Telco OpenStack Use CasesJames Thorne

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Hello!

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Audience OpenStack Familiarity

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Who here is just getting started with OpenStack?

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Who here currently works for a telco?

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Who here currently works for a telco and is just getting started with OpenStack?

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Who here currently works for a telco and is already using OpenStack in some capacity?

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OpenStack Pulse Check

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Enterprises Are Finally Adopting OpenStack

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Reliability

Stability

Upgradeability

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Characteristics of a Telco

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Control

Single Vendor Relationships

Iterate Every ~5 Years

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Control

Single Vendor Relationships

Iterate Every ~5 Years

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Control

Single Vendor Relationships

Iterate Every ~5 Years

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Why Do Telcos Want OpenStack?

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The same reason we all do.

To be a service provider for internal and external customers.

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PNF, VNF, NFV, SR-IOV, DPDK

Physical Network Function

Virtual Network Function

Network Function Virtualization

Single Root I/O Virtualization

Data Plane Development Kit

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NFV (Programmatically define and execute the services that run on

top of those SDN networks) |

VNF (The actual building blocks your NFV infrastructure

manipulates)|

SDN (Programmatically define your networks)

|OpenStack

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Challenges for Telcos Adopting OpenStack

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Reliability, Stability, and Upgradeability

Unwillingness to Contribute to Open Source

The Pace is too Fast

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Reliability, Stability, and Upgradeability

Unwillingness to Contribute to Open Source

The Pace is too Fast

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Reliability, Stability, and Upgradeability

Unwillingness to Contribute to Open Source

The Pace is too Fast

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References

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Supporting Telecom and NFV with the Open Source Ecosystem

John Zannos and Tobias Ford presented this at the Paris OpenStack Summit

https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/session-videos/presentation/supporting-telecom-and-nfv-with-the-open-source-ecosystem

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NFV and Telco Solutions on OpenStack

Maarten Ectors and crew presented this at the Paris OpenStack Summit

https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/session-videos/presentation/nfv-and-telco-solutions-on-openstack-canonical

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What is SR-IOV?

Scott Lowe

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/12/02/what-is-sr-iov/

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NFV, VNF, and Deterministic Architecture: What Does It Mean?

Nick Chase

https://www.mirantis.com/openstack-portal/external-news/nfv-vnf-and-deterministic-architecture-what-does-it-mean/

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One last question…

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For those of you currently working for a telco, are there any use cases you are using OpenStack for today that I did not

talk about?

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Q&A

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Thank You!

I’m jthorne on Freenode.

I’m jameswthorne on Twitter.

I blog at thornelabs.net.