Margaret Chiosi, Srinivasa Kalapala, Dr. Eyal Felstaine's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.

1. Open Source, Open Standards & Open Vendors
Dr. Eyal Felstaine
Amdocs CTO
ONS, April 2017

2. Information Security Level 2 – Sensitive
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Service Development life cycle
Self Service Portal
NFV-O
Network Instance
view
Distribution5
Packaging 4 Testing 3
2 DesignOnboarding1
READY
Debug and
re-design
Policies
/
Workflow
EP
EP
VNF
VNF
VNF
EP
EP
VNF
VNF
VNF
Policies
/
Workflow
ISSUE
VNFVNFVNFVNF
Endpoint
Endpoint
Policies
Workflow
VNF
VNF
VNF
Endpoint
Endpoint
Policies
Workflow
VNF
VNF
VNF
Operations6
ISSUE
Debug and
re-design
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO

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Operator’s hurdle to introduce new service
Service design
VNF testing:
automation
script in sand
box
Get VNF
Package
VNF
Certification
Lab
VNF
modification
and
enrichment
VNF
distribution to
catalog
Service
approval
process
Start
Running
service E2E in
sand box
Service
distribution to
catalog
Engineering

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End?
Operations
Performance
Monitoring
Service
Provisioning
Network
Configuration
Ongoing
Updates/
Upgrades
Maintenance troubleshooting

5. Information Security Level 2 – Sensitive
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Troubleshooting NFV issue
Closed Source
solution
Massively deployed
open source
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO

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Troubleshooting an NFV issue
VNF vendor CSP in production Closed source
$ Orchestrator $ 1. Automation script
doesn’t run
2. Operations notify
engineering
3. Engineering notify
VNF vendor tech
support
4. Tech support
discusses with
product manager
5. VNF product
manager discusses
with orchestrator
product manager
6. Development
starts on both sides
7. Testing
8. F2F meeting to
triangulate the
issue
Operations
Engineering
ERROR
2
1
Product
management
Development
Testing
Tech support
5
88
6
7
Product
management
Development
Testing
Tech support
6
7
4
3
5
8
– Closed sources
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO

7. Information Security Level 2 – Sensitive
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VNF vendor CSP in production Open Source
Orchestrator
1. Automation
script doesn’t
run
2. Due to
automation
script problem
Operations
notify
engineering
3. Engineering
notify VNF
vendor tech
support
4. VNF vendor
contributes
code in order to
fix the problem
Operations
ERROR
2
1
3
4
4
Engineering
Troubleshooting an NFV issue – with open source
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO

8. Information Security Level 2 – Sensitive
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Troubleshooting an NFV issue
Closed source
solution
Massively deployed
open source
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO
Closed source
$ Orchestrator $

9. Thank you