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CORD Mini-Summit, Beijing, China Aseem Parikh, VP Solutions and Partnerships, ONF August 2017
About ONF 3
SDN & NFV Where Are We Now? Monolithic Systems Disaggregated Network
New ONF Being Formed to Lead in this New Open Source Era ONF Champion For SDN Standards SDN/NFV Industry Need solutions now that we ve disaggregated the network New ONF Realizing the Potential of SDN & NFV with Open Source Solutions & Software Defined Standards ON.Lab Leading open source platforms for service providers Tech Trends 5G, IoT & VR/AR creating challenges and opportunities 5
Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Operator Led Consortium Vision Strategy Transform Operator Networks and Business Models with Open Source Solutions for building nimble competitive networks for service delivery #1 - BUILD IT Build a viable open source alternative to proprietary solutions for operator networks Provide complete solutions that are easy to consume #2 - PROVE IT Operators put their weight behind it with both: Up-Front Investment (vision, people, attention and money) Deployment (& resulting spend), which transforms industry 6
The Ecosystem 200+ Members Strong Vibrant Operator Led Consortium Positioned for Success Partner Operators (7) Vendors (10) New ONF Board ONF (& Stanford) Guru Parulkar Network Operators AT&T Andre Fuetsch CTO Google Urs Hölzle SVP NTT Comm Dai Kashiwa Director Comcast Rob Howald VP Verizon Srini Kalapala VP China Unicom Shao Guanglu - SVP Research & Vendor Community Nick McKeown Stanford Fabian Schneider NEC Innovator 110+ Including 14 Operators: Argela/Turk Telecom Microsoft China Mobile Swisscom SK Telecom Telecom Italia ECI Telecom Telefonica Facebook TELUS Globe Telecom Vodafone Goldman Sachs Yahoo Collaborator 70+ Volunteers 100s
DT-First European Tier-1 Operator joins ONF as a Partner with Keen Interest in R- & M-CORD & ONOS 8
ONF s Scope Global Orchestrators Open Source: ONAP, Open-O, Open Source MANO Service APIs: TOSCA, RESTful New ONF Scope of Focus Solutions Platforms Control Plane VNFs M- CORD ONOS R-CORD CORD E-CORD Network Intent-Based APIs Alternative VNF Frameworks (e.g. OPNFV) Alternative Controllers (e.g. ODL) Standards & Interworking APIs Control (OpenFlow, P4) Config (NetConf/Yang, OpenConfig) Programmable Forwarding Plane Disaggregated boxes: Packet switch, ROADM, enodeb, OLT, RAN Open Source: Switch OS, FBOSS, SONIC, ONL, ONIE 9
ONF Governance of Two OS Projects-ONOS & CORD ONF Members & Collaborators ONF Board >75% Operator Partner BD/Prod Mgmt other Product Management from Operators & Vendors Propose Participate Step into Leadership roles Tier 1 Designated Project (CORD, ONOS, <future>) Creates Approves (option #1) Creates Approves (option #2) For solutionoriented brigades Use-case Steering Team Provides product owner for all brigades Technical Steering Team (TST) Brigades.c.uml.java.pdf.html
CORD: Central Office Re-architected as a Data-cetner 11
Telco Central Office (CO) CO is a service provider s gateway to its customers There are thousands of COs Mobile One CO may support 10K+ residential subscribers 10K+ mobile subscribers Enterprise Central Office Can be small or large and has different names in different contexts 1K+ enterprise customers CO provides a great vantage point for service providers Enables new services Residential 12
CORD Overview Economies of a datacenter Infrastructure built with a few commodity building blocks using open source software and white-box switches Agility of a cloud provider Software platforms that enable rapid creation of new services or Bringing Access-as-a-Service to the Cloud
CORD: Multi-Access Architecture Residential volt, vsg, vrouter, vcdn Mobile vbbu. vmme, vsgw, vpgw, vcdn Enterprise vcarrierethernet, voam, vwanex, vids Access Service Orchestration & Control Metro Ethernet BBUs PON OLTs ROADM (Core) 14
Service Provider Traction with ONF and CORD North America AT&T: R-CORD, M-CORD (Multi-Service Edge), voltha Verizon: M-CORD Sprint: M-CORD Comcast: R-CORD CenturyLink: R-CORD Google: Multi-access CORD Asia & Australia China Unicom: M-CORD, E-CORD China Mobile: M-CORD and E-CORD NTT, NTT East: IP+Optical, R-CORD SK Telecom: M-CORD Telstra: M-CORD Reliance Jio: M-CORD Europe Deutsche Telecom: R+M-CORD (Hybrid CORD) Telefonica: R-CORD, M-CORD Telecom Italia: M-CORD Colt: R-CORD Turk Telecom: M-CORD & ONOS SDN Control Interest continues to grow on a monthly basis. Many SPs need production ready solutions including customization and support.
Service Provider Interest in CORD is fast growing IHS reports that 70% of carriers worldwide will deploy CORD in their networks. Source: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/ihs-markit-70-carriers-will-deploy-cord-central-office/2017/01/ 16
China CORD Industry Alliance Launched by China Unicom and ONF/ON.Lab in Nov 2016 More than 12 active members Service Providers Equipment & Silicon Vendors System Integrators & Certification Labs Research Institutes Address Chinese Telecom operator requirements for customization, trials and deployment support 17
M-CORD & xran Enabling 5G Innovation 18
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xran Consortium Extensible Radio Access Network Common Goal modular, extensible RAN Decouple Control and User planes Modular enb stack Standard NB/SB interfaces Multi-vendor Logically centralized control Dr. Sachin Katti, Stanford professor, xran founder is Chief Scientist for Mobility at ONF
XRAN+M-CORD: A Standard Software Substrate for Next Generation Mobile Infrastructure APPLICATION ADMISSION CONTROL NETWORK SLICING MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SAFETY APPLICATIONS XRAN Standardized Northbound API ECOMP ORCHESTRATION M-CORD XRAN Controller ONOS (w/ XRAN Controller) + XOS + OpenStack/Docker (RAN control Plane) ON.Lab to focus on implementation of xran into M-CORD platform with active guidance and participation of Sachin Katti XRAN Standardized Southbound API DISAGGREGATED (SPLIT) VIRTUALIZED RAN EDGE CLOUD DISAGGREGATED (SPLIT) VIRTUALIZED EPC Architecture and interface/api spec 21
M-CORD Roadmap OPEN SOURCE EPC xran INTEGRATION MULTI-ACCESS CORD PRIVATE LTE FIELD TRIAL READY M-CORD
M-CORD @ MWC Americas September 2017 POTENTIAL POCs
Key Takeaways CORD is bringing economics of the datacenter and agility of the cloud to the access network through open source collaboration. R-, E- & M-CORD is CORD optimized for the residential, enterprise and mobile network Realizing Multi-Access Edge (R+M+E) is the next goal for CORD project
CORD Delivers Unprecedented Transformation & Agility to the Operator Edge Multi-Access Edge NOC 26
More information at http://opencord.org 27