The document discusses the advancements in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) by Ericsson and Netronome, emphasizing their role in enhancing performance and scalability in telecoms. It highlights the anticipated growth in the telco NFV market and outlines the critical need for flexibility, agility, and efficiency in network deployments. The collaboration also promotes the integration of open-source standards to optimize cloud networking solutions.

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June 3rd 2016
Ericsson Cloud SDN & Netronome Agilio CX
Taking NFV to the next Level of Performance
SDxCentral Demo Friday

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› Telco NFV Market and Use Cases
› NFV Needs and Expectations
› Ericsson Cloud SDN Solution for Telco NFV
› Netronome Agilio CX for Server Networking Acceleration
› Cloud SDN with Agilio CX L3 VPN Performance Demo
› Summary and Q&A
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• Service Provider Challenge:
– Deliver the needed level of performance for key VNF
• SDN and SmartNIC Key Benefit:
– Support Line Rate and flexibility
SDN and SmartNIC Introduction
Addressing Key Customer Business Needs
Telco NFV
Use Case vSwitch
Cloud SDN
Controller
MPLS
MPLS
Hyper Scale
Cloud DC SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH
ROUTER ROUTER
• Enterprise/IT Provider Challenge:
– Build a cost efficient and scalable cloud infrastructure
• SDN and SmartNIC Key Benefit:
– Leveraging disaggregation to enable Hyperscale economics
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Service Provider NFV Market
Poised for Rapid Growth
Source: Infonetics July 2015
› Market to hit 11.9B by 2019
› 5-Year CAGR of 65%
› Software Revenue dominates
› VNF Apps Driving Growth
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VNF NFV MANO Hardware Services
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Telco NFV Deployment Timeline
Source: Infonetics July 2015
PoCs
(Proof-of-Concept testing)
Operators, vendors
learn in the lab
Few field trials
Field trials
Vendors productize
SDN and NFV software in
operator lab trials
A few more field trials
~10 commercial
deployments
2013 2014 2015 2016–2020
Wider-spread
commercial
deployments
Operators deploy several
SDN and NFV use cases,
then more each year
Commercial
deployments
~15–20 more
commercial deployments
Many operators deploy
1 or 2 use cases
(contained domains)
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Expectations for NFV
AgilityUse software for
quick revenues
Increase
operational efficiency Efficiency
SpeedScale services
up or down quickly
New services/efficiencies
not possible with
current technologies
Use commercial server
not network equipment
Multi-tenancy
Save energy
consolidating workloads
VNF from small players
Real-time network
optimization
Flexibility
Existing
business
New
business
Source: Infonetics May 2015
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SDN Enabled NFV & Cloud
Infrastructure
NFV
Virtualize
CLOUD
Scale
SDN
Control
Virtualizing
network functions
Scaling network functions to
the cloud for optimal
deployment
SDN for cross domain
control, orchestration &
management
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SDN – a critical element for NFV
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SDN - Agile Networking delivering
service performance expectation and flexibility
Service
Chain
Modification
VNF
Connectivity Scalability
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Industry collaboration
The need for open source
Leading Telecom Operators have important requirement on solution openness
and the ability to leverage key Open Source communities
Specification
Coding
Verification
And many more…
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Telco NFV Key Networking Needs
› Flexible Deployment Model
– Full hardware independence
› Advanced Networking Capabilities
– VXLAN, Load balancing, Inter-DC
connectivity, BGP/VPN interworking, Service
Chaining
› High Performance Data Plane
– Ability to deliver extreme performance
Telco Transport
Network
Telco DC/Cloud
Seamless
Connectivity
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Ericsson Cloud SDN Overview
DC Switching FabricDC Gateway
Servers
VM VM
Cloud Execution Environment
Open Stack
Standard
Neutron Plugin
Hypervisor
IP/MPLS
Network
VM VMEricsson Cloud
SDN Controller
Cloud SDN Switch
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Datapath Options for NFV
SmartNIC combines
the best of both worlds
Data plane performance
Networking capabilities
Impact on VNF/Migration
NIC
CSS
Hypervisor
vNIC
VM/VNF
Hypervisor
ToR
NIC
vNIC
VM/VNF
Hypervisor
vNIC
VM/VNF
OvS
SmartNIC
CSS SR-IOV SmartNIC
Ericsson Cloud
SDN Controller
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Agilio CX for Cloud Networking
Netronome Agilio™ CX SmartNIC Solutions
Bringing the efficiencies of mega-scale data centers to mainstream server networking
› Server Adapters Optimized for Size and Power
› nx10/25/40GbE Port Configurations
› Netronome Flow Processor Implements Data Path
› Flexible Data Path Options with Agilio Software
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Linux Kernel
Agilio CX
Netronome OVS Acceleration
. . .
OVSDB/OpenFlow
Seamless Integration
with SDN Controller
Transparent
OVS
Offload
SR-IOV
or Virtio
Connectivity
to VMs
Open Stack
Nova
Compute Node
VM/VNF VM/VNF VM/VNF
Port
VF1 VF2 VFn
Non-
accelerated
OpenStack
Nova Compute
ovs-dbserver
ovs-vswitchd
Ericsson Cloud
SDN Controller
Update Statistics
Send out packet
OVS Datapath
OVS
Match
Actions Tunnels
OVS Datapath
OVS
Match
Actions Tunnels
Accelerated
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Netronome vs OVS 2.5 DPDK
› 20X faster than single OVS
core for 10K packet flows
› More than 2X faster than 8
core OVS
› 12X faster than single OVS
core for 100K packet flows
› No OVS CPU load with
Netronome SmartNIC
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Cores
VMs or
Containers
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VMs or
Containers
23 Cores
Without Agilio With Agilio Offload
Example of TCO savings
More Packets
More VMs/Containers
45% less compute nodes = less CAPEX and less OPEX !
Reduce TCO by over 50% in certain NFV and IT scenarios
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L3-VPN Demo Setup
BGP/VPN
L3-VPN
40 GbE
Open Stack
Liberty
Ericsson Cloud
SDN Controller
OVSDB/OpenFlow
Neutron + BGPVPN
DPDK pktgen
VM
DPDK pktgen
VM
Compute
Berylium
Agilio CX Intelligent
Server Adapter
Open Stack
Liberty
Ericsson Cloud
SDN Controller
OVSDB/OpenFlow
Neutron + BGPVPN
DPDK pktgen
VM
DPDK pktgen
VM
Compute
Berylium
Agilio CX Intelligent
Server Adapter
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Key Takeaways
Flexible choice of datapaths in Cloud SDN
Adherence to open-source industry standard
OVS enables rapid and seamless integration
Performance of SR-IOV with full capabilities
and ease of Cloud SDN
Proven Business Benefit
›Agility
›Efficiency
›Speed
›Flexibility
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More information
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› Our Portfolio
– Software Defined Networking
› Service Provider SDN
- Cloud SDN
› Customer references
– Telefonica
– Telstra
– Swisscom
› White papers/articles
– A vision of the 5G core (Ericsson Tech Review)
– The programmable network cloud (white paper)
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