Orchestrating SDN/NFV Solutions

Orchestrating SDN/NFV Solutions
Open the Future with New Network Era
Atsuo Kawamura
Senior Vice President
NEC Corporation

© NEC Corporation 2015
Table of Contents
1. Introduction of NEC
2. Relation with QuEST Forum
3. Orchestrating NFV/SDN
4. How we develop NFV/SDN solutions
fast and with good quality
5. In pursuit of “Global Best”

Who we are
Provides telecommunications, IT and Enterprise business
solutions
 Around 100,914 employees worldwide
 USD 30.4 billion net sales
 258 consolidated subsidiaries
 Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
 115 years of brand success
* World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Organizations for 2013 (Thomson Reuters)
*
Leading social value innovator
 World's Top 100 Most Innovative Organizations
 Fortune Global 500 company

Business Segments
• Airport Solution
• Disaster Prevention
• Railway Solution
• Security Solution
• Smart City, Stadium Solution
• Space System
Solutions
• Industry Solutions
• Automotive
• Education
• Finance
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Energy Management
System
• Electric Vehicle (EV)
Charging Infrastructure
• Energy Storage System
For Public For Telecom carriers For Enterprises For Smart energies
Solution Topics
Big Data Cloud SDN
Common Platform Server/Storage Unified Communications Display
• Mobile Backhaul
• Broadband Wireless
Access
• M2M
• Operation & Management
System
• Submarine System

Orchestrate Smarter and Brighter Future with Seven Themes
NEC Vision for Social Value Creation 2014

Quality Management Step
▌ Always challenging to Quality Improvement
1940 50 ‘ 60 ‘ 70 ‘ 80 ‘ 90 2000 ‘ 10
2020
‘ 13 Launched CS-No1 Activity
‘ 12 Launched Quick response Activity
‘ 08 Established Vision-Value Activity
‘ 04 Established Charter of Corporate Code
‘ 02 First Certificated TL9000
‘ 01 Joined QuEST Forum
2000 SCM Production Innovation
‘ 97 Established the Quality President’s Award
‘ 96 Received the Japan Quality Award
‘ 95 Adopted the Japan Quality Award Assessment
‘ 91 Obtained ISO9000s
‘ 84 Adopted TPM
‘ 81 Launched SWQC
‘ 73 Received Japan Quality Control Award
‘ 72 Launched Quality Strategy
‘ 65 Started ZD Campaign
‘46 Adopted Quality Control
SQC
TQC
TQM
makes Quality with Process

1. Introduction of NEC
2. Relation with QuEST Forum
3. Orchestrating NFV/SDN
4. How we develop NFV/SDN solutions
fast and with good quality
5. In pursuit of “Global Best”
Table of Contents

TL9000 Activities
1999
TL9000
First release
2001
Joined
QuEST
Forum
2002
TL9000
first
Certified
6 organizations :
The largest number of
certification
16
organizations
certified
2017
RHB6.0
update
2014
Only NEC could
update to latest
RHB5.5 within the year
TL1954, TL2728, TL3452,
TL4606, TL6603, TL6830
▌ Leading company of TL9000 in Japan
6
10

Transmission / Switching
Products
TL9000 certified Products
Microwave
Communication System
PASOLINK
Packet-Optical
Transport
DW7000
Radio Station
for LTE
Open Flow
Switch
PF5240
Bi-directional
Optical Transceiver
100Gbps
Transceiver
Application / System SoftwareManufacturing Plant
Radio Products
Certified TL9000
As a Total ICT Company

TL9000 Measurements Utilization
TL9000 IndexCustomer
▌ Providing Quality after Delivery with Continued Improvement
-Maintenance
Information
-Problem
Information
Performance
Data Reports
Feed Back
Problem Solution System
Analysis Long term Problem
Share the Targeted Value
with Customer
Shipping Control System
Emergency Maintenance
System
NPR
FRT
OFR
OTD
FR
SFQ
SO
SONE
SPR
Measurements
Providing Quality
Best In
Class
Analyze
Improve

•Centralized control of multi-vendor environments
•More simplified network control through automation
SDN/NFV Solution – New Era of Network
Manageability
Scalability
Agility
Effective server/network management,
operating cost (OPEX) reduction
•Flexible network configuration
•Increased network reliability and security
Capital expenditure (CAPEX) reduction,
harness with cloud environment
Reduce the time to construct the networks,
speedy new business/service startup
•Dynamic network
configuration

NEC SDN/NFV Solutions
▌Providing 4 solutions to address the Carriers’ requirements
TOMS : Telecom Operations and
Management Solution
OSS : Operation Support System
BSS : Business Support System
TMS : Traffic Management Solution
vEPC : Virtualized Evolved Packet Core
Orchestration / Management
Integration and Virtualization of ICT Resources
E2E orchestrator
TOMS
(OSS/BSS)
TMS
Integrated operation,
management automation,
and optimized control for SDN
2. NFV
NFV (vEPC, vCPE
vMVNO-GW, etc.)
Network
functions on
servers
Transport NW
3. SDN Transport
Efficient network
resource utilization by
software control
vFirewall
vStorage
Network &
server
virtualization
Open
Strategy
4. Operation &
Orchestration
1. Data
Center SDN

NEC offers a clearly differentiated value proposition
FIRST TO MARKET
200+ CUSTOMERS
GLOBAL SCALE
LOCAL RESOURCES
NETWORKING
SERVICES
ORCHESTRATION
OSS/BSS
SOLUTION
DRIVEN
FIELD
PROVEN
LEADING
INNOVATION
TURNKEY
DELIVERY
SERVICE
CREATION
INTEGRATION
EXPERTISE
NEC DELIVERS UNPARALLELED VALUE IN NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

NEC is engaged and leading in key standards groups
 New service creation
 Cost reduction
 Integration expertise
 Leverage use cases

NFV Use cases
Mobile
Core
Network
Various Radio Technologies
vPGW
Easy Add-on
via
Standard
Interface
vNAT vDPI
vFW vMO
Biz APLs
Open NFV Platform
for various vAPL vendors
Resource and Service
Orchestrators, OSS/BSS
Enterprise VAS
Solution User service API
(on-demand scaling,
service change)
Corporate
Employees
Corporate A
VPN
Corporate X
VPN
Mobile SOHO
OS
VM VM VM
DPIP-GWGGSN
COTS server
MVNO Solution
Carrier Grade Hypervisor
Virtualized switch (OVS)
Internet
MVNO
MNO
SGSN/S-GW
VM
PCRF
VM
OCS
VM
SPR
vEPC vHSS PCRF
COTS server
M2M Service PF
NFV
Orche
stratorNFV
MVNO Solution IP Access Edge
（CPE）
M2M Solution
▌Create NFV solutions with VNFs combination
NFV use cases: vEPC, vNAT, vCPE, vBRAS, vDHCP, etc.,

NEC’s NFV Background: Pioneer & Leader
▌ Virtualization
 R&D started in 2009
 Open and Eco system
▌ National POC project (2012)
 Traffic congestion control
▌ Cross-vendor POC with NTT DoCoMo (2014)
▌ Global POC activities, adopting for the global trend(19 cases)
▌ World first commercial vEPC deployment (Dec.2013)
▌ World first commercial vMVNO deployment(2014)
▌ Telefónica and NEC won Telecoms.com innovation award for
virtualized home gateway trials(2014)
Started
Verified
Field
Proven
Started in 2009
Negotiation with 100 customers
POC done/planned for 19 cases
Commercial launch in 2013

Customer/Operator
NFV
OSS/BSS
Customer/Operator
Legacy
OSS/BSS
ＭＡＮＯ
High security NW for business users
Emergency NW for dｉｓａ
ｓｔｅr
M2M NW
MANO
MANO for NFV E2E Service Orchestration
MANO
E2E Service Orchestrator
 Service orchestration within NFV
 Resource orchestration
 ＶＮＦ life cycle management
 Significant reduction in TCO
 Shorten Time-to-Market
 Smooth migration from
legacy NW to new NW
 Provide NW to
users/service providers in
flexible ways
 E2E orchestration manages wide range of multi-vendor products from
standard MANO to legacy NW.
 Drastic reduction in operation and management minimizes CAPEX/OPEX
（Standard
MANO）
VNF
VNFPNF
Service Chaining
MANO: Management and Orchestration, VNF: Virtual
Network Function, PNF: Physical Network Function
（NEC’s extended
MANO）
NFVSDN
NW Service
Orchestrator
 E2E service orchestration
including legacy NW
 Hosting multi-vendor products
VNF
VNFVNF
We deliver end-to-end orchestration

Open to 3rd Party Collaboration
NFV enables innovative network monetization
Service Chaining
 Service Innovation
 Broader Service Portfolio
 Instant Service Activation
 Service Chaining
Quick Service Launch & Time-to-Revenue
NFV managed by E2E Service Orchestration

Many to One Create One One to Many
Launch
Operate
DevelopIdeate
NEC’s business development process for NFV by Lean Startup
・Design Business Model
・Design Concept and Verify
・Design Architecture
・Fix Specification for Many
・Develop Solutions
・Deliver to the 1st User
・Develop Range of features
・Develop Customized features
・Sales Operation
RT
・Develop Solutions fast
・Lean Startup
POC/IOT/1st Product Rich/Customized Features
 Guarantee Quality of NFV Open Eco System
 Assure Carrier Grade quality on IA servers and OSS
RTPhased Development
RTPhased Development
RT: Regression Test
・Design basic
architecture
and robust
Platform
・Features are agilely
developed on top
of the platform
Phased Development
Phased Development
Quality Assurance Approach

NFV Quality Assurance Methodology
▌ Carrier Grade quality is guaranteed for NFV solutions through NFV
specific approach on top of the NEC’s field proven SW quality
assurance methodology.
 TL9000/ISO9000/CMMI QMS framework
 Eliminating Security risk by Secure Development Process
 Robust Software Development Process with Software Factory concept
to minimize time to market with high quality
 Quality Accounting methodology based on software metrics analysis
Field Proven Software Quality Assurance Methodology
－Assure Quality of OSS through
contribution to OSS community
－Assure Availability through MANO
Orchestration
－Throughput assurance
Assure Carrier Grade Quality on
iA Servers and OSS
－Contribution to Standardization
－Constructing Open Eco-System
－Assuring Inter-Operability
among vendors
Guarantee Quality of NFV Open
Eco System
NFV specific approach

②
Guarantee Quality of NFV Open Eco system
Hardware
Hypervisor VIM
VNF
②Verification of VIM Northbound API
interoperability with VNFM and Orchestrator
①Verification of Interoperability between
VNF and PF products
－ Contribution to Interface specification definition in Standardization.
－ Secure interoperability through Cross vender POC and IOT with other vendors
VNFM
OSS/BSS Orchestrator
① ②
NFV Architecture
③
③Verification of interoperability between
VNFM and Orchestrator IF
Infrastructure
Layer
Network Service
Layer
Orchestration
Layer
NW know-how from HW/OS to APL
Strong ties with OS/OSS/network
element vendors and Communities
System test know-how based on
TL9000

Orchestration
by MANO to
assure
system total
usability(Ex.
auto-healing)
Assure Carrier Grade Quality on IA servers and OSS
▌ Assure Carrier Grade Quality by:
 Contribution to OSS community to assure carrier grade quality
 Proven test suites and test know-how to verify carrier grade performance
through aTCA experience
Advanced TCATM
CG - Linux
HA Middleware
NW Appliances
IA Generic
server
KVM
Inheriting
Carrier Grade
field-proven NW
functionality
CG - Linux
HA Middleware
NW Appliances
HW Platform
SW Architecture
ATCA NF IA Generic server NF
Providing
equivalent
“Carrier Grade”
performance and stability
OpenStack／MANO
High Availability
High Reliability
High service-ability
Original extension
to OSS for
performance and
reliability
Carrier grade
parts of low
failure rate
and easy
maintenance
More than 10 year
field operation with
more than 100
systems operating
commercially

▌ Impress and inspire our customers and Continue the pursuit
of "Global Best"
NEC QUALITY Based on "Better Products, Better
Services"

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