Discusses the benefits of NFV, Red Hat's solution overview, partners' ecosystem and our differentiators

1. Red Hat NFV Solution Overview
Level 201 - version 1
Ali Kafel
Technical Product Marketing
10/30/2016
@akafel
akafel@redhat.com

2. The promise of NFV
Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview
Successes and differentiation
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AGENDA
Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

3. 84% of Telcos have committed to NFV and
another 14% are considering it

4. 68% of Telcos are already using or testing NFV

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Industry trends
By 2021…
Mobile data traffic will increase by
10x
There will be
9 billion
mobile subscriptions
>85%
of subscriptions will be for mobile
broadband
The cost to support data traffic is increasing, but the
revenue from data services is growing much slower.
Source: Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2016.
10X multiplier is between 2015-2021

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Problems with Legacy Telecom Infrastructure
• Mostly based on proprietary HW
• Rigid and inflexible
• High costs
• Limited scalability
• Difficult to innovate

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How the industry is responding
Software-based functions on COTS
Automation, Standards, service orchestration
Network Functions Virtualization, SDN
Cloud, Microservices

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Network functions virtualization (NFV)Virtualize multi-vendor network functions onto commodity hardware – with fast elastic scalability and dynamic resource allocation
Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs)
Commodity
Networking
Commodity
Storage
Commodity
Servers
Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure(NFVI)
Compute Storage Network
Management and Orchestration (MANO
In layman terms, NFV is all about deploying network functionality (routing, firewalling, load balancing, WAN optimization, etc.) in
virtualized environment (virtual machines or Linux containers).

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Benefits of NFV
Dynamic scalability
Lower costs
Increased flexibility

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Why use open source technologies for NFV?
83%
of telco operators demand or
prefer open systems for their
networks
95%
of telco operators see
open source as a positive
attribute for NFV solutions
Fast innovation
Choice of vendors
Modern new ideas
Source: Doyle Research, “Open Networking Drives NFV Innovation for the Telecom Industry,” December 2014.

11. The promise of NFV
Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview
Successes and differentiation
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Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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Community Product Partners
Upstream first
innovation
Unified fabric for
NFV and IT
Choice via certified
ecosystem
Red Hat NFV Strategy

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Red Hat NFV Solution is based on Standard Red Hat
products, all open source and “upstream first”
• Adheres to ETSI NFV ISG which defines a reference architecture, and OPNFV an open source
reference platform
• A complete understanding of all relevant and separate open source projects
• Experience working, contributing and coordinating with multiple communities

14. Strategy: Upstream First
Harness open source innovation to drive digital transformation

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Community Strategy
Leadership through upstream contribution
1,639 or 12.1%
<100 or <1%
2n
d
Linux Kernel 4.3 — Contribution by changesets
https://lwn.net/Articles/654633<100 or <1%
169 or 24%
<25 or <1%
1n
d
KVM— Contribution by Employer in 2015
KVM Forum 2015– Keynote (Paolo Bonzini)<25 or <1%
(Red Hat + eNovance) - 38,968 or 17%
2,052 or <1%
24,662 or 11%
1s
t
OpenStack — Contribution Ocata Release
www.stackalytics.com
516 or 4%
12 or <1%
0
2r
d
OVS (Open vSwitch) — Contribution Since Inception
www.stackalytics.com
798 or 9%
382 or 4%
182 or 1%
2r
d
OPNFV — Contribution Since Inception
www.stackalytics.com
2n
d
OpenDaylight (ODL) — Contribution Since Inception
http://spectrometer.opendaylight.org
7% 2,384 or 7%
<100 or <1%
<100 or <1%
● Red Hat is a leading
contributor across all the key
open source community
projects

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Red Hat NFV Solution adheres to the ETSI NFV reference architecture
and the OPNFV reference platform
ETSI NFV

17. Red Hat delivers the entire core NFV infrastructure and Partner Ecosystem

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• Product Approach instead of Customized solution (Introduce NFV features into existing
product portfolio instead of creating a dedicated Solution)
• One package for Secure Linux, KVM, OpenStack, Ceph Storage and CloudForms
– Ease of Deployment and lifecycle management (in-place upgrades)
– Real-Time KVM for low latency
– DPDK-Accelerated OpenVSwitch
• Carrier Class at cloud scale Platform
– Security
– High Availability
– Management
– Performance
• Vast support of partners - inherits Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified HW catalog
• Multiple customers

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Going forward, we will focus on strengthening the areas
where the industry has gaps
• We have covered performance and functionality for NFV
• Next areas of focus will be:
○ Service Assurance and Operational Management
○ Security improvements
○ Standardized onboarding of VNFs

20. The promise of NFV
Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview
Successes and differentiation
20
Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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Partners
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Red Hat NFV Partners*
Management &
Orchestration
(MANO)
SDN AND NETWORK PLUG-INS SDS PLUG-INS
* Some of these partners are in the process of being certified - see
https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/category/Software?ecosystem=Red%20Hat%20OpenStack%20Platform
VNFs
vDPIvDDoS vRoutervCPE vCDNvEPC
vSMS
vMMSvPCRFvLB vADC
vIMS
VoLTEvSBC

23. List of certified Telco/OSP partners
VNFs SDS Plug-ins MANO
SDN and other
Network Plug-ins
Other OSP
Plug-ins

24. The promise of NFV
Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview
Successes and differentiation
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Red Hat’s partner ecosystem

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● Multiple groups within Telefonica using Red Hat products for IaaS, PaaS and NFV
● elefónica Global Solutions (TGSol) offer international voice services, iP, capacity,
broadband, satellites, mobility, and global solutions. Its services and solutions are
used in more than 170 countries
● C.A. Mobile, a leading mobile services provider in Japan, built a flexible
infrastructure to support its websites with an OpenStack cloud solution from Red Hat
and Dell. Was able to quickly achieve their complex auto-scaling goals with RH
OpenStack
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Summary
Red Hat delivers the most comprehensive,
open software stack for NFV.
Co-engineered product for
Integrated Reliability and
Security
Top Contributor in Community
Projects and “upstream first”
Most extensive
Partners
Most knowledgeable
Support and depth &
breadth of products