Ensemble has launched a major upgrade to its NFV platform, enhancing the deployment and cost-effectiveness of universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) in telco-scale NFV environments. New features include zero touch provisioning, embedded cloud capability, and LTE wireless support, enabling flexible and efficient service deployment. These improvements are based on customer feedback and aim to facilitate a broader range of NFV use cases and simplify service provider operations.

1. Ensemble Launches Major
Upgrade to NFV Platform
May 2017

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What’s New?
• The Ensemble virtualization software suite has been significantly
enhanced and optimized for telco-scale NFV deployments
• The new Ensemble release largely focuses on improving the
deployability and cost of universal customer premises equipment
(uCPE), which is still the most prevalent NFV use case
• The new features and functions are a direct result of customer
input and the Ensemble team’s experience of multiple real-world
NFV deployments

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Key Points
• Performance optimized for simplified deployment of low-cost uCPE
solutions
• Solves the common deployablity issues of telco-scale NFV
• Enables additional NFV-based use cases with innovative features
and new functionality
• Meets the feature, function and financial requirements for
deploying NFV-based virtual services at scale

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New Features
• Zero touch provisioning: Empowers an operator to ship an
unconfigured COTS server to a customer site and commission it
automatically
• Embedded cloud: Solves the problems of deploying OpenStack in the
distributed telco network
• LTE wireless support: Enables turnup of sites that don’t yet have
wireline connectivity, as well as providing an economical means of
resilient access
• Resource optimization: Shrinks the footprint of the NFV
infrastructure down to a single Intel® Atom™ core

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VNFs
Ensemble Connector Architecture
• Scalable DPDK data plane that
delivers software-based Layer 2 and
Layer 3 functionality
• High-performance virtual hosting
environment for broad range of
third-party VNFs
• Predictable throughput and latency
for NFV applications
• Variety of remote management
interfaces
• OAM protocols for service assurance
monitoring – very important for
NFV applications
Intel X86 HW (Xeon & Atom), Evaluating ARM
Linux (CentOS)
L2/L3 Data Path
DPDK
Protocols: LACP, LDP, SOAM, TWAMP
OpenStack Controller
Services: Nova, Neutron,
Cinder, Ceilometer,
Horizon, Glance,
Keystone, Swift
Control Plane Agents and APIs
KVM/QEMU
Physical Ports
Virtual Ports
OpenStack
Compute
Agents
Docker Container Docker ContainerNETCONF
CLI
REST
Management Tier
Manager
Controller
Orchestrator
HW
Monitoring
System
Mgmt
LibVirt

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New Use Cases
• uCPE on very low-cost COTS servers: Now service providers can realize the
benefits of NFV even at the low end of the market, including 4-core Atom™ servers
• Secure hybrid cloud over L2/L3 access: Hybrid cloud works best over a
transparent and secure Layer 2 connection, which can now be provided over any
access link: IP or Carrier Ethernet, on-net or off-net
• Software SD-WAN: Service providers can now deploy SD-WAN as a software VNF on
a COTS server, rather using than a closed appliance
• On-demand deployment: Using LTE, operators can now enable customer sites even
when they don’t have wireline access
• Wireless backup option: LTE can be used for a backup in cases where a second
wireline connection is not economical

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Customer Response
Tim Naramore, CTO, Masergy:
“As a pioneer in worldwide NFV deployment, we’ve found that the
types of features offered by Ensemble are critical to a sound
virtualization strategy. They offer innovative solutions for any service
provider committed to delivering efficiency, flexibility and service
control. The latest enhancements to Ensemble align well with our
commitment to cutting through complexity, simplifying service
innovation and speeding up deployment. Ultimately, it’s about
delivering even more to our customers – more speed, more choice
and more value.”

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