Cloud Central Office (CloudCO) Dramatically faster provisioning of Cloud-based services Definition, drivers and impact scope, architecture App Notes Open Broadband & CloudCO getting involved Q&A Yves Hertoghs Principal Systems Engineer, Networking and Security Member of the CTO Ambassador Program VMware BBF Project Lead CloudCO Christopher Croot Programmable Networks Architect Dynamic Network Services BT BBF SDN/NFV Work Area Director Dr. Georgios Karagiannis Principal Strategist in Standardization and Industry Development Huawei Technologies BBF Editor CloudCO Framework 1
SDN NFV B U S BBF projects driving growth of holistic broadband Holistic Broadband A commitment that results in a set of inter-related BBF deliverables enabling provider differentiated services Is not a monolithic system designed for specific closed solutions USP 2
Virtualized broadband: CloudCO SDN/NFV WA CloudCO is a project of the BBF SDN/NFV Work Area CloudCO is a comprehensive set of deliverables that collectively enable dramatically faster, more efficient provisioning of Cloud-based services Based on NFV and SDN implementation, YANG models, Cloud consumption interfaces/functions Utilizes Open Broadband for ongoing development, testing and deployment staging Multi-Dwelling / Professional Building Wireless-Wireline Converged Transport Interconnect Remote Provider Domains 68 o Homeworker Street Cabinet 3
Virtualized broadband: CloudCO SDN/NFV WA Defines Black Boxes of functionality WHAT? - not HOW? Re-uses well-known concepts and standards Open Interfaces between them SDN subsystem (including Access Abstraction) NFVI+MANO subsystem CloudCO Domain Orchestrator Multi-Dwelling / Professional Building Wireless-Wireline Converged Transport Interconnect Remote Provider Domains 68 o Homeworker Street Cabinet 4
Virtualized broadband: CloudCO SDN/NFV WA System Integrator/Operator choices Open Source or Vendor Provided software for any of the Functional Black Boxes Consume, Onboard and Build Services Wired/Wireless Wholesale/Retail Multi-Dwelling / Professional Building Wireless-Wireline Converged Transport Interconnect Remote Provider Domains 68 o NOT ANOTHER OPEN SOURCE VEHICLE! Homeworker Street Cabinet 5
CloudCO Projects Targeted to complete in next 12 months: CloudCO Reference Architectural Framework (TR-384) Published Jan 2018 CloudCO Use Cases and Scenarios (TR-416) Approved April 2018 Cloud CO App Notes : Use Cases for Open Broadband Migration & co-existence (WT-408, WT-413) AppNote CloudCO Interfaces: (WT-411) AppNote CloudCO test cases (WT-412) Software & hardware reference implementations Open Broadband Labs Open Broadband Projects Broadband Access Abstraction (code release: July 2018) Multi-Dwelling / Professional Building Homeworker Wireless-Wireline Converged Transport Interconnect Street Cabinet SDN/NFV WA Remote Provider Domains 68 o 6
CloudCO Reference Architectural Framework (TR-384) Applied on CloudCO Domain End-to-End Service Orchestration /OSS/BSS/Portals (Assurance, etc. ) Uses ETSI/ISG NFV and new functions and interfaces: End-to-end Service Orchestrator CloudCO Domain Orchestrator ETSI NFV MANO Subsystem SDN Subsystem (including Access Abstraction) SDN Mngt & Ctrl EMS CloudCO Domain CloudCO Domain Orchestrator PNF SDN Subsystem VNF CloudCO North Bound API(s) MANO Subsystem NFVI 7
CloudCO Reference Architectural Framework (TR-384) End-to-End Service Orchestration /OSS/BSS/Portals (Assurance, ) Uses ETSI/ISG NFV and new functions and interfaces (details): Management Control Orchestration Engine DC SDN Manager & Controller PNF and VNF SDN Managers & Controllers SDN Mngt & Ctrl EMS CloudCO Domain CloudCO Domain Orchestrator PNF SDN Mngt & Ctrl PNF MCO Engine VNF SDN Mngt & Ctrl VNF CloudCO North Bound API(s) DC SDN Mngt & Ctrl NFVO VNFM NFVI VIM 8
CloudCO Physical Architecture Example CloudCO deployment example Spine Switch Spine Switch Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Compute Node Compute Nodes VNF1 Compute Nodes VNF3 VNF5 CPE Customer Premises (hosting part of the distributed NFVI) Access I/O VNF2 VNF4 CloudCO Site Access Node Access Network Node I/O 9
CloudCO Application Notes Uses TR-384 framework to describe an implementable Use Case for a CloudCO 'application Service provider or service developer led Has enough information to built an instantiation/implementation (e.g. in Open Broadband Labs) Used to derive interface definitions Used to create test cases with help from Open Source and vendor community Service CloudCO Network PNF/VNF (Device Function) Access SDN management and control Broadband Access Abstraction Example: Network Enhanced Gateway (TR-317) implementation End-to-End Service Orchestrator CloudCO Domain Orchestrator Edge SDN management and control AAA VNF VNFM SDN management and control TR-317 vg DPU OLT NFVI VNF VIM 10
Relationship between Application Notes and other work Application Note X Drawing Component Description Interaction 1 (actor, action) Interaction 2 (actor, action) Acceptance criteria Application Note B Application Note Y Application Note Y Drawing Component Description Interaction 1 (actor, action) Interaction 2 (actor, action) Acceptance criteria Application Note X Instance WT-411 : Interfaces Interface protocol choice allows exchange across components and all interactions Interface information models (APIs/Yang/ ) to achieve the interaction Application Note Y Instance WT-412 : Test Cases Describe Test Cases for the Application Note Essentially testing the components chosen and the Interface behavior, using REAL running code Could lead to feature request or open source development/upstreaming 11
The need for an Open Access Abstraction Interconnect Remote Provider Domains Virtual network functions (VNFs) deployed on generic computing infrastructure, interconnected by a generic switching fabric with Access and Edge Network Elements. Wireless-Wireline Converged Transport Spine Switch Spine Switch Multi-Dwelling / Professional Building 68 o Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Leaf Switch Homeworker Street Cabinet Compute Nodes VNF1 Compute Nodes VNF3 Access Node VNF2 VNF4 CloudCO Site Access Access Network Node Node I/O The Access SDN Manager & Controller and BAA layer controls the interaction to the Access Nodes 12
Relationship between CloudCO and Broadband Access Abstraction (BAA) Access SDN Manager and Controller End-to-End Service Orchestration /OSS/BSS/Portals (Assurance, ) L2-L3 flow management and session control BAA Layer (Actuator) L1 and L2-L3 device configuration Access network topology and equipment management Layer 1 management Layer 1 profile application Access network topology awareness and inventory Performance measurement and alarm reporting SDN Management & Control EMS CloudCO Domain CloudCO Domain Orchestrator PNF SDN Mngt & Ctrl MCO Engine VNF SDN Mngt & Ctrl CloudCO North Bound API(s) DC SDN Mngt & Ctrl NFVO Device specific interface Device specific or standard interface BAA Layer VNF Legacy Access Node New gen. Access node Access PNF Non-Access PNF VNFM NFVI VIM 13
A collaborative space for the integration, staging and testing of open source, standards-based and vendor provided implementations Where suppliers & operators can work together on new & coexisting solutions Open Broadband Infrastructure: common hardware/software platform for an open lab Fulfilling important industry requirements 1. Accelerates go-to-market & go-to-production for new services 2. Open Broadband: an open invitation to participate in a developer-friendly environment without undue financial, membership, proprietary, technical constraints 3. Aids migration to cloud-based ones 14
CloudCO & Open Broadband Legend How CloudCO projects map on to Open Broadband 1 Migration & co-existence (WT-408) 2 Interfaces: (WT-411) 3 Software reference implementation 4 Hardware reference implementation 5 Migration to SDN-enabled management (WT-413) 6 CloudCO test cases (WT-412) Applicable throughout: CloudCO framework TR-384 CloudCO App Notes BBF User-facing interfaces (U/T) Existing and new Broadband Network implementations 1 5 Open Broadband Infrastructure Value Added Services/Applications Open Source NFV/SDN 2 Vendor-provided NFV/SDN Common Cloud Platform Physical Platform (NFVI Hardware) BBF Interface Access BBF Policy/Management interfaces (R/M/ ) 3 4 6 Test Automation Framework BBF Network-facing interfaces (A10) 15
CloudCO Summary SDN NFV Enables dramatically faster, more efficient creation & provisioning of Cloud-based services Virtualized Broadband Managed Home Gigabit Access 5G-WWC Impacts and enables many Broadband Forum projects Next CloudCO projects rollout, Open Broadband Lab staging Download project summary and follow CloudCO at broadband-forum/cloudco Get involved in the future of Broadband Full details at wiki.broadband-forum.org (members) and broadband-forum.org/membership 16
17 Yves Hertoghs VMware BBF Project Lead CloudCO Dr. Georgios Karagiannis Huawei Technologies Editor CloudCO Framework
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