Open Source, Open Standards & Open Vendors Dr. Eyal Felstaine Amdocs CTO ONS, April 2017
Open Source, Open Standards & Open Vendors
Dr. Eyal Felstaine Amdocs CTO
ONS, April 2017
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Service Development life cycle
Self Service Portal
NFV-O
Network Instance view
Distribution 5
\
Packaging 4 Testing 3
2 Design Onboarding 1
READY
Debug and re-design
Policies / Workflow
EP EP
VNF
VNF
VNF
EP EP
VNF
VNF
VNF
Policies / Workflow
ISSUE
VNF VNF VNF VNF
Endpoint Endpoint
Policies Workflow
VNF VNF
VNF Endpoint Endpoint
Policies Workflow
VNF
VNF
VNF
Operations 6
ISSUE
Debug and re-design
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Operator’s hurdle to introduce new service
Service design
VNF testing: automation
script in sand box
Get VNF Package
VNF Certification
Lab
VNF modification
and enrichment
VNF distribution to
catalog
Service approval process
Start
Running service E2E in
sand box
Service distribution to
catalog
Eng
ine
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End?
Op
era
tions
Performance Monitoring
Service Provisioning
Network Configuration
Ongoing Updates/ Upgrades
Maintenance troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting NFV issue
Closed Source solution
Massively deployed open source
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Troubleshooting an NFV issue
VNF vendor CSP in production Closed source $ Orchestrator $ 1. Automation script
doesn’t run 2. Operations notify
engineering 3. Engineering notify
VNF vendor tech support
4. Tech support discusses with product manager
5. VNF product manager discusses with orchestrator product manager
6. Development starts on both sides
7. Testing 8. F2F meeting to
triangulate the issue
Operations
Engineering
ERROR
2
1 Product management
Development
Testing
Tech support
5
88
6
7
Product management
Development
Testing
Tech support
6
7
4
3
5
8
– Closed sources
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VNF vendor CSP in production Open Source Orchestrator
1. Automation script doesn’t run
2. Due to automation script problem Operations notify engineering
3. Engineering notify VNF vendor tech support
4. VNF vendor contributes code in order to fix the problem
Operations ERROR
2
1
3
44
Engineering
Troubleshooting an NFV issue – with open source
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Troubleshooting an NFV issue
Closed source solution
Massively deployed open source
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Amdocs CTO
Closed source $ Orchestrator $
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