V irtualised N etwork F unctions

SI & Validation program Aachen

Andreas KemperSolution Architect

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› Why?

– Motivation & Drivers

– Certification vs. Validation

› What?

– Coverage & Scoping

– Vertical vs. Horizontal

› How?

– From VNF to E2E

› Outcome

› Standardization ???

VNF Validation @ EDD

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EXTENSIVE PORTFOLIOOF VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS

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vCPE

MVNO

Enterprise

Communication

Distributed

Mobile

Broadband

vEPG

vMME

vSGSN

vSAPC

vSASN

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vSBG

vMTAS

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Virtual

UDM

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Vertical SI

separate activity

Certificationincl. Assurance

(Vertical)

100%Test Coverage

VNF

ECEE

E///-Partner

Hardware

100%Guaranteed

and repeatable

VNF

3PP

Cloud System

VNF TaaS

Use case 1

ECEE

ECEE Certified 3PP

HW or Ericsson HW

VNF TaaS

Use case 2

Native solution

100%Test Coverage

Application

Hardware

100%Guaranteed

and repeatable

VNF TaaS

VNF

3PP Cloud Certified

3PP HW

Validationincl. Assurance

(Vertical)

100%Test Coverage

VNF

VMware

Partner

Hardware

100% Functionalities

guaranteed

VMware

VMWare Certified 3PP

HW

VNF TaaS

Use case 3

VNF

Certification vs. validation

Scenarios not addressed in product roadmap

100% Functionalities

guaranteed

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COMPLETE NFV PORTFOLIO

Cloud Infra-

structure

Network Functions

Network Service

Management

PNFs

VIM & SDNc

NFVI

NFVI Manager

VNFM

NFV-O

VNFM-G

VNFs

Network Manager & Dynamic Service Manager

3PP Vendor

Cloud SDNCEE VIM

HDS

CCMS

Cloud Manager

3PP Vendor

3PP Vendor 3PP Vendor BSP

Adaptive Inventory Order Care Catalog Manager

OSS

BSSMulti Activation

Virtual

NW Function

3PP Vendor

Core Nodes

Experience

PaaS

Apcera

Platform

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Fundamental VNF SI &

Validation Service PackageCategories

› Instantiation

› IP & Networking

› Functional

› Recovery

› Basic Security (login and OS Hardening)

TaaS Service Packages

Performance Assessment

Service Package

(optional)Categories:

› Characteristics (capacity and KPIs)

› Redundancy (interface redundancy and

system functions)

› Robustness (interface robustness and

platform robustness)

› Stability (traffic and overload)

O&M Service Package

(optional)

Categories

› Operational & Maintenance

(Configuration-, Fault and Performance

Management, Health Checks )

› Maintainability

(Backup & Restore, Cloud Resource audit)

Charging Service Package

(optional)

Categories

› Online charging

› Offline charging

Testing and fixing issues in (2-) 3 SW drops

Process in place today in Aachen.

Testing and no commitment to fix issues.

(only if the issue is replicable in the

certified solution – SW fault)

Security Audit Service Package

(optional)Categories:

› NVFI Hardening

› VIM Hardening

› …

Life Cycle Management

(optional)Categories

› VNF updates, Correction Packages, EPs

› NVF-Infrastructure upgrades

› VIM updates or even SWAPs

› EM, VNF-M, NFV-O updates

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TOL – Test Objective listContains following groups of test cases

1.) Selected functional use cases that proof that all inter-VNF communication works as expected and

according to ETSI & 3GPP standards (this includes indirectly inter VM communication of a VNF)

2.) Typical cloud use cases, as deployment, decommissioning, scaling, back-up, …

which includes also most of previously mentioned mandatory vSphere test cases

3.) Robustness and resilience use cases, e.g. link break, switch failure, etc.

New

4.) Merged with selected network setup test cases from vIMS

5.) Merged with selected network setup test cases from vEPC

6.) “Advanced” cloud test cases as e.g. additional mandatory +

optional test cases from VMware Ready for NVF certification

What will be next?

7.) Alignment and addition of test cases started.

Consolidation co-driven with INTEL of work done within

Yardstick, FuncTest, Pharos, … testing / certification projects

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TOL example

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vIMS Core

vMSS Core

TSTM

RADIO

vEPC Core

TSTM

IMS

TSTM

VoLTE

End2end ViRus TOOLCustomer traffic

profile

Customer traffic

profile

Customer traffic

profile

Performance measurements

Dimensioning & collocation

Virtualised voLTE e2e Testing

End2end virtual core

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› Week 1: High Level Design (HLD)

– Confirm VNFs in focus / to start with

– Dimensioning of cloud infrastructure

› Weeks 2-5: Low Level Design (LLD)

– Ordering & build of E-Block hardware + site surveys

– Start in parallel with Low Level Design (LLD)

› Weeks 6-7: Site Activities / OVF Preparation

– Delivery & integration E-Block into data center

– Prepare customized VNFs according to LLD

› Weeks 8-9: Configuration & Integration

– Prepare virtualized networking & deploy VNFs

– Integrate & configure VNFs in VoLTE network

Way of working

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Q&A

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ETSI NFV-MANO architecture