1. uCPE deployment using NFV principles is growing globally with examples in Canada, Thailand, and France. 2. Solutions that are in line with NFV include choice of white box hardware, choice of VNFs, use of open source software and standards, and open source MANO. 3. uCPE economics have improved with pre-packaged combinations of hardware and virtualization software optimized for low memory and CPU environments.

1. The Enea Edge
NFV at the Network Edge: Key Success Factors
Karl Mörner, VP R&D and Product Management for NFV

2. Summary – uCPE Deployments are Happening!
1. uCPE deployment is happening now on a global scale
2. There are uCPE and SD-WAN solutions perfectly in line with NFV principles
3. uCPE economics are now attractive
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3. Enea Key Facts
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True NFV Vendor!

4. Enea Portfolio Overview
Network Virtualization,
Operating System Solutions
Traffic Intelligence
Traffic Management,
Cloud Data Management
Global Services
ApplicationsComponents
Openwave
Mobility (2018)
Qosmos (2016)
Focus of today’s
presentation

5. Enea NFV Access: Lightweight NFVi Software for the Edge
VNFs
True NFV deployment is based
on decoupling hardware from
software, to enable:
Zero lock-in
VNF independent
Optimized for uCPE
Best of breed solutions
Extensible and adaptable approach
White Box Hardware
Virtualization Platform/NFVi
MANO
Solution Contributors
True NFV Spirit!

6. Case Study:
Scarce Environment with Low Memory and Limited CPU
Background
Operator in EMEA
Cost-efficient uCPE for
wholesale SD-WAN
Requirements
Flexible and user driven
VNF catalog, including
security
Choice of hardware
Automation and control
User experience
Reference Solution
Enea NFV Access
Advantech
Fortinet

7. Cost-Efficient Packaging:
Advantech + Enea + Fortinet
Fortinet multi-function SD-WAN VNF
 VPN/Security, Light Firewall, Routing/NAT, WAN
optimization
Enea uCPE manager
 Zero Touch Provisioning, SW upgrades, FCAPS
 VNF lifecycle and platform management
Enea NFV Access runtime
Advantech optimized hardware
 Advantech FWA-T011 – Tiny Network Appliance
Overall performance:
 2 Celeron Cores, 2 GB RAM
 1 Gb/s line rate
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UNIVERSAL CPE
Enea NFV Access
Fortigate Secure SD-WAN VNF
Network Acceleration
PCI
Passthrough
Virtual MachinesMANO Interfaces
System Management
KVM
SR-IOV
Security
EdgeLink NETCONF
HardeningSecure Boot
ZTP
Software
Upgrades
FCAPS
VNF Lifecycle
and
management
Platform
Lifecycle and
Management
MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
Automation
Fortigate
SD-WAN Controller
Enea uCPE Manager
VPN/Security FW Routing WAN OptimizationNAT
1 GB Ethernet, LTE/5G2 Cores 2 GB RAM

8. 8
Prepackaged for Easy Deployment
NFV Data Center
NFV
ORCHESTRATION
Commercial
Orchestration
Ecosystem
OSS/BSS
Customers OSS/BSS
Open Source
Orchestration
Ecosystem
NETCONF
REST
MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
Enea uCPE Manager
Customer VNFs
Element
ODM
Qosmos
IxEngine
VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS (VNFs)
Virtual Network Functions
Enea NFV Access
Whitebox Hardware
NFV uCPE INFRASTRUCTURE

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Prepackaged for Easy Deployment
NFV Data Center
NFV
ORCHESTRATION
Commercial
Orchestration
Ecosystem
OSS/BSS
Customers OSS/BSS
Open Source
Orchestration
Ecosystem
NETCONF
REST
MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
Enea uCPE Manager
Customer VNFs
Element
ODM
Qosmos
IxEngine
VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS (VNFs)
Virtual Network Functions
Enea NFV Access
Whitebox Hardware
NFV uCPE INFRASTRUCTURE
Adapt to existing orchestration solution over REST
All management over NETCONF
Simplified VNF onboarding
Choice of White Box hardware

10. Enea NFV Access: Lightweight NFVi Software
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Enea NFV Access
Whitebox Hardware
NFV uCPE INFRASTRUCTURE
Accelerated Data Path
DPDK
Virtual
Machines
ContainersManagement
Interfaces
Virtual Switch
OVS-DPDK
System Management
Virtualization Management
Update and Package Management
FCAPS
Network Management
CLI / SNMP
KVM Docker
SR-IOV
Security
Secure Boot
Security
Hardened
NETCONF
Low RAM and Disk footprint without OpenStack
High Throughput and Low Latency Virtual
Switch using DPDK and OVS-DPDK
Hardware accelerated Networking with SR-IOV
and PCI pass through
Support for mixing Virtual Machines and
Container VNFs for Cloud Native deployment
System Management and FCAPS over
NETCONF
Flexible and lightweight VNF lifecycle
management interface over NETCONF
Security Hardened, Secure Boot and Secured
Management interface

11. Enea NFV Access - Characteristics
Characteristics Enea NFV Access
Competing commercial
alternatives
Platform RAM Footprint < 1 GB 4-12 GB
Platform Disk Footprint < 1 GB 4-12 GB
Platform CPU Footprint 1 core 2-4 cores
Platform Boot Speed (excl. BIOS) < 3 seconds 10-30 seconds
Network Throughput over vSwitch 1/10 Gb IMIX Line Rate 1/10 Gb IMIX Line Rate
Network Latency over vSwitch Average 10-15 µs Average 25-75 µs
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12. AUTOMATION
Enea uCPE Manager
Lifecycle management through
NETCONF / YANG
FCAPS, SFC and platform management
over NETCONF
Supports Secure Zero Touch Provisioning
(RFC 8071)
NFVO and OSS/BSS integration over
model rendered REST APIs
Support for Analytics, Statistics and Dash
boarding in GUI
Automation using Ansible and Python
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uCPE Manager GUI
NFVO and OSS/BSS NBI
Ansible
playbooks
REST
3PP VNF
Manager
VNFM
Adaptors
VNF
Configuration
Lifecycle
Management
FCAPS
Monitoring
Alarms
Platform
Management
VNFs Image
Update
Networking SFC
Engine
NETCONF/YANG Device Management Interface
Enea uCPE Manager Engine
NFVO/
OSS/BSS
NFV MANO
Ansible
Zero touch
provisioning
Enea uCPE Manager

13. Key Takeaways – uCPE Deployments are Happening!
1. uCPE deployment is happening now on a global scale
Examples of active projects: Canada, Thailand and France
2. There are uCPE and SD-WAN solutions perfectly in line with NFV principles
Choice of white box hardware -> replacing grey boxes?
Choice of VNFs
Based on open-source software and open standards
Using open-source based MANO
3. uCPE economics are now attractive
Thanks to pre-packaged and pre-validated combinations of boxes and virtualization software
Optimized for scarce environments with low memory and limited CPU
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More info:
Enea booth: Level 0, no. B46
Karl Mörner: Karl.Morner@enea.com

14. THANK YOU
www.enea.com
The Enea Edge