SDN-NFV For Telco DC Abhishek Mande Customer Solution Architect APJ March 2017
Agenda Drivers and Trends for SDN and NFV in Telco s SDN Fabric Evolution NFVI Approaches and Requirements Summary Q&A BRKSPG-2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 2
NFV: New Way to Deploy Network Services Leveraging Virtualization, SDN and Cloud technologies Automated Virtualized Open Cloud Platform Efficient Asset Utilization Reduce Network Elements, Siloes On Demand Scaling Service Agility Virtual Network Functions Virtual Appliance Virtual Appliance Management, Orchestration & Automation Compute Storage Network Open Shared Infrastructure Operational Efficiency Virtual Appliance Virtual Appliance Software Defined Controllers Reduce Cost Virtual Appliance Virtual Appliance Innovation Rapid Service Deployment Automation of services, testing and activation Self Service Portals Service Innovation Platform New Architecture for 5G, IoT, Big Data, Cloud Open Standards, Open Source, Open API New Services VoLTE, VoWifi, M2M, EMB, etc.. Dev Ops Model Real time Analytics & Visibility Subs, Devices, and applications Network topology, and state Accelerate Transition to Telco Cloud Platform for Increased Revenue and Margins 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
SDN/NFV Enabled Telco Data Centers OSS/BSS (Fulfillment & Assurance) Service-Intent API Orchestration, Service & Policy Implementation Telco DC Used Cases: SDN enabled Telco Data Centers. Dense 40/100G Branch/CPE Control Multi-layer WAN SDN SDN Mobility Network Function Virtualization Acesss CLI/ SNMP Netconf/ YANG BGP SDN / APIs Segment Routing PCEP Openflow VxLAN/EVPN Metro and Aggregation WAN Data Centre Openstack / vcenter Internet Services & Peering SDN Broadband Data Centers Internet Peering Content Caching Gi Lan Service Chaining VNF3 VNF2 VNF1 Hypervisor NFV INFRASTRUCTURE (Compute, Storage, Network) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
VNF & SDN Placement in the Network Distributed Virtualization Use Case Broadband Mobility Media Multi-Site, Multi-POD Management; Orchestration; Service Chain; Control & User Plane Separation; Analytics Biz CPE Carrier-E / Transport Edge DCI Public Cloud SPI SDN/NFV Peering Internet Edge DCI Private Access Aggregation SP IP or MPLS Core Data Centers Cloud Front End DC: Virtualization Back End DC: SDN & VNF 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
NFV Relationship with SDN NFV with SDN in an open environment, provides very powerful benefits to SPs Server Virtualization Decoupled Network Virtualization Decouple logical & physical topology Network is an abstraction. Programmatic Provisioning. Place any workload anywhere. Move any workload anywhere. Decouple from Hardware. Provide L4-7 network services Operationally efficient. 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
Place Holder for Relevance of SDN and NFV 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
SP workload evolution Workloads Trend IT Hosting Enterprise App & VM Based VM Based VM Based or transition to public cloud VM Based Traditional DC Service Delivery VM Based & Cloud Native Cloud Native Container Based NFV Backend VM Based Cloud Native Container Based Distributed Fabric NFV Frontend VM Based Cloud Native Container Based 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
SDN Fabric Evolution BRKSPG-2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 9
What x-g Demands from Telco Data Center $ Low Latency and High Throughput L3 Op&mized technology SDN&5G IOT Apps Massive Data Scale Multi Tenanted 1G 2G TDM/SDH 3G L2/L3 DC Fabric 4G Spine- Leaf L3 Fabric s. L3 Based Fabric V4,v6 Spine Leaf Topology SDN Based Fabric Service Chaining Visibility Telemetry 5G SDN Network Fabric SDN Policy Driven Configuration BM, VM, Container Workload Telemetry for Analytics Secure, Ease of Operations 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
Choices of SDN Fabric for Telco DC Integrated SDN - ACI Decoupled SDN Vxlan EVPN & 3 rd party Controller Segment Routing Based DC Fabric Connection Creation Expansion VTS Reporting Fault Mgmt Extremely Easy Fabric Automation FCAPS with Day 1 & 2 operations Matured Technology Easy to Consume Physical, Virtual, Containers Decoupled SDN controller from physical fabric. Needs externals tools for FCAPS Relatively complex to design, implement and operate. DCNM Early adoption phase for transport layer Currently lacks automation & Operational tools Integration with Virtualization layer Vendor interoperability to be determined Security External Tools Performance Accounting Fault Integrated Tools CisC Integrated Tools External Tools External Tools Configuration Cisco Controller 3 rd Party Controller 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
ACI an Integrated SDN Approach Open Policy Driven Model 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Underlay Network 12
VTS DC Fabric Virtual Topology System Service and Infrastructure Policy Resource Management Device Management Inventory Database IOS XRv Policy Plane Control Plane Nexus9k,7k, 3k, 5k, 2k, ASR9k VMWare vsphere Tennant Network isolation Works across OpenStack and VMware virtualization SW based VTEP, performance optimized 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13
Telemetry and Analy&cs BRKSPG- 2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 14
Why Do We Need More Telemetry Data Use Cases Network Health Troubleshoo&ng / Remedia&on SLAs, Performance Tuning Security Policy Enforcement Event Driven Dynamic Configura&on Capacity Planning Trends Centralized / Soaware- defined Speed Scale Capabili&es
Today Network data is boclenecked Where Data Is Created Incomplete Scale Issues Where Data Is Useful SNMP SNMP Server sensing & measurement Non real Ame Syslog Syslog Collector CLI Scripts storage & analysis Unstructured Subject to Change Strong burden on back- end Must normalize different encodings, transports, data models, Amestamps
Three Enablers for Telemetry Push Not Pull Analy&cs- Ready Data Data- Model Driven
Telemetry and Analy&cs Application dependency mapping Data Collec&on Automated whitelist policy generation Policy Compliance and auditability Analytics Software Sensor and Enforcement VM, BM Title Goes Here NX-OS Mode Embedded Network Sensors Control Plane and Data Plane NX-OS Policy Simulation and impact assessment Forensics (ex.: every packet, every flow, every speed) Server Sensors Third Party Sources (Configuration Data) LB, IP Address
Containers for Telco Applica&ons BRKSPG- 2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 19
Types of Workloads for Telco Applications Telco DC will have to Cater to All Types of Workloads Svc1 Bins / libs Opera&ng System Hardware Svc1 Bins / libs Opera&ng System Virtual Machine Hypervisor Hardware Svc2 Bins / libs Opera&ng System Virtual Machine Svc1 Svc2 Bins / libs Container Container Bins / libs Opera&ng System Hardware Bare- metal Single Service mapped to dedicated hardware High performance is the key driver for this deployment. Virtual Machines - Hypervisor Containers Hypervisor solve interdependencies EmulaAng OS environment for Services between apps but Are lightweight and fast to start (=subsecond) Heavyweight 100 s of MB and slow to start CI/CD: Life Cycle Management 20 seconds or so Enabler for Microservices and Cloud NaAve Enabler for OpAmial Resource & Agility
Networking in the new container world Host 1 Host 2 VM1 Host 1 VM2 VM1 Host 2 VM2 C1 Cn C1 Cn C1 Cn C1 Cn Physical Network Hypervisor Virtual Switching or Overlay Network Hypervisor Guest OS - Bridged Overlay Network - VXLAN Guest OS - Bridged Guest OS - Bridged Overlay Network - VXLAN Guest OS - Bridged Physical Network Hypervisor Hypervisor Physical Network Connectivity Network services e.g. Load balancer, Firewall Performance Encap over encap over encap suffers performance HW Integration Can not leverage performance and security by natively integrating with HW 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
What is Coniv Providing Container Networking Infrastructure Simple Install Application Intent GUI + CLI Network Policy LDAP/RBAC Declarative IT Admin DevOps Platform 100% Open Source 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Networking The Most Powerful Container Networking Fabric 2017 L2, L3, Overlay or ACI Rich Policies Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6
Contiv Network Plugin Operational Policy Management Developer Operations Contiv Elements Contiv UI to manage/ monitor policies/usage Application Scheduler Contiv policy distribution using state store Contiv Distributed Policy Layer... Node 1 Node 2 Node-n Policy enforcement for compute, network, and storage Integration with physical infrastructure Contiv Automatically Integrates and Enforces Developer and Operations Policies 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential PSO-1490 23
NFVi for VNF s BRKSPG-2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 24
NFV Deployment Models: Vertical vs Horizontal VNF Led NFVI Led Product Centric Converged and Application centric Service Orchestrator Service Orchestrator Product1 Product2 Key Considerations: Service Catalogue App1 Virtualization Infrastructure Compute Store Network Management & Automation App1 Virtualization Infrastructure Compute Store Network Management & Automation Operational efficiency Infrastructure efficiency Faster Time To Market Business process Services Simplicity Service Orchestrator Management App1 App1 Software Defined Infrastructure Compute App1 App. Manager Virtualization Layer Store App1 App1 Network App1 Infra Abstraction App. Manager Facilities ü Capital intensive ü Building Silos ü Time to Market ü Operational Readiness Facilities ü Orchestrated and Elastic ü Common Platform for all VNF ü SI Led Approach ü Open and independent layers 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
NFVI What Customers Are Asking Cisco? 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carrier Class Performance Use Case Agnostic Infrastructure Open Standards Based, Modular and Elastic Easy to use with Unified Management Integrated Solution with Single Point of Ownership Solution Security - Defense in Depth Service Velocity Customer Experience Open Architecture 26 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Performance & Optimization: Different layers of the stack Real-Time Kernel Real-time hypervisor, Deterministic Latency CPU/Memory Access NUMA, Huge pages, CPU pinning, Socket affinity Network Access SR-IOV, PCI-Passthrough, NSH* Virtual Switching OVS, OVS-DPDK, VPP* 27 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Reality: Performance Limitations Deployment options and techniques -> Contradictory to Cloud Deployments!!! Deterministic placement of Virtual Machines Memory allocation on NUMA node VNF/VM managing Ingress/Egress traffic vcpu Pinning Virtual Switch PCI-Passthrough SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) Passes Through Open vswitch Single Port Physical NICs BRKSPG-2402 Single Port Physical NIC (SR-IOV Capable) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 28
Cisco NFV for Multi Services Part of the Cisco Open Network Architecture OSS/BSS and Service Catalog North Bound APIs Virtual Network Functions Cisco and 3 rd Party NFV-O & Resource Orchestration : Service Model NSO Network Services Orchestrator enabled by Tail-f or 3rd Party VNF Enterprise Services Mobility Services Media Services IoE/IoT 3 rd Party Cisco ESC VNF Managers 3 rd Party Orchestrator North Bound APIs Virtual Infrastructure Manager Software Defined Controllers NFVI API GUI Infra Management Assurance Unified Management with assurance. Cisco Installer on RHEL OSP 7, VCenter Linux (RHEL 7.1), Hyper Visor (KVM), ESXi, Vsphere Cisco Physical Infrastructure UCSM VTS ACI or 3rd Party Compute (UCS) Network Storage Ceph 29 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Intel ONP Server Ingredients & Consumption Reference Architecture Commercial Product Intel ONP Ingredient Menu Intel ONP Server 1.5 Integrated Software Single Pane of Glass (Operations) Cisco NFVI Platform Cisco Openstack SP Suite Single Point of Support Fedora Intel Comm Chipset 89xx intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 intel Ethernet Controller XL710 Intel 8950 Coleto Creek DPDK Kilo 2015.1.1 Lithium SR1 Fedora Fedora v21 Industry SHVS v2.4.90 v2.0 2.3.0.5 Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 Intel Ethernet Controller XL710 SDN Controllers: Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 Cisco UCS B-series Cisco UCS C-series Cisco UCS M-series Nexus 9K Family RHEL OSP7, Ceph Cisco VPP or Open vswitch Intel Communications Chipset 89xx Series or APIC or VTS RHEL KVM/RH OS7.2 TXT/TPM, EPA, IETF NSH, OvS hardware acceleration Validated PoD s Intel Ethernet Controller x710 Carrier Grade Reliability & High Availability Infrastructure Monitoring & Assurance High performance networking * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 30 30 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Cisco VIM Key Differentiator Cisco Openstack running RHEL OSP 7 automates Opensource VIM workflow Installer VM throughput Testing Logging/Monitoring? How does this solution Differentiate CI/CD HA Verification Health Checks 31 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Cisco NFVI Value Proposition 3 Key area s of Differentiation 1 2 "Best of Breed" Open Architecture Open Source Components from the leading contributors CEPH, Linux, KVM, OpenStack, ODL Programmable network and compute architectures: N9K, UCS, SDN Controllers Options Operational Simplicity Installation and Configuration Management and Operations Performance and Health Checks 3 Performance & Optimization Optimized System Performance SDN Controllers, Optimized Forwarders 32 BRKSPG-2402 32 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Summary BRKSPG-2402 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 33
Summary And Discussion Points SDN/NFV is a strategic technology transformation Its not about virtualizing a VNF on a bunch of servers Its about hosting VNFs on a Open, Programmable, Intelligent Network Infrastructure with flexibility to Manage and Automate Services Raising key questions: How does SDN/NFV add to economic and strategic value to your business? How much of automation of Physical & Virtual services has been achieved? Leading to high Operational disruption How do you plan to manage the complex cost of transition effectively? Process Tools People What's the value you plan to derive out of Open source tools? 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public