Utilizing OpenStack to Meet Telco Needs SDN & Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Toby Ford, AT&T Mats Karlsson, Ericsson © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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1 2 3 We believe in SDN & NFV Network Function Virtualization OpenStack as the Telco Cloud enabler We need the community’s help! 3 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

1 2 3 We believe in SDN & NFV Network Function Virtualization OpenStack as the Telco Cloud enabler We need the community’s help! 3 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

Software Defined Networks A Carrier Perspective What is the ideal? Where are we today? Intelligent, Programmable, Open, Application-aware Abstracts underlying Hardware complexity Disaggregates logic function into Software Separates Management & Control Plane from Data Plane Enables applications to view, request & manipulate NW resources Hypervisor Virtual Switches … YES Disaggregated HW … Promising/Nascent Overlay Protocols … Getting there Control / Data Plane … Google does it, why cant we? Network Orchestration … OpenStack to the rescue! Wide Area NW SDN…A ways off © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

“SDN” in a Data Center context OpenStack Neutron Public Cloud VPN Options Network Provisioning & Mediation Network Orchestration Many open or proprietary solutions available, some biased one way or the other OpenFlow, OVSDB, BGP Control/Data Plane Disaggregation Overlay Protcols GRE, STT, VXLAN OpenVswitch Hypervisor Networking Linux Bridge Hardware/Software Disaggregation Switches/Routers of the Future Switch/Router Software + Commodity HW Players 6 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

WAN SDN example: MPLS on Demand MPLS on Demand Network Application Network Orchestrator OpenStack Neutron IPE IPE Customer Network AT&T Virtual Private Cloud Core Core Core Core Core Core Partners’ VPC Partners’ VPC Core Core IPE IPE Bandwidth Brokering Exchanges Bandwidth Brokering Exchanges 7 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

1 2 3 We believe in SDN & NFV Network Function Virtualization OpenStack as the Telco Cloud enabler We need the community’s help! 3 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

Classic Network Appliance Approach Physical Network Function (PNF) Limitations Fragmented non-commodity HW Message Router CDN Session Border Controller WAN Acceleration Physical install per appliance per site Low asset utilization HW development is time consuming and can’t be continuously deployed / upgraded DPI Firewall Carrier Grade NAT Tester/QoE monitor HW development is challenging for new vendors Limits modularity, vendor choice EPC PE Router BRAS DNS

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Virtual Network Function (VNF) Benefits Flexibility / Extensibility Hypervisor VMs VMs Virtual Appliances High asset utilization Hypervisor Hypervisor VMs VMs Virtual Appliances Continuously deployed / upgraded Gain Software benefits Achieve Modularity Opens the competitive landscape up Generic Servers Commodity Storage IP / Ethernet Switches Innovative Ecosystem OpenStack

NFV Open Platform Drive NFV’s evolution through an open platform which the carrier and vendor community will mutually benefit from. Integrated and Tested Reference Platform Influence and contribute changes to upstream projects Build new components where needed Rely on open reference implementations to drive open standards and an open ecosystem for NFV Solutions Initial Scope is NFVi; Virtualization, Controller, and Virtual Infrastructure Management (VIM) © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

The Heart of NFV Programmability Plug-ability Innovation and speed The framework for Multivendor Cloud Ecosystem is OpenStack! Reliable and secure Distributed and scalable Telco expertise & features Cost & Performance optimized HW © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

Application Domain OSS Enterprise Applications Utilizing Openstack for NFV Transforming to a true Carrier-grade cloud solution Resource Allocation & Optimization Resource Isolation PLUGIN ESXi OS NETWORK FRAMEWORK OS COMPUTE FRAMEWORK OS STORAGE FRAMEWORK NEUTRON API NOVA API SWIFT API GLANCE API CINDER API OS KEYSTONE FRAMEWORK KEYSTONE API Ceilometer Linux COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK IDAM Support functions Cloud Manager Application Domain OSS NFV Applications Enterprise Applications Carrier Grade Security Multi-tenancy with end-to-end isolation Software Management and Upgrade Support Hitless & automated upgrades Backup and Restore Automatic backup Improved recovery actions Audit and Trouble Shooting Audit log, monitor and troubleshoot Assurance: Fault, event and performance (beyond ceilometer) management Networking WAN orchestration VNF provisioning Real Time Response Interrupt servicing OVS latency High Availability Mitigation of failures Fault monitoring and heath check © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

1 2 3 We believe in SDN & NFV Network Function Virtualization OpenStack as the Telco Cloud enabler We need the community’s help! 3 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

Application Domain OSS Enterprise Applications Opportunities for Openstack to handle NFV Proposed extensions/contributions SUPPORT FUNCTIONS Ceilometer Support for project tenant based metering. Ironic Cleaning Agent for disk scrubbing and firmware check validation New Potential Project: Autonomous Openstack Cluster discovery and registration NEUTRON Routing as a Service Support for Distributed Virtual Router Extending VPN as a Service to support WAN (MPLS BGP VPN) ODL Integration with Openstack QoS for DSCP and PCP tenant configuration Bandwidth limiting PLUGIN ESXi OS NETWORK FRAMEWORK OS COMPUTE FRAMEWORK OS STORAGE FRAMEWORK NEUTRON API NOVA API SWIFT API GLANCE API CINDER API OS KEYSTONE FRAMEWORK KEYSTONE API Ceilometer Linux COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK IDAM Support functions Cloud Manager Application Domain OSS NFV Applications Enterprise Applications NOVA Dynamic Logging Compute node state management Automatic Compute device discovery and registration Support for Telco Grade provisioning Support Telco application requirements FRAMEWORK Mitigation of failures Fault monitoring and heath check © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

Re-using & integrating Telco features in OpenStack NEUTRON Routing as a Service MPLS/BGP VPN-aaS Test Tools(Port Mirroring) PLUGIN ESXi OS NETWORK FRAMEWORK OS COMPUTE FRAMEWORK OS STORAGE FRAMEWORK NEUTRON API NOVA API SWIFT API GLANCE API CINDER API OS KEYSTONE FRAMEWORK KEYSTONE API Ceilometer Linux COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK IDAM Support functions Cloud Manager Application Domain OSS NFV Applications Enterprise Applications CEILOMETER Statistics, Fine-grained Device Metering KEYSTONE Dynamic Logging, Fine-grained Device Recovery & Registration © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

Carrier-grade Building Blocks Security & Reliability Rapid Provisioning Resource Optimization Multi-Vendor Ecosystem Moving to E2E SLAs Unified & Distributed Resource Pool Federation for Sharing © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

Getting There Proof of Concept highlights Live Infrastructure upgrade Hot migration High availability Alarm Handling Centralized IdAM vSwitch performance enhancements But still a long way to go.. © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property. 18 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.

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