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Oracle Communications

Network Service Orchestration

Solution

K E Y F E A T U R E S

• Visual design of network services and rapid on-boarding with network service and VNF templates

• Carrier-grade, dynamic service and resource orchestration engine for complex scenarios

• Automated creation of network forwarding paths for service chaining

• Hybrid virtualized & physical device support

• Open RESTful API for integration with BSS/OSS, analytics and policy engines, self-service portals, etc.

• Extensible plug-in cartridges for multi-

vendor VNF Managers, VNFs, EMSs, VIMs and SDN Controllers.

• Part of Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework for automated lifecycle transitions

• Federated design approach aligned to

industry standards across OSS and NFV orchestration Pre-integrated with Oracle Communications OSS and NFV solutions

K E Y B E N E F I T S

• Rapidly launch revenue-generating

NFV-based services with extensible, product-based approach

• Increase market agility with built-in templates and metadata-driven design-time methodology

• Differentiate services with rapid

integration of multivendor NFV

Rapidly deploy and scale NFV-enabled services or simplify and automate core

networks transitioning to NFV with the Oracle Communications Network

Service Orchestration (NSO) solution. Using the solution’s feature-rich,

extensible and product-based approach, Communications Service Providers

(CSPs) can rapidly design and automate the lifecycle management – including

deploy, scale, heal and terminate – of evolving network services in complex

virtual and physical networks.

NFV Challenges

CSPs are looking to quickly deploy and generate new revenues. Some CSPs are first

focused on evolving their offers with NFV-based services such as vCPE, vFirewall and

vHG, while others are targeting the transformation of their core network infrastructure to

Cloud technology. As CSPs begin to transform, they are reporting these challenges:

Service-specific solutions with limited abstractions and flexibility

Poor integration to upstream management systems

Immature and evolving VNFs

Inability to orchestrate across hybrid networks

support growing multi-vendor complexity

Solution Overview

The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution fully integrates with

existing Business and Operational Support Systems (BSS/OSS), other end-to-end

orchestrators and/or service portals empowering Enterprise customers to manage their

services (physical and virtual equally).

Figure 1. Oracle Communication Network Service Orchestration Solution (NSO)

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capabilities with proven API Integration Framework

• Automate core network with carrier-

grade orchestration engine supporting complex scenarios

• Offer on-demand services through network auto-scaling with flexible integration to existing or new assurance, analytics and policy tools

• Confidently guarantee SLAs through network service auto-healing supporting diverse scenarios Reduce

NFV complexity and provide consistency with flexible modeling of varying level of intelligence in the network

• Capitalize on NFV opportunities

quickly with pre-integrated Oracle OSS and NFV solutions (e.g. vIMS, vOCS)

It orchestrates, automates and optimizes the lifecycle of any network services and VNFs

along with their required virtual and infrastructure resources through real-time

coordination with Virtual Network Function Managers (VNFM), Element Managers (EMS),

Virtualization Infrastructure Managers (VIMs), and SDN controller thereby turning ETSI’s

NFV MANO functional architecture into a productized, deployable reality.

Network Service Lifecycle Management

The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution uses: 1) a design-

time environment to design, define and program the capabilities which are “developed”

once and “used” many times and 2) a run-time execution environment to execute the logic

programmed in the design environment for uniform delivery and lifecycle management.

Figure 2. NSO Solution Lifecycle Flows

During the Design Time framework, one of the solution’s key differentiators is its flexibility

to model in a structured approach Network Services, VNFs, associated virtual and

infrastructure resources, configuration requirements, thresholds, lifecycle actions,

policies, etc. This onboarding process-driven approach comes with full lifecycle

management and versioning.

VNF vendor / system designer info Captured in the NSO catalog

Lifecycle actions and parameters

– Parameters and validation for lifecycle requests

Business Interaction model

– What is to be entered via portal / API call

Structural details

– VDUs and their resource requirements – VNF Topology (internal & external

connectivity)

Service and Service Configuration model

– Each VDU is listed in the service configuration. Specify flavor (e.g. small/medium), number of instances

– Each link is listed in the configuration

Dynamic model

– Design rules – Policies for scaling and healing

(includes KPIs, thresholds, actions)

‘Design and Assign’ and ‘Calculate Technical Actions’ rulesets

– Covers all requirements for lifecycle actions with southbound systems

VIM/ VNFM/ EMS/ SDN controller artefacts: system images, configuration files, HEAT/vApp templates

Adapted configuration files, Heat/ vApp templates

Table 1. Example of VNF details captured in the NSO solution catalog for on-boarding.

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R E L A T E D P R O D U C T S

Supports intelligent network service

orchestration integrated into key

operational processes:

• Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator

• Oracle Communications Rapid Service Design and Order Delivery

• Oracle Communications Network Resource Management

During run-time execution, the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration

solution enables service providers to:

Instantiate and configure network services and their constituent, interconnected VNFs

including all required resources.

Manage network services/VNFs scaling, healing and termination. This can include the

specification of customer network traffic flows (“network forwarding paths”) using the

SDN Controller as part of the orchestration of the end-to-end service, or during load-

balancing for example after a scaling action. The run-time function executes the on-

boarded lifecycle actions automatically or via manual steps. The graphic below shows

how additional gaming server VMs can be added to support the processing load for a

gaming network service.

Figure 3. On-demand elastic scaling example for a gaming network service.

Lifecycle rules and logic (i.e. which action to take) are monitored and triggered by:

existing OSS assurance solutions, open source solutions (e.g. Ceilometer) or

advanced policy and analytics solutions. When an action is received, the solution

automatically reconfigures the network to enable closed-loop and elastic scaling of the

network service.

Integrate with complementary components within a broader solution footprint using

RESTful APIs (Web Services) for automated operation.

Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework

The Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework is an industry-defining approach to NFV

that orchestrates services, applications and network elements with guidance from policy

management and insights from real-time analytics with a flexible Oracle or third party mix

and match approach.

The framework gathers and analyzes network performance information, evaluates the

network’s operation against predefined policies and business rules, and automatically

triggers the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution to

appropriately modify the behavior of services, network functions, and virtualized

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infrastructure – in a closed loop manner.

Figure 2. The NSO Solution within the Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework

Rapid Path to NFV

The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution helps CSPs

accelerate their evolution to NFV in multiple ways:

Seamless extension of Oracle OSS solution to support the rapid introduction of virtual

network functions alongside physical network functions and the zero-touch fulfillment of

end customer services on the hybrid infrastructure. The NSO solution is pre-integrated

through a common design-time framework and information model aligned to the TM

Forum SID.

When combined with the pre-integrated Oracle Application Orchestrator (VNFM) and

Oracle VNFs, the overall solution can be deployed faster and automate complex core

vIMS (VoLTE, VoWiFi) network scenarios

As part of the hybrid or virtualized multi-vendor NFV solution (VNFs, EMSs, VNFMs),

the NSO solution orchestrates the end-to-end network domain with an open integration

framework for any third party tool, including assurance, policy and analytics or

upstream OSS

C O N T A C T U S

For more information about Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution, please

contact us at comms-oss_ww@oracle.com.

C O N N E C T W I T H U S

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