Service Flexibility and Agility with Network Function ......nodes (HSS, SGSN, RNC, etc.), SBCs, BRM ECE, etc. NFVI – NFV Infrastructure • All the HW (Compute, Storage & Networking

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Service Flexibility and Agility with Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Steve Northridge Oracle Communications Cloud Communications Alliance New York City June 24, 2015


Presentation Overview

Why NFV? NFV Architecture Oracle’s Intelligent Orchestration Framework Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration End to End Business Driven Orchestration Hybrid Deployments Customer Use Case and Catalyst Demo Conclusion

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Number of Connected Users by 2015

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3,000,000,000

15,000,000,000 Number of Connected Devices by 2015

Source: Intel 2015 Study

530% Growth in Global Cloud IT Traffic from 2011-2015

Is your Network struggling

to keep up ?


Standardized Private Cloud Infrastructure for CSP Networks Network Function Virtualization

WHY NFV? Service Agility & Flexibility

Resource sharing across services

Finely Controlled Service Introduction

Encourage O P E N Ecosystem

Increase Speed of I n n o v a t i o n

R e d u c e d C o m p l e x i t y

WHAT IS NFV? Software-based implementation of network

functions leveraging industry standard virtualization technologies

Elastic capacity utilizing consolidated and shared pools of standard, high-volume COTS hardware platforms

Platform for accelerated innovation

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NFV Drivers

Service Agility &

Flexibility

Reduce Operational

Cost

Resource Sharing across

services

Finely Controlled

Service Introduction

Encourage Open

Ecosystem

Increase Speed of

Innovation Considered as the

main driver by 51% of Operators*

*HEAVY READING’S NFV OPERATOR

SURVEY, January 2015

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Grow your network JUST IN TIME and not JUST IN-CASE

Better Customer Experience Service and

Business Agility

Simplified Operations

NFV Requirements

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Better Time to Market


CSPs Have Articulated Their Needs

Requirements

• Interoperability

• “Off the Shelf” Hardware

• Comprehensive Orchestration

• Hybrid Support

• Virtualized Applications

• Choice of Hypervisors

• Proof of Concept Engagement

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•Complex processes & highly manual

•Automation through solution hard-coding

• Physical and static networks

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•Silo operations and OSS stacks

The Legacy Service Provider Operations Environment The Inhibitors of Service Agility

Manual and Time Consuming Inelastic Inaccessible and Uncoordinated


Today’s Physical Network …

Physical NEs

• OSS/BSS:

– Manage operational and business processes – Manual & Automatic steps

• Element Manager (EM / NMS):

– Performs all Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) operations on the underlying network elements

– Manual & Automatic steps

• Physical NEs: – Physical devices combining software

application functionality, middleware and often NE specific hardware

– Often now termed Physical Network Functions (PNF)

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NFV Orchestration • NS lifecycle management:

• Instantiation • elasticity • performance measurements • event correlation • Termination

• global resource management • policy management for NS instances VNF Manager • Lifecycle management of VNF instances

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) • Control and manage the NFVI resources

• compute • Storage • network

NFV Orchestrator (NFVO)

VIM

VNF Manager

ETSI NFV Reference Arch --- Orchestration


NFV M

anagement &

Orchestration

Computing HW

Storage HW

Network HW

Virtualization Layer

Virtual

Computing

Virtual Storage

Virtual

Network

NFV

I VN

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EMS(s)

VNF VNF VNF VNF

NFV Orchestrator

VNF Managers(s)

Virtual Infrastructure Managers(s)

ETSI NFV Architecture

VNF

OSS / BSS

ETSI MANO

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VNF Managers • Manage lifecycle and mapping

the VNFs to the NFVI • Example: Oracle Application

Orchestrator supporting Oracle VNFs

NFV Orchestrator • Coordinates management of the VNF lifecycle (with VNF Managers), Network Service lifecycle

(group of VNFs) and NFVI resources (with VIMs) • Example: Oracle Network Service Orchestration

VIMs – Virtual Infrastructure Managers • Manage the NFV Infrastructure • Example: Oracle OpenStack,

VMware vCloud Director

VNFs – Virtualised Network Functions • What traditionally was provided as a

specialized SW & HW device, now virtualised SW running on the NFV Infrastructure

• Examples: PCRF, DSR, CSCF, mobile n/w nodes (HSS, SGSN, RNC, etc.), SBCs, BRM ECE, etc.

NFVI – NFV Infrastructure • All the HW (Compute, Storage & Networking

resources) and virtualization or container technology that provide the infrastructure resources where VNFs are deployed

• Can span multiple locations, the network providing connectivity can be part of the NFVI

NFV Architecture The Role of Orchestration

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ETSI MANO




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Decision Intelligence:

Policy rules engine for customer,

partner, offer and network

Orchestration for Simplicity: -Hybrid network -Interoperable layers of orchestration -Variable automation according to your appetite for change

Information Intelligence:

Full lifecycle, real-time predictive analytics

Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework

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Key Characteristics


• Movement to NFV risks increasing complexity – putting pressure on agility and costs

• Ops will need to navigate across physical and virtualized functions during the transition

• Need to provision and activate services for both physical and virtual elements at the same time

• Need to have the ability to meter transition to meet budget and operational requirements

Orchestration for Simplicity

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• NFV policy-based approach requires an understanding of – Offer entitlements, combination of

features, rate plans – Rules for optimal performance,

bandwidth management, routing plans, traffic assignment types

• Understand customer preferences • Interpret the “rules of engagement”

and perform according

Decision Intelligence

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Information Intelligence

Deeply aware of subscribers, offers, services and infrastructure

Constantly gathering and using information about

real-time network events

Network monitoring for elasticity needs

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Recognize patterns for predictive actions

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Oracle NFV Architecture – Intelligent Orchestration O

racle Intelligent Orchestration

Oracle Virtualization OVM N

FVI

VNF Oracle EMS

Oracle VNFs

Oracle Virtualized HW

NFV Analytics

Oracle Network Service

Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator

NFV Policy Rules Oracle

OpenStack

Oracle OSS / BSS Suite


Oracle’s Intelligent Orchestration Framework • Gathers and analyzes network

performance information

• Evaluates network operation against pre-defined policies and business rules

• Triggers appropriate action to NSO to automatically manage the behavior of – Network services – Network functions – Virtualized infrastructure

• Enables truly dynamic network operation

Oracle Intelligent O

rchestration

NFV Analytics


Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack

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Oracle NFV Architecture O



FVI

VNF Oracle EMS

Oracle VNFs


NFV Analytics


Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack


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Oracle NFV Architecture and Interoperability O



FVI

VNF Oracle EMS


Oracle VNFs



Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack

3rd Party Virtualization (Vmware, KVM)

3rd Party Virtualized HW

3rd Cloud Management

Systems, OpenStack, other

NFV Analytics

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FVI

VNF Oracle EMS


Oracle VNFs



Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack

3rd Party EMS

3rd Party VNFs



3rd Party VNF Manager



NFV Analytics

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FVI

VNF Oracle EMS


Oracle VNFs



Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack

3rd Party OSS / BSS Suite



3rd Party NF/Service

Orchestrator



NFV Analytics

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FVI

VNF Oracle EMS


Oracle VNFs



Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator


OpenStack

3rd Party OSS / BSS Suite 3rd Party NF/Service

Orchestrator NFV Analytics

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Oracle Virtualization OVM

NFV

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Oracle EMS

Oracle VNFs


NFV Analytics

NFV Policy Rules

Oracle OSS / BSS Suite Oracle

Network Service

Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator

Oracle Open Stack

Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator

Orchestrates complete lifecycle

of application instances

Elastic scale in/out of application

based on network KPIs

Maintains configuration

templates to bring up additional

network elements

Multivendor Orchestration with

3rd party plugins


Application Orchestrator: A Plugin Framework ready for Open Networks

Plugin (captures) • Model, Topology • Policies/rules • Workflows • Management (EMS/EMF)

Plugin framework • Defines interface, specification, etc • Provides libraries • Pre-built UI for VNF specific customization

Plugin architecture benefits • De-centralize complexity • Self-development • Independent (AO, plugin) release

cycles

PCRF plugin

Core functions, infrastructure, etc.

Plugin framework

Application Orchestrator

SBC plugin

3rd Party plugin

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Orchestration

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Minimum Requirements

Deploy a VNF

• The ability to instantiate a virtual network function in a hybrid network is a fundamental need. This requires a new category of product (Network Function Orchestration) that does not exists in a legacy non-virtualized network

Scale a VNF

• The management of a network function in a virtualized infrastructure requires to automatically scale in/out a VNF at the right location with the right resources. Legacy management systems lack the capability for elasticity

Graceful shutdown of a VNF

• Legacy management systems lack the capacity for a graceful shutdown of a virtual network function




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Network Service Orchestration • Responsible for NFV Orchestration of the

end-to-end NFV solution • Manages the lifecycle of Network Services

(i.e., aggregation of VNFs) • Coordinates management of the VNF

lifecycle with VNF Managers • Optimizes use of NFV resources with VIMs • Extends the rich functional capabilities of

Oracle’s Agile OSS

Oracle Intelligent O

rchestration

Oracle Virtualization OVM

NFV

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Oracle EMS

Oracle VNFs


NFV Analytics

NFV Policy Rules

Oracle OSS / BSS Suite Oracle Network Service

Orchestration

Oracle Application

Orchestrator

Oracle Open Stack


Acquire and Design

Network Service Orchestration Lifecycle Flows

Onboard VNFs

Design Network Service

Template (Descriptor)

Configure Network Service

Instance

Instantiate Network Service

Configure and Instantiate

Monitor and Analyze Service

Performance

Monitor and Analyze

Resource Utilization

Optimize Virtualized Resource

Usage

Scale Network Service

Monitor and Optimize

VNF and Network Service Catalog

Terminate Network Service

Terminate

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Design Time

NFVI

Run Time




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Reuse in multiple commercial

offerings

Assembly from many technical

components

Stable few for mapping between commercial

and technical

Enable proliferation of commercial offerings without proportional increase in solution complexity or OSS impact

Localize technology changes and alternatives within OSS

Localize device vendor changes and variations to activation

Promotional Offering

Bundled Offering

Simple Offering

Product Specification

Customer-Facing Services Specification

Resource-Facing Services Specification

Resource Specification

Actual Network

Network Service Specification

The foundations of a balanced information model Oracle Strategy for B/OSS – RODOD / RSDOD

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Connecting Business, Operations and Network

• Pure BSS/OSS providers stop above Network


Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

• Pure Network providers stop below Service

e2e Approach required for Business to Drive the Network

to Enable True Business

Transformation

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Connecting Business & Operations with RODOD/RSDOD Promotional Offering

Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

• Oracle’s Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (RODOD) – BSS solution – Offer design – Order capture & delivery

• Oracle’s Rapid Service Design and Order Delivery (RSDOD) – OSS solution – Service design – Order delivery

• TMF certified solutions focus on rapid design and automated delivery of standardized products / services – RxDOD architectural blueprint

highly aligned with NFV architectural principles

Oracle Business & Operations

Orchestration (RODOD & RSDOD Solutions)

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Connecting Service & Network with Oracle NRM & NSO Promotional Offering

Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

• Oracle’s Network Resource Management Solution (NRM) enables CSPs to: – Plan & build resource inventory and

connectivity – Reconcile and optimize resource utilization

• Oracle’s Network Service Orchestration solution enables CSPs to: – Visually compose and rapidly on-board

network service templates – Instantiate and manage lifecycle of network

services – Scale network services elastically across

multiple VNFs

Oracle Network Resource Management &

Network Service Orchestration Solutions

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Unified Design for e2e Business Driven Orchestration Promotional Offering

Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

Design Studio Products, Services, Network Services

Design & Creation Technical Catalogs

Business Rules & Policies





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• Unified policy definition engine from top to bottom

• Graphical modeling of network services



Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

e2e Business Driven Orchestration





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Bundled Offering

Simple Offering





Business

Actual Network

Operations


Service

Network

ETSI MANO Scope

e2e Business Driven Orchestration – Virtual / Hybrid





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Deploying the new Virtual Network Function

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Receive Request

Develop Automation

Design Configuration

Calculate Deployment

Deploy Infrastructure

Install Application

Deploy Configuration

Test Turn-over

Receive Request

Develop Automation

Design Configuration

Calculate Deployment Manage Pools Spin-up

Application VM Deploy

Configuration Test

Turn-over

Physical Network Element

Virtual Network Element with Orchestration

Days or Weeks (months if include acquiring) Minutes

Human Initiated Network

Initiated

Driving towards Agility, Automation and Elasticity

Deployment steps are similar with a few differences: •Degree of automation higher for virtualized components •Service capability achieved faster for virtualized components




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Differences between Web and Telco Cloud

New layers of capabilities- a mixed blessing

Optimum may reside in the middle ground

NFV Telco Cloud Challenges

Stateless Light uplink, heavy downlink

TCP TLS

Processing bursts Queued

Cached content Layers 5-7

Stateful Heavy uplink & downlink

UDP IPsec

Continuous processing Instantaneous

Real time streams Layers 3-7

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Resource Planning: Purpose-Built vs. VNFs Traditional Resource Planning

Resource Planning for Elastic Cloud

Serv

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Capa

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Time

Purpose-built systems have greater density and coarser granularity

Finer virtual machine granularity results in lower incremental cost of adding a new subscriber, but might require many more systems

Baseline capacity is most efficiently delivered with purpose-built systems

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Hybrid Physical/Virtual Clustering

• Today: Cost-effective, high-capacity, session delivery provided by dense, purpose-built platforms (PNFs) – Load Balancing technology is used to create clusters

• Step 1: VNFs deployed to provide service elasticity and incremental session growth – VNFs form a single cluster with PNFs – Single orchestrator manages both VNFs and PNFs – VNF demand is monitored for sustained peaks

• Step 2: As sustained demand increases, additional PNFs deployed to offload VNFs (leverages cost-effectiveness of PNFs)

• Step 3: repeat

Enabling smooth evolution to virtualization

Fixed capacity (PNF)

Dynamic (VNF)

Acme Packet 4600 Acme Packet 4600 Acme Packet 4600

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Hybrid Pooled Transcoding • Virtualized SBCs deployed in conjunction with

transcoding-capable purpose-built systems.

• The virtual SBCs manage call-setup and non-transcoded media processing

• When the need for transcoding arises, virtual SBCs enlist the services of a transcoding SBC to perform the transcoding.

• This “pooled transcoding” solution combines the benefits of agile VNFs with the density and cost-effectiveness of purpose-built platforms.

Efficient and agile transcoding deployment

Pool Transcoding SBC (PNF)

Virtual SBCs (VNF)

Acme Packet 4600/6300

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COMPANY OVERVIEW: Global operator with more than 400 Million subscribers, and operations distributed over 30 subsidiaries and with a partner network covering 50 countries more.

Provides telecom and IT services to corporate clients in over 65 countries, providing a truly global service.

CHALLENGE: • Enable VoLTE for leading LTE adoption • Enable RCS Message services • Focus on Network Function Virtualization • Complex multi-vendor (and multi-country) deployment

project

RESULTS: • Rapid time to market and first VoLTE and Virtualized

IMS Core deployments in region • Flexible deployment model based on Telco over Cloud

architecture and its associated operational benefits • Excellent multi-vendor cooperation projects • Highly scalable platform paving the way for additional

services to use it • Innovative cross-operator Hosting Center for RCS

services

Virtualized IMS … A Real Hybrid Deployment Story Enabling VoLTE and RCS Services for an EMEA based service provider with worldwide presence

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Virtualized Core Network for Voice over LTE

Products and applications – OCCSM: Virtualized Core – OCOM: SAU Measurement – SDM EMS: Element Management – A-SBC: Transcoding, ATCF/ATGw and IMS-AKA*

Benefits – Operational simplification through NFV – VoLTE feature rich Access SBC – Carrier Grade and Scalable Transcoding support

Key differentiators – NFV ready IMS Core – Collaborative multi-vendor project – Low time to market and VoLTE readiness

NSN HSS-FE NSN

HSS-FE

NSN HSS-FE NSN

MGCF MNP Mavenir

TAS

Site #2 Site #1

Including support for 80% transcoding

(AMR-NB/WB to G.711)

ALU PCRF

A-SBC/P-CSCF (6300-HA)

ENUM ENUM CSM VME CSM VME

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Catalyst Champions: MEF, Axtel, PCCW Global, Spectrum Business Catalyst Participants: Oracle Communications, InfoVista, Juniper Networks

TM Forum Live! Catalyst June 1- 4, 2015

Nice, France

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Catalyst Objectives

1. Address enterprise customer needs for more on-demand, assured, cloud-centric network services.

2. Bridge gap(s) between Key industry standards working to enable NaaS (TM Forum, MEF, ETSI)

Service provider and wholesale providers’ process integration

BSS/OSS and SDN/NFV-enabled infrastructure

Physical network management and virtual network management

3. Demonstration Scenario: Enterprise customer ordering carrier Ethernet for three sites where two sites served by one operator and the third by a different operator

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Catalyst: Zero Touch Network-as-a-Service

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Service Provider Wholesale Provider

Site 1

Self-service Web Portal

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Submit

NaaS Lifecycle Orchestration

MPLS

Site 2

CRM Billing

NaaS Lifecycle Orchestration

Assurance

Domain Controller (Metro Ethernet)

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Catalyst Key Benefits

FASTER, ON-DEMAND Services

From service activation in days/weeks

From manual processes, truck rolls and fixed resources LOWER Costs &

INCREASED Agility

INTEGRATED Customer Experience

From siloed management architectures, costly custom B2B integrations, and brittle customer experience

… to automated, software-driven service fulfillment leveraging physical and virtualized infrastructure

… to a standards-based, agile, assured, and orchestrated operations blueprint and B2B APIs for network services

… to minutes

NEW REVENUE Opportunities

From a commoditized fixed revenue model

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Oracle IMS Products

NFV

Oracle Core Routing Products

NFV Standards and Oracle Portfolio

Place NFV at the core of Oracle Communications cross portfolio transformation.

Driving NFV Standardization with focus on well-defined, open and interoperable solutions, in order to :

Cater to customers need to progressively migrate to NFV architecture, service operations and business models. Deliver a unique combination of network, IT and data capabilities for deployment flexibility, service velocity and intelligent operations

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Oracle Engagements related to SDN/NFV

SDN/NFV SDOs Open Source

ETSI NFV •Active Member •Influence

TM Forum •Board Member •Influence NFV

related work

ATIS •Board Member •Influence NFV

related work

IETF •Active Member •Influence SDN/NFV

work

DMTF •Board Member •Influence SDN/NFV

related work

3GPP & GSMA

•Active Member

• Influence

BBF & MEF

•BBF: Influence

•MEF: Active Member

•MEF: lead Service Operations

ONF

•Active Member

• Influence SDN related work

OASIS

•Board Member

• Influence SDN related work

ISO/IEC JTC1

•Chair SC38 • Influence

SDN/NFV related work

OpenStack •Active Member •Influence

OpenDayLight •Active Member •Influence

OPNFV

•Monitor

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NFV on Oracle • Open, standards-based components

• Pre-integrated for faster time to value

• End-to-end support • Interoperability at all levels of the NFV

solution

• Customer choice of components • ‘Red Stack’ optimization

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We Listened

Our Commitment

VNF/PNF support on existing OSS

ETSI, ZOOM, OpenStack

Oracle Virtual Machine or 3rd party

x86-based Servers & Engineered Systems

Your Requirements

Intelligent Orchestration Framework

Many done, more underway

PoCs, deep-dives, RFx responses, demos

• Interoperability

• “Off the Shelf” Hardware

• Comprehensive Orchestration

• Hybrid Support

• Virtualized Applications

• Choice of Hypervisors

• Proof of Concept Engagement

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• Oracle’s NFV Orchestration Solution –Facilitates Dynamic Network Operation –Links Network to Operations and the

Business –Enables Transformation of the Business, not

just the Network

Summary & Q&A

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