Cisco NFV-I - presentation on carrier-grade NFV architecture. Presented at Red Hat's NFV Mini Summit at OpenStack Summit 2016 in Barcelona.

1. Cisco NFVI
Carrier Grade NFV
Senior Product Manager
Naren Narendra

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Market Disruptors
Speed of
Innovation
0
60
Lowered Cost
of InnovationHyper-­Connectivity
$50B venture funding;; Easy
access to infrastructure
$5M in 2000 à $5K
in 2016
iPhone 1 in 2007;; Mobile app
economy $100B in 2015;;
10M developers15B à 50B (1M/hr) à 500B
connected;;
40% traffic M2M
Increased Volume
of Innovation
$50B venture funding;; Easy
access to infrastructure

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“Ready to consume” services that can be rapidly deployed through a single
self-service portal, and will enable customers to connect private and public
clouds and managed network services
“Vision 2020 - Highly simplified, virtualized, IP-based production
architecture”
How Service Providers are responding?

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Approaching NFV in Multiple Ways
Service & Infrastructure Policies
Management
and
Orchestration
(MANO)
VNF VNF VNF VNF
EMS EMS EMS EMS
Use Case Led
• Top-­down approach
• Business outcome
driven
• Buying Center – BU/Biz
Vertical
Modular offer with
NSO & ESC
Orchestration
Led
• Common MANO
solution for different
use cases
• Buying Center –
NMS/OSS team
Emerging trend Infrastructure Led
• Bottom-­up approach
• Buying Center –
Network & DC
infrastructure team
Infrastructure led approach
SP’s OSS/BSS
Virtualized Infrastructure
Physical Infrastructure
(Compute + Storage + Network)
Use Case
Specific, e.g.
vMS, vPC
Includes
VNF-­M and
NFV
Orchestrator
Hardware, VIM (OpenStack)
and SDN Controller
vMS, Mobility & Media

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NFVI – What Our Customers Are Asking
Cisco For ?
Carrier Class Performance
Use Case Agnostic Infrastructure
Open Standards Based, Modular and Elastic
Easy to use with Unified Management
Integrated Solution with Single Point of Ownership
1
2
3
4
5
Service Velocity Customer Experience Open Architecture

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Cisco NFV Architecture
Legend
VNF Manager
Cisco ESC Third Party*
NFV-­O and Resource Orchestration
NSO – Network Services Orchestrator enabled by Tail-­f
North Bound APIs
Virtual Network Functions
Cisco and Third Party
CSR ASAv vNAM vIPS
vPC-­DI vIMS
Video
Opt.
Third
Party
Cisco Physical Infrastructure
Network VIM
Linux (RHEL, Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage
Cisco NFVI Scope
NetworkCompute (UCS) Storage Ceph
Unified Management
with assurance.
Unified Management
API
GUI
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
Cisco VIM based on RHEL OSP
Assurance
Third
Party
or
or APIC VTSor
3rd
Party
or

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Cisco Physical Infrastructure
Network VIM
RHEL, Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage
NFVI Scope
NetworkCompute (UCS) Storage Ceph
Unified Management
with assurance.
Unified Mgt.
API
GUI
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
Cisco VIM based on RHEL OSP
Assurance
Cisco NFVI Solution
Leading Industry Partnerships
Performance Acceleration,
Enhanced Platform Awareness
Certified by Red Hat
Joint Engineering
Integrated platform Design and Validation
Legend
Simple Access to Support
Single Point of Contact
APIC VTSor
3rd
Party
or

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Cisco NFVI Platform Highlights
and Differentiators
Integrated Platform Sold & Supported by Cisco
Backed by Red Hat
Open Source
and Standards
Compliant
Joint Engineering
Broad Ecosystem
of VNFs and ISVs
Carrier Grade
Tightly Coupled
Technical Support
Commercially
Bundled Platform
Reliable
Install/Upgrade
Simplified
Manageability
#1 Network vendor + #1 OpenStack vendor
Delivering a world class NFVI platform