Federated Networked Cloud

Federated
Networked Cloud

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Federated Networked cloud

Elastic and on demand Network provisioning is › Network operators would play an important
an exciting feature of network virtualization. role in providing reliable connectivity of
One need to Rethink how to manage the multi- datacenters across the world.
domain provisioning of network resources to
transparently connect Datacenters across the › Rapid and on demand provisioning of cloud
world. connectivity would enhance the experience
And Realize the necessary technologies that of enterprise users
automatically integrate network and cloud by
establishing and managing distributed cloud
› Dynamic negotiation of connectivity
resources (compute, storage and networking)
services can happen regardless of
within and across providers’ domains enabling
underlying network or datacenter
you to be part of global cloud offering.
management system ( NMS or SDN )
(Openstack or OpenNebula)


Federated Networked Cloud
SDN, NMS
WAN Technologies

TDM, ATM, IP/MPLS,
FR Carrier Ethernet, Quantum
L2/L3 VPN
Information Technologies

Data Data
Center Center

Client-Server,
Legacy Apps on Legacy Apps
dedicated servers in Cloud

Past Current Future

Federated Networked cloud
The evolution of IT has taken us from
application running on standalone servers to
legacy application running on the cloud with on We believe full convergence of Telecom and
demand pay-per use business model. Seeing IT services is ahead and can be realized by
the limitation of localized cloud, we considered Federated Networked Cloud across the world.
the networking challenges and move to
distributed cloud and more tailored Telco cloud.
This will allow the enterprise user to demand
and deploy infrastructure in different dataceters
From the other side, the evolution of and have them connected over the WAN.
networking technologies, has taken us from
TDM, ATM to IP/MPLS, Carrier ethernet and L2
and L3 VPN connectivities. To make the
network control more flexible and network
provisioning more agile, we have advanced to
Network enabled cloud and Service Provider
SDN.

Opportunities
› SERVICE PROVIDERS › UNIFIED SOLUTION
ENTERPRISE USER SERVICE PROVIDERS UNIFIED SOLUTION
– Business Collaboration for service – Technology agnostic Dynamic
boundling of Cloud and Network Negotiation of services
providers

› Rapid and on demand provisioning › Business Collaboration for service › Technology agnostic Dynamic
of cloud connectivity bundling from Cloud and Network Negotiation of services
providers

To fully realize the power of networks in the cloud computing paradigm


Opportunities in federated networked cloud

Enterprise User can enjoy rapid and on From the service provider’ stand, Federated
demand provisioning of Infrastructure cloud povides the possibility of business
(compute, storage and network) across multiple collaboration between different datacenter and
domain. User can today demand and deploy network providers allowing them to chain their
infrastructure in the Datacenters, but when it services outside their boundaries for a greater
comes to connectivity of these infrastructure, market coverage.
he still relies on the relatively long process of
network provisioning from the Network From the Technology stand; the solution is
providers. independent of any underlying Datacenter
Federated Networked Cloud provides management or Network operation control.
Netwoking as a service integrated with IT Dynamic negotiation of connectivity services
infrastructure. Deployement happens as fast as regardless of underlying network technology.
delpoying a VM in a datacenter. Network can be still controlled by network
management system or SDN-based OpenFlow.
Datacenter can be managed by Openstack or
OpenNebula.

SAIL: AN EU collaboration
Project
Ericsson Leading SAIL
› A strong consortium of leading operators,
vendors and research institutions
– 25 Partners
– 12.4 M€ EU funding
– 2.5 year project
(Aug 2010 – Feb 2013)
www.sail-project.eu

Source: www.sail-project.eu

Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Portugal Telecom Inovação, Institut Telecom, University of Paderborn, KTH, Fraunhofer SIT,
SICS, Technion, INRIA, NEC Europe, Telefónica TID, France Telecom, IST-TUL, Aalto University, University of Bremen,
Fundacion, Robotiker, DOCOMO Eurolabs, Trinity College Dublin, NICTA, Universidad de Cantabria, Lyatiss, Alcatel
Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Telecom Italia

SAIL: AN EU collaboration
Project
SAIL project was a strong consortium of 25 ›For more information please refer to
leading operators, vendors and research › www.sail-project.eu
institutions
›In this proof point we have Porugal Telecom
Funnded 12,4 million Euro for a duration of 2.5 as one of the active partners in cloud
year. networking area presenting this collaborative
innovation.
It started on Aug 2010 and is finalized on Feb
2013.

One focus area of this project was Cloud
Networking which is being presented here.


Challenges

› Lack of interface USER

› Different technologies

› No interaction between providers

› Different controllers
INTERFACE
› No dynamic network provisioning

› Organizational boundaries

CLOUD NETWORK

Challenges of Federation of
networked cloud
Federation of Networked Cloud faces some .
challenges. We are offering a framework for
Lack of suitable abstractions, Currently there is no automatic interoperation across
defined interface between cloud and Network multiple service providers’ domain
providers.
And most of all provisioning of Network is non That address all these challenges.
dynamic and relatively rigid. Last but not the least
there are organizational boundaries and information
hiding principal that prevent easy cross domain
activity.
There are different management system used in
different datacenters and different network
management in different networks.


Our Response

› Automatic interoperation across SDN, NMS
Quantum
multiple service providers’ domain
– Network as a Service
– Integrated IT and Telecom resource
provisioning
– On-Demand, Elastic Resources
(Computer, Storage, Network)
Data Data
– Dynamic Link Negotiation Center Center
– World wide cloud interconnection
– DataCenter High availability,
Disaster Recovery

Demo of prototype available

Prototyped networked cloud
During the project we work on proof of concept The user now can deploy his applications ( in
by developing the architecture and building a this case a webshop) front end and backend in
prototype testbed across 4 countries, which two datacenter and starts his business right
hosted 4 datacenters and an operator network away.
to provide the connectivity. A Video of this demo is available
We demonstrated a scenario where the
enterprise user is requesting infrastructure in This will bring flexibility, elasticity, on-demand
two part of the world and demands reliable and dynamic provisioning of networking service
connectivity between them. to the telecom domain and reliable coonectivity
When the request comes in, it is dispatched to to the cloud domain.
different providers that can be involved and It also allows the integration of IT and Telecom
following dynamic link negotiation, the resource provisioning that is consistant across
connectivity is established between these multiple domains
infrastructures


VALUE PROPOSITION

Integrating Telecom and IT Services

Enterprise-grade network services Cloud-based services

› Robustness › Agile Configuration
› Reliability › Measured Services
› Predictable Performance › Elasticity
› Dependability › Self-service

Bringing what is missing in today’s Bringing what is missing in today’s
Cloud Services enterprise WAN services


Value and strategy
The Value is in consolidating the services of ›Obvioysly there is a need for networking
cloud and network, Completing what is services in the cloud offering and this is an
missing from the cloud today and Completing oportunity for operators to enter in the market
what is missing from the network today mostly in the enterprise domain.

›This will merge the quality of both worlds
and allow the cloud seriveces to be Robust,
Reliable, with Predictable Performance
and dependable
›And the network services will have agile
Configuration, Measured Services, and
Elasticity
›Network will be offered in the Self-service
manner.


WHY Ericsson

Inter-DC: Networking as a Service
Ericsson Cloud
System
EXPERTISE SUPPORT
Simplifying
Deployment
Advance Network
Operation
EXPERTISE SOLUTIONS
Prototyped In collaboration
proof of concepts with partners
LEADERSHIP
Expertise in
Business Support
Intra-DC: Cloud Interconnection

Leadership, Integrity, Collaborative Innovation, and above all Expertise to make it a reality

WHY ERICSSON is UNIQUE

›Two strong characteristics of Ericsson are › In short Ericsson has the Leadership,
expertise and Leadership. Integrity, Collaborative Innovation, and above
all Expertise to make it a reality
›On the other hand Ericsson has a strong
history in Network operation, and business
support and is demonstrating the Ericsson
cloud system in this event.

›This solution provides Network as a service
and can interconnects the datacenters across
the world. It is built on collaboration with other
partners ( operator, Portugal telecom and
Telefonica, vendors and research institutes)


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