Overture: NFV hope hype or honest value? 2014

Network Function Virtualization (NFV):

Hope, Hype or Honest Value?

Tuesday, October 7, 20149:30-10:15 a.m.

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Ray Patalano, Director, Solutions Marketing, Cyan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?

Moderator: Prayson Pate, CTO & SVP of Research & Development, Overture

Tim Naramore, CTO, Masergy

Eitan Schwartz, VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD

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NFV: Hope, Hype or Honest Value?

Prayson PateCTO & SVP of Research and Development, Overture

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV): What’s the Point?

Remember this Major Transformation?

It’s Time to Replace Appliances with Virtual

Network Functions (VNFs)

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Why Bother with Virtualization? Is it hype?

Stop doing this! Start doing this!

Deploying closed, proprietary systems Move to open, multi-vendor systems

Being restricted to custom hardware Leverage low-cost COTS servers

Using truck rolls for service upgrades Add new services in real time

Operating in a silo fashion Integrate across functional groups

Develop services in telco time Innovate in internet time

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Can we achieve the needed features and performance?

Is this just hope? What are we waiting for?

Who said we are waiting? We aren’t!

However … we must answer a few questions:

Can NFV move forward without SDN? Why or why not?

What are some improved or net new services that we will see with NFV?

What are the pros and cons of NFV from the end-user Point of View?

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Highlighting a few NFV “hot buttons”

• Virtual machines are great for compute applications … … but they stink for packet forwarding

• Operators want lower costs, options for pay-as-you-go licensing …… but Virtual Function suppliers prefer appliance pricing

• NFV blurs boundaries and demands DevOps model to unite development, IT, marketing and customers

… No Silos

Ray Patalano, Director, Solutions Marketing, Cyan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?

Moderator: Prayson Pate, CTO & SVP of Research & Development, Overture

Tim Naramore, CTO, Masergy

Eitan Schwartz, VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD

Tim NaramoreCTO, Masergy

Ray PatalanoDirector, Solutions Marketing, Cyan

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SDN and NFV – What to Know When Evaluating a Solution

How large is the vendors’ API and Element adapter library? Are the larger brands supported? Can you customize the solution in house if desired?

What toolsets are available for security features and enhancements?

Is the software controller able to scale and change over time; adding new vendors when needed?

Is there a single point of contact to resolve configuration and architecture issues? What testing has been documented?

Standards are still being worked out – ONF, OpenFlow, XMPP, Open Daylight

Can their software control both Physical and Virtual resources?

Virtual Network Functions

Virtual Infrastructure

Physical Network Elements

Eitan SchwartzVP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD

RAD Confidential Information

Evolution to D-NFV and Virtual Switching

CE 1.0Fiber, TDM, SDH, xDSL, MW

CE 2.0H-QoSHW OAM L2/L3 (IBR)

DemarcationVirtual functionsVirtual SwitchingSDN

D-NFVServiceAssurance

EthernetAccess

CustomerNetwork NNI UNI

Pass-through flowsFlow forwarding to x86Flow mirroring to x86

Network

Per-Flow Virtual Switching

Customer Premises

Compute/Storage/Network

Operating System

Hypervisor

NVFI

Fortinet VNFFortiGate

Certes VNS Encryption

EMSFortiManager

EMSTrustNet Manager

CYAN

Compute/Storage/Network

Operating System

Hypervisor

NVFI

Fortinet VNFFortiGate

Certes VNS Encryption

Metro NetworkETX-2/DNFV ETX-2/DNFV

Customer Premises

Sponsored

Distributed NFV at the Customer Edge

PoC

Ray Patalano, Director, Solutions Marketing, Cyan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?

Moderator: Prayson Pate, CTO & SVP of Research & Development, Overture

Tim Naramore, CTO, Masergy

Eitan Schwartz, VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD

Thank you for attending!

Prayson Pate - prayson.pate@overturenetworks.comTim Naramore - tim.naramore@masergy.comRay Patalano - ray.patalano@cyaninc.comEitan Schwartz - eitan_sc@rad.com