Dell’s NFV Journey

Jai Menon

VP, Chief Research Officer | Dell

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Dell’s NFV Journey

IDF 9/10/13

Dell World12/16/13

MWC 2/24/14

Billion packets/s architecture

IDF - September 2013

SDN + NFVDell WorldDecember

2013

Elastic ScalingRedHat Summit

April 2014

200+ Gb/s NFV

NFV POD announceOct. 2014

Continuing Research and Innovation

RedHat SummitApril 2014

• RedHat OpenstackPartnership

• Leadership of ETSI POC #1

February 2014

ETSI NFVPOC#1

April 2013

OPNFV Platinum Member

September 2014

200+ Gb/s NFV

July 2014

NFV Platform and Starter KitOctober 2014

(today)

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NFV needs a new kind of Cloud

• Specialized software on standard hardware, delivered from the cloud competes with specialized Telco infrastructure

– Dramatically cuts CapEx & OpEx– Enhanced service velocity

Network Appliance Approach

High Velocity Cloud

• Fragmented non-commodity hardware• Physical install per appliance per site• Hardware development large barrier to entry

for new vendors, constraining innovation & competition

Network Function Virtualization

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Standard High Volume Storage

Standard High Volume Ethernet Switches

Standard High Volume Servers

Independent Software Vendors

Orchestrated, automatic & remote install

Message Router

CDNSession Border

Controller

WAN Acceleration

DPI FirewallCarrier Grade

NATTester/QoE

Monitor

SGSN/GGSN PE Router BRASRadio Access

Network Nodes

• Data movement heavy

• Predictable performance

• Fast failover

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High Velocity Cloud (HVC) is Different from Traditional Cloud in Two Ways

Mobile Telecom Infrastructure

Content Distribution

Internet Service Provider Edge

High Velocity Cloud

Packet Velocity

• Unlike data center apps, network apps are data intensive and need predictable performance. Need to support high # of packets/sec.

Service Velocity

• Deploy services in minutes vs months

• Fast Failover

• Empower new, innovative business models

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Packet Velocity: leadership performance

Socket 0

Socket 1

Socket 2

Socket 3

R920

40Gigabit Ethernet Adaptors

Record 200+Gigabit/s

That means 130,000 concurrent HD video streams

10% loaded

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Service Velocity: Data Driven Elastic Scaling

NFVI

VNFM open integration interface (DROII)

vN

etw

ork

vN

etw

ork

vRouter IP traffic

Denial of Service Attack vRouter

vNetwork

• When VNF load exceeds threshold, SNMP Trap to Foglight

• Foglight rule engine triggers autoscale

• Autoscale calls DROII to bring up new TeraVM

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Packet & Service Velocity: Scaling Stateful Workloads

Internet

Private

MME

S1-MME

S1-U

S-GW P-GW

SGi

S5/S8

S11

High performance virtualized cluster

A billion Packets/s

architecture

September 2013

Architecture that can scale 10x of monolithic systems

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From Reference Architecture to Deployable Implementation

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NFV E2E in an Open Framework: ETSI PoC#1

ETSI NFV

PoC #1

Sponsors

• NFV#2: April 2013

• NFV#4: October 2013

• NFV#5: February 2014

• PoC ZONE: October 2014

6Wind

Dell

EnterpriseWeb

Qosmos

Overture

Mellanox

Metaswitch

Aeroflex

Active Resource

s

VNPaaS

ActiveContract

OpenStack++

Service Orchestrator

WAN Network

Controller

Neutron

NFV Cloud Infrastructur

eMetro

Ethernet

Carrier Ethernet Switch

EAD

EAD

EAD

IMS VNF

DPI VNF

Datacenter Switch

Cloud Network

SDN Controller

Accelerated Open vSwitch

NIC

X.86 Server

Accelerated Open vSwitch

NIC

Datacenter SwitchDatacenter

SwitchDatacenter

Switch

OpenFlow / Southbound API

Nova

TestData-aaS VNF

SSL VNF

SBC VNF

Open Source VNF(s)

NFVI

VIM

Cloud Storage

Edge PoP

VNF

NFVO/VNFM

DROII

Monitor

X.86 Server

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Dell joins OPNFV as Platinum Member

Platinum Member

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OPNFV Open Testbed – A Developer Sandbox

The test beds aim to:• Provide a sandbox for developers

• Test integrated release candidates with

hardware and software components

• Host open source and multivendor VNFs

The work ahead:• Governance and policy

• Hardware and software of the testbed

• Tooling and IT infrastructure

• Use cases and test scenarios

Dell is one of the companies volunteering to support this open testbed

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The Dell NFV Platform – announced todayOpen, extensible NFV infrastructure building blocks

• 100% open

and standards

based

• Scalable in any

direction

• Maximum

choice and

flexibility

1. NFVI Platform

2. Starter Kits

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Ongoing Focus

• Improve packet velocity

• Enhance service velocity

• Work on data analytics velocity

• Enhance NFVI platform to make it developer friendly

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Dell’s NFV Journey

IDF 9/10/13

Dell World12/16/13

MWC 2/24/14

Billion packets/s architecture

IDF - September 2013

SDN + NFVDell WorldDecember

2013

Elastic ScalingRedHat Summit

April 2014

200+ Gb/s NFV

NFV POD announceOct. 2014

Continuing Research and Innovation

RedHat SummitApril 2014

• RedHat OpenstackPartnership

• Leadership of ETSI POC #1

February 2014

ETSI NFVPOC#1

April 2013

OPNFV Platinum Member

September 2014

200+ Gb/s NFV

July 2014

NFV Platform and Starter KitOctober 2014

(today)

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Thank you