Kazuya Hashimoto Executive Vice President NEC Europe Ltd. Plenaries Session ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd

3. NEC’s vEPC Solution
2014/3/5
Kazuya Hashimoto
NEC Europe

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1. SDN/NFV– Moving Towards Mainstream

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SDN/NFV – Moving Towards Mainstream
Light Reading articles about NFV
2012=5
2013=250+
2014=120+(as of Mar.)
Google search result for SDN and NFV

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2. NEC’s Carrier SDN Solutions

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Carrier SDN (SDN/NFV) Concept
Wireline Wireless Dedicated
lines M2M
From vertical network silos… … diversification of services on common
network
Service Order
Fixed-line phones
Mobile
FMC
Dedicated lines
M2M
SDN
M2M
Dedicated
lines
FMC
Mobile
Fixed-line
phones

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: Reduced TCO
 Economy of scale of the IT industry
 Multi-service shared platform based on COTS
 Lower HW maintenance fees
 Higher automation in operations
 Smaller Footprint
Source: NEC’s Study
DC-2
DC-1
DC-3
OSS/BSS
TMS
Real-time
traffic analysis
report
Dynamic
resource
allocation
Real-time
traffic information
vEPC TCO Savings
 Real-time traffic measurement and analysis
 Real-time dynamic resource optimization
Network

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: Revenue Creation
Service Velocity & Time-to-RevenueService Chaining & New Service Creation
 Open for 3rd Party collaboration
 Service Innovation
 Broader service portfolio
 Faster Time-to-Market
Ecosystem

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Benefit of Carrier SDN: High Availability, High Reliability
Auto-Scaling
Self-Healing
 Elastic resource balancing to ease off congestion
 Disaster recovery and geo-redundancy

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Open Strategy
▐ Open Architecture and Ecosystem to rapidly and flexibly create value
Applications
Hypervisor
ProgrammableFlow
OpenFlow switch
E2E Management & Orchestration
OSS/BSS
3rd Party
OpenFlow Switch
COTS Hardware
IOT
NEC VNF
3rd Party
VNF/Appliance
ProgrammableFlow
Controller
3rd Party
Controller
Open API
OpenSource
Controller
TREMA
SDN NFV
KVM
(Red Hat/
Montavista)
DELL
NEC
HP

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OpenSource
Open Strategy (SDN)
SDN Switch
SDN Controller Open Standard Compliant
Gold Member TREMA
Management
Network Visibility
realstatus
Optimization
Load Balancing
A10 Networks
WAN Optimization
Silver Peak
Security
DDoS Prevention
radware
Intrusion Detection
And Prevention
vARMOUR
NEC Virtual tenant
Network
Ecosystem

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OpenSource & CG Performances
Open Strategy (NFV)
Computing Storage Networking
Virtualization Layer
HW Independent Platform
vEPC
vMME …vP/S-GW
vMVNO GW
vPGW
…
NVF M&O
Service
Template
Service
Template
Service
Template
Flexible Platform
NetCracker Orchestration
Auto-scaling
Auto-healingAuto-Provisioning
Monitoring & Control
E2E Service Orchestration
Simpler VNF Orchestration & Mgmt
Elastic
C- & U-Plane
Multi-Service
Platform
KVM
DellHP
redhat
MontaVista
intel

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Overview of NEC’s Carrier SDN Portfolio
Aggregation
Switches
WDM
Packet
Transport
Home
Fiber
Office
Packet
Transport
Mobile PCSmartphone
Aggregation
Switches
eNB OLT OLTeNB
Core/Metro/
Access
EPC, IMS,
MVNO-GW, etc.
Service Edge BRAS, SBC, CDN,
Security-GW, etc.
Microwave
Data Centers
(1) Data Center SDN
Data Center/
Networks
IaaS Platforms
(2) Network Functions
Virtualization
vEPC
vBRAS
vCPE
vIMS
(3) SDN Transport
Packet /Optical
SDN
Wireless
SDN
TMS
E2E Orchestration
OSS/BSS
(4) Operation &
Orchestration

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3. NEC’s vEPC Solution

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Why vEPC ?
▐ Efficient network operation
 Elastic resource allocation and performance design
 Scalability
▐ Leverage Open Ecosystem
 Open environment maximizes virtualization effect
 Take full advantage of the IP-based network (4th generation mobile
core network)
▐ Remove proprietary hardware
 Leveraging latest COTS server technologies

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Features of NEC’s vEPC
▐ World’s First Virtualization Mobile Core Network
Solution
▐ OpenFlow enabled NFV solution
▐ Carrier Grade Performance and Market Proven
Stability

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Easy Scale-out
vEPC Architecture with
COTS server #1 COTS Server #nCOTS Server #2
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
P/S-GW
(CP)
P/S-GW
(DP)
P/S-GW
(DP)
P/S-GW
(DP)
P/S-GW
(DP)
MME
(S1INTF)
MME
(control)
P/S-GW
(DP)
MME
(control)
NFV Orchestration
vEPC

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Performance Assessment Result Example
physical KVM Enhanced
KVM
VMware
Memory Access Latency

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Commercial vEPC in Myanmar
▐ In Dec. 2013, NEC deployed the first
commercial vEPC system in Myanmar.
Yangon
Mandala
y
Nay Pyi Taw
30Gbps
(100G
ready
10Gbps
LTE
LTE
LTE R
R
R

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Telefonica
NEC’s recent vEPC activities
Myanmar
Cricket Communications

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4. Summary

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Summary
▐ Carrier SDN (SDN/NFV)
 is getting mature and commercially ready
 brings significant benefit to Telecommunications Industry
▐ NEC supports Open Sources & Standard
Interfaces
▐ NEC has achieved equivalent performance to
physical EPC in virtualized environment.
Let’s create Carrier SDN Ecosystem

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