The document outlines the implementation of CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Data center) and its significance in integrating SDN and NFV for service providers. It highlights the benefits of adopting CORD, including operational efficiency, cost reduction, and improved service delivery agility, particularly in relation to broadband networks and 5G innovation. Additionally, it discusses Radisys' role as a systems integrator and contributor to open-source efforts related to CORD.

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Sponsored by:
May 3 2017
Transforming the Central Office:
Implementing CORD

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Today’s Speakers
Jim Hodges
Principal Analyst -
Cloud and Security
Heavy Reading
Donna Reineck Wehan
CORD Senior Product Line
Manager, Radisys
Anish Sankalia
Sr. Solutions Architect
Open Compute Transformation
Solutions and Services,
Radisys Professional Services

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Webinar Agenda
• NFV and the Cloud – The Edge Migration
• The Emergence of CORD
• Implementing and Integrating CORD
• Conclusion
• Q&A

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NFV and the Cloud – The Edge Migration
Business Drivers
• The software edge delivery model applies on some many levels – private,
public and hybrid clouds.
• New service innovation model – realities of customer experience
management.
• The rise of third party ecosystems.
• Investment protection.
• Leverage the power and agility of open-source.

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NFV and the Cloud – The Edge Migration
Technical Drivers
• Low latency applications demands an edge strategy.
• Third party programmability and open-source - DevOps
• Distributed computing.
• Realize the virtualization vision.

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NFV and the Cloud – The Edge Migration
Addressing the integration challenge
• A key challenge is making SDN-NFV work together
• Harmonization is key to commercialization
• Creation of a common architectural template is crucial
• Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) accomplishes
this – ties together SDN, NFV, and Open-Source white-box switching
for mobile, fixed/cable and enterprises R-CORD = Residential CORD
M-CORD = Mobile CORD
E-CORD = Enterprise CORD
A-CORD = Analytics for CORD

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The Emergence of CORD
CORD Dimensions – a need for an open platform
Cloud
NFV
SDN

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The Emergence of CORD
CORD Software Building Blocks
Multi-tenant
Services assembled
and instantiated by
XOS
Scalable Services
running in
OpenStack VMs, or
Docker Containers
Control Applications
Hosted by ONOS
SDN Controller for
network fabric

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The Emergence of CORD
What’s in it for Service Providers?
• Economies of a Datacenter
• Agility of a Cloud Provider
• Operational Efficiencies
• Effectively scale business
at the rate of rapid innovation
What’s in it for Vendors?
• Open Platform, Open APIs
• Extended R&D team
• Accelerated time to market
• Reduced R&D Costs

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Poll Question
What do you consider the key advantage of implementing CORD
• Simplifies SDN-NFV implementation
• Implements open-source
• Addresses all my end-offices – mobile, fixed, cable..
• Lower capex model – the impact of white box switching
• Service agility – shortens time to deploy services

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The Emergence of CORD
R-CORD Use Case – CORD is a game changer!
According to ITU Statistics Live, the number of internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013. The first billion was reached in 2005. The second billion in 2010.
The third billion in 2014 and is continuing to grow at rapid paces in Fixed/Mobile broadband Internet access across the world.
vSG
vRouter
vOLT
OVS
vSG
vRouter
vOLT
OVSvOLT Whitebox

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R-CORD Benefits
Benefits for Service Providers
• CORD redefines the economics of broadband
• Biggest innovation in Access Networks since ADSL
• Open source software and hardware partner eco-system helps Service Providers try out new
broadband services to market faster
• R-CORD Reference Implementation accelerates time to deployment, thus on the way to reduced costs
Benefits for Subscriber
• Upgrades are easy with no downtime
• New and customized services are easily available without any manual installation
• On-demand, self-service experience
• Competitive choice of services

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The Emergence of CORD
M-CORD Enabling 5G Innovation
Enable 5G with Disaggregated/Virtualized RAN & EPC, Mobile Edge
Use Case
Demonstrated at
MWC’17
• RAN & CORE slicing
• E2E Orchestration & Network
Slicing as a service
• Network slicing
• Differentiated traffic treatment for diverse
devices, users, & services
• Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)
REQUIREMENTS
Dynamic & Programmable End to End Slicing
Use Case
Demonstrated at
MWC’17
Use Case Use Case

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M-CORD Benefits
Benefits for Service Providers
• Highly agile, open, and programmable
• Ultra-low-latency
• Scale Dynamically, cloud architecture
• New innovation opportunities
Benefits for Subscribers
• Faster data speeds, lower latency
• On-demand, self service experience
• Overall better QoE with video live

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The Emergence of CORD
Analytics CORD (A-CORD) Use Case
• Complete end-to-end visibility of physical
network
elements and software elements in CORD
• Infrastructure and service level monitoring
• Programmatic interfaces to control visibility
• Multi-app consumers

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Open Source Transformation Pros and Cons of Open Source Solutions
• Lower CAPEX
• Lower Development Time
• Faster Time to Market
• Lower Security Risks
TMForum
• Hackers have more insights
• Risk of Interoperability
Issues
• Different Requirements
Process
• No Customer Use Case
Definitions
• Organization Cultural
Changes

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Cultural Change is as important as
technology change
Open Source Transformation Telco Customized CI/CD Adaptation
Adoption of Customized CI/CD Framework
and Process Automation is key to success.
Custom development of Open source
Tools and Methodologies as available is
crucial.
Traditional Telco Vendors are also
challenged to change Waterfall Methods.
.

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Open Source Transformation Integration Challenges
Paralysis by Analysis (Multiple Open Source
Projects and Multiple Industry Standards)
Access Hardware and Technology Integration
M-CORD –Integration of RRH with VBBU over Open
standards
R-CORD-Integration of OLT/ONT with hardware
abstraction Agents
Northbound Software Integration of Open Source
Components
Integration with Orchestration framework
Integration with existing OSS/BSS framework

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Open Source Transformation Radisys Open Compute Transformation Services

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The Emergence of CORD – How can Radisys help?
Incubation –
Dev Phase
2016
Commercial
2018 – 2019
Radisys CORD System Integrator –
Taking a leadership position in
open source projects like CORD
and OCP.
CORD Deployment Proven track
record –
Radisys is actively working with several
Tier1 SPs in R-CORD and M-CORD Lab
Trials.
Major Open Source Contributor -
As a CORD Partner member Radisys has
open sourced vEPC software in 2H16,
and RAN software in 1H17.
Radisys’ CG-OpenRack-19 Specification
Accepted By Open Compute Project.
Lab Trial
2017
Field Trial
2018
FOA
(Pre-Commercial)
2019
Commercial
2019 – 2020
Lab Trial
2H 2016 – 1H 2017
Field Trial
2H 2017
FOA
(Pre-Commercial)
2018
R-CORD
M-CORD
1 2 3
2017 Year of CORD Field Trials

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Poll Question
What do you consider the greatest challenge associated
with implementing open-source?
• The need to make a call on which initiative to support
• The integration requirements
• Making sense of orchestration requirements
• Managing bug fixes
• The security implications

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Conclusion
• CORD continues to gain market momentum because it addresses a number of the
key issues CSPs face in implementing SDN and NFV. These include:
– CORD reference architecture that addresses real-world service delivery
challenges.
– Delivers an edge compute strategy to effectively implement NFV and SDN based
on open source.
– Improves service delivery agility and with cloud-scale economics.
• Radisys is a Premier Systems Integrator for CORD solutions
– Comprehensive CORD hardening and product support
– Professional Services to integrate CORD into service provider environments.
– Multiple CORD field trials underway with leading service providers.

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About Radisys
• Radisys (NASDAQ: RSYS) Helps Service Providers Deploy Agile Service
Delivery Networks for Accelerating Communication Service Revenues.
• Our combination of telecom hardware expertise, with telecom and
open source software experience, makes Radisys uniquely qualified to
help our service provider customers transform their infrastructure to
open solutions for SDN, NFV, and 5G.

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Thank You!
Jim Hodges
Principal Analyst - Cloud and Security,
Heavy Reading
Donna Reineck Wehan,
CORD Senior Product Line Manager,
Radisys
Anish Sankalia
Sr. Solutions Architect
Open Compute Transformation
Solutions and Services,
Radisys
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