ARM Mini-Summit - Intro & Overview

1. ARM NFV Ecosystem Mini
Summit- Intro & Overview
Bob Monkman
June 21, 2016

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Welcome and Agenda Overview
30-8:35 Welcome and Introduction (Bob Monkman,ARM)
35-8:50 OPNFV on ARM: Overview and Perspective (Bob Monkman,ARM)
50- 9:15 NFV Solutions for the Premise and Edge – NXP Semiconductor (Sam Fuller, NXP)
15- 9:40 OpenFastPath Solutions: Fast and Open IP Stack – Nokia (TapioTallgen)
40-10:05 VOSYSwitch, high performance virtual switch alternative for ARMv8 (Michele Paolino
0:05-10:30 NFV for the Masses – Marvell (Maen Suleiman)
0:30-10:45 Break
0:45-11:10 OPNFV Solutions & OFP #3 – Enea
1:10- 11:35 Efficient NFV solutions for Cloud and Edge – Cavium (Kin-Yip Liu)
1:35- 12:00 OpenDataPlane Monarch Release – (Bill Fischofer- Linaro.org)
2:00- 1:00 Lunch
00 - 4:00 ARM NFV Ecosystem Demos/Meet the Developers

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A special thanks to our Mini Summit Co-
Sponsors

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Next Generation Infrastructure Challenges
OPEX
Efficiency
Managing
CAPEX
Service
Revenue
Generation
Creating ServiceValue Agile Deployment
Power Constraints Increase Capacity
New Business Models

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The promise of NFV
 Reduce the costs associated with deploying,
managing and maintaining networks
 Accelerate time-to-market for new
services and maintenance
 Deliver the flexibility and agility needed to
address changing business requirements
 Create an open and collaborative
ecosystem to minimize duplication and
increase speed of innovation
http://portal.etsi.org/NFV/NFV_White_Paper2.pdf

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4G to 5G challenges and gaps.
Latency Throughput Connections Mobility Network
Architecture
1ms
E2E
Latency
10Gbps
Per
connection
1 Million
Connections
Per km2
Up to 450km/h
Mobility
Network
Slicing
Required
5G
Requirement
Gap 30-50x 100x 100x 1.5x
NFV/SDN
Heterogeneous
Compute.
LTE 30-50ms 100Mb/s 10K 350km/h
Inflexible –
Statically
deployed
Compute
requiremen
ts
System
Latency
Distributed
Intelligence

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ARM Well Positioned and Executing in Networking
Legacy architectures
transitioning to ARM
 Compelling IP
 Broad range of solutions
 Rich ecosystem
ARM in 2015:
15% infrastructure
market share
 ARM Partners supply
~85% legacy volume today
 30% of home and office
networking
Deep Product portfolio
and pipeline
 Over 50 shipping platforms
Over 30 infrastructure
platforms
 Range of implementations
from single core through
100 core; range of
peripherals and
accelerators
New networking chips
constantly being
introduced

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ARM value proposition is based on performance/watt, density,
scalability… to meet the needs of real network applications
Infrastructure Requires Diversity
One size does not fit all
 Real network nodes have fixed constraints
 Power limits- At the edge: <20W
 Space and form-factor limits
 At the edge; In theTelco Data Center
 Raw performance and latency needs
 Real-time processing and feedback
 Acceleration drives performance for real problems
FormFactor

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Devices
Intelligent Flexible Cloud: Enabling the 5G vision
 Right size compute with common, scalable architecture
 Lowering the energy demands of future mobile networks
 Delivering the 5G vision
Edge Data CenterCoreAggregationAccess
A
CC
ACS ion
Storage
ion
Storage
Packet Flows Packet Flows
Accelerati
on
Storage
Compute
Packet Flows
S
A
CS
C
A
C
A
S
S
A
C
IoT

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Networking ecosystem drives market share growth
OSes /
HAL
Network
Virtualization
Firmware &
Network
Boot
VNFs
Middleware
Virtual
Infrastructure
Manager
ACP
I
ARM Ecosystem driving Optimized Solutions for Range of Use Cases:- via Community
Engagement

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API enables scaling from general purpose through accelerated systems
App
High Volume
Server
(ARM, x86)
SoC
(ARM, MIPS, Power,
x86)
ODP
Implementation
for SoC
Application
layer
Silicon
vendors port
to their chip
architecture
DPDK
App App App App
Networking I/O Application Portability
 ODP: Common API for highly-
differentiated implementations of
common networking accelerators
 Queues, Buffers, Crypto, etc.
defined Accelerator APIs
 Polled mode & Event mode
Options
 Open Contribution and Shared
Governance
 DPDK: Common API for SW
optimized high volume servers
 Leverage hardware via polled
mode driver extensions
ODP API Layer

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ARM-Based OPNFV Reference Stack & Pharos Lab:
In Partnership w/ Enea Software, replicated @ Orange…more on the way
POD
3x Control
Nodes
2x Compute
Nodes
Build Server
Jump Server
VPN
Firewall
VPN
Gateway Router
INTERNET
Brahmaputra Reference Stack

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Specifications
Prototype (Arno)
Lab Ready
(Brahmaputra)
VNFValidation &
Infrastructure
Optimization
Field Trial
(Colorado)
OPNFV – Realizing theVision
This is the challenging part
…yet to be fully scoped by the
OPNFV community at large
• OPNFV Project currently at
Brahmaputra “Lab-Ready” release
• ARM & rest of community opening
labs forVNF development/porting
• Colorado release Fall ‘16 in
progress
• MANO options added into the
mix
• Community has much hardening to
do before OPNFV is deployment-
ready
• Fragmentation, performance
challenges still being worked

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VNF Ecosystem Engagement
 OPNFV Infrastructure in place
 Enea opened 1st ARM-based OPNFV Lab April
 Beginning to replicate ARM pods in Operator and OEM labs throughout 2016
 Orange SoftIron Pod (AMD-based) up and running in 2 days (early June)
 Continue to expand stack options for Colorado and beyond
 Developing a program forVNF ubiquity on ARM
 vCPE, vIMS, vSBC, vEPC initial use cases
 Coordinating with operators, ISVs and ARM SoC partners
 Prove thatVNFs are easy to port to ARM and demonstrate value in operator lab
trials
 Performance/watt, density, scalability,TCO
 Leverage DPDK where this is legacy; Optimize w/ ODP to demonstrate increased
value

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The Right Architecture forVirtualized Edge
 Early SDN technologies based on HW virtualization in OPNFV
 OpenStack management of KVM-basedVMs forVNFs
 Higher overhead (memory, performance, complexity) approach
 Consensus building that the Virtualized Edge favors a lighter weight solution
 Solutions looking to leverage lighter weight OS virtualization at edge
 Docker, CoreOS
 Kubernetes, Mesosphere,Weaveworks etc.
 Microservices
 OpenStack, SDN Controllers may still play a higher level role in these
configurations
 ARM Ecosystem building PoCs in this area of optimization of NFV

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Summary
 ARM partners currently supplying ~85% of
Networking equipment (volume)
 ARM SoC vendors deliver range of
workload-optimized solutions for different
networking use cases
 ARM driving application developer
ecosystem with ISVs and open source
communities
 ARM technology best suited to emerging
lighter-weight demands at mobile edge
Robust Application Ecosystem
Strong ARM Ecosystem Position
Maximum Flexibility
Agility at Edge

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Join us for a Light Reading Webinar 28 June,
2016
Better LivingThrough the ARM NFV Ecosystem
Registration:
http://www.lightreading.com/webinar.asp?webinar_id=705
Date /Time: Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 12:00 p.m. NewYork / 5:00 p.m.
London

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