NFV SDN on Open Stack

API Framework
For Review
March - 2016
AGNITY GLOBAL INC. 2016 CONFIDENTIAL &

Leader in providing SDN and NFV based network

transformation solutions and services for Telecom
Service
Providers,
Data
Center
and
Enterprise
Customers based on AGNITYs own Applications and
offerings from ecosystem partners

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SDN-NFV ON OPEN STACK API

FRAMEWORK

Service providers are looking to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) as a way to

deliver and deploy Virtual Network Functions (VNF) services in a flexible way, using
virtualization and cloud computing techniques.

As an IaaS framework constructed as pluggable API components, OpenStack provides

a given level of automation and orchestration to deploy and provision NFV services.

Both OpenStack and NFV have developed considerably over the past few years from an
IS/ IT and a telecoms perspective.

ETSI NFV aims to define an architecture and a set of inter-faces so that physical
network functions, like routers, firewalls, CDNs and telco applications, can be
transformed: from software applications designed to run on specific dedicated
hardware into decoupled applications called VNFs deployed on VMs or containers,
on generic servers.

OpenStack, addresses service provisioning and virtualization by providing an opensource software service framework that is API-driven and pluggable, enabling public
and private clouds to be quickly deployed and managed effectively

TELCO CLOUD SERVICE

ARCHITECTURE ON OPEN
STACK

The architecture is still modular today,

growing with each release, through the
addition of new components providing
extra services in the IaaS layer.

As an IaaS framework that is flexible and

API-driven, OpenStack offers vendors and
solution providers a means to integrate
their compute, network and storageinfrastructure plugins best suited to their
environment.

OpenStack, on the other hand, addresses

service provisioning and virtualization by
providing an open-source software service
framework that is API-driven and
pluggable, enabling public and private
clouds to be quickly deployed and
managed effectively.

* IaaS : infrastructure as a service

OPENSTACK CONCEPTUAL
ARCHITECTURE

The core of each OpenStack service, which is

commonly referred to as the controller,
manages the given service.

Services like Nova and Neutron are built on a

pluggable architecture and use an API webbased services frontend for managing the
controller.

The frontend is responsible for handling

authentication and authorization of API calls
via Keystone, as well as command and control
functions like request-ing or deleting a VM or
establishing admin/user rights.

an OpenStack service calls another OpenStack

service through its north-bound API.

Initial service requests are sent through a

service portal, which can be the default
dashboard (Horizon), or through a more
enriched cloud manager that interfaces with
the north-bound API of the OpenStack
controllers.

VNF DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

large-scale and feature-rich API
plug-gable framework enabling
automated service deployment
and provisioning.
The original OpenStack
architecture was modular, built
with independent components
(services), called through a
REST-based API frontend
OpenStack enables end-to-end
service deployment, provisioning
and, reducing implementation
time from weeks to hours.

ETSI NFV ARCHITECTURAL

FRAMEWORK

USE CASE: 3GPP IMS MRF TELCO

GRANDE MEDIA SERVER ENVIRNOMENT
Support applications like
IVR,Voice Mail,Voice-Video
conferece.
Includes Multiple codecs
support , real time
transcoding..

1
0

SDN/NFV USE CASES - TELECOM APPLICATION PROVIDERS

Offering
SDNification

S
D
N
/
N VNFs
F
V

Use Case

Benefits

Enables decoupling the control

and data planes to enable
dynamic Networks with
centralized intelligence for
Switches to provide control
and centralized management

Centralized management
provides Capex and Opex
savings
Open flow Standards compliant

Virtualization of existing
products based on standards
driven NFV solutions

Hardware agnostic
Additional revenue streams via
licencing VNFs
Ease of upgrade roll-outs

Enabling new markets and creating new avenues of revenue

SDN/NFV USE CASES - TELECOM SERVICE PROVIDERS

Offerings

Use Case

Benefits

vCPE (Virtual
customer
Premises
Equipment),
vPE (Virtual
Provider Edge)

Replace existing CPE with

lightweight hardware, moving
common functions and complex
traffic handling into POP (pointsof-presence) or SP data centre

vEPC

Enables transformation of mobile

packet core into a virtualized
environment providing dynamic
scaling of EPC components

vSaMOG

Service
Insertion (or
Service
Chaining)

N
F
V

Increased usable lifespan of onpremises equipment

Improved troubleshooting
Reduction in complaints
Flexibility to sell new services
Lower TCO

Offerings
Consultan
cy
System
Integratio
n

Drastic reduction in cost of

deploying an EPC
Better RoI

Network
Testing

Enables offload of LTE/3G traffic

from Mobile core to WiFi network

Lower Capex
Improved QoE
Elasticity

Network
transform
ation

To create dynamic chains of

services on a per tenant basis to
accommodate automated service
selection or policy-based
selection

Provisioning times reduced

from weeks to minutes
Improved agility and selfservice allows for new revenue
and service opportunities with
substantially lower costs to
service

Enhanced Scalability, Elasticity and flexibility

Managed
Services
VNFs
developm
ent and
testing

SDN/NFV USE CASES - TELECOM SERVICE PROVIDERS

Offering
BoD App

HNI App

SLB App

Use Case
Enables programmatic control on
carrier links to request extra
bandwidth when needed based on
configurable parameters
Enables interworking of legacy
networks and SDN enabled devices
in hybrid fashion

Benefits
Opex Reduction
Agile service provisioning
Self service for customers

Enables intelligent load balancing in

the servers ensuring optimum
utilization of resources

S
D
N

Offerings

Seamless migration from legacy

network to SDN enabled network
Phased network transformation
Opex & Capex Reduction due to
real-time re-configuration based
on traffic
Improved QoS

UCP App

Enables automatic provisioning of

multi-vendor, multi-layer and multitechnology platforms in packetoptical networks.

Drastic reduction of service

provisioning time (manual
provision - 3 months)

SFS App

Steers traffic taking into

consideration the dynamic network
conditions; latency, congestion and
application type

Maximises the network utilization

and provide differentiated
services
Improves QoS (based on
parameters)

Seamless Adoption of Legacy OSS for

SDN network in Hybrid deployment
scenarios

OSS
Adapter

Analytics

Seamless migration from legacy

network to SDN enabled network
Drastic reduction of service
provisioning time for SDN
networks

Customer retention
Enables real-time network
visualization, analytics for churn
Differentiated offerings through
Enabling
CAPEX
&campaign
OPEX reductions
management
and
QoE & creating new
management and for QoE
revenue
improvement

Consultan
cy
System
Integratio
n
Network
Testing
Network
transform
ation
Managed
Services
SDNificati
on
Controller
Optimizati
on
Whitebox
Solutions

avenues of

CONCLUSION
OpenStack is still evolving and will take time to mature.
New features and extensions designed to address the specific requirements of NFV in telco and
enterprise use cases will enable NFV services to be provisioned and deployed.
This will, however, require a number of future releases. While some development
work still needs to be carried out by the OpenStack community to support all the necessary features
and ensure that OpenStack is carrier grade, its extendable and pluggable services framework provides
vendors and service providers with a flexible solution for interfacing a multitude of plugins and backend
solutions.
A large number of solutions may be developed to suit service provider needs, and so a certification program
is required to ensure which plugins and infrastructure blocks are connected and NFV certified.

SDN/NFV ARCHITECTURAL VISION

TechM Products
Platforms,
Apps,
Mediation,
Analytics,

Comprehensive

OpenFlow
Agent Toolkit
White
box
solution for
DCs
SDN
certification
lab
Enhanced
ODL
SDN
Controller &
Orchestrator
:
Infra
apps
NFV: SLB,
(SFS,
UCP,
vRGW HNI),
SmartNMS
(vDNS, vNAT,
vDHCP,
Business
vFirewall,
apps
(BOD,
vAntivirus,
BC, L2VPN)
)
vEPC

Offerings

veCPE, vSTB,
vSaMOG,
Leaders in
vRouter
State-of-art
System
Labs
Data
plane
Integration &
(Certification)
acceleration
Testing
using
Intel
DPDK
SDN/NFV network transformation Solutions
NFV IOT lab

ORCHESTRATION PRINCIPLES
Abstraction:

On a fundamental level, this principle

emphasizes the need to hide as much of the underlying details

Decoupling:

This principle advocates the creation of a

specific type of relationship within and outside of service
boundaries, with a constant emphasis on reducing ("loosening")
dependencies between the services, its implementation, and its
service consumers.

Autonomy:

underlying solution logic needs to have a

significant degree of control over its environment and resources.
The principle of Service Autonomy supports the extent to which
other design principles can be effectively realized in real world
production environments by fostering design characteristics that
increase a service's reliability and behavioral predictability.

SOLUTIONS POWERED BY ECOSYSTEM

Visualization
Data Store

NFV-O

VNFs

CDN

SDN Controller

NFV Platforms

Switches/Routers
Servers

Silicon

Extensive Ecosystem relationships for cutting-edge solutions

IPS & POCS

TechM Analytics
Platform
TechM
Analytics
Platform

OSS Adapter:
Adaptation layer for legacy OSS to
OSS Adapter:
managelayer
SDN for
networks
Adaptation
legacy OSS to
manage SDN networks

Applications:
Network Orchestration:
Carrier Ethernet
Network
Orchestration:
Overlay Services
Carrier
Ethernet
Overlay Services

Bandwidth on Demand
Applications:

Bandwidth Calendaring
Bandwidth
on Demand
CCTV Optimizer
Bandwidth
Calendaring
CCTV Optimizer

Enhanced
SDN
Controller
Plugins:
Enhanced
SDN
Controller
Load Balancer
Plugins:
Latency
Monitoring
Load
Balancer
Hybrid
Network Interworking
Latency
Monitoring
Unified
Control
Plane
Hybrid
Network
Interworking
YANG
NMS Plane
Unified
Control
Scalability
YANG
NMS
1:1 High Availability
Scalability
1:1 High Availability

DC Visualization
Platform
DC Analytics
Visualization
Analytics Platform

NFV Orchestrator:
Service level orchestration for
NFV Orchestrator:

compute,
network and storage
Service
level orchestration
for
compute, network and storage

VNF Manager:
VNF Life cycle Management
VNF Manager:
VNF Life cycle Management

VNFs:
EPC
VNFs:

Enhanced for integration with

EPC
vCPE framework
Enhanced
for integration with

vCPEvSaMOG
framework
vSaMOG

Network Hypervisor:
Slicing at Switch, Ports, Bandwidth & Lambda
Network
Hypervisor:
Virtualization
Slicing
at Switch, Ports, Bandwidth & Lambda
Virtualization
SDNification toolkit
Whitebox toolkit
Solutions
SDNification
Whitebox Solutions

Unique Portfolio of IPs in different layers of SDN/NFV Network

TECH MAHINDRA LIMITED

Overview
$3.1 billion Revenue. Includes Product Engineering, Services and Solutions Provider offering end-to-end
services to Global Telecom Operators, Network Equipment Providers and Enterprise customers
Implemented Greenfield Operations for a large number of Global Telecom majors
Incorporated in 1986 as a JV of Mahindra Group & BT
Telecom & Multi-vertical
Enterprise Focus
Global systems integrator and
business transformation
consulting firm.
Over 20 years of focused
Product Engg. experience
exclusively in the Telecom
domain.
Multi-year partnerships, Partners
in key transformations.
Enterprise solutions over a
range of verticals

People, Process & Quality

Over 95,000 dedicated resource
pool.
Integrated Business
Management System - CMMi
Level 5 & ISO 9001:2000,
BS7799.
Unique delivery model: Right
First Time, Reduced Cycle Time,
Co-locate and Collaborate and
Improved Customer Experience.
Operations in 49 countries

Tech Mahindra wins the prestigious

MOST ADMIRED KNOWLEDGE
ENTERPRISE (MAKE) Award Knowledge Summit 2013

CanvasM wins AEGIS GRAHAM BELL

AWARD for Saral Rozgar in the category
Innovative Value Added Services

Tech Mahindra wins second global award!

The TOP 125 TRAINING AWARD, 2013
CP Gurnani & Vineet Nayyar awarded
E&Y ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
2013
CP Gurnani awarded CNBC Asia India
BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR
AWARD

BPO Contract of the Year and Indias

Most CUSTOMER-RESPONSIVE BPO
Company
AT&T SUPPLIER AWARD for outstanding
performance & service
SAP PINNACLE AWARD in the
Ecosystem Expansion category

Customer Profile
550 customers (150+ Telco)
Have been working with
TSPs,TEMs and enterprises
globally.
Top 25 customers contribute
70% of the revenue while rest
500+ customers contribute 30%
of the total revenue
Actively working with Tier-1
companies, startups and VC
funded companies.
Successfully running ODC
ranging from 10 FTEs to 2000
FTEs
CORPORATION
OF THE YEAR award
for 2012 by Greater Dallas Indo-American
Chamber of Commerce
TOP TELECOM SOFTWARE Company
award at Cyber Media ICT Awards 2012
Tech Mahindra BSG wins the BEST
INDIAN ITES COMPANY award from ITs
AP
Frost and Sullivan 2012 APAC BEST
PRACTICES AWARD for Excellence in
growth

TECHNOLOGIES ENABLING
INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS &
SERVICES
Virtual Home
Gateway
Low cost L2 CPE to
replace existing
RGWs and functions
moved to virtualized
platform

Virtual Telematics
Control Unit
vCPE/vTCU
vCPE/vTCU

Virtual Provider
Edge
Protocol stacks as
VNFs

Virtual WiFi
Offload
Standards based WifiOffload from LTE/3G
networks

Virtual Carrier
solution

vPE/vSaMOG
Ethernet
vPE/vSaMOG

Bandwidth On
Demand
Unified Control
Plane
MPLS Services
Unified Control
Plane
Smart NMS
Network
Network
OSS Adapter
Applications
Applications

ToR/Aggregation/S
pine Switch
Whitebox
Whitebox
Solutions
Solutions

Analytics Platform
Enhancements to
TechM Analytics
Platform for SDN
network interfaces

Application Aware
DC Visualization
(FixStream)

Analytics
Analytics

Virtual Evolved
Packet Core
vMME, vSGW, vPGW
SDN integration for
Forwarding Plane
offload through SDN
vEPC
vEPC

Certification Testing SDN & NFV

Benchmark Testing & Consulting
NFV performance improvement
Testing/Certification
Testing/Certification

System Integration
NOC for NFV/SDN networks
Interoperability & Network Testing
Network
Network Services
Services

SERVICES OFFERINGS
SI Services
Partnership
Partnership
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Industry
Industry
Leaders
Leaders

Integration with legacy OSS/BSS, Analytics

Platforms and
otherlegacy
existing OSS/BSS,
systems
Integration
with
Analytics
Platforms and other existing systems
Development of customized applications
which work
seamlessly with
different SDN
Development
of customized
applications
Controllers
for
which work seamlessly
with different
SDN
Enhancements
to Infrastructure
features
Controllers
for
Providing
new services (features
and new
Enhancements
to Infrastructure
revenue
streams)
Providing new
services
(and new
Support
for standard
NBI and SBI
revenue
streams)
Support for standard NBI and SBI
Enhancements to SDN
Controller ODL
to address
Enhancements
to SDN
Scalability,
Inter-controller
Controller
ODL
to address
communication,
Benchmarking
Scalability,
Inter-controller
(flows
per sec)
communication,
Benchmarking
(flows per sec)
SDNification of devices to make it
OF enabled using
in-house
developed
SDNification
of devices
to make
it
tool-kit developed
OF enabled using in-house

tool-kit
State-of-art Certification lab, Testing lab
Feature Testing
and Performance
State-of-art
Certification
lab,benchmarking
Testing lab across
different Controllers
Feature Testing and Performance
benchmarking across
different Controllers

Development/
Enhancement
Development/
s/Integration
Enhancement
of Next-Gen
s/Integration
EMS to
of Next-Gen
manage
EMS
to VNFs

Integration with
carrier-grade
Integration
with
Orchestrators
carrier-grade

Orchestrators
Development of
VNF Manager
Development
of
with
support for
VNF
Manager
manage VNFs
south-bound
Creation of
with support
for
interfaces to VIM
VNFs (Design,
south-bound
Creation
of
and north-bound
Development,
interfaces
to VIM
VNFs
(Design,
to NFVtesting)
andinterfaces
north-bound
Development,
Orchestrator
interfaces
to
NFVtesting)
Enhancements
Orchestrator
E2E
to VIM
Enhancements
Solutions
E2E
toplatforms
VIM
for MANO
(OpenStack,
Solutions
platforms
CloudStack)
for MANO
(OpenStack,
CloudStack)
State-of-art cross platform
lab
State-of-artTesting
cross platform
Feature
Testing
labTesting
Performance
across
Featurebenchmarking
Testing
differentbenchmarking
Platforms, Hypervisors,
Performance
across
Processors
different Platforms,
Hypervisors,
Processors

E2E
E2E
Coverage
Coverage

In-house
In-house IPs
IPs
With
With
Partners
Partners
Modules
Modules

On
On multiple
multiple
combination
combination
s
s

Extensive
Extensive
Deployment
Deployment
Experience
Experience
CrossTrained

Crossplatform
platform
knowledge
knowledge

Trained
professional
professional
s
s

State-of
State-of art
art Reference
Reference lab
lab
with In-house
with
In-house and
and partner
partner
solutions
solutions running
running live
live

Experience
Experience in
in NOC
NOC
Managed
Managed
Services
Services

Remote
Remote
Managemen
Managemen
tt

E2E Service Offerings along with flexible models for engagement

SDN
SDN
Applications
Applications
for
for Enhanced
Enhanced
controller
controller

Smart
Load
Balancin
g (SLB)

Smart
Flow
Steering
(SFS)

Network
Network
Function
Function
Virtualization
Virtualization

Virtualized
EPC(vMME,
vSGW, vPGW)

Virtualized WiFi
Offload
(vSaMOG,)

LTE
LTE

Others
Others

Evolve
d
Packet
Core

Simulato
rs
eNodeB,
EPC,
SGSN

Test
Automation
Framework
EzFrame

WiFi Offload

RCS Client for

Smartphones

Hybrid
Network
Interwork
ing (HNI)

Virtualized
CPE
(vFirewall,
vDNS, vDHCP,
vNAT,)
Carrier
Ethernet

SmartNMS

THE PROMISE: SDN NETWORK

CONTROLLER APIS

SDN ORCHESTRATION BASIC

Source: www.convergedigest.com

SDN APPLICATIONS USE CASES

Source: www.convergedigest.com

OLD FASHION IT ECOSYSTEMS

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

Service
Provisionin
g
Activation
Unified
Inventory
legacy
network

Service
Service
Provisioning
Provisioning
Activation
Activation

OSS

Unified
Unified
Inventory
Inventory

Next Gen
network

Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

HOW SHOULD SDN

ORCHESTRATION

HOW SHOULD SDN

ORCHESTRATION

On Demand
Flexible
Converged IT &
Net
Agile
Efficient

OLD FASHION IT ECOSYSTEMS

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

Service
Provisionin
g
Activation
Unified
Inventory
legacy
network

Service
Service
Provisioni
Provisioni
ng
ng
Activatio
Activatio
n
Unified
Unified
Inventory
Inventory

Next Gen
network

OSS

Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

ENABLING CLOUD
ORCHESTRATION

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

Service
Provisionin
g
Activation
Unified
Inventory
legacy
network

Service
Service
Provisioni
Provisioni
ng
ng
Activatio
Activatio
n
Unified
Unified
Inventory
Inventory

Next Gen
network

OSS
OpenStack
Virtualisati
on
Mgt.
Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

CLOUD SERVICE COMPOSITION

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

Service
Provisionin
g
Activation
Unified
Inventory
legacy
network

Service
Service
Provisioni
Provisioni
ng
ng
Activatio
Activatio
n
Unified
Unified
Inventory
Inventory

Next Gen
network

OSS
OpenStack
Virtualisati
on
Mgt.
Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

VIRTUAL NET. & PUBLIC CLOUD

ORCHESTRATION

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

Service
Provisionin
g
Activation
Unified
Inventory
legacy
network

Service
Service
Provisioni
Provisioni
ng
ng
Activatio
Activatio
n
Unified
Unified
Inventory
Inventory

Next Gen
network V

OSS
OpenStack
Virtualisati
on
Mgt.
Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Public & Partner

Cloud

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

SDN CONTROLLER AND

APPLICATIONS

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

SDN Apps
(Service Prov, Net
Mgt.)
SDN
Controller

legacy
network

Next Gen
network V

OSS
OpenStack
Virtualisati
on
Mgt.
Cloud
Data
Center

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Public & Partner

Cloud

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

NFV IMPLEMENTATION

Customer Experience

Customer Relationship Mgt.

Business Application Layer

SOA
Business Process (BPM)
Service Orchestration Layer

SDN Apps
(Service Prov, Net
Mgt.)
SDN
Controller

legacy
network

OSS
OpenStack
Virtualisati
on
Mgt.

Real
time
Chargi
ng
Billing

Mast
er
Data
Mgt.

Cloud
Public & Partner
Data
Cloud
Center
NFV Implementation

Next Gen
network V

Operation Support System

Backend Layer

Network & Resources

Layer

TELKOM INDONESIA
Shares : Government 53.1%, Public 46.9% ; Market Cap : IDR 302.4 Tril (USD 24.79 Bil)

Government
53.1%
Public
46.9%

Telkom Indonesia is listed at

Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX),
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE),
London Stock Exchange (LSE) and
also Publicly Offering Without
Listing (POWL) in Japan.

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TLKM:IJ/chart

TELKOM INDONESIA PRODUCT ON SDN AND NFV

Product
Portfolio

media
edutainment

I
information

T
telecommunication

Digital
Digital Life
Life

Managed Apps
& SI BPM
PremiseE-Payment
Integration
Data Center
& Cloud
M2M

Digital
Digital
Home
Home

E-Health
E-Logistic
Big Data

Platfor
m
Service
s

Big
Data

Fixed Phone

Full Mobility

Fixed
Broadband

Limited Mobility

WiFi

Fixed
Servic
es

Digital Advertising

E-Tourism
E-Transportation
E-Gov

Ecosystem
Solution
Interconnection &
International
Traffic
Network Service
Satellite
Tower

Mobile
Service
s

NW & Infra
Services

Services

ME

Customer
Portfolio