OPEN TELCO: A take on the Virtual Central Office

OPEN TELCO: A take on the Virtual Central Office 0930-1000 Hanen Garcia, M. Eng. Global Telco Solutions Manager Red Hat, Inc.

CENTRAL OFFICE Current Status Desired Status Huge Source of CAPEX and OPEX Reduction CAPEX and OPEX > 30% Closed, Rigid and Complex Open, Flexible and Standardized Variety of access devices Cloud based Model Variety of purpose built hardware Software Defined and virtualized Lack of standard interfaces => Lack of programmability infrastructure Full programmability

VIRTUAL CENTRAL OFFICE Service Agility End to End Operational Efficiency Improved Customer Experience Lower Costs Define a cloud native approach for a virtualized central office leveraging NFV and open source technologies

VIRTUAL CENTRAL OFFICE PRINCIPLES VCO is a reference architecture based on three important principles 1. OpenDaylight as a common controller for both the virtual network overlay and the physical network fabric underlay 2. OpenStack as a common platform, for both NFV Infrastructure and VIM, to ensure an orchestrator agnostic framework 3. Consolidation of control plane functions into the virtualized infrastructure and the distribution of the data plane into the network fabric

VIRTUAL CENTRAL OFFICE SCOPE Residential services Internet broadband access Business services Remote & Branch Office (ROBO), Enterprise CPE Mobile services

BRANCH OFFICE SIMPLIFICATION Router with the following services WAN connectivity with IPSec WAN Optimization Appliance Firewall Intrusion Protection Branch Compute DNS AD/LDAP agents Physical Security Applications Video Monitoring, Security Sensors, etc. PBX Wireless LAN Controller DNS, LDAP, DHCP Wireless LAN Controller Converged Branch Virtualized Environment Compute, Storage and Apps FW Router PBX

BUSINESS & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES Virtualized Central Office Residential vcpe Enterprise vcpe Internet Residential NID Branch Office Raleigh Raleigh, NC Branch Office Beijing

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - vbng MODEL ODL PPPoE over VLAN Subscriber vbng DoS FW DPI vrouter vbng DoS FW DPI vrouter GPON volt 802.1x and or VLAN Subscriber

BUSINESS SERVICES - ENTERPRISE vcpe Secure Tunnel VxLAN per site vrouter vcpe Head Office Raleigh FW VPN vcpe Branch Office Beijing Service Chain per Customer Point-to-Point Fiber OR Ethernet Connection Virtual Central Office Raleigh vrouter Local Breakout vrouter Lenovo Server Internet

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE STACK Service Assurance NFV Orchestrator VNF Manager SDN Controller Element Manager Element Manager Element Manager NFVI Compute - Storage Network Fabric Element Manager

VIRTUAL CENTRAL OFFICE LAB GP Servers OCP Servers

VIRTUAL CENTRAL OFFICE LAB Undercloud Jump Host Remote access via VPN client 3x OCP servers Controller ODL Controller ODL Controller ODL 3x GP servers Compute Compute Compute Storage Storage Storage 3x OCP servers GP server GP server Business Subscribers Residential Subscribers

Residential Service Video

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - vbng MODEL ODL PPPoE over VLAN Subscriber vbng DoS FW DPI vrouter vbng DoS FW DPI vrouter GPON volt 802.1x and or VLAN Subscriber

Business Service Live Demo

BUSINESS SERVICES - ENTERPRISE vcpe Secure Tunnel VxLAN per site vrouter vcpe Head Office Raleigh FW VPN vcpe Branch Office Beijing Service Chain per Customer Point-to-Point Fiber OR Ethernet Connection Virtual Central Office Raleigh vrouter Internet Local Breakout vrouter

Service Assurance

OPNFV BAROMETER Project Strategy: Ensure platform metrics and events are accessible through industry standard interfaces. Demonstrate how platform technologies can be monitored, consumed and activated in real time Support relevant metrics and events for capacity planning, trending and operational status Showcase OPNFV centric SA capabilities.

MONITORING RESIDENTIAL SERVICES Host Telemetry VNF Telemetry (from the hypervisor) compute 0 Grafana Influxdb Instance compute 3 vbng FRWD-1 Host Telemetry VNF Telemetry (from the hypervisor) compute 1 F5 DPI Instance Collectd Running on the host vbng VRP-21 F5 DoS Protection vbng VRP-22

END TO END SERVICE ASSURANCE Service Assurance Tools Seamless End to End Assurance PHYSICAL HYBRID NETWORK Network Transformation VIRTUAL Automation SBC WAG DSLAM MGC MGW InfinistreamNG (PHYSICAL) PCRF COTS HW vfw vbng vsbc vpcrf vmgc vdns vccap vtas InfiniStreamNG - vstream (VIRTUAL)

SUMMARY Virtual Central Office allows a common architecture that can be scaled for all types of COs and Network NFV allows us to virtualize network functions and services easily OpenStack platform has matured and now used widely as NFVI and VIM In addition to vbng, vfw or other services such as Edge Compute for IoT and Mobile applications, Video caching and vbbu for C-RAN can be deployed at virtual CO OPNFV has worked hard to provide tools and testing guidelines for operators to ensure real world deployments Open source tools and components are now available to build the virtual CO

WHAT S NEXT? VCO Mobile Radio Access Network (vran) Evolved Packet Core (vepc) Status OPNFV Project - vran PoC Lab in San Jose

RESOURCES Whitepaper Solution Brief VCO : Building a Virtual Central Office (VCO) with open source communities and components Open Source Project Spins Up A Virtual Central Office

Mahalo! Hanen Garcia, M. Eng. Global Telco Solutions Manager Red Hat, Inc. hanen.garcia@redhat.com