The critical role of NFV orchestration for SD-WAN services

SD-WAN

orchestrated

by Amdocs

What is software-defined

wide area network?

SD-WAN determines the most

cost-effective and efficient way

to route enterprise traffic

to remote locations over

ubiquitous broadband

and traditional IP/MPLS

MPLSdedicated connectivity

Expensive

Internet

Connectivity SD-WAN

High

performance

3 months

Cost efficient

Quality not

guaranteed

1 week

Reduced cost

per Mbps

High performance

through traffic

offload & MPLS

Fast deployment

through broadband

and automation

best-efforts internet

Say $300-600/Mbps per month

Say $2-15/Mbps per month

Combines the best of MPLS and Broadband

SD-WAN fundamentally changes

the economics of enterprise services

Retain & acquire customers Reduce CAPEX

Reduce OPEX Generate new revenues

MPLS

Internet +

Retain & acquire customers

MPLS

Internet+

Flexibility through

Hybrid Network &

SD-WAN

Retain customer,

eliminate risk of lost

revenue

Reduce CAPEX

Commodity

hardware

Move to low cost,

white box

appliances

Reduce OPEX

Zero-touch provisioning

& software agility

Instant deployment

Self-service

Elimination

of truck rolls

Generate new revenues

Security and apps

Revenue upside

potential per

customer

OPERATE

What is needed?Amdocs service lifecycle management for SD-WAN

ORCHESTRATEDESIGN

OFFLINE

DESIGN

ONBOARDING

CONTINUOUS

REAL-TIME

ORCHESTRATIONANALYTICS-DRIVEN

REAL-TIME

SMART

OPERATIONANALYTICS-DRIVEN

DESIGN

TIMERUN TIME

PRODUCT

CATALOG

SD-WAN

SELF-SERVICE/ORDERING

BSS - MONETIZATION

HYBRID

BIG DATA &

ANALYTICS

Why NFV Orchestration for SD-WAN

Manage end-to-end service

lifecycle - introduction,

fulfilment and operations

Closed-loop operations -

for hybrid (physical/virtual)

network

Multi-domain, multi-vendor

orchestration – SDN/SD-WAN

controllers from any vendor

New York

Reading

Leeds

London HQ

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

INTERNET

Role of NFV Orchestrator vs SDN Controllers

SDNL 1-3

NFVL 4 -7

NFV Orchestration

VNF VNF VNF VNF VNF

SDN-Controller

SD-WAN

Service chaining of applications e.g. vRouter, vFW, anti-DDOS, etc.

Scenario

First Interglobal Bank, a large banking

corporation headquartered in the UK,

is rolling out a new branch in the US.

Customer Need:

New branch connected

… fast

Challenge:

3 months to set up

a new IP-VPN

Solution:

SD-WAN on internet-based

connectivity

DATA CENTER

SDN CONTROLLER

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DOMAIN ORCHESTRATION

VNF MANAGER

SECURITY VNFs VIMVNFs

CPEs Traditional uCPE Thin

CUSTOMER SELF-SERVICE PORTAL

CUSTOMER PREMISES DATA CENTER

CPE SDN

CONTROLLER

Existing

physical

CPEs

Customer experience

use cases

2. Proactive

service

management

3. Local

breakout

1. New

branch

connectivity

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1. New branch

connectivity

The bank’s IT Manager orders

a VPN service for a new

branch in New York via the

operator's self-service portal.

He wants rapid deployment

of a secure service and

high performance.

1. New branch

connectivity

New site is connected over

ubiquitous broadband in 1 week

New York

Reading

Leeds

London HQ

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal

IP/MPLS connectivityInternet connectivityFall-back line

INTERNET

NFV Orchestration

Benefits

Rapid new branch connection –

1 week vs 3 months

Reduced complexity through zero

touch provisioning

Multi-technology, multi-vendor

orchestration

Self service portal for ease of

ordering


2. Proactive

service

management

2. Proactive

service

management

Proactive service management

drives offload and capacity

upgrade

Analytics-driven capacity upgrade

ensures optimized use of MPLS vs.

internet-based connectivity to

maintain Quality of Service and

Service Level Agreements

Overload causes SD-WAN controller to

offload traffic to the internet-based link

New York

Reading

Leeds

London

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

HQ

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal


INTERNET

NFV Orchestration

NFV orchestrator increases MPLS

bandwidth to avoid frequent offload;

internet link reverts to fall-back

New York

Reading

Leeds

London

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

HQ

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal


INTERNET

NFV Orchestration

Benefits

Automated, analytics-driven

capacity management

SD-WAN automatically selects

optimum path over MPLS and

internet-based underlay networks

Analytics-driven continuous fulfilment maintains QoS and SLAs

Proactive, customer-centric policy updates

and remediation


3. Local

breakout

3. Local

breakout

Local breakout to resolve congestion

Heavy internet usage at the Leeds branch

causes congestion on MPLS link, triggering

a threshold alert.

The NFV orchestrator automatically

redesigns and re-fulfills the service to

enable internet connectivity directly from the branch.

Congestion on Leeds MPLS link

due to high internet usage

New York

Reading

Leeds

London

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

HQ

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal


INTERNET

NFV Orchestration

NFV orchestrator instantiates direct, secure

connection to the internet from the branch

New York

Reading

Leeds

London

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

HQ

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal


INTERNET

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NFV Orchestration

Benefits

Internet congestion at branch

resolved by local internet

connectivity breakout

Local breakout solves congestion with internet connectivity direct from the branch

site

The NFV orchestrator provides automated

remediation

Frees space on MPLS connection and

optimizes use of bandwidth.

Amdocs NFV for

SD-WAN delivers:

Simple zero-touch

order to bill

Service acceleration

as a reality

Multi-technology,

multi-vendor value

Proactive customer

experience management

Servers

Amdocs supports SDN/SD-WAN controllers

and VNFs from any vendor

New York

Reading

Leeds

London

DATA CENTER

IP/MPLS

HQ

CPE GW

DCGW

PE

PE

Self-Service Portal


INTERNET

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Firewall

WAN optimization

BSS

NFV Orchestration

Amdocs’ unique value proposition

Holistic approach to NFV & SDN

Design, deliver, operate

Open & Vendor Agnostic

Open platforms, partner ecosystem

End-to-end Service Orchestration

Managing the entire service lifecycle

Hybrid Network Support

Safe NFV adoption into existing operations

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