Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN & NFV

and the Case for CORD

BBWF Virtualization and Cloud Services Track, London, October 18th 2016

Architecture & Planning Tom Anschutz

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD

Carrier Drivers for SDN, NFV, and Cloud-centric Infrastructure

Open our Network Simplify and Scale Increase Value

Agile, Elastic, Dynamic
Modular Common NFV Infrastructure
Cost-Performance leadership
Programmable via robust New operational paradigms
Enable new growth services & apps
Network APIs, service Emergent significant stressors
creation and execution include Video and Internet of World class, industry-leading
security, performance, reliability
Everything
Facilitate new business models and
associated monetization paradigms

Architecture and Technology Directions

Decouple HW from SW NFV Combining cloud, NFV and SDN, enables a near real
time network cloud, distributed and integrated
Separate Control from Forwarding SDN through the WAN, optimized for packet

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD
OCP Provides Open, Vanity Free Hardware - Typical of Data Center Architecture

Spine Switches

Fabric

Leaf Switches (ToR)

Compute and Storage

Open Rack

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD
CORD Fabric interconnects IO with VNFs, supports network slicing and scale-out for robust switching and
aggregation

IO

IO IO IO
VNF

VNF = Virtual Network Function

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD
CORD provides simple IO modules that work with the fabric for scale out

IO IO
WAN Routers

Spine Switches

Fabric
Leaf Switches (TOR)

Compute and Storage

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD

CORD control includes open, flexible control and orchestration

ONOS: An SDN controller with high availability, elasticity, and cloud architecture
OpenStack: The open standard for orchestration
XOS: A lightweight framework for defining and composing (micro) services.

IO

Open Stack
IO IO IO
XOS ONOS

SDN Control &

Orchestration

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD
Diverse Types of Network Functions
Re-Usable Functions
3rd Party Applications

Fabric vOLT
vRouter
Parental
KVM Controls

CORD SDN
Control
NFVI
MNGR
Multi-Tenancy

I I

Docker
O O
CDN
I I
O O VNF VNF VNF

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD
CORD Community

Vibrant, Collaborative Community of Developers, Users & Suppliers

Linux Foundation Project using OCP-Spec Hardware

Open Networking Lab
2 Commercial Providers
4 Alliances with Standards Development Organizations
15 Partner Corporations
30 Collaborating Organizations
Hundreds of Individual Contributors

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Examining Carrier Drivers for SDN/NFV and the Case for CORD

Summary: The Case for CORD or Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter

Carrier Desires: CORD Delivers:

Commodity NFV Infrastructure Open Compute Project (OCP) Servers
Robust Switching and Aggregation Fabric from OCP Switches and OVS
Simple IO Modules that work with Fabric vOLT, vG.Fast, vCE (MEF), (vNB)
Flexible, Scalable, Available Control Plane Open Network Operating System (ONOS)
Open Orchestration Open Stack
High-Level Service Composition Environment XOS
Diverse types of Virtual Network Functions KVM, Docker
Re-useable VNFs vSG, vRouter, Fabric, vOLT
3rd Party Services CDN, Parental Controls
Multi-Tenancy Cloud Tenants and Network Slicing
Community Ecosystem to support Open Innovation Open CORD community
Optional Vendor Support, Maintenance, Customization Multiple Vendor support for CORD and extensions

http://opencord.org http://opencompute.org
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