis carrier-grade platform for NFV

Efficient and data plane optimized

• Small OpenStack footprint• High performance OVS with SRIOV • OVS with DPDK support in-progress

Hardened infrastructure platform

• Hardened Testing• Optimized for NFV• HA

Open and standards based

• Complete choice of hardware, no-vendor lock-in

• Member, OPNFV• Contributing to ODL


1

Physical Infrastructure SDN Partner Data plane acceleration

DPDK Intel partnership



Mirantis OpenStackFuel Plug-in SDN Plug-in


Mirantis OpenStack NFV enhancements


• High performance VNFS with SRIOV support

• OVS with DPDK

• NUMA

• CPU pinning

• Validation and performance testing

1


SRIOV

SRIOV offer a high performance, low latency path for data packets to get to VM.

SRIOV facilitates highest performance I/O connectivity to the VM from the NIC using light weight VFs

Allows partitioning of a single Ethernet Server Adapter port into multiple Virtual Functions. Virtual Functions may be allocated to VMs Each with their own bandwidth allocation.


Mirantis NFV Ecosystem Partnerships

2



Telco VNF partnerships

VNFs Partner ecosystem


OSS / BSS

VNF Manager(s)

2





Orchestrator

vSBC vCPE vIMS

SDN Contrail, Nuage and other SDN partners

Data plane Acceleration * SRIOV, DPDK support

2



IT VNF partnerships

VNFs Partner ecosystem


OSS / BSS

VNF Manager(s)

2





Orchestrator

SDN Contrail, Nuage and other SDN partners

Data plane acceleration * SRIOV, DPDK support

VPX vLB vFW Vyatta vRouter

2


MetaSwitch SBC


Quick Introduction to Metaswitch

Software company focusing on communicationsFounded in 1981, based in UK

15-year track record in telco-grade appliances based on x86With a focus on VoIP and messaging

Particularly strong presence in North America

Now an emerging leader in a new vendor category: Network Software Provider


Metaswitch Leadership in NFV

May 2013: First IMS core built for cloud (Clearwater)

Dec 2013: First ETSI NFV POC includes Metaswitch

Jan 2014: Metaswitch CTO in LR list of Top 5 Movers & Shakers in NFV

Feb 2014: Metaswitch named as one of first 4 AT&T Domain 2.0 vendors

Aug 2014: First Tier 1 virtual SBC deployment (BT OnePhone)

Sept 2015: Metaswitch selected as first vSBC vendor by AT&T

February 2012: First vSBC demonstration


SBC = Session Border Controller

SBC SBCUntrusted

access network

Other network operator

IMS

Core voice network

SignallingController

MediaController

SIP

RTP

H.248


Virtualized SBC: The Challenges

Most SBCs today are based on proprietary hardwareNetwork processor silicon for fast packet handlingContent-addressable memory for fast flow lookupSpecial co-processors for encrypted signalling and media

Metaswitch chose to build Perimeta SBC on x86Our timing was good … in 2010, x86 had just reached a level ofperformance that enabled a competitive SBC to be built


Perimeta SBC: Innovation in Software

Software ingenuity was the key to successHighly effective use of CPU cache for flow tables & IP blacklistsPacket handling performed as close to the metal as possibleLeveraging all relevant Intel capabilities … DPDK, QuickAssist etc

Successive generations of x86 have led to very useful performance improvements … which come for free


Taking Perimeta into the Cloud

First demonstration of Perimeta in the Cloud: Feb 20128 months before the first white paper on NFV was published

Perimeta architecture and implementation made it very suitable for virtualization

Software designed for x86 from the outsetDecomposed architecture supports independent scale-out ofsignalling and media functions

Key challenge has been maintaining media plane throughputPerformance close to bare metal achieved with both SR-IOV and accelerated vSwitches


Metaswitch / Mirantis Partnership

MOS simplifies and de-risks OpenStack deploymentMetaswitch is working with Mirantis to qualify VNFs such as Perimeta SBC on MOS

Proven architectural approach for High AvailabilityTested and documented deployment proceduresCertified performance

This is all about helping network operators to transform their businesses with NFV faster and with lower risk



MetaSwitch and MOS integration


OSS / BSS

VNF Manager(s)





Orchestrator

vSBC


NFV partnership progress

Vendor VNF category

Metaswitch vSBC VNF

Citrix vLB VNF

Palo Alto Networks vFW VNF

Overture NFVO

Clearpath VNF vCPE

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NFV Community Contributions


OPNFV• Open source reference platform to

validate interoperable NFV solutions• Members incl.: AT&T, Comcast, Ericsson

Mirantis OPNFV contributions• Active contributor to Bootstrap project• Plans to contribute to: Multi-site, DPACC,

Promise

OPNFV contributions


Mirantis NFVI customer benefits

Reliable OpenStack distribution

Load and performance

testsInfrastructure

choices

Automated extra HA testsCommunity

advocacy

Automatedfunctional testsFaster innovation


Thank you

Download the slides from: http://bit.ly/MirantisMetaSwitchNFVA video will be posted next week.

http://bit.ly/MirantisMetaSwitchNFV

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