MEF. Cloud Africa Summit. Carrier Ethernet Delivery of Cloud Services. Gary Williams. Head of Pre-Sales Engineering. Metrofibre

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1 MEF Africa Summit Carrier Ethernet Delivery of Services Gary Williams Head of Pre-Sales Engineering Metrofibre South Africa Marketing CO-Chair MEF 1

2 Developing, Marketing and Certifying Standards for Carrier Ethernet 200+ Member Companies Service Providers 11 New Specifications in 2012 Standards Education Compliance 2

3 MEF Defined Carrier Ethernet The MEF has defined Carrier Ethernet as A ubiquitous, standardized, carrier-class Service and Network defined by five attributes that distinguish it from familiar LAN based Ethernet 3

4 Carrier Ethernet and the : MEF Focus Areas Today s Carrier Ethernet Solutions Service Provider(s) Data Center Interconnectivity Ethernet Carrier(s) Service Provider(s) Consumer to Service Provider Ethernet Carrier(s) Consumers New work augments MEF service definitions to better address on-demand, elastic requirements of services 44

5 Enterprise Service delivery Challenges Today, Internet is predominant WAN to deliver cloud services Surprising, little attention paid to it by the Community Larger Enterprises hesitant to move mission-critical applications to the cloud when delivered via the Internet Enterprise Consumers Internet Service Providers Service Delivery Challenges over the Internet Security Vulnerabilities Performance Data Governance & Regulatory Compliance The WAN is critical for cloud service performance (SLAs) 55

6 Service Delivery via Carrier Ethernet WANs Addresses Internet challenges for mission critical apps. Using Carrier Ethernet to connect to private cloud providers Generates additional telecoms provider revenue Private cloud services and Ethernet services with SLAs Public Services Internet Service Delivery via Carrier Ethernet Secure Predictable Performance Control of Data Governance and Regulatory Compliance On-Net Private Services Ethernet Service Provider Enterprise Consumers 66

7 Value to the Ecosystem Enterprise Consumer Puts Enterprise IT department in control Meets Enterprise requirements for high performance, secure and controlled access to mission critical cloud applications Providers Enables new business opportunity for Private applications Ability to better differentiate cloud service offerings Access to tens of millions of Ethernet Service Locations and business users served by Carrier Ethernet Carriers Ethernet Carriers Enables telecoms providers to deliver mission-critical based services Telecoms providers are in a good position to offer such services Have well-established trust relationships with their enterprise subscribers 77

8 Private Single organization Public Shared IaaS Infrastructure as a Service MEF SaaS Software as a Services Definitions and Terminology Hybrid Private/Public PaaS Platform as a Service Community Shares Infrastructure

9 MEF Augmentation of NIST Definitions NIST Actor MEF Augmented Definition Ethernet Carrier The intermediary that provides Carrier Ethernet connectivity and transport of cloud services from Service Providers and Consumers and with other Ethernet Carriers. Broker An entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between Service Providers, Consumers and Ethernet Carriers National Institute of Standards and Technology 6

10 Ethernet Carrier acting as a Broker Consumer Broker Ethernet Carrier acting as Broker Service Provider(s) wholesale services to Ethernet Carrier Business relationship between Ethernet Carrier and Consumer Ethernet Carrier wholesales cloud services from Service Providers In telecoms industry, this Broker analogous to telecom service provider delivering Internet access services Telecom SP provides network connectivity to customer premises Telecom SP provides Internet access service like an ISP 1010

11 MEF E-Line (EVPL) Use Case (Point-to-Point) Private, Community or Hybrid WAN Solution Hub UNI at Service Provider Primary Data Center Aggregates all EVPL EVCs from Consumers Able to add additional Consumers on same hub UNI Secondary data center reached through DC-to-DC EVPL EVC Internet Consumer A UNI UNI Ethernet Carrier EVPL EVCs UNI Hub UNI Service Provider Primary Data Center Consumer B Consumer C UNI UNI UNI Service Provider Secondary Data Center 1111

12 MEF Attributes being Evaluated to Better Support Applications Elastic Ethernet Service Attributes On-demand change of EVC or UNI attributes for a specific time period Once time period ends, revert back to their prior state Investigating on-demand and reservation models Example Elastic Attributes Increase CIR of existing EVC Add a new EVC over an existing path Modify CoS of existing EVC Add or Remove UNI endpoints in an EVP-LAN, EVP-Tree or Hub & Spoke EVPL service On-demand bandwidth approaches Based on bandwidth usage (X MBytes/month) Based on CIR and/or EIR (200 Mbps CIR and 400 Mbps EIR) Network//Subscriber Management Orchestration End-to-End service management and SLAs 1414

13 Management Orchestration Workflow Customer Portal Service Orchestration Service Provider Management System Add VMs and Storage Service Attribute Correlation Ethernet Carrier Management System Add WAN BW, CoS, EVC, etc. Service Provider Ethernet Carrier Consumer Orchestration among the different management systems to create consistent Quality of Experience and better SLAs for Consumers 1515

14 New MEF White Paper February 2012 Educational Tool to Socialize Carrier Ethernet and Framework for discussions and upcoming MEF Interactive Workshops Introduces Concepts and Terms for Telecoms Service Providers Introduces Carrier Ethernet Concepts and Terms for Service Providers Provides User Cases of MEF Standardized Services for Delivery of Services Published February

15 and MEF Summary is driving change in the telecoms landscape Carrier Ethernet has a key role to play in Expanding the market for cloud service delivery Upgrading delivery of mission critical cloud applications to business-class 17