T-NOVA: Network Functions As-a-Service Over Virtualized Infrastructures. George Xilouris T-NOVA Technical Coordinator

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1 T-NOVA: Network Functions As-a-Service Over Virtualized Infrastructures George Xilouris T-NOVA Technical Coordinator

2 T-NOVA Facts ICT Call 11 (FP7-ICT ) Objective ICT : Future Networks Project Coordinator: Dr. Anastasios Kourtis (NCSRD) Duration: 36 Months Starting Date: Budget: 10,027,115 EU contribution : 6,743,000 Total PM : 1,035.5 Consortium comprises of 18 partners expansion pending (NTT) 2

3 T-NOVA Consortium 3

4 T-NOVA Vision Building on top of the emerging concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), T-NOVA promotes the NFV concept and introduces a novel enabling framework allowing operators not only to deploy virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) for their own needs but also to offer them to their customers, as valueadded services. 4

5 T-NOVA aims to Design and implement an integrated management architecture, including an Orchestrator platform, for the automated provision, management, monitoring and optimization of Virtualised Network Functions over Network/IT infrastructures Leverage and enhance state-of-the art cloud computing management frameworks for the elastic provision and (re-) allocation of IT resources assigned to the hosting of network functions Exploit and extend Software Defined Networking aspects, focusing on the Openflow technology, for efficient management of network resources, including network slicing, traffic redirection and QoS provision. 17/03/2014 5

6 T-NOVA Overall Architecture Implement all the functionalities of a complete NFVI, as envisaged by ETSI Introduces an innovative Network Function Store, following the paradigm of already successful OS-specific App Stores Establishes a Novel Brokerage Platform, allowing customers to transact with the T-NOVA Service Provider and multiple third-party Function Developers introduces and promotes a novel Marketplace for VNF s, introducing new business cases and considerably expanding market opportunities by attracting new entrants to the networking market 6

7 T-NOVA main areas of innovation (1) T-NOVA Orchestrator Implementation of a federated management of Network and Cloud resources for VNF accommodation. Resource Mapping for VNF deployment VNF Lifecycle management configuration, deployment, operation VNF Monitoring and Optimization Service Chaining Infrastructure Virtualization and Management Resource virtualization, focusing on the workload characterization, the investigation of enhancements and optimizations required for supporting the VNF operation in a performing manner 7

8 T-NOVA main areas of innovation (2) SDN Control Plane Implementation of a novel OpenFlow based SDN Control Plane, for network management, slicing and QoS provisioning, accompanied by an SDK for SDN control applications development. Resources Abstraction Control Plane Virtualization T-NOVA Function Store Establishment of a common, multi-actor Repository for VNF publication and exchange ( Function Store ) Realization of a Marketplace for NFV Implementation of a set of open tools for the realization of an NFV Marketplace within the T-NOVA architecture offering discovery, trading, configuration, monitoring and billing. 8

9 Demonstration and Evaluation For demonstration and evaluation purposes as well as NF behavior assessment the following VNFs are considered A virtual Session Border Controller (mostly tailored to corporate VPNs and telephony providers) A virtual Security Appliance (mostly tailored to enterprise services/corporate VPNs) A virtual Application Classifier (for enterprise services and also for operator internal use) A virtual media-oriented Home-Box (multimedia home gateway) 9

10 Thank you! Questions 10