This document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) and how OpenStack can be used as an NFV orchestrator. It outlines that telecom operators need to reduce costs and increase agility. NFV aims to implement network functions through software running on standard server hardware instead of proprietary appliances. The ETSI NFVO-MANO framework specifies an NFV orchestrator. The document discusses how OpenStack, with components like Tacker and Heat, provides an orchestration platform as the virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) to deploy and manage virtual network functions on cloud infrastructure. It also lists some open source NFV orchestrator projects and commercial offerings.

1. NFVO & OpenStack
Kanagaraj Manickam
21st Oct 2016

2. Agenda
• What Telco Faces and what they need?
•Network Virtualization
•NFV
•NFVO-MANO
•OpenStack

3. What Telco faces ?
•Bulky
•Costly
•Fragile
•Heavy Opex

4. What Telco operator needs
•Reduce equipment cost (Capex)
•Save operational costs (Opex)
•Effective power consumption & spaces
•Agile - Time-to-market for new services and functionality.

5. Network Virtualization

6. NFV
With NFV, standard IT virtualization technology is adopted to consolidate
many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume
servers, switches and storage. This involves implementing network functions
in software which can run on a range of industry-standard server hardware.
This software can then be moved to, or introduced in, various locations in the
network as required. This will simplify the roll-out of network services,
reduce deployment and operational costs and encourage innovation.

7. ETSI NFVO - MANO

8. Cloud Data-center
OpenStack is an distributed cloud operating system
provides an platform for setting up public or private cloud
on top of heterogeneous data-center.
For operator, It provides set of configurable device-
drivers/plug-ins to consume the required hardware-devices
and software-defined-devices from cloud data-center
regions.
And for consumers, it provides required Restful API, CLI to
provision and manage their cloud resources such as
instances, storage volumes, networks, etc. programmatically.
VIM - OpenStack

9. NFVO & OpenStack
OpenStack
Tacker + Heat
Tacker
Juju, HW CSM
Open-O, OSM

10. NFVO Leaders & Open-Source
Cisco: Very Strong
Ericsson: Strong
HPE: Very Strong
Huawei: Strong
Nokia: Very Strong
Oracle: Strong
ZTE: Competitive
RIFT.io
OpenSource MANO (OSM)
Open-O
OpenStack Tacker

11. Thank You.
My Current Open-Source Roles
• Core-reviewer @ Heat, an OpenStack Orchestrator
• Core-reviewer @ Tacker, an OpenStack NFVO Orchestrator
• Committer @ NFVO, in Open-O.
• Contributor @ SDNO OpenStack driver & VPC service, in Open-O.
• Establishing namos – OpenStack Manager