IBM & TechM on TMF ZOOM Catalyst - Zero-touch Orchestration Operations and Management - Recover First Resolve Next - SDN NFV Solution
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IBM and Tech Mahindra have developed a solution called "Recover First, Resolve Next" that demonstrates closed loop control for automated fault recovery and remediation of service performance issues in hybrid networks. The solution provides seamless integration between OSS and a multi-vendor NFV layer to manage both traditional and virtualized network infrastructure. It utilizes Tech Mahindra's virtual Evolved Packet Core and IBM's NetCool products to provide end-to-end service assurance through performance analytics and automated fault recovery.
IBM & TechM on TMF ZOOM Catalyst - Zero-touch Orchestration Operations and Management - Recover First Resolve Next - SDN NFV Solution
- 1. ‘Recover First, Resolve Next’
- 2. 2 Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) have irreversibly changed the industry views of not only network design and operations but also service delivery and monetization in the future. IBM and Tech Mahindra, partners in the TM Forum ZOOM “Catalyst” project ‘Recover First, Resolve Next’ have developed a solution that envisages closed loop control for managing hybrid networks, demonstrating Service Level Agreement (SLA) driven closed loop control, for automated fault recovery and remediation of service performance issues. The synergies between IBM and Tech Mahindra enable the integration of Virtual Network function (VNFs) with the OSS largely provided by market leaders like IBM. Tech Mahindra here is uniquely positioned to offer inter-operability and VNF certification testing, performance tuning, systems integration and SDN/NFV network transformation services. The catalyst demonstrates automated end-to-end service assurance collecting the appropriate performance analytics, fault and providing closed loop fault recovery to maintain service levels for end- customers. This joint solution provides seamless integration between the OSS and a multi-vendor, multi- function Network Function Virtualization (NFV) layer, with management of a hybrid network comprising traditional and virtualized network infrastructure. Performance Management (PM) – PM of VNF itself, i.e. vEPC, – PM of infrastructure (physical and virtual) – Customer experience metrics Scaling Up/Down based on PM – Policy Management – Triggering Mechanisms E2E Service views KEY CHALLENGES The “Catalyst” addresses:
- 3. 3 Solution Architecture The Solution consists of the VNF, MANO as defined by ETSI and the OSS as depicted above, being deployed on a COT’s H/W with a KVM Hypervisor as NFV Infrastructure. The VNF integrated is Tech Mahindra’s home grown Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) solution that scales independently for control and data plane traffic surges. Tech Mahindra’s vEPC has a custom built VNF manager that provides seamless connectivity to Virtual Infrastructure Manager and Orchestrator for carrier grade requirements of virtual network functions. – Applications run on platforms, virtualized over KVM hypervisor – 3GPP compliant interfaces for independent deployment of VNFs (S/P-GW, MME); ETSI NFV compliant interfaces for deployment of vEPC – Independent and elastic scaling of Control and User Plane capacities – Combined S/P-GW for reduced latencies – Improved data plane performance through DPDK Integration – Collapsed control plane interface for reduced signaling overhead – Integrated with OpenStack virtualization platform and with 3rd party NFV Orchestrators The vEPC integrated with IBM’s NetCool Suite provides an End-to-End automated performance and fault management. IBM Netcool Operations Insight helps unify, reduce and prioritize your business service impacting events by using real-time and historical analytics. With the integration of these leading edge IBM analytics technologies, IBM Netcool Operations Insight powered by OMNIbus helps IT operators to better understand their IT operations and infrastructure management, thereby: – Improving operational agility with real time analytics – Accelerating problem identification and resolution with search analytics – Improving operational efficiency with historical analytics NFVO ICO VNF Manager VIM (OpenStack) NS catalogue vEPC EMS MME VNF SGW VNF PGW VNF KVM Hypervisor VM VM VM TNF / TNPM Netcool Omnibus Netcool Impact Performance Os-Ma Service Chain Mgmt NFVIVNF MANO OSS Vi-Vnfm Or-Vnfm VNF Fault SCM (ITM) Or-Vi Nf-Vi Ve-Vnfm-en Ve-Vnfm-vnf VNF catalogue VNF Instances NFVI Resources Os-Ma Se-Ma X86 Compute Storage Network 3rd Party TechM IBM Policy Manager
- 4. “CATALYST” BENEFITS – Management of Agile Networks for CSPs using an approach combining Infrastructure, service and customer Fault and Performance Analytics – Simplification of managing Hybrid Networks using a single solution – Multi-dimensional SLA views ensuring seamless transactions between CSPs and VNF providers. – Scalability and flexibility because software instances as Virtual Functions can be created on demand and with diverse deployment options – Thought leadership - Contribution/Review of documents (IG1127, TR 245, IG1118, TR229) to Frameworx 15.x Trademarks and notes © Copyright IBM Corporation 2015 IBM Software Group, Route 100 Somers, NY 10589, U.S.A. Produced in the United States of America September 2010 | All Rights Reserved IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Netcool and Tivoli are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. If these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol (® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright and trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. References in this publication to IBM products and services do not imply that IBM intends to make them available in all countries in which IBM operates. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from IBM Corporation. Product data has been reviewed for accuracy as of the date of initial publication. Product data is subject to change without notice. Any statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. IBM products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements (e.g. IBM Customer Agreement, Statement of Limited Warranty, International Program License Agreement, etc.) under which they are provided. The customer is responsible for ensuring compliance with legal requirements. It is the customer’s sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer’s business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws. IBM does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law or regulation. The vendor ecosystem in the post NFV/SDN world is changing. This partnership demonstrates our thought leadership in this new frontier of the network transformation that will drive a better quality of network and cost model for the operators across the world. - Arunmozhi Balasubramanian, Tech Mahindra Global Head of CTP Segment Netcool & Cloud Orchestrator are IBM's flagship products. Tech Mahindra's deep domain skills & this partnership on NFV means delivering value to customers. - David W Pipher, IBM WW Partner Sales Executive Domain expertise and neutral approach on a hybrid path is key for CSP's to leverage the best practices & importantly mitigate transformation pains. Tech Mahindra's deep domain expertise will be a differentiator & this partnership on IBM's RTOSS and Cloud orchestrator will add value to the customers. - Vinay G Rajagopal, IBM WW GSI Leader