Market Report 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI The Trusted News and Resource Site for SDx, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Virtualization Infrastructure Market Report | 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI contents Table of Contents Introduction – NFV Platforms Grow Up . 1 Investment Benefits of NFV in NFVI and MANO . 3 NFV Architecture . 5 NFV Market Landscape . 11 NFV MANO Products. 16 NFVI Products . 16 NFV Monitoring and Testing Products . 17 Vendor Profiles . 18 MANO and NFVI Products [Featured] Brocade: Brocade SDN Controller . 21 Brocade: Brocade Vyatta Network OS . 22 Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco NFV Infrastructure . 23 Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) enabled by Tail-f . 23 Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco Virtual Topology System (VTS) . 23 Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) . 23 Juniper Networks, Inc.: Juniper Networks Contrail . 24 Wind River: Titanium Server . .26 MANO ADVA Optical Networking: Ensemble Orchestrator . 27 Affirmed Networks: Affirmed Mobile Content Cloud . 27 Amartus: Chameleon SDS . .27 Anuta Networks, Inc.: Anuta Network NCX . .28 ATTO Research: Athena . 28 Avaya Inc.: Avaya SDN Fx Architecture . 28 Brocade: Brocade VNF Manager . .29 Canonical: Ubuntu OpenStack . 29 CA Technologies: CA Virtual Network Assurance . 29 CENX, Inc: Exanova Service Intelligence . 30 Ciena: Ciena Blue Planet . .30 Ericsson Network Manager & Ericsson Cloud Manager . 30 Fujitsu: Network Virtuora OM and Virtuora RV . 31 Huawei: Huawei FusionSphere . 31 MRV Communications: MRV Pro-Vision . 31 Nakina Systems: NI-CONTROLLER . 32 Nakina Systems: NI-FRAMEWORK . .32 NEC/Netcracker: NEC/Netcracker Orchestration . 32 Nokia: CloudBand . 33 © 2016 SDNCentral LLC. 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Page ii Market Report | 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI contents Oracle Communications: Network Service Orchestration Solution . 33 PLUMgrid: PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite . 33 QualiSystems: CloudShell . 34 RAD: ETX-2i vCPE Platform . .34 Telco Systems: CloudMetro 100 . 34 VMware, Inc.: vCloud NFV Platform . 35 Infrastructure 6WIND: 6WINDGate Packet Processing Software . .36 6WIND: 6WIND Virtual Accelerator . 36 ADVA Optical Networking: FSP 150 ProVM . .36 Aricent: Fast Path Accelerator . 37 Cavium Networks: Cavium ThunderX ARMv8 Processors . .37 Corsa Technology: Corsa 10G/100G SDN Switches . 37 Dell: Dell Open Networking Switches . 38 EMC: EMC Provider Cloud System (PCS) . 38 Ericsson: Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment . 38 EZchip: NPS-400 Network Processor . 39 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): HPE NFV System Family . .39 Intel: Intel Open Network Platform Server . 39 Mellanox Technologies: Mellanox MSX1410-OCP . .40 Midokura: Midokura Enterprise MidoNet . .40 Netronome: Netronome Agile CX 1x40GbE Intelligent Server Adapter . .40 NoviFlow Inc.: NoviSwitch 2128 . 41 NoviFlow Inc.: NoviWare . 41 Nuage Networks: Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) . 41 Red Hat: Red Hat NFV Platform . 42 Monitoring and Testing Accedian Networks Inc.: SkyLIGHT . 43 H-Log QoS Telecom: H-Log Advisor SLA . .43 Ixia: Ixia IxNetwork . 43 Luxoft: SuperCloud . .44 Saisei: Saisei FlowCommand . 44 Spirent: Spirent Hyperscale Test Solution . .44 Veryx Technologies Inc.: Veryx SAMTEST – NFV . .45 © 2016 SDNCentral LLC. 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All Rights Reserved. Market Report | 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI market summary Introduction – NFV Platforms Grow Up Welcome to the 2016 Mega Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI, which gives you a full update into the trends and progress of the NFV market. The hallmark of NFV is that it can deliver network functionality via software running on industry-standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. The main advantages are that it can provide networking needs of a service provider or enterprises’ application on standard server and storage infrastructures. New services do not require new hardware infrastructure – simply software installation. NFV decouples network services from the hardware that delivers them. As a result, functions, such as network address translation (NAT), firewalling, intrusion detection, domain name service (DNS), and even complete suites like EPC (Evolved Packet Core) services can be delivered in software and deployed on general purpose appliances. This gives organizations a lot more flexibility in the way they design, deploy and manage their network services. History: Beginnings in the ETSI ISG NFV originated in the service provider community as operators looked for ways to cut costs and accelerate the roll out of profitable services to monetize their networks and grow their revenues. Hardware-based network appliances, which are typically expensive and complex to deploy and manage, were limiting the providers’ ability to consolidate functionality and quickly trial new services. By using a virtualized environment, providers wanted to be able to deploy network functionality whenever and wherever it was needed; they didn’t want to be tied to the capabilities of a specific appliance or topology. They felt if they could decouple the network services from the hardware, it would allow them to deploy networking components that could truly fit and support a fully virtualized infrastructure, including servers, storage and even other networks. As NFV gained momentum, operators gathered within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) and created the Industry Specification Group (ISG) for NFV to accelerate the progress of virtualizing network functions. Launched in January of 2013, the ETSI ISG for NFV has been working to develop the requirements and architecture of virtualized network functions in a telecommunication’s network. It included these components of the NFV framework: • Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) – The software implementation of a network function. We will have more detailed analysis in Part 2 of this series of NFV reports, which will be published in mid-April. • NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) – The physical resources (compute, storage, network) and the virtual instantiations that make up the infrastructure. • NFV Management and Orchestration (NFV MANO) – The management and control layer that focuses on all the virtualization-specific management tasks required throughout the lifecycle of the VNF. © 2016 SDNCentral LLC. All Rights Reserved. Page 1 Market Report | 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt. 1: MANO and NFVI market summary Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) VNF VNF VNF VNF VNF NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) NFV Virtual Virtual Virtual Management Compute Storage Network and Orchestration Virtualization Layer Compute Storage Network Adapted from ETSI publication GS NFV 002: Hardware Resources Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); Architectural Framework HIGH LEVEL NFV FramEWorK These components each contain a number of different NFV technologies, which organizations can deploy to achieve the flexibility, scalability, and efficiencies they require. Let’s look at the technologies/solutions contained within each component (functional block) of an NFV architecture. Since the original ETSI model for NFV was released, some operators have clamored for a more rapid and organic development of NFV platforms. Some operators have even put together their own technology programs, including developing their own open source projects which they then donate to the community. Managing NFV MANO and Beyond So, how do we make sense of this new world of NFV and MANO? This report presents an overview of the emerging NFV architectures and designs, leading use cases applications, and technology supplied by vendors in the NFV market. Our analysis includes examination of hundreds of our news and analysis articles, in-depth interviews we have conducted with technology vendors and end users, and the results of the SDxCentral NFV Survey, which was posted on the SDxCentral site. This survey had 79 end-user respondents, including service providers, (46%), cloud service providers (14%), enterprise end users (14%) and a variety of others (24%) from user communities. In addition to an overview of the technology and an analysis of customer expectations, we also collected data from almost 100 companies. The product information from technology vendors is available at the end of this report. (Editor’s note: This megareport has been split into two separate products – Part 1 of our 2016 Mega NFV Report covers MANO and NFVI and the second part of the series, the 2016 Mega NFV Report Pt II: VNFs and VNFCs will be released in a of couple weeks. They each contain