telco open stack use cases james thorne
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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.