Solution brief vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers

Executive Overview Intel is accelerating network function virtualizations with unique capabilities that enable optimal use of data center technologies. These technologies will enable communications service providers (CSPs) to deliver competitive customer premises equipment (CPE) services. Virtual customer premises equipment provides the CSP the ability to quickly deliver managed services using different virtualized network functions in addition to decreasing time to market for new and enhanced services. More than ever, traditional operators must keep pace in a world where application developers bring to market new services and capabilities through the network that take the CSPs years to produce within the network. To remain relevant, retain users, and grow revenues, CSPs need the ability to launch new capabilities more rapidly, and many are looking to virtualized networks to enable this speed and agility. Many system integrators, software vendors, and platform providers rely on Intel® technologies to deliver the performance and scalability required for virtualized enterprise CPE or (vE-CPE) solutions. Using vE-CPE solutions based on Intel technologies, CSPs can offer a full range of services without having to use multiple purpose-built systems. This document details the vE-CPE functions, the required technologies, and Intel’s role in the ecosystem to migrate toward realizing these technologies in CSP production deployments.

Introduction Increasing market pressures, such as goals, some CSPs are rethinking the allow CSPs to deliver a more unique the demand for new and enhanced architecture of customer premises service mix, based on software and services, and the search for more equipment (CPE) that resides on their an open ecosystem, supported by cost-effective solutions are driving customers’ premises and provides the developers and partners. The use of communications service providers platform for delivering connectivity these technologies is transforming (CSPs) to adopt network functions services, security capabilities, and network service delivery, easing service virtualization (NFV). Virtualizing more. Virtual enterprise CPE (vE-CPE) orders and upgrades, and improving services onto standard, off-the-shelf solutions—also known as virtual manageability by enabling on-demand hardware and taking advantage of business CPE (vB-CPE) solutions—can software service delivery through software-defined networking (SDN) can help CSPs accelerate provisioning of customer portals. As a result, CSP increase network flexibility and slash new services, streamline management, revenues grow by accelerating service costs, as well as enable operators to and cut operating expenses. deployment and service upgrade times. quickly launch new revenue-generating For CSPs, the key benefits of virtualized For CSPs, the implementation of a vE- services more efficiently. network functions like vE-CPE are CPE strategy for delivering broadband CSPs are seeking new ways to increase the reduction of capital expenditure and enterprise services represents one agility, improve the manageability (CapEx) and the elimination of of the largest business opportunities of their services and equipment, end-of-life issues with on-premise for positively impacting top-line and reduce costs. To achieve their appliances. These benefits also revenue, reducing expense, and retaining and even growing customers. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 2

Table of Contents IDC forecasts1 that the global managed Market Opportunity network services (MNS) segment NFV provides the potential to deliver Executive Overview ...... 1 will grow from USD 72 billion in virtualized service network functions Introduction ...... 1 2013 to USD 102 billion by 2017, a (firewalls, VPN, load balancers, call CAGR (compound annual growth Market Opportunity...... 2 managers, and so on) to managed rate) of 10 percent. IDC predicts that network service customers much faster Total Cost of Ownership implementing vE-CPE solutions will than was previously possible with Benefits...... 3 enable CSPs to transform and improve physical service functions, where a truck Industry Challenges ...... 5 the cost structure, speed of delivery, roll was required to deploy a new service. and flexibility to offer and support State of the Industry ...... 5 2 new and existing enterprise services A 2015 Infonetics CSP survey found Intel’s Role in Addressing compared with the current business that vE-CPE was the most promising Market Pain Points ...... 6 CPE delivery models. NFV use case for revenue generation, operational efficiency, and CapEx SDN/NFV For vE-CPE Network Two of the largest vE-CPE applications reduction. In these areas, CSP Functions...... 6 today are managed Multiprotocol Label networks have not kept pace with Technology Overview...... 6 Switching (MPLS/IP) VPN enterprise the software-oriented “over-the-top” services and firewall services, which Customer-Premise-Delivered (OTT) infrastructure found in the data together account for over USD 45 Services ...... 7 center. The carrier’s current solutions billion of global MNS revenue. are hardware-based, manual, and rigid, Network- Or Cloud-Delivered Many system integrators, software have costly installs and maintenance, Services ...... 8 vendors, and platform providers rely and are slow to deploy new services. Intel® Technologies and on Intel® technologies to deliver the This legacy, proprietary model stifles Ecosystem Enablers...... 8 performance and scalability required innovation and makes it difficult for the CSP to compete effectively (see Figure 1). Intel’s Chipset And Architecture for vE-CPE solutions. Using vE-CPE Capabilities...... 9 solutions based on Intel technologies, Despite these challenges, the CSP CSPs can offer a full range of services Open Source And Standards . . .10 is ideally positioned to deliver the without having to use multiple greatest return on CPE virtualization. Intel® Open Network Platform purpose-built systems. In a recent ACG Research3 study of Reference Architecture. . . . . 10 This paper describes the technologies managed network CSPs, CSPs had Intel® Network Builders. . . . . 10 required to enable and mature vE-CPE a stronger total cost of ownership Additional Information . . . . . 12 technologies that in turn will enable (TCO) payoff across a wide range of CSP production deployments. decision criteria in comparison to other Related efforts in Intel. . . . .12 providers (see Figure 2). Intel Network Builders. . . . .12

Figure 1. Challenges for communications service provider. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 3

DECISION/CRITERIA EQUIPMENT IT INTEGRATOR CLOUD Total Cost of Ownership Benefits CARRIER PROVIDER VENDOR OR VAR PROVIDER On behalf of Intel Corporation, PA Consulting studied the impact of End-to-End Management deploying vCPEs to small, medium, and large enterprise sites, where the Reliable virtualized network function (VNFs) are hosted in the network cloud or on an Secure onsite vE-CPE server. This was done for Customize/Consulting four developed markets: Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the United Dedicated Support States. Although there is a general consensus in the industry that the Best-of-Breed main driver for vE-CPE implementation Technology is cost reduction, there is little information on the quantification of Strong Average Weak the associated costs and benefits. Figure 2. TCO payoff for managed network services. The benefits are likely to include reduced time to roll out new services to There are many reasons for this. CSPs • Brand and customer relationship. customers and easier management of have an end-to-end service chain vE-CPE deployment gives the CSP a less varied fleet of installed purpose- view, with a deep understanding of the powerful branding and service built CPEs. network from radio access to the data creation opportunities. It also The study produced the following center. They are clearly the experts enhances the relationship with the findings: at providing 24-hour, mission-critical end user by removing the ponderous support to enterprises. CSPs also and costly supply chain from CPE Cost reduction of between 32 percent have an influential role with vendors delivery and provisioning. and 39 percent by implementing vE- in technology development given CPE in the cloud vE-CPE can help CSPs and their their size, investment profile, legacy customers increase agility. With a The enterprise vCPE solution relationships, and strong views on the virtualized solution, CSPs can introduce represents an attractive opportunity technology evolution. new services, and maintain and modify for CSPs in the geographies analyzed. While meeting the competitive threat existing services without having to The impact of vE-CPE implementation and reducing service delivery costs deploy new physical hardware. For in the cloud represents greater savings and TCO are compelling, CSPs benefit example, a CSP could offer a new for large enterprises than small and greatly from other aspects of vE-CPE encryption capability, add firewall medium enterprises (SMEs) and is deployment: services, close a security gap, or similar in the four geographies: the cost incorporate bandwidth compression by reduction is 32 percent in the United • Time to money Deployment of vE- making changes to the software rather States, 36 percent in Europe and Asia, CPE helps reduce service up-time than installing new systems. vE-CPE and 39 percent in Latin America. The in remote geographies from weeks can be scaled—increasing bandwidth calculations in the analysis showed to hours. It aids the removal of slow or supporting more users, at any time, potential savings worth USD 259 and costly multi-vendor installs while minimizing the need to add more million over a period of 5 years for and enables an easy service upsell hardware. operators with a 10 percent market capability. share of large enterprises in the Enterprises and end users also benefit • Service innovation. Virtualizing the European market. from vE-CPE deployment. Virtualized CPE environment helps break the CPE solutions reduce capital outlay and The cost savings are on average 17 hardware development cycle and network operating expenses. Logistics percent lower for large enterprises allows for the quick introduction of become simpler with the ability to and 71 percent lower for SMEs if software-empowered value-added turn sites up or down at scale. Service CPE virtualization is at the customer services. It simplifies the service fulfillment velocity increases and premises rather than in the network delivery and focuses the opportunity fault fixes and patches become easier cloud. This is mostly due to the increase on value-as-a-service (VaaS) upselling. to do via software (in comparison to in software costs and decrease in hardware). hardware savings as the efficiencies of vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 4

scale are reduced. The efficiencies of ENT Total TCO Conventional vs Virtual (Europe) scale for a NFV platform include the possibility of sharing that platform with 120% other users (that is, multi-tenancy). 100% Most of the software cost increase is 100% 36.0% due to on-demand CPE virtual network 80% functions, such as WAN acceleration 1% 0% 0.6% 0% and optimization costs. 60% 64.2%

Up to 90 percent reduction in 40% hardware costs for large enterprises 20%

Traditionally, purchasing and managing Difference (% Change) TCO hardware on the customers’ premises 0% Conventional Hardware Software Data Staff Comm Virtual represents around 42 percent of the Costs Costs Center Cost Cost Links total CPE costs for a large enterprise Cost Type and can be as high as 59 percent for individual large offices and 62% in Figure 3. Comparison of conventional versus virtual enterprise TCO (Europe). SMEs. Hardware purchase, installation, and SME TCO Conventional vs Virtual % Change maintenance costs are a large part of any CSP’s costs. So the potential 140% for cost reduction here is driving 120% CSPs to implement vE-CPE solutions. Calculations showed that moving the 100% 100% 29% equipment, services, and human assets 80% to the carrier’s network may result in 2% 0% 9.2% 0% cost savings of 48 percent for SMEs and 60% 63.3% 60 percent of the overall costs for large enterprises. 40%

Service costs can be reduced by up 20% to 48% when serving SMEs Difference (% Change) TCO 0% Reducing the hardware on customer Conventional Hardware Software Data Staff Comm Virtual Costs Costs Center Cost Cost Links premises lowers the likelihood of truck Cost Type rolls to a site to deploy, upgrade, or swap CPE hardware. The associated Figure 4. Comparison of conventional versus virtual SME TCO (Europe). service costs related to site visits for maintenance, commissioning of services, and decommissioning are much lower. Figures 3 and 4 below capture these results from an European deployment analysis.

NOTE: Graphs are read as a change % (+/-) from conventional vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 5

Industry Challenges be difficult, if not impossible. The State of the Industry The CSP industry today is undergoing customer is forced to deploy additional The case study for vCPE is well a transformation. Instead of focusing equipment, which adds time and costs understood by the carriers: fewer on a single type of service, such as for the customer while potentially truck roles means larger profits and telephony, twenty-first century CSPs creating management and maintenance adaptable platforms means less deliver a broad array of services, from burdens for the CSP. costly introduction of new services or voice, video, and data to the security No matter how much equipment is features. In addition, for the enterprise capabilities that power enterprise deployed, CSPs also need to improve customers the value of the model may networks. Success for CSPs serving manageability and maintainability. depend on the local business model. In enterprise and small and medium When customers lease or rent some regions the carrier is responsible businesses (SMBs) depends on the equipment, they rely on CSPs to make for the TCO of the enterprise CPE, while ability to rapidly accommodate evolving changes and repairs rapidly, in order to in others it is the enterprise itself that customer requirements, deliver minimize downtime. bears the TCO. In the latter case, the responsive service management and enterprise is free to size the vE-CPE to support, and control the costs of all the CSPs are eager to develop new service the needs of their current business, and services provided. Providing an agile offerings that take advantage of as the business case changes either and secure service delivery platform is technology improvements and design through expansion or through the critical for addressing customer needs. innovations. They want to reduce the introduction of new services carried costs associated with provisioning, over the WAN, the enterprise is able to CSPs must be able to quickly introduce management, and support. Customers chain these functions into the vE-CPE new services to different parts of the that manage their own equipment want without introducing new hardware into network and make modifications in to avoid the expenses of employing the flow. existing ones. A customer might need highly skilled staff to manage and to increase bandwidth to support a new maintain hardware appliances. At Many in the industry are actively enterprise application, add a firewall to the same time, all customers want to working to develop deployable use better protect the network, or upgrade reduce the costs of purchasing, renting, cases and complete trials. Colt and the Wi-Fi* network to accommodate a or leasing physical equipment. If each Orange have both been public about growing number of mobile devices. If physical system has a redundant system, the capabilities of the technology, as the CSP provides only purpose-built the cost savings from consolidating showing in Figure 5 and Figure 6. devices, making these changes might hardware can quickly add up. In addition, there are CSPs that have completed trials of vCPE deployment:

EasyConnect project: A reality, in live network! • Telekom Austria: http://telecoms.com/399981/ telekom-austria-begins-home- gateway-virtualization/ • China Telecom and Huawei: http://pr.huawei.com/en/news/hw- 371867-vcpe.htm#.Vp5u6vkrKUk • Liberty Global and Benu Networks: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/19/ liberty-global-selects-benu- networks/

Figure 5. Orange EasyConnect* project. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 6

Using a vE-CPE design that incorporates Intel® processors helps ensure the solution will have the performance and scalability to run multiple virtualized services on a single system. CSPs can draw from the Intel processor portfolio to offer a full range of vE-CPE solutions, sized for different numbers of virtual network functions and users. For example, CSPs can create small, medium, and large-scale solutions using the Intel® Atom™ processor C2000, Intel® Xeon® processor D product family, and Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family.

SDN/NFV For vE-CPE Network Functions SDN and NFV promise to revolutionize Figure 6. Colt WAN SDN use case. the industry by driving reduced cost and increased service revenue. Intel’s Role in Addressing Market without requiring the data to flow to However, the transition to NFV will Pain Points the physical interface. This technology require a number of new, disparate enables the VNFs and routing technologies to work collaboratively. To accelerate adoption of VNFs, applications to scale more efficiently to The maturity of these technologies is including vE-CPE, CSPs require optimally deliver end-to-end services. captured in Intel’s Network Maturity that technology innovations solve a Having an ecosystem where common Model for CSPs.4 business problem or enable a new software-defined programmability capability. Intel is driving the ecosystem of virtualized functions and routing Technology Overview forward by our participation in the between these functions improves the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), Virtualization of the CPE can be sized ability to scale and steer traffic more European Telecommunications based on the capacity demand (for efficiently. Standards Institute (ETSI), Open example, the number of expected users vSwitch* (OvS), OpenDaylight*, and Intel technology supports a number of and data rate needs), and in addition other forums, contributing leadership potential vE-CPE deployment models it may be deployed on-premises or and software to advance the state of (see Figure 7): in the cloud. Earlier we segmented the art in NFV. Several key areas Intel the size into three categories: small, • Virtualized services on the router in is working in this advancement include medium, and large enterprises. This the branch office improved packet processing and inter- sizing spans from ~25 users to ~2000 VNF communications. These two critical • Virtualized router and services users. While the location of the CPE areas improve the performance of running in the branch office may be critical to the TCO model the moving traffic from physical interfaces VNFs remain relatively independent of • Virtualized services in the data center, to the application layer and back out this decision. Furthermore the key is either centralized or distributed to the physical network. In addition, inter-VNF communications enable cooperative VNFs to communicate vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 7

Centralized Corporate some business models such as finance vE-CPE Deployed at IT Infrastructure or health care may mandate premise Various Locations firewalls. These are only two examples of the business drivers that may force placement of VNFs on Standard High 3 Volume Servers that are resident at vE-CPE Customer Site the customer site rather than in the Virtualization network as we will see below. 1 CP vE-CPE In this solution, the NFV orchestrator

POP vE-CPE remotely deploys the VNFs at the customer site onto a pre-delivered, Branch 2 secure Intel® architecture-based server. NFVI POP Security is tantamount, particularly at this stage of the operation, and Network Edge Intel provides server identification Virtualization Non-Virtualized CPE (Intel® Trusted Platform Module technology), secure boot, and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT).5 An SDN OpenDaylight controller Branch Branch Branch configures, and centrally manages, Figure 7. vE-CPE deployment models. the CPE policy. The controller also configures the Open vSwitch fabric to enable service chaining.

NOTE: There are issues with that the virtualized network functions Customer-Premise-Delivered Services OpenStack* being used to deliver these are independent of the underlying remote site VNFs. Intel is working to The delivery of CPE VNFs to the hardware. As the enterprise scales, the solve these issues and, in the meantime, customer through software is targeted customer or CSP can easily upgrade solution providers are developing their at the broad spectrum of enterprises, the hardware while maintaining the own simple agents that respond to the including those that typically outsource same upper-layer software and being cloud controller (OpenStack) their network management functions. assured of continued performance with The functionality of WAN acceleration increased capacity. This model drives can only be delivered with an NFV at savings for the CSP and enables faster the premise (see Figure 8). In addition, service-creation capabilities.

Managed Firewall Secure Service Delivery Centralized Platform vENT Customer Premise and Policy Control

OOB LTE Ent 2 VM VM VM VM PoP CE OVS (DPDK Enhanced) Router Core DP-UP Xeon, Rangeley, Broadwell

Figure 8. vE-CPE implementation at the customer premise. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 8

Network- Or Cloud-Delivered Services a service in the PoP or network edge. VNFs benefit from the ongoing efforts This is a common scenario when to enable and enhance the horizontal For this implementation, significant there is no IT onsite and the capability platform. Platform capabilities based VNFs are deployed at the network or in is completely outsourced. Another on Intel’s chipsets supporting open the cloud, rather than at the customer example is deploying VNFs on the vE- source ingredients (including the Data premises (see Figure 9). Scale may CPE, managed by either the network Plane Development Kit (DPDK)6 and be one driving force in CSPs desiring operator or customer, depending on Open vSwitch7), are leveraged by VNF centralized placement in addition to preference and/or business needs. providers to achieve the benefits of greater levels of automated control of Customer management of the VNFs NFV. The horizontal platform provides services delivered to the enterprise. is accomplished through a vendor- the foundation for a virtualized In this solution, enterprise access specific cloud portal. infrastructure. Capabilities such speeds range from 10–100 Mbps and as CPU/memory virtualization, I/O up to 1 Gbps, which may be much faster Intel® Technologies and virtualization, workload isolation, and than in the prior example. Provider Ecosystem Enablers acceleration are the foundation of NFV.8 Edge (PE) router VNFs are expected to For network CSPs who intend to deploy Intel works closely with ecosystem support up to 1 Gbps, which will enable vE-CPE solutions, Intel architecture and participants to develop reference multi-tenant PE routing solutions. ecosystem contributions are significant. architectures that maximize the These routers are located in the CSP’s Intel’s product performance, unique value of vE-CPE. These architectures central office or regional data center. platform awareness capabilities, capitalize on open, industry-standard The NFV orchestrator deploys the software portability from network technologies to help CSPs reduce VNFs in the point of presence (PoP) or edge to core, and contributions to open vendor costs, more easily produce data center. The SDN OpenDaylight source communities and standards scalable solutions, and accelerate controller centrally configures the bodies all support solution realization. time to market for new solutions. stored CPE policy and configures Open Purpose-built devices require CSPs vSwitch. With this solution, solution Intel’s chipset and platform capabilities and their hardware partners to qualify providers should see an improvement enable vE-CPE network functions to each version of a device, whether it is in the timely delivery of value-added facilitate efficient resource utilization produced to offer a distinct service or services. through optimal performance and to accommodate a different number programmability. Intel continues to While operators may choose to deploy of users. With vE-CPE based on work with the ecosystem to enable either model, it is common to deploy industry-standard technologies, CSPs optimal use of these capabilities with both depending on business needs. For can produce—and qualify—fewer seamless integration by the NFV/SDN example, one site may require a simple variations for their solutions. The architecture. L2 switch, which can be provided as virtualized environment allows them to support different services and to scale more easily.

Centralized Platform Ent 1 and Policy Control 10=100=1Gbps Eth POP-NG CO CPE PE Router Managed Ent 3 VRRP For VM Firewall Redundancy VaS PoP CE PE Router Router VM VM VM Core Ent 2 10-100-1Gbps Eth OVS (DPDK Enhanced) CPE DP-UP Xeon

Figure 9. Network-edge enterprise implementation. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 9

Technologies from ecosystem Table 1 provides links to more information on these specific capabilities. participants provide the range of Table 1. Links to Intel’s Chipset and Architecture Capabilities. network service functions available through a vE-CPE solution. CSPs and http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/ their customers can choose from cache-monitoring-cache-allocation-technologies.html multiple vendors that offer: PLATFORM QOS https://01.org/packet-processing/cache-monitoring- technology-memory-bandwidth-monitoring-cache-allocation- • Virtual machine manager (VMM) technology-code-and-data and virtual switch functions http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/ • Low-end virtual customer-edge INTEL® QUICKASSIST documents/white-papers/communications-quick-assist-paper.pdf (CE)/PE routers TECHNOLOGY https://01.org/packet-processing/intel®-quickassist-technology- drivers-and-patches • Virtual firewalls http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and- • WAN acceleration solutions technology/trusted-execution-technology/malware-reduction- general-technology.html • Value-added services INTEL® TRUSTED http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and- CSPs can use fully commercialized EXECUTION TECHNOLOGY technology/trusted-execution-technology/trusted-execution- solutions for vE-CPE or integrate technology-security-paper.html open source components, either http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/ by using in-house engineers or by documents/guides/intel-txt-software-development-guide.pdf working with an integration vendor. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced- No matter which approach they take, INTEL® ADVANCED encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni CSPs and their customers will benefit INSTRUCTION STANDARD NEW INSTRUCTIONS http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/ from the openness and flexibility documents/white-papers/aes-ipsec-performance-linux-paper.pdf that the virtualized solution provides. Customers can select the services they https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/8e/63/ ENHANCED PLATFORM OpenStack_Enhanced_Platform_Awareness.pdf need from the virtualized capabilities AWARENESS offered by their preferred vendors https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/openStack_Kilo_wp_v2.pdf without having to add more purpose- built hardware. Meanwhile, CSPs https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/open-vswitch-enables- OPEN VSWITCH* can meet each customer’s unique sdn-and-nfv-transformation-paper.pdf requirements without having to offer numerous hardware versions of their http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/ solution. intel-technology/dpdk-packet-processing-ia-overview- DATA PLANE presentation.html Intel’s Chipset and DEVELOPMENT KIT https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/aug_17/Future_ Architecture Capabilities Enhancements_to_DPDK_Framework.pdf Specific Intel capabilities that drive optimal performance and security for http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-products/ HW OFFLOAD vE-CPE type functions are identified controllers/overview.html below. Some of these capabilities include Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA),9 platform QoS, Intel® QuickAssist Technology,10 Intel TXT, and Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions, among others. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 10

Open Source And Standards: Intel is driving software contributions and broad market capabilities through open source communities.

Figure 10. Network-edge enterprise implementation.

Intel invests in 10 open source and Intel® Open Network Platform Intel® Network Builders standards initiatives shown in Figure 10, Reference Architecture Intel recognizes that part of enabling from the ETSI-NFV group to Intel’s own Intel® Open Network Platform (Intel® network transformation requires a packet processing project on 01.org. ONP) Server is an enablement strong ecosystem of partners. The Contributions are driven both by program with a reference architecture Intel® Network Builders community the market and by specific customer integrating Intel® hardware and open (www.networkbuilders.intel.com) has requirements, including real-life source software ingredients for easier more than 180 partners developing deployment and business needs, ecosystem adoption. One of the key SDN/NFV solutions on Intel architecture. target performance metrics, closing objectives of Intel ONP Server is to Within this community, there are development gaps, and providing align and optimize key open community more than 30 software vendors for management tools needed to ensure software ingredients for architects critical SDN/NFV use cases, including service levels. and engineers targeting high- vE-CPE. The work of the community performing SDN and NFV solutions. extends to proofs of concept, reference Intel’s contribution spans the entire The Intel ONP provides a convenient architectures, and trials. With the help spectrum, including technical reference platform to evaluate the of its ecosystem partners, Intel remains specifications, code development, latest performance contributions for committed to the development of testing and benchmark tools, and OpenStack,11 DPDK,12 and accelerated technology solutions and capabilities reference platforms. OvS.13 that will improve the performance of VNFs for CSPs.

Figure 11. The Intel® Network Builders community. vE-CPE for Communications Service Providers 11

The following table provides a list of Intel’s vE-CPE ecosystem partners.

Table 2. Intel’s vE-CPE ecosystem partners.

vE-CPE Ecosystem Vendors vE-CPE Ecosystem Vendors

VMM and Virtual Switch Enterprise VoIP

Canonical www.canonical.com Alcatel Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com

HP www.hpe.com Genband www.genband.com

Red Hat www.redhat.com Mavenir www.mavenir.com

VMware www.vmaware.com Metaswitch Networks www.metaswitch.com

Virtual CE/PE Router Oracle www.oracle.com Sonus Networks www.sonus.net Brocade www.brocade.com

Cisco www.cisco.com Wi-Fi* Controllers

HP www.hpe.com Cisco www.cisco.com

Juniper Networks www.juniper.net Juniper Networks www.juniper.net

Virtual Firewall Virtual Firewall

McAfee www.mcafee.com Cisco www.cisco.com

WAN Acceleration McAfee www.mcafee.com

Array Networks www.arraynetworks.com WAN Acceleration

Blue Coat www.bluecoat.com Array Networks www.arraynetworks.com

Cisco www.cisco.com Blue Coat www.bluecoat.com

Riverbed www.riverbed.com Cisco www.cisco.com

vE-CPE Cloud and NG-CO Ecosystem Vendors Riverbed www.riverbed.com

PE Router

Alcatel Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com

Brocade www.brocade.com

Cisco www.cisco.com

HP www.hpe.com

Huawei www.huawei.com

Juniper Networks www.juniper.net Additional Information • OpenDaylight Contribution and IETF efforts on NSH https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-00.pdf https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Project_Proposals:Service_function_chaining • OpenStack EPA contributions https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/openstack-epa_wp_fin.pdf https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/openStack_Kilo_wp_v2.pdf https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12229/181563 • Intel Open Network Platform https://01.org/packet-processing/intel%C2%AE-onp

Intel Network Builders: • https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/Intel-Virtual-VOIP-Orch-RA.pdf • https://networkbuilders.intel.com/solutionscatalog/session-border-controller-74

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