The document discusses a major new release of the Ensemble NFV platform from ADVA that delivers enhanced network functions virtualization management and orchestration (MANO) capabilities. The upgraded Ensemble suite features powerful MANO capabilities like zero touch provisioning, simplified management networking, multi-layer security, and service chain monitoring. It also supports a wide range of hardware platforms from multiple vendors and provides operational simplicity through a design versus deployment model and embedded cloud architecture.

1. Putting the M in MANO
September 2018
Major new release delivers NFV management and orchestration at scale

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Ensemble delivers major new release for NFV MANO
Addresses real-world needs of Tier 1 operators: simplicity, ZTP and multi-layer security
• The Ensemble division of ADVA is launching a solution release of its Ensemble
NFV platform: Ensemble Orchestrator, Ensemble Director, Ensemble Connector
• The upgraded Ensemble suite now features powerful MANO capabilities, enabling
service providers to roll out secure virtualized services at scale, including:
• Zero touch provisioning (ZTP)
• Simplified management networking
• Multi-layer security
• Software management
• Service chain monitoring
• Design versus deployment

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True multi-platform hardware support
• Multiple COTS suppliers – Dell, Lanner, Advantech, Lenovo, HPE, Supermicro
Open platform
• Multitude of onboarded VNFs
• Open, standard cloud components such as Linux, KVM, and OpenStack
Scalable software
• From small Intel Atom® servers, up to large Xeon-based blade servers
• Shrinks the footprint of the NFV infrastructure down to a single Intel Atom® core
• Upcoming support for ARM servers
Operational simplicity
• 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 turn-up of sites that don’t yet have wireline connectivity, as
well as providing an economical means of resilient access
Telco-grade manageability
• Fault, performance, configuration, inventory and topology support for NFVI
Our products work!
Why Verizon and Colt picked Ensemble
… and why we’re rapidly succeeding against the traditional network players

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Putting the M in MANO
• Design versus deployment
• Zero touch provisioning (ZTP)
• Service chain monitoring
• Simplified management networking
• Multi-layer security
• Software management

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Reducing complexity of everyday operations
Ensemble Director has distinct design and deployment phases, with these benefits:
1. Operators can get started quickly using pre-packaged designs, or engage Ensemble to
create custom designs
2. The design phase provides an abstract view of complex services as applications and
templates, simplifying integration into higher level OSS, BSS or portal systems
3. The deployment phase provides a simple framework for everyday deployment of services
at scale with less-trained staff
Result: ability to start deploying virtualized services at scale in a short time
ZTP design versus deployment phases

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Service provider experience
Separation of design and deployment activities
Configuring zero touch provisioning
ZTP design phase ZTP deployment phase
Create Connector golden images
Onboard VNFs in Orchestrator
Create NFV service (NST) in Orchestrator
(ZTP of service chain, VNF and VNF-M)
Import Connector configuration template in Director
(ZTP of NFV)
Import cloud service template in Director
(TOSCA, HEAT, NST)
Design ZTP application in Director
Configure Connector settings
Configure network variables
Configure cloud/VNF settings
Build overlay networks (if applicable)
Save configuration and wait for Connector
authentication
One-timeactivitiesforsettingupZTP
TurningupConnectorinstances

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1. Network OS is packaged with operator defaults
2. Golden image is mated by hardware provider with target COTS
3. COTS suppliers drop ship platform pre-loaded with Ensemble
Connector and Operator defaults to end customer
4. Customer site specific data is captured and a secret is returned
5. Power is applied and the secret entered; Ensemble Connector calls home,
authenticates
6. ZTP and orchestration deliver site-specific service configuration and
applications
No inventory, no truck roll, no time to revenue
Zero touch provisioning MANO
Orch
ZTP
Auth
Overview of operation

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Director provides PM visibility
for all virtual services
• Renders service chain topology
• Shows physical interfaces
• Shows relation to NFVI VLAN
segments
Isolate issues quickly at every
interface and service port
View real-time:
• RX packets
• TX packets
• Dropped packets
Quickly view and troubleshoot VNF service chains
NFV topology and troubleshooting in Director user interface
Performance management

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Reliable and simple management of NFVI software and network OS
Ensemble Connector software management
Redundancy with
dual config and
OS partitions
Download
and install
on inactive
Patch or
maintenance
to active
partition
Activate
upgrade
Revert to
previous
major
release
Architecture Patch or
maintenance
Upgrade/revert for major and minor releases

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Apply security at multiple layers
We need a systematic approach to security!
Ensemble NFVI security
Physical layer
Network layer
Virtualization layer
Management layer
Application layer

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Use cases
1. uCPE/SmartWAN
2. Secure cloud

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Drivers for SD-WAN
• Enterprises seek to reduce costs and increase control over
network connectivity flexibility
• MPLS
• Low-cost internet
• Wireless (3G/LTE)
• CSPs can offer SD-WAN as a hosted managed service
• Supporting a variety of leading SD-WAN software vendors
Benefits of SmartWAN
• Improved deployability via zero touch provisioning
• Best-of-breed VNFs in conjunction with SD-WAN
• Common framework for multi-vendor SD-WAN offerings –
avoiding lock-in with specific vendor implementations
• Common management framework for SD-WAN and other services
• Future advanced networking embedded within Ensemble
Connector
Service providers offer variety of managed networking options giving enterprises choice
Ensemble use case
SmartWAN
LTE InternetMPLS
MANO
cloud

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Virtual encryption delivers flexible, secure, high-performance cloud connectivity
Ensemble use case
Secure cloud connectivity
Drivers for software endpoints
• Cloud-native implementation supports public cloud environments where endpoints must
reside on cloud infrastructure rather than dedicated hardware appliances
• SaaS applications in the cloud, where latency can impact performance
• Regulatory requirements such as GDPR
• Business or government networks where high-quality encryption is required
• Virtualized enterprise access solutions requiring encryption
Dynamic encrypted networking
• Flexible encrypted mesh for policy-based secure VPNs
• Application-aware encryption at L2/L3/L4
• Supports point-to-point and hub-and-spoke topologies
• Eliminates dependence on application-level encryption
Security with uCPE upgrades
• uCPE platform encryption provides common solution for multiple VNF applications
• Upgrade with other security applications or enterprise apps
• Automated key management for operational simplicity
Effective cost points
• TCO analysis demonstrates software trumps appliances
• Turnkey option for enterprise deployments
MANO
cloud

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Additional resources

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Additional resources – publicly available
Verizon uCPE
• Verizon Adds Ensemble to Its Virtual Network Services uCPE
Solution
• Verizon Universal CPE Case Study
• Real Innovators of Networking: Chad Thompson, Verizon
• Realizing the Value of NFV with Universal Customer Premises
Equipment (uCPE)
uCPE technology and applications
• Understanding the Use of Universal CPE
• Why Service Providers Need Universal CPE - page 10
• Leave your appliances behind: How to overcome challenges
in moving to a cloud-centric network
ADVA Ensemble uCPE
• Virtual CPE - Gateway to NFV Success
• Universal Customer Premises Equipment
• Ensemble Continues to Make NFV Easy - and Cloudy
• Ensemble FAQ
Partner use cases
• (EXFO) Operationalizing carrier-managed SD-WAN deployments
• IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager and ADVA universal CPE
SD-WAN/SmartWAN
• Software and Support Optimize SD-WAN for Enterprises
• Don’t Use Hardware Appliances for SD-WAN
• Service Providers Are Deploying SD-WAN
• Ensemble SmartWAN application brochure
ConnectGuard Cloud
• Securing zero touch for uCPE deployments
• Using the Cloud to Secure the Cloud
• Security is a many-layered thing
• Secure high-speed connectivity tech brief
• Meet Anna and the future of virtualized encryption in the cloud

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