Cisco Knowledge Network · Cisco Knowledge Network Cisco Ultra Services Platform Krishna Chirala Scott Myelle March 2016

Cisco Knowledge Network Cisco Ultra Services Platform Krishna Chirala Scott Myelle March 2016

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Macro Trends in Mobile

Use Case drivers

Best of breed stack

Industry

M2M Connected Car

Enterprise Private

Network

MVNO

NFVI OS / VMW

VNF NFVO

UCS OpenStack

Ultra NSO (Tail – f)

Customer

Reduction in cost

Complexity

Interoperability

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Cloud providers have a different business model More agile - lower costs

You need to:

•  Increase flexibility and agility (services and schedules)

•  Automate and simplify Service creation, testing, and activation

•  Offer telco reliability with cloud efficiencies

•  Have a new architecture that is also 5G ready

Business Challenge Compete with Cloud Providers and Mobile Network Operators

…and need to enter new markets faster, but without overbuilding the network


IoT: Conditions vary widely. Some require high controller activity and low user plane data consumption. Other IoT use cases are quite the opposite.

Enterprise: Require customized, secured, private network services with activation and changes on their schedule.

Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO): Require centralized control plane integration and distributed user plane connectivity—and cost-effective wholesale model.

Consumer: High performance, high scale, high reliability, and affordable.

Support Requirements Without Overbuilding

The answer is a distributed software-defined networking (SDN) architecture with automated virtualized services.

•  Reduce costs and improve flexibility and agility while helping ensure ultra-high reliability


Cisco Ultra Services Platform

²  Special Innovation Unit ²  In stealth mode for last 12 months

²  Focused on SP NFV market

²  Rapid Development

²  Innovative distributed design ²  Ahead of market by 18-24 months

Officially launched @ MWC 2016

Cisco® Ultra Services Platform


Cisco Ultra Services Platform Industry leading innovation

•  Distributed SDN architecture with full Control – User Plane Separation (CUPS)

•  Inline services framework to on-board services as a part of the VNF – even 3rd parties

•  Unmatched performance and scale -  20M sessions and 2 Tbps throughput

•  Network slicing for maximum customization and flexibility •  5G Ready

-  RAT Agnostic, control/user plane separation, distributed architecture, network slicing, ultra-high availability



Internet Management & Control-Plane

4G

Management & Control-Plane

4G

Management & Control-Plane

4G

Internet RAN RAN

Ultra – Delivers cost optimization

TCO

Sav

ings

TCO Savings

35% - 53%

Automation Virtualization Distributed Architecture

11%-13% 14% - 28%

10%-12%

Ultra Delivers 35% - 53% TCO Savings

User-Plane

4G

Edge Data Centers

User-Plane

4G

Edge Data Centers

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Ultra Architecture


Cisco Ultra Services Platform

Ultra Services Framework

•  Pluggable framework for inline,

subscriber-aware, enhanced services

•  Integrated as separately upgradable software packages

•  Native lifecycle management and configuration automated by the converged platform framework

Ultra Policy Platform

•  Carrier-grade policy, charging, and subscriber data management solution

•  Rapid service creation environment

•  Monetization opportunities for 3G, 4G, 5G, and IMS service architectures

•  Integrated packaging with other Ultra Services Platform components

Ultra Gateway Platform

•  Software-defined, fully featured packet core functionality

•  Multigenerational

•  Separate management, control, and user planes

•  Remotely deployable user plane for ultimate elasticity and scalability



Cisco® Ultra Services Platform Management Plane

VM VM

Control Plane

VM VM

Service Component

Service Component

Service Component

User Plane

VM VM

Central Data Center

Service Component

Service Component

Service Component

User Plane VM VM

Service Component

Service Component

Service Component

User Plane VM VM

Remote Data Center Remote Data Center

Cisco Ultra Services Platform Co-Located Network Architecture Cisco Ultra Services Platform Remote Network Architecture


ETSI Management and Orchestration (MANO) Integration

•  Single ETSI MANO VNF with multiple VNF components (VNFCs) and an element manager (VNF-EM)

•  Three VNFCs with common management and orchestration: •  Gateway functions

•  Policy functions

•  Service functions

•  Each VNFC will have different types of VMs with descriptors describing each (VDUs)

OSS/BSS

VIM

NFVI

VNF

VNF-EM

Compute Storage Network

Virtualization

Virtual Storage

Virtual Network

VNF

VNF-EM

VNF

VNF-EM

Ve-Vnfm-em

Ve-Vnfm-vnf

Os-Ma-nfvo

Nf-Vi

Or-Vnfm

Virtual Compute

Vn-Nf Vn-Nf

NFV-O (NSO)

NS Catalog

VNF Catalog

NFV Instances

NFVI Resources

Descriptors

NSD VNFFGD VLD VNFD PNFD

Se-Ma

Vi-Vnfm Or-Vi

VNF Manager (VNFM) Ultra

Services Framework

Ultra Policy

Platform


Cisco® Ultra Services Platform USP Element Manager


USP Element Manager

Service Configuration Manager

Cisco Ultra Services Platform (USP) Management and Automation Framework

•  VNF deployment two ways: •  Using a descriptor onboarded into an

ETSI NFV-O

•  Using a built-in deployment automation framework

•  VNF service-level configuration handled internally by the VNF-EM’s built-in configuration manager

•  USP management components are deployed as 1:1 redundant pairs

•  VNF-EM handles both management and service monitoring

Control Function


Management Monitoring



OSS / BSS NFV-O

VNFM

ETSI MANO

VNFM

Pro

xy

USP Deployment Automation Framework

Automated deployment framework with the ability to emulate an NFV orchestrator (NFV-O) and VNFM for deployments without an ETSI MANO environment


VNFM Proxy Details

USP Element Manager

Service Configuration Manager

•  Component of the Cisco® USP Element Manager (VNF-EM)

•  Abstraction function to standardize the connection between VNF and VNFM •  Extensible platform to support

multivendor VNFMs

•  Plug-ins for different VNFM vendors

•  ETSI MANO (Ve-vnfm-em) reference interface implementation for VNF lifecycle management:

•  Provisioning of VMs as defined in catalog

•  Associate VMs to internal network

•  Start required services and monitoring tasks

•  Handling of scale in and out events

•  Key performance indicator (KPI) notifications for service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement

Control Function


Management Monitoring



OSS / BSS NFV-O

VNFM

ETSI MANO

VNFM

Pro

xy

VNFM Proxy Plug-in Framework

VNFM - 1

VNFM - N

VNFM - 2

VNFM - 3


Co-Located Deployment Models •  Service function chaining role

•  Behind a third-party gateway •  Integrated with the gateway role

Cisco® Ultra Services Framework

TDF Function Application

Function

Network Function

Network Function

Gateway Function (SGW+PGW / SAE-GW)

PCRF

SGi

MME

HSS / SPR

SGi

USP Element Manager

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Gx / Gxx


Gateway Function Application

Function

Network Function

Network Function Gn

PCRF

GTP

MME

HSS / SPR

SGi

USP Element Manager

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Gx / Gxx


Gateway Function Application

Function

Network Function

Network Function Gn

PCRF

GTP

MME

HSS / SPR

SGi

USP Element Manager

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

•  Gateway role •  Co-located management, control, and

user plane implementation •  User plane deployment is

geographically remote

•  Policy role •  Integrated solution with the gateway

and service chaining roles •  Standalone role as an independent

policy and charging rules function (PCRF)


Centralized Management and Control

Remote User Plane

Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS)

Application Function

Network Function Gn

PCRF

GTP

MME

HSS / SPR

SGi

Cisco® USP Element Manager

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Ultra Service

Component

Gx / Gxx Gateway Function

OpenFlow Controller

Network Function

Gateway Function

OpenFlow Controller

Ope

nFlo

w +

Net

conf

Yan

g

Net

conf

Yan

g

Net

conf

Yan

g

•  Central and remote components deployed as two separate VNFs

•  Centralized management and control plane interfaces policy framework with standard 3GPP-defined interfaces (Gx, Gxx, Gy, etc.)

•  Remote user plane component interfaces eNBs with standard 3GPP-defined user plane protocols (GTP)

•  Flow policies are distributed to user plane using a modified version of OpenFlow

•  Service-level configuration of remote user plane VNF performed by Element Manager once VNFs have been associated with each other


3GPP Network Slicing: Automating the Selection of RAN and Packet Core Functions

§  Automa'on of Policy and Gateway service instance crea'on -  All components of an automated VNF

§  3GPP techniques for network service “selec'on” -  MOCN: allows for use of a base sta'on by

mul'ple operators selected based on PLMN-‐id

-  Décor: allows the UE to map into a dedicated core network based on the value of “UE Usage Type” new proposed IE in S1-‐c

-  The MME performs SGW and PGW selec'on func'ons

-  APNs which determine the Gi-‐LAN VAS applied to subscribers

-  Policy-‐based subscriber steering which allows subscribers within an APN to receive differen'ated VAS

PLMN

SGW

DCN

PGW Internet APN

PGW IoT APN

VPN

VPN

VPN

VPN

MBB VAS #2 (Video)

MBB VAS #1 (Web Opt)

IMS APN & IMS VAS

Internet

Enterprise

Internet

Internet

Enterprise

Enterprise

Enterprise

MVNO

PLMN Selection (MOCN)

DCN Selection (UE Usage Type)

in DCNsn

APN Selection from MME

PGW Selection in MME

SGW S11-based Selection in MME

GI-LAN selection from PCRF

APN Selection from MME

GI-LAN selection from PCRF

UE Device

Non-3GPP RAN

3GPP RAN

Roaming Partner

IMS

Web

Ent

Video

IMS

Web

Ent

Video

IMS

Web

Ent

Video


Cisco Ultra Network Slicing

Ultra Legacy

RAT

5G RATs

eLTE

IoT HetNet

Fixed

LTE Core

Legacy Core

BRAS AN

MaaS for Enterprise

MaaS for Company

Internet

IoT LPWA

IoT Connected Car

Information Centric Networking

IMS


Quantified Benefits


The Tale of Two Carriers…

Marscom is a new Spanish mobile provider but did not plan ahead when considering which services their network might be used to offer and chose separate packet core solu'ons from various vendors at each stage of growth for their business. Throughout the growth of their business, they too rolled out consumer, enterprise and machine-‐to-‐machine services.

Earthcom is a progressive mobile provider entrant in the Spanish market and chose Cisco’s Ultra Services PlaSorm to support the mul'-‐year roll out of a well planned flexible network architecture capable of suppor'ng consumer, enterprise and machine-‐to-‐machine traffic at the most op'mal total cost-‐of-‐ownership.

Service Component

Service Component

Service Component

Packet Core

VM VM

Central Data Center

VM VM


A Tale of Two Carriers

Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real

Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real

-‐  Earthcom rolls out an blanket coverage of macro sites in the most densely populated metros

-‐  They centrally locate the Management and Control-‐Plane Func>on of their Cisco USP solu>on in a Madrid data center

-‐  They deploy Distributed User-‐Plane Func>ons in each of the metro areas only backhauling signaling traffic

-‐  Marscom also rolls out an ini>al blanket coverage of macro sites in the most densely populated metros

-‐  Bearer and Control Plane traffic is backhauled from all remote metro areas to the common data center

-‐  They centrally locate their mobile packet core in a Madrid data center

Phase 1 – The Initial Roll-out of Consumer Services



Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real

Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real

-‐  Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane scaling

-‐  Addi>onal rack servers added at remote loca>ons

-‐  Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane and user plane scaling

-‐  A complete overlay VPN network constructed to interconnect enterprise loca>ons

Phase 2 – Expansion into Enterprise Services



-‐  Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane scaling

-‐  Addi>onal rack servers added at remote loca>ons

-‐  Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane and user plane scaling

-‐  Another overlay VPN network constructed to interconnect IoT customer loca>ons

Phase 3 – Overlaying an IoT Network

Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real

Cádiz

Gibraltar

Málaga Almería

Cartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Albacete

Lérida

Linares

Jaén

Córdoba

Sevilla

Mérida

Toledo

Zamora

Burgos

Vitoria León

Barcelona

Cuidad Real


Conclusion

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Transform into a Mobile Cloud-Service Provider

•  SDN-enabled distributed architecture •  Telco-grade availability with cloud efficiency

•  Network slicing – any way you want to slice it •  5G ready – today

•  Reduce TCO – reduce backhaul •  Automated service function creation, testing, activation •  Win new market opportunities, increase profits •  Future architecture today



5 Gbps Throughput per blade 20M

Sessions per system

2 Tbps System

throughput

Ultra Scale and Performance, Compelling Economics

35% – 53% Overall

TCO savings

30% – 50% Backhaul

TCO savings


Cisco Ultra: Customer Examples

German SP Mobile Cloud

SK Telecom Customized Services

North American SP Mobile Enterprise Networks

•  Centralize control across Europe •  Cisco & 3rd party apps

•  Multi-vendor •  Cross-domain orchestration

Unique benefits Operating efficiencies 5G ready network

Unique benefits Rapid deployment Service scalability

Unique benefits Create custom services rapidly and economically

NFV Infrastructure

•  Virtualize all service functions

French Operator On-demand Services •  Multi-vendor •  Ultra Packet Core

Unique benefit Services on-demand

Ultra

Ultra

Ultra

Ultra

MWC’16 MWC’16

MWC’16

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