Why NFV Orchestration is critical for SD-WAN services

Ofer Farkash

Product Marketing Manager, Amdocs Open Network

March 2018

How can NFV enable CSPs to differentiate their SD-WAN offering?

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Can communications service providers turn the SD-WAN threat into an opportunity?

DYI / WAN Vendors Service Providers’ Differentiators

Service Provides need to offer differentiated SD-WAN solutionbundled with value-add services

Guaranteed SLA and

Mng Service

SD-WANwith MPLS

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Price Flexibility Time to Deliver

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Why NFV Orchestration?

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VNF

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Management

Automation vs.

Orchestration

BSS/OSS/CRM Integration

Hybrid E2E Service Deployment

Multi Cross Layer Service Orchestration

Self-Healing

Multi vendor VNFs Chaining

VNF-M vs. NFVOVNFM: Virtual Network Function Manager

NFV-O: Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator

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physical

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Why NFV

Orchestration for

SD-WAN?

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Multi-domain, multi-vendor orchestration – SDN/SD-WAN controllers & VNFs from any vendor

Link hybrid SD-WAN with MPLS IP-VPN for end-to-end services

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OPERATEORCHESTRATEDESIGN

Key enabler for a differentiated SD-WAN solution

OFFLINE DESIGN

ONBOARDING

CONTINUOUS REAL-TIME

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OPERATIONANALYTICS-DRIVEN

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IN LAB

REAL-TIME

IN

PRODUCTION

SELF-SERVICE / ORDERING

BSS - MONETIZATION

Enriched SD-WAN - Service Lifecycle Management

SD-WAN

HYBRID CLOUD

PRODUCT CATALOG

BIG DATA & ANALYTICS

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Differentiation is key Service providers need to leverage their uniqueness - providingSD-WAN as carrier grade hybrid solution bundled with VAS services

Existing systems and processes must evolve Service fulfilment, inventory, assurance and serviceoperations must evolve to meet SD-WAN and other NGN services requirements, agility and TTM

Service lifecycle management is keyManagement and Orchestration plays a crucial role for adding services connecting to exiting systems and analytics

Summary and Key Takeaways

Thank you