OPNFV director Heather Kirksey and OPNFV TSC Chair, Chris Price discussed the approach the project took with the second release; what is new and different; the challenges of working upstream; and how the community is preparing the industry to move from NFV Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to NFV deployments.

1. OPNFV Brahmaputra: An Early
Look
Heather Kirksey, Director,
OPNFV
Chris Price, TSC Chair,
OPNFV

2. Welcome!

3. We are an industry in transformation

4. 2016-02-22
At What Stage is your company in the execution of its NFV Strategy?

5. OPNFV is a carrier-grade,
integrated, open source
platform to accelerate the
introduction of new NFV
products and services.

6. Source: Heavy Reading survey, October 2015, n=211
Bring Clarity to SDN Vendors
Critical For Operators To Achieve
NFV Goals
Help Other Projects Develop
Solutions
Not Addressing Issues That Matter
Project Won't Reach Goals
Project Will Have Minimal Impact
on the Industry
Which of the Following Statements Best Matches Your Opinion of OPNFV
Project Won’t
Reach Goals (3%)
Project Will Have Minimal
Impact (1%)
Not Addressing Issues
that Matter (3%)
Bring Clarity to
NFV Vendors
(20%)
Critical for
Operators To
Achieve NFV
Goals (35%)
Help Other Open
Source Projects
Develop
Solutions (37%)

7. 17. Which of the following benefits do you expect to see from
OPNFV? (check all that apply)
36%
38%
33%
47%
60%
69%
36%
35%
47%
56%
65%
83%
Increased understanding of underlying technologies
Higher-quality products
Reduced risk
Accelerated adoption
More rapid deployment of NFV
Easier integration
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Vendors Service Providers
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8. 2016-02-22
What are biggest barriers to accelerating NFV adoption at your
company?

9. We Need To Work Together

10. OPNFV by the numbers: 18 Months In
• 58 members (41 at founding)
• 12 end user member companies
• 10 operational OPNFV test-bed
infrastructure labs (Pharos Project)
with 2 more planned
• 47 approved projects
• 168 code developers
• 161 code submitters
• 4,697 accepted code contributions
• 205 ticket participants
• 665+ IRC participants
• 87,998+ IRC messages
• 406 Mailing List Participants
• 5800+ unique Arno Downloads
• 5000+ unique Arno Docs downloads
• 5x increase in developer
participation since August 2015
• 2 Platform releases (Arno,
Brahmaputra) + 1 stable release
(Arno SR1)

11. OPNFV Membership List
Platinum Members
Silver Members
Associate Members

12. 2016-02-22

13. Brahmaputra – Marching toward Maturity
• Massively Parallel Simultaneous Release Process
– 35 projects, 140+ developers
– End-to-end feature realization
– Incremental monthly release drops
• Scenarios
– Significant increase in components tested and component and
features combinations
2016-02-22

14. OPNFV Platform Overview
Orchestration and Management
Virtual Network Functions
Infrastructure
Compute
Virtualization
Control
Storage
Virtualization
Control
Network
Virtualization
Control
Compute Storage Network
Build and
Integration
Deployment
and Testing
New
Requirements
and Features
Upstream
Project
Collaboration
Continuous Integration

15. Build and
Integration
Deployment
and Testing
New
Requirements
and Features
Network Virtualization
Control
Storage Virtualization
Control
OPNFV Arno Overview
Bootstrap /
GetStarted
FuncTest
Compute Virtualization
Control
Compute Storage Network
OpenStack
OpenDaylightKVM
OVS
Upstream
Project
Collaboration
Infrastructure
Pharos Project Compliant Community Labs
OPNFV Bare Metal Lab
Orchestration and Management
Virtual Network Functions
Ceph
Octopus / Continuous Integration
Documentation

16. Network Virtualization
Control
Storage Virtualization
Control
OPNFV Brahmaputra Overview
Compute Virtualization
Control
Orchestration and Management
Virtual Network Functions
OpenStack
KVM OpenDaylight
OVS
OpenContrail
Compute Storage Network
Infrastructure
Pharos Community Labs
OPNFV Bare Metal Lab
Data Plane Acceleration
Upstream
Project
Collaboration:
Integration Testing New Features
Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment
Documentation
ONOS
Ceph
ODPDPDK
Alignment
Installers
Scenarios
Functional
System
Performance
Fault Mgmt
IPv6
SFC
L3VPN
Reservation

17. Collaborative Development Working Upstream
• OPNFV Requirements Gathering and Gap
Analysis
• Upstream and/or OPNFV Code Development
• New releases of Upstream Components
Available
• OPNFV Integration, Validation, and
Automation work
– Install/Deploy
– CI/CD and scenario definitions
– Testing (Functional, System, Performance)

18. Testing Enhancements
2016-02-22
Yardstick
FuncTest
Qtip
VSPERF
Bottleneck
s
• Fivefold increase in testing projects
• Functest: component testing, increase in
number and types of tests
• Yardstick: System level testing based on
ETSI TST 001 spec
• VSPerf: virtual switch characterization
• Qtip: Bottom-up system characterization
• Bottlenecks: bottleneck focused platform
testing framework

19. Increased Breadth in Deployment and Integration
2016-02-22
• Breadth of Open Source Innovation
• Additional install/deploy tools
• OpenStack
• Additional SDN Controllers + native
Neutron networking
• 2 -> 20+ scenarios supported
– Installer, SDN, bare metal vs. virtualized,
features, HA, features, framework options
Apex
Fuel
Compass
JOID
Genesis
ONOSFW
Contrail

20. Infrastructure and Testing Environments
• Advances in Pharos governance and
participation
– Pharos labs participating in release
activities + development
– First Arm-based lab joined Pharos
• Significant automation work on Jenkins-
based CI/CD toolchain
• Additional documentation and
documentation automation
Releng
Docs
Octopus
Pharos

21. Carrier Grade Feature Enhancements
• Significant Upstream Collaboration
• Fault Management
• SFC
• L3VPN
• IPv6
• Resource Reservation
• Performance Enhancements throughout
the platform (Data plane, KVM, OVS)
SWFPQM
Promise
Doctor
Availability
IPv6
SFC
OVS4NFV
SDNVPN
NFVKVM
DPACC

23. Working Upstream with Open Source and Standards

24. Now It’s
Time to
Join the
Party

25. What’s Next
• Much, much, much more of the same
• Plugfest!!
– Join the Dovetail project and contribute
• Testing and Infra Improvements
– SDN Controller & Storage Performance, Policy testing
• Full ARM Support
• Continued advances in carrier grade features, including L2VPN, Policy
Mgmt, Security, Multisite, Upgrades, etc.
• Container Support
• MANO
• Forwarding and Data Plane Improvements
2016-02-22

26. Upcoming OPNFV Events
• OPNFV Technical Community Hackfest @ ONS, Santa Clara,
March 14-17
• IETF 95, Buenos Aires, April 3-8
• China SDN/NFV Conference, Beijing, April 11-13
• OpenStack Summit, Austin, April 25-29
• OPNFV Plugfest, May 9-13, Louisville, Colorado
2016-02-22

27. Resources to help you get started
• Website: (https://www.opnfv.org)
• Wiki’s: (https://wiki.opnfv.org/)
– Developer on-boarding: https://wiki.opnfv.org/developer/on-boarding
– Releases: https://wiki.opnfv.org/releases
– Approved projects: https://wiki.opnfv.org/approved_projects
• Mailing lists: (lists.opnfv.org)
– opnfv-marketing-committee@lists.opnfv.org: OPNFV Marketing Committee
(Members Only)
– opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org: general technical discussions
– opnfv-tsc@lists.opnfv.org: discussions with the Technical Steering Committee
(TSC)
– opnfv-users@lists.opnfv.org: OPNFV community support
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28. Questions?