Manish Gulyani's slides from the Ethernet & SDN Expo Panel. He examines the high-level architecture for the new real-time OSS needed for the complete software-defined, virtualized environment. In this OSS are a number of important parts, including the SDN controller/real-time OSS which manages and configures abstracted (virtualized) network topologies and services and the cloud & virtual network functions orchestration pieces that tend to be separate (though some vendors are trying to converge them).

1. NETWORK AUTOMATION & ORCHESTRATION
WITH CARRIER SDN & NFV
Manish Gulyani
September 2013

2. NETWORK WANTS TO EMBRACE CLOUD
FROM CONVENTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE …
… TO A SOFTWARE DEFINED ENVIRONMENT
IPTV
MOBILE
CORE
CDN
RNC/BSC
IMS
RNC/BSC
CDN
IMS
EPC
OSS/BSS
EPC
SDM
ENTERPRISE
SERVICES
IPTV
ENTERPRISE
SERVICES
OSS/BSS
FULL
AUTOMATION
RAPID
PROGRAMMABILITY
2
IMPROVED
EFFICIENCY

3. YOU NEED MORE THAN VIRTUALIZATION
LEAN: AGILE & COST EFFECTIVE
FIT WITH SLAS AS REQUIRED
ECOSYSTEM
REAL TIME
99.9 to 99.999%
SECURITY
UNRESTRICTED NETWORKING
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
3

4. CLOUD ORCHESTRATION & NETWORK AUTOMATION
REQUIREMENTS TO CLOUDIFY THE NETWORK
VIRTUAL & NON-VIRTUAL
BARE METAL &
CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS
app
RAPID ONBOARDING
& AUTOMATED LIFECYCLE
MANAGEMENT
E2E ASSURANCE
& ANALYTICS
DYNAMIC CAPACITY
MANAGEMENT AT SCALE
UNCONSTRAINED CONNECTIONS
RESPECTING APPLICATION SECURITY & QoS
4

5. MUST FIT INTO AN OPEN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
Cloud services
& capabilities
IT services
(PaaS, IaaS)
NFV applications
Application
services (SaaS)
Public clouds
Cloud
intelligence
& control
Cloud orchestration
& automation
Network virtualization
& automation
Hybrid clouds
Virtual private
clouds
Open,
distributed cloud
infrastructure
Enterprise
private clouds
Customers
DEPLOY APPLICATIONS ON TOP OF ANY CLOUD H/W, OS OR NETWORK
5

6. PUTTING IT IN ACTION
ADDING SIGNALING CAPACITY TO A VIRTUAL EPC
1
Cloud Mgr &
Orchestrator
2
EPC Mgmt System
vMME
recipe
5
3
SDN
Controller
vMME
Scenario
After introduction of a
set of small cells, the
signaling traffic load is
much greater than
expected
Network
Services
Policy
Virtual Routing & Switching
Native OS (Optional)
Hypervisor
Generic x86 Hardware
Virtual Operating Environment
6
4

7. UNDERTAKING THE JOURNEY
MATURITY LEVEL
LIFECYCLE
AUTOMATION
CLOUD DC
EARLY
DEPLOYMENT
VIRTUALIZATION
IMPLEMENTATION
7
FULL CLOUD
OPERATION