*** Presented at IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 *** It might still be debatable on how much NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) can save on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO); however, the disappearing hardware barrier is undoubtedly offering tremendous opportunities that lead to innovations thought impossible just a few years ago. In addition to the benefits of elasticity and flexibility, NFV empowers network operators with mobility of networks infrastructure. The more interesting challenge is how NFV can be leveraged to deliver more economic value and richer options to enterprise and end users like you and me, and how it can open a door to vast amount of ingenious ICT developers that will help monetize the challenge. We are going to share some of our findings in this presentation.

1. Disrupting Telecom:
The Evolution of NFV
Sean Chen (s.chen@huawei.com)
Lab of Innovative Open Networking (L.I.O.N.)
Huawei R&D USA

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NFV is …
• Network Functions Virtualisation
• Network Services running on Cloud Infrastructure
• To Develop / Operate / Automate CT Services like IT’s
• To Enable Cloud Business Model on Network Services
• Disruptive

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Vendor C
Vendor B
Core Network Services
(EPC, BNG, IMS, Firewall, CPE)
Hardened Embedded
Carrier Grade OS
(Real time, Fault Tolerant)
Specialized Hardware
(NPU, DSP, FPGA)
Vendor A
Commodity Infrastructure
Vendor A
Cloud OS
Vendor B
App App App
Vendor C Vendor D Vendor E
System Integrator F
NFV
Appliance Model NFV Model
We support 1M subscribers per box
with guaranteed reliability
We support X number of subscribers
with guaranteed availability
 Purposely Designed System for Special Application
 Tightly-coupled H/W and App, Vertically Integrated
 Optimized for Low Latency and High Throughputs
 Commodity System for General Purpose Workload
 De-coupled H/W and App. Layered. Multi-Vendor
 Optimized for Flexibility and Efficiency

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Leading Carriers Projecting 50% CAGR in Traffic Growth
With Flat CAPEX Due to Deteriorating Margins
 Cost
 Innovation
 New Income

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NFV Components
Physical
Infrastructure
Server Storage Switch Legacy
Device
Cloud
Service
Virtual
Compute
Virtual
Storage
Virtual
Network
Virtual
Infrastructure
VIM
PIM
VNF
Virtual
Links
Virtual
Network Function
VNFMVNFC VNFC
Network Service NFVO
VNF
VNF
VNF
VNF
VNF
Virtual link
OSS / BSS BPMCRM Ordering Provisioning Inventory Billing Maintenance

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Server Storage Switch Network Cloud IaaS
Cloud Platform
Legacy
Appliance
Telco Workload: EPC, BNG, IMS, CPE, Firewall, etcCHALLENGES
SLA
Security
Capacity
Planning
Cost
Structure
Trouble-
shooting
Lifecycle
Mgmt
Performance
Pricing
Policy
Mgmt
Training
Pay-Per-
Growth
Automate
like IT
Personalized Composable
Real
Time
On
Demand
Elastic
Challenges Facing Virtualized Telco Workload

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Trend of Evolution: Computing Service
Mainframe
Mini
Computer
Work
Station
Personal
Computer
Shared
Centralized
Few
Big
Generalized
Complex
Expensive
Securely Owned
Distributed, Localized
Many
Small
Personalized
Simplified
Cheap
Cloud
Personal
Cloud
Trends:
De-centralized,
Smaller in Size,
 More in Quantity,
Closer to Users,
Better Control,
User Driven
1:N => 1:1

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Toward 5G Convergence: NFV Inspires
OTT
Svcs

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Traditionally
Shared Pipes and Resources
Centralized and Fixed Appliance
Few in Quantity
Big in Size for each Appliance
Generalized and Difficult to customize per stream
Complex
Expensive

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Tomorrow
Public
Internet
10K+
End
Points
Dedicated, Secure, Isolated
Distributed, Mobile, Flexible
Many in Quantity
Small in Size for each virtual appliance
Customized, Personalized per stream
Simple
Cheap
Access Core Service
.
.
.
Mary
Jane
Eric
Jason

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NFV Market Context
• Most of the Existing NFV Implementations are still Mainframe style
› Limited Benefit only from TCO saving
• NFV Ignites PC style Disruptions, both in Business Model and Technical
Architecture
› Mobile Device style will be Next
• The Market is Moving From Operator-Centric Toward User-Defined
› Focus Shifted from Operator to Operator’s Customers
• What is Amazon AWS Cloud Business Model in NFV Paradigm?
› Utility Computing vs Utility Networking
• What is the Technical Architectural Evolution that Enables Amazon
AWS Cloud like of Capabilities
› New Abstraction, Further De-composition, New Composition

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NFV Empowers
• Multi-tenancy of Network Infrastructure
• Single-tenancy in each Virtual Domain
• User-centric, User-defined Business
and Technical Models
• Service Oriented De-composition /
Re-composition of Network Services
• Mobilized Core
• Distributed, Localized, Network-aware
IaaS/PaaS Cloud Offerings to OTT
Providers
• Personal Cloud
• Common E2E Software Architecture

14. Huawei Proprietary
Huawei CloudEdge vMSE Opens Up MBB Network
MANO
Service Chain
FusionSphere 3rd Party Cloud OS
Huawei COTS 3rd Party COTS
VNFM
NFVO
IndustryEnterpriseOTTBiz PlatformPerson
On Demand. JIT Agile Innovation
VIM
Virtual Unified Intelligent Center
PCEF
/ TDF
App Store
vAPP1 vAPP2 vAPP3
APP Integration Platform
Virtual Enhanced Packet Service Node
Gx
Gx
RADIUS
PCRF
PGW
or
vPGW
Rapid Solution Integration
Value-Added Ecosystem
User-Defined Service Chain
Personalized Network & SLA
Open API
Developing New ICT
Opportunities
User A
User B

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Monetizing NFV via User-Centric Personalization
De Facto vMSE PaaS to
support a rich value-added
ecosystem , Pay-As-You-
Go model, and Turn-Key
delivery, Developer friendly
platform
App Store like business model
and architecture, to allow rich on-
demand Network-as-a-Service,
and an open ecosystem
Dedicated and secure path,
resources, and life-cycle
management
More possibilities and more
independence for MVNO
Empower MNO/MVNO to
offer Personalized Cloud
Services
Support Provider-paid
business model
Support Enterprise-owned
and/or better BYOD
business scenarios
Empower MNO/MVNO to
offer more and richer
solutions to Enterprise
 Ready to meet
M2M/IoE/O2O challenges
 Evolve to support
MBB/FBB convergence

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Huawei SoftCOM Solution: Empowered by NFV

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Service Oriented NFV Lab: Open, Collaborate, Innovate, Incorporate

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OPNFV: 1st NFV Open Source Project

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Server Storage Switch Network Cloud IaaS
Cloud Platform
Legacy
Appliance
Telco Workload: EPC, BNG, IMS, CPE, Firewall, etcCHALLENGES
SLA
Security
Capacity
Planning
Cost
Structure
Trouble-
shooting
Lifecycle
Mgmt
Performance
Pricing
Policy
Mgmt
Training
Pay-Per-
Growth
Automate
like IT
Personalized Composable
Real
Time
On
Demand
Elastic
OPNFV Outside-In and Use Case Driven Approach
OPNFV
Platform
How
To
Integrate
?
How
To
Use
?
How
To
Test
?
How
To
Certify
?

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• Founded on 9/30/2014 (5.5 months old)
• 18 Platinum Members (13+5), 35 Silver Members (28+7)
• 842 Community Subscribers (81 from Huawei)
• 17 Approved Projects. 9 Proposed Projects.
• 20 projects have Huawei Committers (77%)
• Release 1 targeted on 4/23/2015.
› 2 Projects are in scope (1 led by Huawei).
OPNFV By The Numbers (as of 3/12/2015)

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OPNFV Framework

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OPNFV At A Glance
Red: Huawei as Committer
Brown: Huawei as Contributor
Black: Huawei little involved

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Thank You
Food For Thoughts. Comments Are Welcome
Email: s.chen@huawei.com
Twitter: @sychen
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