Cisco Knowledge Network Cisco Ultra Services Platform Krishna Chirala Scott Myelle March 2016
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Macro Trends in Mobile
Use Case drivers
Best of breed stack
Industry
M2M Connected Car
Enterprise Private
Network
MVNO
NFVI OS / VMW
VNF NFVO
UCS OpenStack
Ultra NSO (Tail – f)
Customer
Reduction in cost
Complexity
Interoperability
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Cloud providers have a different business model More agile - lower costs
You need to:
• Increase flexibility and agility (services and schedules)
• Automate and simplify Service creation, testing, and activation
• Offer telco reliability with cloud efficiencies
• Have a new architecture that is also 5G ready
Business Challenge Compete with Cloud Providers and Mobile Network Operators
…and need to enter new markets faster, but without overbuilding the network
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IoT: Conditions vary widely. Some require high controller activity and low user plane data consumption. Other IoT use cases are quite the opposite.
Enterprise: Require customized, secured, private network services with activation and changes on their schedule.
Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO): Require centralized control plane integration and distributed user plane connectivity—and cost-effective wholesale model.
Consumer: High performance, high scale, high reliability, and affordable.
Support Requirements Without Overbuilding
The answer is a distributed software-defined networking (SDN) architecture with automated virtualized services.
• Reduce costs and improve flexibility and agility while helping ensure ultra-high reliability
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Cisco Ultra Services Platform
² Special Innovation Unit ² In stealth mode for last 12 months
² Focused on SP NFV market
² Rapid Development
² Innovative distributed design ² Ahead of market by 18-24 months
Officially launched @ MWC 2016
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
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Cisco Ultra Services Platform Industry leading innovation
• Distributed SDN architecture with full Control – User Plane Separation (CUPS)
• Inline services framework to on-board services as a part of the VNF – even 3rd parties
• Unmatched performance and scale - 20M sessions and 2 Tbps throughput
• Network slicing for maximum customization and flexibility • 5G Ready
- RAT Agnostic, control/user plane separation, distributed architecture, network slicing, ultra-high availability
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
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Internet Management & Control-Plane
4G
Management & Control-Plane
4G
Management & Control-Plane
4G
Internet RAN RAN
Ultra – Delivers cost optimization
TCO
Sav
ings
TCO Savings
35% - 53%
Automation Virtualization Distributed Architecture
11%-13% 14% - 28%
10%-12%
Ultra Delivers 35% - 53% TCO Savings
User-Plane
4G
Edge Data Centers
User-Plane
4G
Edge Data Centers
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Ultra Architecture
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Cisco Ultra Services Platform
Ultra Services Framework
• Pluggable framework for inline,
subscriber-aware, enhanced services
• Integrated as separately upgradable software packages
• Native lifecycle management and configuration automated by the converged platform framework
Ultra Policy Platform
• Carrier-grade policy, charging, and subscriber data management solution
• Rapid service creation environment
• Monetization opportunities for 3G, 4G, 5G, and IMS service architectures
• Integrated packaging with other Ultra Services Platform components
Ultra Gateway Platform
• Software-defined, fully featured packet core functionality
• Multigenerational
• Separate management, control, and user planes
• Remotely deployable user plane for ultimate elasticity and scalability
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
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Cisco® Ultra Services Platform Management Plane
VM VM
Control Plane
VM VM
Service Component
Service Component
Service Component
User Plane
VM VM
Central Data Center
Service Component
Service Component
Service Component
User Plane VM VM
Service Component
Service Component
Service Component
User Plane VM VM
Remote Data Center Remote Data Center
Cisco Ultra Services Platform Co-Located Network Architecture Cisco Ultra Services Platform Remote Network Architecture
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ETSI Management and Orchestration (MANO) Integration
• Single ETSI MANO VNF with multiple VNF components (VNFCs) and an element manager (VNF-EM)
• Three VNFCs with common management and orchestration: • Gateway functions
• Policy functions
• Service functions
• Each VNFC will have different types of VMs with descriptors describing each (VDUs)
OSS/BSS
VIM
NFVI
VNF
VNF-EM
Compute Storage Network
Virtualization
Virtual Storage
Virtual Network
VNF
VNF-EM
VNF
VNF-EM
Ve-Vnfm-em
Ve-Vnfm-vnf
Os-Ma-nfvo
Nf-Vi
Or-Vnfm
Virtual Compute
Vn-Nf Vn-Nf
NFV-O (NSO)
NS Catalog
VNF Catalog
NFV Instances
NFVI Resources
Descriptors
NSD VNFFGD VLD VNFD PNFD
Se-Ma
Vi-Vnfm Or-Vi
VNF Manager (VNFM) Ultra
Services Framework
Ultra Policy
Platform
Ultra Gateway Platform
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform USP Element Manager
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USP Element Manager
Service Configuration Manager
Cisco Ultra Services Platform (USP) Management and Automation Framework
• VNF deployment two ways: • Using a descriptor onboarded into an
ETSI NFV-O
• Using a built-in deployment automation framework
• VNF service-level configuration handled internally by the VNF-EM’s built-in configuration manager
• USP management components are deployed as 1:1 redundant pairs
• VNF-EM handles both management and service monitoring
Control Function
Ultra Policy Platform
Management Monitoring
Ultra Gateway Platform
Ultra Services Framework
OSS / BSS NFV-O
VNFM
ETSI MANO
VNFM
Pro
xy
USP Deployment Automation Framework
Automated deployment framework with the ability to emulate an NFV orchestrator (NFV-O) and VNFM for deployments without an ETSI MANO environment
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VNFM Proxy Details
USP Element Manager
Service Configuration Manager
• Component of the Cisco® USP Element Manager (VNF-EM)
• Abstraction function to standardize the connection between VNF and VNFM • Extensible platform to support
multivendor VNFMs
• Plug-ins for different VNFM vendors
• ETSI MANO (Ve-vnfm-em) reference interface implementation for VNF lifecycle management:
• Provisioning of VMs as defined in catalog
• Associate VMs to internal network
• Start required services and monitoring tasks
• Handling of scale in and out events
• Key performance indicator (KPI) notifications for service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement
Control Function
Ultra Policy Platform
Management Monitoring
Ultra Gateway Platform
Ultra Services Framework
OSS / BSS NFV-O
VNFM
ETSI MANO
VNFM
Pro
xy
VNFM Proxy Plug-in Framework
VNFM - 1
VNFM - N
VNFM - 2
VNFM - 3
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Co-Located Deployment Models • Service function chaining role
• Behind a third-party gateway • Integrated with the gateway role
Cisco® Ultra Services Framework
TDF Function Application
Function
Network Function
Network Function
Gateway Function (SGW+PGW / SAE-GW)
PCRF
SGi
MME
HSS / SPR
SGi
USP Element Manager
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Gx / Gxx
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
Gateway Function Application
Function
Network Function
Network Function Gn
PCRF
GTP
MME
HSS / SPR
SGi
USP Element Manager
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Gx / Gxx
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
Gateway Function Application
Function
Network Function
Network Function Gn
PCRF
GTP
MME
HSS / SPR
SGi
USP Element Manager
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
• Gateway role • Co-located management, control, and
user plane implementation • User plane deployment is
geographically remote
• Policy role • Integrated solution with the gateway
and service chaining roles • Standalone role as an independent
policy and charging rules function (PCRF)
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Centralized Management and Control
Remote User Plane
Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS)
Application Function
Network Function Gn
PCRF
GTP
MME
HSS / SPR
SGi
Cisco® USP Element Manager
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Ultra Service
Component
Gx / Gxx Gateway Function
OpenFlow Controller
Network Function
Gateway Function
OpenFlow Controller
Ope
nFlo
w +
Net
conf
Yan
g
Net
conf
Yan
g
Net
conf
Yan
g
• Central and remote components deployed as two separate VNFs
• Centralized management and control plane interfaces policy framework with standard 3GPP-defined interfaces (Gx, Gxx, Gy, etc.)
• Remote user plane component interfaces eNBs with standard 3GPP-defined user plane protocols (GTP)
• Flow policies are distributed to user plane using a modified version of OpenFlow
• Service-level configuration of remote user plane VNF performed by Element Manager once VNFs have been associated with each other
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3GPP Network Slicing: Automating the Selection of RAN and Packet Core Functions
§ Automa'on of Policy and Gateway service instance crea'on - All components of an automated VNF
§ 3GPP techniques for network service “selec'on” - MOCN: allows for use of a base sta'on by
mul'ple operators selected based on PLMN-‐id
- Décor: allows the UE to map into a dedicated core network based on the value of “UE Usage Type” new proposed IE in S1-‐c
- The MME performs SGW and PGW selec'on func'ons
- APNs which determine the Gi-‐LAN VAS applied to subscribers
- Policy-‐based subscriber steering which allows subscribers within an APN to receive differen'ated VAS
PLMN
SGW
DCN
PGW Internet APN
PGW IoT APN
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
MBB VAS #2 (Video)
MBB VAS #1 (Web Opt)
IMS APN & IMS VAS
Internet
Enterprise
Internet
Internet
Enterprise
Enterprise
Enterprise
MVNO
PLMN Selection (MOCN)
DCN Selection (UE Usage Type)
in DCNsn
APN Selection from MME
PGW Selection in MME
SGW S11-based Selection in MME
GI-LAN selection from PCRF
APN Selection from MME
GI-LAN selection from PCRF
UE Device
Non-3GPP RAN
3GPP RAN
Roaming Partner
IMS
Web
Ent
Video
IMS
Web
Ent
Video
IMS
Web
Ent
Video
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Cisco Ultra Network Slicing
Ultra Legacy
RAT
5G RATs
eLTE
IoT HetNet
Fixed
LTE Core
Legacy Core
BRAS AN
MaaS for Enterprise
MaaS for Company
Internet
IoT LPWA
IoT Connected Car
Information Centric Networking
IMS
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Quantified Benefits
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The Tale of Two Carriers…
Marscom is a new Spanish mobile provider but did not plan ahead when considering which services their network might be used to offer and chose separate packet core solu'ons from various vendors at each stage of growth for their business. Throughout the growth of their business, they too rolled out consumer, enterprise and machine-‐to-‐machine services.
Earthcom is a progressive mobile provider entrant in the Spanish market and chose Cisco’s Ultra Services PlaSorm to support the mul'-‐year roll out of a well planned flexible network architecture capable of suppor'ng consumer, enterprise and machine-‐to-‐machine traffic at the most op'mal total cost-‐of-‐ownership.
Service Component
Service Component
Service Component
Packet Core
VM VM
Central Data Center
VM VM
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A Tale of Two Carriers
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
-‐ Earthcom rolls out an blanket coverage of macro sites in the most densely populated metros
-‐ They centrally locate the Management and Control-‐Plane Func>on of their Cisco USP solu>on in a Madrid data center
-‐ They deploy Distributed User-‐Plane Func>ons in each of the metro areas only backhauling signaling traffic
-‐ Marscom also rolls out an ini>al blanket coverage of macro sites in the most densely populated metros
-‐ Bearer and Control Plane traffic is backhauled from all remote metro areas to the common data center
-‐ They centrally locate their mobile packet core in a Madrid data center
Phase 1 – The Initial Roll-out of Consumer Services
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A Tale of Two Carriers
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
-‐ Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane scaling
-‐ Addi>onal rack servers added at remote loca>ons
-‐ Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane and user plane scaling
-‐ A complete overlay VPN network constructed to interconnect enterprise loca>ons
Phase 2 – Expansion into Enterprise Services
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A Tale of Two Carriers
-‐ Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane scaling
-‐ Addi>onal rack servers added at remote loca>ons
-‐ Addi>onal blades added at central loca>on for control plane and user plane scaling
-‐ Another overlay VPN network constructed to interconnect IoT customer loca>ons
Phase 3 – Overlaying an IoT Network
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
Cádiz
Gibraltar
Málaga Almería
Cartagena
Murcia
Valencia
Albacete
Lérida
Linares
Jaén
Córdoba
Sevilla
Mérida
Toledo
Zamora
Burgos
Vitoria León
Barcelona
Cuidad Real
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Conclusion
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Transform into a Mobile Cloud-Service Provider
• SDN-enabled distributed architecture • Telco-grade availability with cloud efficiency
• Network slicing – any way you want to slice it • 5G ready – today
• Reduce TCO – reduce backhaul • Automated service function creation, testing, activation • Win new market opportunities, increase profits • Future architecture today
Cisco® Ultra Services Platform
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5 Gbps Throughput per blade 20M
Sessions per system
2 Tbps System
throughput
Ultra Scale and Performance, Compelling Economics
35% – 53% Overall
TCO savings
30% – 50% Backhaul
TCO savings
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Cisco Ultra: Customer Examples
German SP Mobile Cloud
SK Telecom Customized Services
North American SP Mobile Enterprise Networks
• Centralize control across Europe • Cisco & 3rd party apps
• Multi-vendor • Cross-domain orchestration
Unique benefits Operating efficiencies 5G ready network
Unique benefits Rapid deployment Service scalability
Unique benefits Create custom services rapidly and economically
NFV Infrastructure
• Virtualize all service functions
French Operator On-demand Services • Multi-vendor • Ultra Packet Core
Unique benefit Services on-demand
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
MWC’16 MWC’16
MWC’16
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