Use SDN and NDV for Carrier-class orchestration. SDN and NFV will be used to build carrier services across the network, but orchestration must reflect additional requirements. It's not enough to think of it as the same as traditional orchestration focused on the data center.

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Carrier Class Orchestration
for SDN & NFV
Prayson Pate
Chief Technologist
Overture Networks

2. Carrier Orchestration is Different!
Traditional orchestration (e.g.
AWS CloudFormation) is
focused on the data center.
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Carrier SDN and NFV will be used
to build carrier services across the
network; orchestration must
reflect additional requirements.

3. Resource Acquisition, Assignment & Span
• In a data center, resources are all equivalent.
• In an NFV network location matters
• Span extends beyond data center to MEN and WAN
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Customer
Site
Central Office
Mini-Datacenter
Metro Datacenter
Metro
Network
All the same
These resources
are scarce, but
lower latency
Not just
in here
But also here

4. Lifecycle and Work Flow
• Critical to tie into
higher-level systems
• Could be OSS/BSS
systems
• Could be network
applications
• Programmable and
transactional behavior
on service activation
• Reliability and status
monitoring
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5. Service Elasticity and Orchestrator Scalability
• Services built using NFV
must have VNF
components that are
elastic / horizontally
scalable
• Can’t be simple
conversions of software
to run on a server instead
of an appliance
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6. Orchestrator Multi-Tenancy
• Wikipedia: “Multi-tenancy refers to a principle in
software architecture where a single instance of the
software runs on a server, serving multiple client-
organizations (tenants)”
• Different from “virtualization where components are
abstracted enabling each customer application to
appear to run on a separate physical machine.”
• Orchestrator multi-tenancy simplifies system design
and integration into higher level systems.
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7. Summary of Carrier Class Orchestration
Aspect Data Center Carrier Class
Resource
Acquisition and
Assignment
All resources are
equivalent
Location, latency
and bandwidth
matter
Span of Control Within data center Across metro area
Lifecycle and Work
Flow
Controlled directly
by user
Tied into higher
level systems
Service Assurance
and Resilience
Coarse status
monitoring
Transactional
behavior and fine
status monitoring
Elasticity, Scalability
and Multi-tenancy
Current resources
are elastic
VNFs must be elastic
and orchestrator
multi-tenant
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