ARM Mini-Summit - Efficient NFV solutions for Cloud and Edge - Cavium

1. Efficient NFV solutions for Cloud andEfficient NFV solutions for Cloud andEfficient NFV solutions for Cloud andEfficient NFV solutions for Cloud and EdgeEdgeEdgeEdge
ARM NFV Ecosystem Mini Summit
June, 2016

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Cavium Introduction
ARMv8 Roadmap & Overview
NFV and Cloud / Datacenter Workloads and Ecosystems
Distributed NFV at Edge and On-premises
Examples of PoCs and Open Community Collaboration
Agenda

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▪ Founded: 2001
▪ Public: NASDAQ (CAVM)
▪ 1000+ Employees: >75% Engineering
▪ Computing Vision:
▪ Target High Value Workloads
▪ Partner to Deliver Optimized Platforms
▪ End Users Win with Innovative Solutions
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LiquidSecurityLiquidSecurityLiquidSecurityLiquidSecurity
Cavium Corporate Overview

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ToR Switch
Spine switches for
inter+intra-rack
connectivity
Security Applicnce
Offload Platforms
Offload Server
Security Appliance
Servers
Workload Optimized
To Data Center
Power
To Data Center
Ethernet Network
Cavium Technology Offering for Cloud / Data Center
Workload
Optimized
Processors
• Best-In-Class ARMv8
• 48 Cores @ 2.5GHz
• 1S / 2S Configuration
• CP/ST/NT/SC SKU
Intelligent Network
Adapter
• Latest Network + IO support
• 10/25/40GE connectivity
• Fully Programmable
• Ideal for SDN/NFV platforms
Flexible 3.2T Switch
• Hardware Optimized
• Resource scaling for cloud
• Supports 10/25/50/100G
connectivity
• L2, L3, Overlays, MPLS
• Supports Monitoring &
Instrumentational features
LiquidSecurity HSM
• 32 FIPS 140-2 Level 3
Partitions
• Dual FIPS boundary
• Storage for up to 1M keys
• Tens of thousands of 2K bit
RSA key pair generation
• Scalable platform

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CAVIUM ARMv8 RoadmapPerformancePerformancePerformancePerformance
32 Cores32 Cores32 Cores32 Cores
2S2S2S2S
4/8/16/244/8/16/244/8/16/244/8/16/24 CoresCoresCoresCores
1S1S1S1S
2222
2014 2015 2016 2017
48 Cores48 Cores48 Cores48 Cores
2S2S2S2S
CN88CN88CN88CN888888XXXX
CN88CN88CN88CN889999XXXX
CN88CN88CN88CN887777XXXX
24 Cores24 Cores24 Cores24 Cores
1S1S1S1S
In Production
In Execution
Sampling

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Family of Workload Optimized Processors
Up to 48 full custom ARMv8 cores @ 2.5GHz
Multi-socket capable with Cavium Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCPI)
Up to 4x 72-bit DDR3/4 Memory Controllers
– 1 TB system memory in 2S config
Family Specific I/O’s including 40G/10GE, PCIe Gen3, SATA 6G
Standards based low latency Ethernet fabric
virtSOC™: Virtualization from Core to I/O
Platform : Single & Dual Socket
Family Specific Accelerators : Storage/Networking / Compute / Security
The benefits of this Workload Specific approach
▪ Efficiency (performance, latency, power, and scalability)
▪ Best in Class Optimized solution for the specific workload
Full VirtualizationFull VirtualizationFull VirtualizationFull Virtualization
NetworkingNetworkingNetworkingNetworking
StorageStorageStorageStorage
ControllerControllerControllerController
AcceleratorsAcceleratorsAcceleratorsAccelerators
OptimizedOptimizedOptimizedOptimized
PowerPowerPowerPower
LowerLowerLowerLower
CostCostCostCost
SecuritySecuritySecuritySecurity
ThunderXThunderXThunderXThunderX 2S Reference2S Reference2S Reference2S Reference
PlatformPlatformPlatformPlatform
VirtualizedVirtualizedVirtualizedVirtualized
Network &Network &Network &Network &
StorageStorageStorageStorage
Storage &Storage &Storage &Storage &
AnalyticAnalyticAnalyticAnalytic
AcceleratorAcceleratorAcceleratorAccelerator
High SpeedHigh SpeedHigh SpeedHigh Speed
NetworkNetworkNetworkNetwork
ARM 64bitARM 64bitARM 64bitARM 64bit
ProcessorProcessorProcessorProcessor
NetworkNetworkNetworkNetwork
AcceleratorAcceleratorAcceleratorAccelerator
SecuritySecuritySecuritySecurity
AcceleratorAcceleratorAcceleratorAccelerator

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Telco HPC OCPStorageCloud Compute
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Portfolio of Server Platforms in Production

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SERVER PLATFORMS
Platform Software
OS / Hypervisor
Dev TOOLS/LIBRARIES
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ThunderX® Eco-System – Commercial & Open Source
Linux
Enterprise
SLE12

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Ubuntu 16.04 ThunderX Feature/Config Details
• Certified Platform: Single and Dual Socket Configurations
• Firmware detail: UEFI + Device Tree
• AMI Aptio V Label 10 and later
• Linux Kernel V4.4
• Toolchain: GCC 5.3.1 + Linaro 5-2016.03 snapshot
• Golang: 1.6
• Docker: 1.10.3
• OpenStack: Mitaka
• Validation via Canonical OpenStack Integration Lab (OIL)
• Reference documentation
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Server/Install/CaviumThunderXCRB
• Netbooot Installer
• http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/xenial/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
• Ceph Packages: http://download.ceph.com/debian-jewel/dists/xenial/
• Public Announcement
• http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160420005341/en/Canonical-unveils-6th-LTS-release-Ubuntu-16.04
1S Reference Platform
Test Systems Installed

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Public Cloud on ThunderX

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ThunderX Enablement for NFV
Nov 2012
OPNFV Founded
w/ Cavium as
Founding Member
Sep 2014 Jan 2015
ETSI NFV
ISG 1.0
ETSI NFV ISG: NFV architecture spec
OPNFV (Open Platform NFV): Open source implementation
Sep 2015
OPNFV ARM
project
“ARMBand”
approved
ETSI NFV ISG founded
by Operators
Mar 2016
OPNFV 2nd release
“Brahmaputra”
NFV World
Congress
ThunderX
Demos
May 2015 Jun 2015
OPNFV 1st release
“Arno”
OPNFV ARM release available. ThunderX deployed in test lab
OPNFV ARMv8 Brahmaputra release:
Ubuntu, KVM, OVS, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, Fuel installer
OPNFV Plugfest
B release &
Clearwater IMS
on ThunderX
May 2016 June 2015
OPNFV Summit
Berlin
ThunderX
demos
OPNFV 3rd release
“Colorado”
August
Scenario
Releases
2H16
Additional
VNF Ports
Additional
Pharos Labs Online
Additional Carrier
POCs

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DPDKDPDKDPDKDPDK
– Cavium has lead ARM maintainer for DPDK
– V16.04 (V2.2 follow on) with 4.2 Linux Kernel support
– Demonstrated at MWC with RHEL 7.2
– Ubuntu 16.04 support today, on track for RHEL 7.3 support
ODPODPODPODP
– Focus for Linaro Networking Group – Cavium engineers and leadership in LNG TSC
– V1.4 release available today
– OpenFastPath reference - open source implementation of a high performance TCP/IP stack
Linux Foundation FD.ioLinux Foundation FD.ioLinux Foundation FD.ioLinux Foundation FD.io
– Cavium part of initial group, launched in Feb 2016
– Based on Vector Packet Processing – VPP
– Initiated by Cisco
Data Plane Processing Enablement & Optimization

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CaviumCaviumCaviumCavium technology for NFV Infrastructure in Cloud/Edgetechnology for NFV Infrastructure in Cloud/Edgetechnology for NFV Infrastructure in Cloud/Edgetechnology for NFV Infrastructure in Cloud/Edge
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Source: AT&T Tom Anschutz
Compute Storage
Spine switches
Leaf (TOR) switches
Fabric
WAN Network Links
SDN control, orchestration
VM
XPliant
XPliant
LiquidIO LiquidSecurity
Network HSMNITROX FIPS 140-2

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Centralized and Distributed NFVCentralized and Distributed NFVCentralized and Distributed NFVCentralized and Distributed NFV –––– Cloud/Edge/OnCloud/Edge/OnCloud/Edge/OnCloud/Edge/On----premisespremisespremisespremises
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Use case 1: CPE apps virtualized and migrated to Telco Edge or Cloud
Cloud/Edge CN88XX 48-core ARMv8 based OEM/ODM COTS servers
Use case 2: On-premises devices running vCPE apps
On-premises CN81XX/CN83XX ARMv8 based vCPE white boxes
Use case 2
Use case 1
Use case 1

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CAVIUM ARMv8 Roadmap scales across
Cloud/Edge/On-premises NFV deployments
PerformancePerformancePerformancePerformance
32 Cores32 Cores32 Cores32 Cores
2S2S2S2S
4/8/16/244/8/16/244/8/16/244/8/16/24 CoresCoresCoresCores
1S1S1S1S
2222
2014 2015 2016 2017
48 Cores48 Cores48 Cores48 Cores
2S2S2S2S
CN88CN88CN88CN888888XXXX
CN88CN88CN88CN889999XXXX
CN88CN88CN88CN887777XXXX
24 Cores24 Cores24 Cores24 Cores
1S1S1S1S
In Production
In Execution
Sampling
Low cost vCPE
white boxes with
accelerated NFV
performance
Standard COTS
servers with
optimized TCO and
accelerated NFV
performance

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ARMv8 Driving Mobility CORD PoC running C-RAN vBBU (virtual baseband)
Networking
Fabric
Front-
haul
Switch
CPRI (E)
Disaggregated
BBUs
Edge Service
Functions
Distributed
EPC
CORD
Platform
EPC Control
Functions
Centralized
EPC
Backbone
Switch
Video
Caching
DNS
Security
vSGW
vPGW
XOS MME
OpenStack
ONOS
PCRF
vSGW
vPGW
vBBU
vBBU
vBBU
Smart Radio Head:
Cavium OCTEON
Fusion SoC
Frequency/band of
your choice
vBBUs:
Cavium vBBUs
Cavium ThunderX
ARMv8 server
Ubuntu KVM,
OpenStack, OVS with
OpenFlow control
M-CORD PoC with AT&T, Verizon, SK Telecom, ON.Lab and others
Showcasing virtualized and disaggregated mobile infrastructure

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M-CORD POD: The Infrastructure
RRU
vBBU
eSON
vPGW-C
vPGW-U
vMME
vSGW
UE, App
Emulator
ONOS
XOS
Demo’ed at Open Networking Summit 2016

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Centralized RAN w/ Ethernet Split

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• Cavium technology addresses Secure and Software-defined
Cloud/Datacenter and NFV infrastructure
• Cavium workload optimized ARMv8 processor families
• Leading application performance
• Rich software eco-system for Cloud and NFV workloads
• Production systems from leading ODM and OEM Partners
• Compelling and Complete Roadmap
• Software compatible NFV solutions scaling from standard COTS
servers for Cloud/Edge to low cost on-prem vCPE white boxes
In Summary

20. Thank You