The document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN). It provides an overview of Intel's strategy to support NFV/SDN, including enabling workload consolidation, bringing virtualization to networking through NFV, and optimizing open architectures on Intel Architecture through SDN. It also summarizes the OPNFV Brahmaputra release and highlights various Intel technologies that can accelerate NFV/SDN solutions like DPDK, QAT, and acceleration tools.

1. Intel Developer Zone
Sujata Tibrewala
Community Development Manager/Network Developer Evangelist
NFV & Data Plane tools and op1miza1on at
IEEE SDN/NFV 2016
Network
Developer
Program

2. 2
Celebra1ng an Year of Awesome !!!

3. Model 2017 to help fast track NFV/SDN solutions
DPDK
Intel® QAT
Open
Stack*
Vtune™
SDN/NFV
Forum
Open
vSwitch
Intel® RDT
FD.io
SR-IOV
VMDQ
Intel® VT-d
Intel®
Innovator®
Dev Mesh
Live
training
ISV
support
Intel®
Developer
Zone
SoVware.intel.com/networking
VTune is a trademark of Intel Corpora1on or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.

4. Changing networks

5. 5
AT&T Traffic Explosion *
h[ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86mFVg[YBI

6. 70s
10s
00s
80s
90s
20s
Global
Data Traffic
Annually by 2019
Connected
Devices
Sources: 1. Cisco Virtual Networking Index, 2015. 2. IDC, IoT Market Forecast: Worldwide IoT Predic1ons, 2015.
Increased Infrastructure
Demands
6
50B
2 ZB
by 2020
h[ps://videoportal.intel.com/media/MCM+Insight+Forum+with+Murthy/0_04jj7pzv#

7. Global Data Centre Network *
*Cisco Newsroom (h[ps://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&ar1cleId=1804748)

8. New Network Vision

9. Facebook Data Centre Network * Data
*wired.com (h[ps://www.wired.com/2012/06/facebook-nc-data-center/)

10. Money spent on backbone opera3on NTT*
• A Global Tier-1 ISP in 196 countries/regions
• Over 150 datacenters around the globe
• Currently spending 1M+ USD for each core router
• In each PoP
• Ac1ve, Backup,
Cold Standby..
• Yearly maintenance
costs..
• Customers want more
bandwidth for cheaper
price now a days..
• Add more routers??
• How much are we using??
h[ps://www.meetup.com/Out-Of-The-Box-Network-Developers/events/236337505/

11. Data Center Networks

12. Modified Data Plane in NFV
soVware.intel.com/networking

13. NVO – Key Data-Plane Encapsula3on Protocols
Encapsula3on
Protocol
Advocate Descrip3on
GRE
(Generic Rou1ng
Encapsula1on)
Cisco*
IP + GRE, Inner Payload-Ethernet/
IPV4/IPV6/NSH
STT
(Stateless Transport
Tunneling)
Nicira*
IP + TCP (like) + STT, Inner Payload-
Ethernet only
VXLAN
(Virtual Extensible LAN)
Vmware*
Cisco*
IP + UDP + VXLAN, Inner Payload-
Ethernet only
NVGRE
(Network Virtualiza1on
using GRE)
MicrosoV*
IP + Modified GRE, Inner Payload-
Ethernet only
Geneve
(Generic Network
Virtualiza1on
Encapsula1on)
VMware/
Nicira
IP + UDP + Geneve, Inner Payload-
Ethernet/IPV4/IPV6
VXLAN-GPE
(Generic Protocol
Extension for VXLAN)
Cisco
IP + UDP + VXLAN-GPE, Inner
Payload-Ethernet/IPV4/IPV6/NSH
NSH
(Network Service
Header)
Cisco
Requires Transport Protocol, Inner
Payload-Ethernet/IPV4/IPV6
Hypervisor
Virtual Switch
Physical
Hardware
Physical IP Network
Virtual Network Abstrac1on using tunnel overlays
e.g. VXLAN, Geneve and NVGRE
Open Virtual Switch
Open Virtual Switch
Open Virtual Switch
Open Virtual Switch
Network Virtualization Controller e.g. VMware* NSX
Virtual Network 2
Virtual Network 3Virtual Network 1
Server Virtualization Network Virtualization

14. NFV Packet processing explosion
soVware.intel.com/networking 14

15. 15
What is packet processing?
Packet Classifica1on
Traffic Discard
Traffic Shaping
Traffic scheduling
Packet Read/Write
Flow metering
Counters and Sta1s1cs
Protocol Look up
Packet classifica1on
Sanity checks
Acceptance rules
Traffic Management
Traffic Policing
Control Plane

16. Be the Change ??

17. 17
NFV vs. SDN
• Leverages standard virtualiza1on technology
• Consolidate many network equipment types onto
industry standard servers, switches & storage
• Accelerate development and deployment of
interoperable solu1ons
Network Func1on Virtualiza1on SoVware Defined Networking
Based on three elements
1. Separa1on of control and data plane
2. Centralized management
3. Programmable network behavior via well-defined
interfaces
Switch
Control
plane
Data
plane
Switch
Control
plane
Data
plane
Switch
Control
plane
Data
plane
Switch
Control
plane
Data
plane
Switch
Data
plane
Switch
Data
plane
Data
plane
Switch
Data
plane
SDN
Controller
Switch
OpenFlow
Control
Plane
Control
Plane
Control
Plane
Control
Plane
Standard Server
Move away from proprietary, and increasingly costly, hardware-based
appliances that inhibit the rollout of new revenue-earning network
services and constrain innova1on --ETSI NFV ISG
Allow network administrators to easily manage and program network
services through the abstrac1on of lower level func1onality and decoupling
of network control and forwarding func1ons

18. Intel Communica3ons Infrastructure Strategy
Intel® Architecture
CPU
Chipset
Accelera1on
Data Plane
Development Kit
With Intel Networking Pla2orm Ingredients
Switch
Silicon
NIC
Silicon
Open
Networking
SoVware
❷ Bring Virtualization to
Networking
“NFV”
Intel® Architecture
Virtual Machine Monitor
Appliance
Virtual Switch
❸ Optimize Open
Architectures on Intel® Architecture
“SDN”
Controller
Orchestra1on
Node Node Node
Appliance Appliance
❶ Enable Unified Architecture
4:1 Workload Consolidation

19. Applica1on Plane
Orchestra1on
Infrastructure Layer / Data Plane
Intel® Architecture NFV/SDN Accelerators
Intel® VT-d
SR-IOV
Virtual Machine Monitor(VMM)/Hypervisor
OpenStack*
L2 VNF
Appliance
L2 VNF
Appliance
L3 VNF
Appliance
Control Plane
OpenContrail
Open Daylight*
ONOS
DPDK
DPDK
DPDK
Virtual NIC
VMDQ
NIC
Silicon
NIC
Silicon Intel® QAT
Chipset
Accelera1on
Hyperscan
KVM XEN HYPER-V QEMU
Virtual NIC Virtual NIC
MicrosoV* Azure
Intel® RDT
IA CPU
NIC
Silicon
Virtual Switch
Amazon* EC2
L3 VNF
Appliance
DPDK
Virtual NIC
Security
VNF
Appliance
DPDK
Virtual NIC
DPDK
V
FD.io Legopus Open vSwitch*
POF OpenSwitch
BESS
DPDK
Virtual Switch
CloudStack
Open ShiV Google* Compute Engine
Security
VNF
Appliance
DPDK
Virtual NIC
VMM/ Hypervisor

20. On Intel® Architecture
20
At 256B, an 18C CPU running 2 GHz can sa1sfy 100 GbE throughput as long as we stay within 751
cycles/packet
• At 512B, the budget is 1447 cycles
If we run an Instruc1ons/clock (IPC) of ~2
• 256B = 1502 instruc1ons
• 512B = ~2894 instruc1ons
If the IPC is 2.5 …
• 256B = 1877 instruc1ons
• 512B = 3617 instruc1ons
Disclaimer: SoVware and workloads used in performance tests may have been op1mized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using
specific computer systems, components, soVware, opera1ons and func1ons. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other informa1on and performance tests to assist
you in fully evalua1ng your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete informa1on visit h[p://www.intel.com/performance.

21. Are you The Next
Disrupter?

23. Day 1
9:00-10:00 DPDK Introduc1on ~ MJay
10:15-12:30 DPDK in Containers ~ Clayne Robison
12:30-2:00 Industry Demos – Juniper, ODL, 6Wind, Volta Networks, Intel SoVware Innovators
2:00-3:00 Open Day Light applica1ons (what is inside ODL) ~ Anil Vishnoi, Principal Engineer at Brocade, Open Daylight TSC and Board member &
Luis Gomez, Principal Engineer at Brocade, Open Daylight TSC member.
3:15-5:15 Transport Layer Development Kit (let us accelerate beyond the Layer 2/Layer 3) ~ MJay
5:30-6:30 Idea Roule[e
Day 2
8:30-9:30: Leveraging Intel x86 with SDN for DPDK-driven advanced services and container networking ~ Ganapathi Bhat and Ted Elhourani, Big Switch Netwo
9:30-10:15 QAT Introduc1on: Joel Auernheimer & Joel Schuetze
10:30-12:30 QAT + OpenSSL hands on
1:00-2:00 ~ Unleashing End-To-End TLS Security Leveraging NGINX with Intel® QuickAssist Technology and OpenSSL-1.1.0, Joel Auernheimer & Joel Schuetze
2:00-3:00 DPDK IPSec performance benchmark ~ Georgii Tkachuk
NPG Performance Systems Engineer, focusing on pla|orm benchmarking and analysis using high throughput networking w
3:15-4:15 Clear Containers Hands on ~ Manohar Castelino & Amy Leeland
4:15-5:15 Role of Time synchroniza1on in networking, IEEE 1588 ~ Dan Biederman, ASIC Architect/designer
5:30-6:30 Idea roule[e winners and developer path forward

24. Legal Notices and Disclaimers
• Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configura1on and may require enabled
hardware, soVware or service ac1va1on. Learn more at intel.com, or from the OEM or retailer.
• No computer system can be absolutely secure.
• Tests document performance of components on a par1cular test, in specific systems. Differences in
hardware, soVware, or configura1on will affect actual performance. Consult other sources of informa1on to
evaluate performance as you consider your purchase. For more complete informa1on about performance
and benchmark results, visit hDp://www.intel.com/performance.
• Intel, the Intel logo, Intel® QAT, Vtune™, Intel® VT-d and others are trademarks of Intel Corpora1on in the
U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
• © 2017 Intel Corpora1on.

25. Thank you

26. AT&T* Network Vision

27. Intel Comms Infrastructure Strategy
IA CPU
Chipset
Accelera1on
Data Plane
Development Kit
With Intel Networking Pla2orm Ingredients
Switch
Silicon
NIC
Silicon
Open
Networking
SoVware
❷ Bring Virtualization to
Networking
“NFV”
Intel Architecture
Virtual Machine Monitor
Appliance
Virtual Switch
❸ Optimize Open
Architectures on IA
“SDN”
Controller
Orchestra1on
Node Node Node
Appliance Appliance
❶ Enable Unified Architecture
4:1 Workload Consolidation

28. SoVware Defined Networks/Network Func1on
Virtualiza1on Framework

29. OPNFV Brahmaputra Release