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Red Hat NFV solution overview
Red Hat offers a comprehensive, open software stack for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), emphasizing the significance of open source technologies in supporting telecom operators' needs. The strategy leverages contributions from various community projects and focuses on integration, reliability, and security across its products. As a leading partner in the NFV ecosystem, Red Hat aims to address industry gaps in service assurance, operational management, and security enhancements.
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Overview of Red Hat NFV including the agenda and the commitment of telcos to NFV.
84% of telcos committed to NFV; 68% already using/testing it, indicating strong industry adoption.
Mobile data traffic to increase 10x by 2021, yet telcos face legacy infrastructure issues like high costs and limited scalability.
Shift to software-based functions on COTS; benefits of NFV include dynamic scalability, lower costs, and increased flexibility.
High demand for open systems in telco networks; Red Hat's strategy focuses on open-source solutions for constant innovation.
Red Hat’s NFV approach utilizes upstream first strategy for contribution to open-source community, focusing on gaps in service assurance and management.
Overview of Red Hat's partners in NFV and the extensive ecosystem involving VNFs, SDN plugins, and more.
Examples of successful implementations of Red Hat NFV across multiple telcos, concluding with the benefits of Red Hat's comprehensive NFV solutions.
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Red Hat NFV solution overview
- 1. Red Hat NFVSolution Overview Level 201 - version 1 Ali Kafel Technical Product Marketing 10/30/2016 @akafel [email protected]
- 2. The promise ofNFV Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview Successes and differentiation 2 AGENDA Red Hat’s partner ecosystem
- 3. 84% of Telcoshave committed to NFV and another 14% are considering it
- 4. 68% of Telcosare already using or testing NFV
- 5. 5 Industry trends By 2021… Mobiledata traffic will increase by 10x There will be 9 billion mobile subscriptions >85% of subscriptions will be for mobile broadband The cost to support data traffic is increasing, but the revenue from data services is growing much slower. Source: Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2016. 10X multiplier is between 2015-2021
- 6. 6 Problems with LegacyTelecom Infrastructure • Mostly based on proprietary HW • Rigid and inflexible • High costs • Limited scalability • Difficult to innovate
- 7. 7 How the industryis responding Software-based functions on COTS Automation, Standards, service orchestration Network Functions Virtualization, SDN Cloud, Microservices
- 8. 8 Network functions virtualization(NFV)Virtualize multi-vendor network functions onto commodity hardware – with fast elastic scalability and dynamic resource allocation Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) Commodity Networking Commodity Storage Commodity Servers Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure(NFVI) Compute Storage Network Management and Orchestration (MANO In layman terms, NFV is all about deploying network functionality (routing, firewalling, load balancing, WAN optimization, etc.) in virtualized environment (virtual machines or Linux containers).
- 9. 9 Benefits of NFV Dynamicscalability Lower costs Increased flexibility
- 10. 10 Why use opensource technologies for NFV? 83% of telco operators demand or prefer open systems for their networks 95% of telco operators see open source as a positive attribute for NFV solutions Fast innovation Choice of vendors Modern new ideas Source: Doyle Research, “Open Networking Drives NFV Innovation for the Telecom Industry,” December 2014.
- 11. The promise ofNFV Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview Successes and differentiation 11 Red Hat’s partner ecosystem
- 12. 12 Community Product Partners Upstreamfirst innovation Unified fabric for NFV and IT Choice via certified ecosystem Red Hat NFV Strategy
- 13. 13 Red Hat NFVSolution is based on Standard Red Hat products, all open source and “upstream first” • Adheres to ETSI NFV ISG which defines a reference architecture, and OPNFV an open source reference platform • A complete understanding of all relevant and separate open source projects • Experience working, contributing and coordinating with multiple communities
- 14. Strategy: Upstream First Harnessopen source innovation to drive digital transformation
- 15. 15 Community Strategy Leadership throughupstream contribution 1,639 or 12.1% <100 or <1% 2n d Linux Kernel 4.3 — Contribution by changesets https://lwn.net/Articles/654633<100 or <1% 169 or 24% <25 or <1% 1n d KVM— Contribution by Employer in 2015 KVM Forum 2015– Keynote (Paolo Bonzini)<25 or <1% (Red Hat + eNovance) - 38,968 or 17% 2,052 or <1% 24,662 or 11% 1s t OpenStack — Contribution Ocata Release www.stackalytics.com 516 or 4% 12 or <1% 0 2r d OVS (Open vSwitch) — Contribution Since Inception www.stackalytics.com 798 or 9% 382 or 4% 182 or 1% 2r d OPNFV — Contribution Since Inception www.stackalytics.com 2n d OpenDaylight (ODL) — Contribution Since Inception http://spectrometer.opendaylight.org 7% 2,384 or 7% <100 or <1% <100 or <1% ● Red Hat is a leading contributor across all the key open source community projects
- 16. 16 Red Hat NFVSolution adheres to the ETSI NFV reference architecture and the OPNFV reference platform ETSI NFV
- 17. Red Hat deliversthe entire core NFV infrastructure and Partner Ecosystem
- 18. 18 • Product Approachinstead of Customized solution (Introduce NFV features into existing product portfolio instead of creating a dedicated Solution) • One package for Secure Linux, KVM, OpenStack, Ceph Storage and CloudForms – Ease of Deployment and lifecycle management (in-place upgrades) – Real-Time KVM for low latency – DPDK-Accelerated OpenVSwitch • Carrier Class at cloud scale Platform – Security – High Availability – Management – Performance • Vast support of partners - inherits Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified HW catalog • Multiple customers
- 19. 19 Going forward, wewill focus on strengthening the areas where the industry has gaps • We have covered performance and functionality for NFV • Next areas of focus will be: ○ Service Assurance and Operational Management ○ Security improvements ○ Standardized onboarding of VNFs
- 20. The promise ofNFV Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview Successes and differentiation 20 Red Hat’s partner ecosystem
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- 22. 22 Red Hat NFVPartners* Management & Orchestration (MANO) SDN AND NETWORK PLUG-INS SDS PLUG-INS * Some of these partners are in the process of being certified - see https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/category/Software?ecosystem=Red%20Hat%20OpenStack%20Platform VNFs vDPIvDDoS vRoutervCPE vCDNvEPC vSMS vMMSvPCRFvLB vADC vIMS VoLTEvSBC
- 23. List of certifiedTelco/OSP partners VNFs SDS Plug-ins MANO SDN and other Network Plug-ins Other OSP Plug-ins
- 24. The promise ofNFV Red Hat NFV Strategy and Solution Overview Successes and differentiation 24 Red Hat’s partner ecosystem
- 25. 25 ● ● ● ● Multiple groupswithin Telefonica using Red Hat products for IaaS, PaaS and NFV ● elefónica Global Solutions (TGSol) offer international voice services, iP, capacity, broadband, satellites, mobility, and global solutions. Its services and solutions are used in more than 170 countries ● C.A. Mobile, a leading mobile services provider in Japan, built a flexible infrastructure to support its websites with an OpenStack cloud solution from Red Hat and Dell. Was able to quickly achieve their complex auto-scaling goals with RH OpenStack ● ● ● Ⓡ
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- 27. 27 Summary Red Hat deliversthe most comprehensive, open software stack for NFV. Co-engineered product for Integrated Reliability and Security Top Contributor in Community Projects and “upstream first” Most extensive Partners Most knowledgeable Support and depth & breadth of products