How to make virtual network services a winner rather than an integration disaster
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This document discusses how to make virtual network services successful through NFV rather than an integration disaster. It outlines the challenges of integrating multiple network functions and services in an NFV environment. Specifically, it notes the need to balance pre-integrated solutions with openness to reduce complexity, time to market, and costs, while maintaining flexibility. Allot's approach provides pre-integrated virtualized customer and resource-facing network services that leverage their VNF management framework and experience integrating with network control plane interfaces to help operators deploy reliable services through NFV.
How to make virtual network services a winner rather than an integration disaster
- 1. How to make virtual network services a winner rather than an integration disaster Yonatan Klein, Director Product Management October 2015
- 2. Case Study – Customer Facing Services: Tier-1 mobile operator >25M Security Services Addition to ARPU Incremental Revenue 2 Total subscribers >5M subscribers Average of 1€ per month Over €70M per Year The service provides value to the end user The service provides value to the operator Individual Family Dept. A Dept. B Business Central Management Network-based Web Security Multi-tenant profiles Service Provider • Time to Market in less than 4 months • ROI within 12 months
- 3. About Allot Communications 3 Markets Global presence in five continents • Mobile Operators • Cloud Operators • Fixed Line Operators • Enterprise Customers • >150 Mobile Operators • >1000 Fixed Broadband Operators • >4000 Large Enterprises • >1.5B End Users Trusted partner of Tier1 operators Traded on TASE since 2010 – Symbol “ALLT” Extensive Partner ecosystem Traded on NASDAQ since 2006 – Symbol “ALLT” Founded in 1996 Analytics Security Traffic Management& Optimization Policy Control & Charging Allot Solution Domains
- 4. NFV Trend 1: Technological Trend 4 Reduced Capex Avoid Vendor Locking Shorter Time to Market Openness Increase Innovation Reduced Opex
- 5. 5 Applications Users On CampusPrivate Cloud In the Branch Office At Home On the Road WAN INTERNET B Y O D 24/7 ALWAYS CONNECTED Public Cloud NFV Trend 2: IT on the Cloud The Internet is the new IT ensuring Availability, Performance & Security across Clouds
- 6. Network Services Migrating to the Cloud 6 Enterprise Fixed Line Consumer Service Provider POP / DC Mobile Consumer
- 7. Virtual Network Services are key to operators 7 NFV: CSP Operations/ Technical Trend > Cloud Services: Market Trend Virtual Network Services are Key • Capex / Opex Reduction • Agility in New Offering • Added Value • New Revenue Sources Customer Facing Services: • DDoS protection • Application Firewall • Secure Web Gateway • Anti-malware • Content Filtering • Application Visibility & Control (AVC) • Optimization • Etc. Resource Facing Services: • Network Security • Application Visibility & Control • Caching • Network Optimization • Policy Control and Charging • Etc.
- 9. Reliability Telco Grade Agility Time to Market Reduced Total Cost of Ownership Manageability 9 What are CSPs expecting from NFV? Hybrid (Virtual & Physical)
- 10. The NFV Reality 10 What we may end up with A “cluttered” NFV that just does not function as we hoped for Courtesy Lego Corporation What we want A well-structured NFV that functions as a well-oiled machine
- 11. The Integration Challenges 11 In a recent service provider survey, vast majority of respondents cited lack of interoperability, service management concerns and system integration challenges as the key hurdles to the deployment of NFV * Source: LightReading Webinar “The State of the State: Preparing for Next-Gen Communications Infrastructure” held on August, 2015 “The key challenge for growth of an open ecosystem is to achieve interoperability for the key interfaces identified in the NFV Architectural Framework. ” ETSI NFV White Paper #3, Oct 2014 is like a thorn in the flesh for NFVIntegration
- 12. Dimensions of Integration 12 Integration of Multiple Network Services / Functions1 Integration with Network Control Plane2 NFV Environment Integration3
- 14. The Integration Balance 14 Per-Project Pre-integrated Best of Breed Open Less Complexity Reduced Time Lower Cost Synergy of Joint Elements
- 15. NFV Vision: Accelerate Time to Launch & Revenue 15 VAS+VNF creates a pre-integrated virtualized service that accelerates time-to-revenue Service Deployment Traditional Deployment NFV Deployment Pre-integrated Virtualized Services Service Time to Launch of Services Launch Cost Level of pre-integration
- 16. Big Data Analytics Anomaly Detection Application Visibility Web Security Traffic Management Customer-facing Services Services Synergy Example 16 Resource-facing Services Services Engines
- 17. But Can we Re-use existing Interfaces? 17 Network Integration 3GPP interfaces NFV Orchestration • NFV Standardization did not eliminate the need for network integration. • Experience and interoperability with control interfaces is key
- 18. Allot’s Virtual Network Services 18 NFVI COTS HW Virtualization Layer AllotVNFManager ESXi Other VNF Managers NFV Orchestrator Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) NCX KVM OVS NFV MANOOSS/BSS Service Policy Charging Customer Engagement Application Awareness Multi-tenancy Anomaly detection QoS Big Data Network Integration Allot Customer Visibility Services Allot Customer Experience Services Allot Customer Protection Services Allot VNF Framework Network Control Plane VNFs ControlPlaneAPIs
- 19. Visit us at Allot’s booth #25 and watch our demo: Deploying Reliable Services in a distributed architecture using SDN/NFV architecture
- 20. Take Aways 20 The market is looking for Virtual Network Services Goal: Fast Time to Market & Reduced TCO CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS Harmonize Old & New Services The Integration Challenge Multi- location Interoperabil ity: Add VNF APIs on top of 3GPP Balance pre- integrated service with openness Policy Centric, application aware Efficient Service Deployment User/ Control plane separation
- 21. THANK Find out how Allot can help YOUR business to become a leading Digital Lifestyle Provider Email info@allot.com U www.allot.com