Carrier Grade OCP: Open Solutions for Telecom Data Centers

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Carrier Grade OCPOpen Solutions for Telecom Data CentersOctober 2016

Copyright © 2016 Radisys Corporation – All rights reserved.

Karl Wale

PLM DCEngine, Radisys

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Problem to be Solved

• Accelerate time to revenue = agile, software-centric service delivery infrastructure

• Increase rate of data center transformation, CSPs require proven data center

platforms deployable in the central office:

• High density, scalable solutions

• Carrier-grade open hardware

• Rapid deployment and integration of open source and commercial software components

• Scalable software-based services and applications.

• Need a “Domain 2.0” Infrastructure

• Platform designed for rapid installation in data center environments customized to specific application needs

• Pre-integrated platform and management software, reducing application development and deployment risk

• Telecom application software, services and network operation frameworks and tools, to help operators deploy

agile, DevOps service development and delivery capabilities


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DevOps & OCP : An Open Source Platform

+ =Telecom

OCP Rack

Software and Services

Commercial & Open Source

Software

DevOps ready +

Test

Automation

Deploy &

Upgrade

Rack

Management

Scripting

Tools

Inventory &

Lifecycle Mgmt

Management &

Automation Tools

Patch

Automation

For example, …

And others available upon request.

CORD

Package

R/


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How Long To Deploy ? Weeks…1 Month…More ?

- Schedule contractors

- …Receive components

- …Schedule different contractors

- …Build rack

- …Schedule different contractors

- ….Install & test

…all gated around scheduled maintenance windows


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How Do You Achieve 3-4 day Install ?

Slide in sleds

…fast install

…easy serviceability

Telco OCP Derived PlatformsPre-wired & tested rack core, sleds are FRUs with

fully optical interconnect to ToR switches

Plug in Power

Connect to Spine


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How Fast Can You Roll Out With OCP & DevOps Approach ?

Racks in Your Cloud in Days

If pre-load and test

software …

Even less time.

Fast Time To Revenue

Maintenance & Repair Services

30 Rack Integration ~ 1 week

Day 1

• Commissioning

• Unpacking

• Installation

• Packing disposal

Day 2-3

• Spine/Network

• Cabling

• Connectivity

• POD Power-on

Day 4

• Software Validation

• Network access

• Cluster Ready and handed over to you


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Proof Point: DCEngine in Production at Verizon

http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/7a/Mesoscon_2016_cneth.pdf

Modular Sled Architecture

Up to 152 Xeon Processors Up to 3.0 PB Storage


http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/7a/Mesoscon_2016_cneth.pdf

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Carrier Grade OCP Derived Platform

• Leverage Open Compute and Open Rack as a base model

• …true to OCP principles, rather than re-packaged chassis & blades

• Update and tune for telecom-oriented CO’s data centers practices

• Don’t constrain

• Rigid backwards compatibility not a hard requirement

• Easy adaptation of existing COTS elements (OCP-contributed and others)

• Agile-style approach to deployable system instantiations & iterate quickly

• Collaborate tightly with customers all along the way

• Work closely with interested partners

• Create something useful, share, evolve, and expand


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Anatomy of Carrier Grade OCP

• Physical

• Suitable for CO retrofit and new telco data center environments

• 19” rack width and standard “RU” spacing for greatest flexibility

• 1000 to 1200mm cabinet depth, supporting GR-3160 floor spacing dimensions

• Content/workload

• Heterogeneous compute and storage servers

• Management

• Ethernet based OOB management network connecting all nodes via a TOR management switch

• Optional rack level platform manager

• Networking/Interconnect

• One or more Ethernet TOR networking switches for I/O aggregation to nodes

• Fiber cables, blind-mate with flexible interconnect mapping.

• Environment, power seismic & acoustic CO environmental requirements applicable

• Safety and other certification standards also applicable

• NEBS optional (L1/L3)


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CG-Openrack-19 : Sharing Back to the Community

• Submitted to OCP community as CG-Openrack-19

• Specifications readily available

• Radisys DCEngine shipping as a commercially available solution

• Supplier eco-system developing, with first units in the lab now


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Our Vision of CG-Openrack-19

Half wide sled

Full wide sled

Optical interconnect from

ToR sleds, minimizing

latency, electrical

noise/emissions &

maximizing reliability

10G, nx10G, 25G & nx25G

Eco-system of vendors delivering racks & sleds

…with new partners releasing their products soon


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Sled Design

Figure 2. Sled Vertical Height (front view)

Figure 3. Sled Horizontal Depth (side view)

Figure 9. Half-width sled horizontal width (front view)

Figure 11. Full-width sled horizontal width (front view)

Figure 7. Sled optical connector

vertical position (rear view)

Figure 21. Sled Operator Panel

Art and Dimensions


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Optical Interconnect

Figure 26. Sled blind-mate

section assignments (rear view)

Figure 27. Example Data Plane and Management Plane Architecture

10Gb

40Gb

40Gb40Gb

40Gb

10Gb

10Gb 10Gb 1Gb1Gb

1Gb1Gb

10Gb

10Gb10Gb10Gb40Gb

40Gb

40Gb

40Gb

SecondaryData-plane

Net

DeviceManagement

NetApplication

ManagementNet

PrimaryData-plane

Net

ComputeSleds

StorageSleds

Figure 28. Network connection to sleds

Switch 4Switch 3Switch 2Switch 1

Sled 1Bay 1

Server Group

Sled 2Bay 2

Server Group

Sled nBay n

Server Group

Figure 29. Sled Blind-Mate Optical Connections, Front View

2U Compute Sled 2U Compute Sled

2U Compute Sled 2U Compute Sled

2U Storage Sled

2U Storage Sled


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Carrier Grade OCP

• Enabling CSPs to accelerate the transition towards domain 2.0

• Simplify & streamline data centers & applications

• Multi-vendor eco-system using specifications shared with OCP community

• Thank-you…


Thank You

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