Cisco NFV Infrastructure Carrier Grade NFV Phil Lowden

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Carrier Grade NFV Phil Lowden, plowden@cisco. com Data Center Consulting Systems Engineer December 14, 2016 v. 2. 0

Agenda - Why Network Function Virtualization (NFV)? What is NFV Infrastructure (NFVi)? Cisco’s NFVi Strategy Cisco’s NFVi Services Cisco’s NFVi Third Party Assessments Cisco’s NFVi Benefits References © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

Why Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

Service Provider Challenges Solve operational agility to drive business agility into new markets Grow new revenue and markets Increase operational agility Reduce operating expenses © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Source: SDx. Central 2016, Mega NFV Report, NFV drivers

Barriers to NFV deployments MANO: Management and Orchestration Source: SDx. Central 2016, Mega NFV Report 5 © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Simplification Paramount to Transformation SDN Open Source Reduce Network Appliances, Siloes Simple Operations Automate Service Creation NFV Avail Self-service Personalization Mobility Managed Video Security Services Converged Infrastructure Highly Available Infrastructure © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6

What is NFV Infrastructure (NFVi)?

NFVI Tailored for Your Business Similarities Bursty Traffic Traditional IT • • Multi Tenant architecture Automation and Orchestration Assurance Redundancy and Disaster Recovery Differences Higher Throughput VNF Design • VNF requires Carrier Class SLA • VNF needs Lower Ratio on Spine/Leaf bandwidth oversubscription • VNF requires Higher Throughput NFV requires Optimized Infrastructure Design © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8

Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure ETSI and OPNFV view NFV MANO OSS / BSS NFVO EM 1 EM 2 EM 3 VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3 Virtual Network Functions VNF-M (VNF VNFM Managers) NFVI Virtual Compute Virtual Storage Virtual Network Virtualization Layer VIM Hardware Resources Compute Storage Orchestration and Management Compute Virtualization Control Storage Virtualization Control Network Virtualization Control Compute Storage Network Infrastructure Network NFVO: NFV Orchestrator VNFM: VNF Manager VIM: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute OPNFV: Open Platform for NFV © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9

Cisco’s NFVi Strategy

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Foundation For Service Providers’ Network Transformation Service Availability • High Availability, Performance, Throughput, Security and Scale distributed from Branch to DC Simplified Operations • Single Pane of Glass, Single Point of Ownership • Open. Stack Lifecycle management Workload Agnostic • Modular, NFV optimized • Leveraging Open. Source © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Solution Leading Industry Partnerships Easy Access to Support Single Point of Contact Integrated Design and Validation Certified Joint go to market High and predictable Performance Hardware and Software Cisco NFV Infrastructure Cisco UCS Storage Virtualized Network Cisco Nexus VIM SDN Controller Management Assurance Compute Virtualized Storage Automated Installer Virtualized Compute Installer GUI © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco NFV Software for Open. Stack Cisco Confidential 12

Cisco Intel NFV Quick Start http: //www. cisco. com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/network-functions-virtualization-nfvinfrastructure/cisco-intel-nfv-quick-start. pdf © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Components High Scalable and High Available Carrier Grade design Infrastructure Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS Based on Open Standards Simplified Management and Operations Cisco NFV Software for Open. Stack Software Optimized Design (incl. : OSP, CEPH, RHEL (Red Hat), KVM) Designed for High performance Modular and Validated Cisco SDN Controller © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14

Comprehensive Cisco NFV Architecture NFV-O Virtual Network Functions Resource Orchestration Network Services Orchestrator VNF Manager 3 rd party ESC …more than 100 Cisco NFV Infrastructure RH KVM RH CEPH Compute Cisco UCS Storage Virtualized Network VPP Network Cisco Nexus VIM RHEL OSP Openstack SDN Controller Management Assurance Virtualized Storage Automated Installer Virtualized Compute Installer GUI Cisco NFV Software for Open. Stack © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15

Cisco’s NFVi Services

Services for your Network Transformation from Cisco, Today De-risk Network Transformation Faster Time to Market • Solution Design and Deployment • Solution Optimization & Support • Turn key deployment • Solution Integration • Operations Transformation © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17

NFV Services Portfolio Framework Future Today T R A D I T I O N A L Value Add Future Value Add Today Base Portfolio End to End Service Delivery Architecture incl Service Virtualization End to End Strategy Workshop Solution Upgrade Adoption NFV Program Management Strategy Workshop Program Management Advise VNF Certification/ On-boarding SP Operations Transformation Quick Starts End Customer Experience P 2 V Migrations Solution Integration & Customization OSS Integration Design & Deployment Implement Performance & Validation Testing Agile Sprint S/W Dev (Day 2+So. W) Service Topology Variations Acceleration Adoption Services Custom Optimization Optimize © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18 M A N A G E D

Cisco’s NFVi Third Party Assessments

Tested Solution… EANTC Validating Cisco’s NFV Infrastructure Solution Phase 1: NFV Solution Agility Phase 2: NFV Infrastructure Phase 3: NFV Multi Vendor Interoperability ✔ ✔ ✔ Carrier Grade High Availability, HW and SW NFV Ready High Performance Simple Operation with Single Pane of Glass © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Measured High Performances Real-life Scenarios Carrier Grade Operations • Feature-rich configuration • High availability, easy provisioning and service monitoring High Performances Use Cases • Up to 100 x improvement of performance • Virtualized applications for video, Mobility and managed services “EANTC witnessed a number of Cisco tools complementing Open. Stack that are designed to improve the consistency of deployment, simplify the high availability options and improve operational checks. ” Lightreading © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Part of the Cisco Open Network Architecture Mobility Services Video Services Managed Services Other Services Applications Service Broker Evolved Services Platform Catalog of Functions Management and Orchestration (MANO) 3 rd Party Virtual and Physical Compute 3 rd Party VIM NFV Infrastructure Evolved Programmable Network Service Profiles Storage Network © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22

Interoperability Testing The Participants (partial list) - NFVi vendors • • Alcatel-Lucent Cloud. Band Cisco NFVi Huawei Fusion. Sphere Juniper Contrail - VNFs vendors (12 vendors) • • • Alcatel-Lucent Cisco ASAv (virtual firewall), CSR 1000 v (virtual router) Hitachi v. MC (virtual mobile core -- consisting of EPC components MME, SGSN, SCGW, u. EPC) Huawei VNE (virtual router) Juniper v. MX (virtual router), v. SRX (virtual firewall) Metaswitch Perimeta v. SBC (virtual session border controller) Source: http: //www. lightreading. com/nfv-tests-and-trials/exclusive!-nfv-interop-evaluation-results/d/d-id/719675? page_number=2 © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23

Interoperability Results “In fact, the success rate -25 of the 39 combinations tested, or 64%, passed -was "a great result, " noted EANTC managing director Carsten Rossenhövel. © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24

Cisco’s NFVi Benefits

Cisco NFV Infrastructure Value Proposition Designed for High Service Availability Simplified and Automated Operations Open and Workload Agnostic Validated Design Carrier Grade Package Lifecycle Support © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 26

Benefits of Cisco NFV Infrastructure up to 40% Cisco NFVI TCO Savings over Do It Yourself NFVI DIY Main differentiators • Service Velocity: time to deploy reduced to 3 -4 weeks • Automated Open. Stack Installation and Upgrades • Lower Risk of Service Outages Source: Cisco based on 103 case studies © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27

Scaling with Business Needs Carrier Grade Performance, Availability, Security 2 Modular POD Configuration Easy to Manage POD Delivery 3 1 4 6 Advanced Services delivery Half Rack Pre-integrated and Validated Full Rack Extensions 5 Single Point of Ownership NFVI Branch Solution Compute Expansion Module Storage Expansion Module © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28

References

References - Cisco Landing Page: http: //www. cisco. com/go/nfvi - NFV Interop Evaluation Results: http: //www. lightreading. com/nfv-testsand-trials/exclusive%21 -nfv-interop-evaluation-results/d/d-id/719675 - ETSI: http: //www. etsi. org/ - OPNFV: https: //www. opnfv. org/ © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30

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