NFV Proof of Concept

Orchestrated Assurance enabled by NFVLive demo, Oct 13-16 2015, Dusseldorf, Germany

PoC#36:

Participating PoC members:

This NFV Proof of Concept has been developed according to the ETSI NFV ISG Proof of Concept Framework. NFV Proofs of Concept are intended to demonstrate NFV as a viable technology. Results are fed back to the NFV Industry Specification Group. Neither ETSI, its NFV Industry Specification Group, nor their members make any endorsement of any product or implementation claiming to demonstrate or conform to NFV. No verification or test has been performed by ETSI on any part of this NFV Proof of Concept.

NFV Proof of Concept disclaimer

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ONFIGMONITOR SERVICES

CONFIGURATION

MANO DESCRIPTORS

SLAKPIs

ACTIO

NS

ACTIV

ATIO

NTE

STIN

GNS/VNF

INSTANTIATION VNFCONFIG

Single solution using model-drivenorchestration and active VNF-based test agents

Three problems with current assurance solutions

SERVICEMODEL

SERVICEINSTANCE

ORCHESTRATOR

ACTIVE TRAFFIC & REAL SERVICE REQUESTS

Deploy device configDeploy VTAs

Service activation testsCustomer-specific SLA monitoring

Test coordination Result aggregation Real-time KPIs

Test Controller

ENABLED BY NFVORCHESTRATED ASSURANCE

DESIGN-TIME

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NE ONCE – CHANGED E

ASI

LY

RUN-TIME

REPEATED EACH DELIV

ERY

Very hard to map device-centricmetrics to true end-user experience2

COUNTERS INVENTORY TRAPS QoSQoE

?STATISTICS

KPI

THE GREAT MAPPING MACHINE

END-USER EXPERIENCE

ASSURANCE

3FULFILMENT

Little or no coupling between fulfilment and assurance

Virtual TestAgent (VTA)

VNF

x86 HW

Virtual TestAgent (VTA)

VNF

x86 HW

Agile and orchestrated service delivery, providing fine-grainedassurance KPIs per service type and per service instanceRESULT

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2

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4

1

3

4

2

5

Limited insight into true end-user experience1

PROBE CHALLENGES: COST - MANAGEMENT – PLACEMENT – BINDING TO SERVICES

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Control CenterTest Controller (TC)

Test Results AnalysisModule (TRAM)

Mapping to ETSI NFV reference architecture

Watch a video presentation here

netrounds.com/poc-video

Evolving fulfilment and assurance

Config

End-userserviceexperience?

Config

End-userserviceexperience?

Config

True end-userserviceexperience

Fulfilment(Config)

Fulfilment(Testing)

Assurance(SLA+Trbl)

Fulfilment(Config)

Fulfilment(Testing)

Assurance(SLA+Trbl)

Fulfilment(Config)

Fulfilment(Testing)

Assurance(SLA+Trbl)

Yesterday - Manual Today - Orchestrated Fulfilment Tomorrow - Orchestrated Assurance

Software-definedtesting and assurance

Network Services Controller (NSO) enabled by Tail-f

CloudMetrousing Intel hardware

OSS/BSS NFVOrchestrator

Service, VNF &Infrastructure

Description

VirtualInfrastructure

Manager

EM EM EM

VNF

VNF

Virtual Compute Virtual Storage Virtual Network

Computing Hardware Storage Hardware Network Hardware

Virtualization Layer

NFVI

VNFManagersVirtual Router (vPE) Virtual Test Agent (VTA)

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