ORACLE DATA SHEET - PDF document

ORACLE DATA SHEET Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution KEY FEATURES • Visual design of network services and rapid on - boarding with network service and VNF templates • Carrier - grade, dynamic service and resource orchestration engine for complex scenarios • Automated creation of network forwarding paths for service chaining • Hybrid virtualized & physical device support • Open RESTful API for integration with BSS/OSS, analyti cs and policy engines, self - service portals, etc. • Extensible plug - in cartridges for multi - vendor VNF Managers, VNFs, EMSs, VIMs and SDN Controller s . • Part of Oracle I ntelligent Orchestration F ramework for automated lifecycle transitions • Federated design approach aligned to industry standards across OSS and NFV orchestration P re - integrated with Oracle Communications OSS and NFV solutions KEY BENEFITS • Rapidly launch revenue - generating NFV - based services with extensible , product - based appro ach • Increase market agility with built - in templates and metadata - driven design - time methodology • Differentiate services with rapid integration of multivendor NFV R apidly deploy and scale NFV - enabled services or simplify and automat e core networks transitioning to NFV with the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration (NSO) solution . Using the solutio n’s feature - rich, extensible and product - based approach , Communications Service Providers ( CSPs ) can rapidly design and automat e the lifecycle management – including deploy, scale, heal and terminate – of evolving network s ervices in complex virtual and physical networks. NFV Challenges CSPs are looking to quickly deploy and generate new revenues . Some CSPs are first focused on evolving their offers with NFV - based services s uch as vCPE, vFirewall and vHG, while others a re targeting the t ransformation of their core network infrastructure to Cloud technology . As CSPs begin to transform, they are reporting the se challenges:  Service - specific solutions with limited abstractions and flexibility  Poor integration to upstream ma nagement systems  Immature and evolving VNFs  Inability to orchestrate across hybrid networks  support growing multi - vendor complexity Solution Overview The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestrati on solution fully integrates with existing Business a nd Operational Support Systems (BSS/OSS), other end - to - end orchestrators and/or service portals empowering Enterprise customers to manage their services (physical and virtual equally) . Figure 1. Oracle Communication Network Ser vice Orchestration Soluti on (NSO) 2 | ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS NETWO RK SERVICE ORCHESTRA TION SOLUTION ORACLE DATA SHEET capabilities with proven API Integration Framework • A utomate core network with carrier - grade orchestration engine supporting complex scenario s • Offer on - demand services through network auto - scaling with flexible integration to existing or new assurance, analytics and policy tools • Confidently guarantee SLAs through network service auto - healing supp orting diverse scenarios Reduce NFV complexity and provide consistency with flexible modeling of varying level of intelligence in the network • Capitalize on NFV opportunities quickly with pre - integrated Oracle OSS and NFV solutions (e.g. vIMS, vOCS) It orchestrates, automates and optimizes the lifecycle of any network services and VNFs along with their required virtual and infrastructure resources through real - time coordination with Virtual Network Function Managers (VNFM), Element Managers (EMS), Virtualization Infrastructure Managers (VIMs), and SDN controller thereby turning ETSI’s NFV MANO functional architecture into a productized, deployable reality. Network Service Lifecycle Management The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution uses : 1) a design - time e nv ir on me nt to design, define and program the capabilities which are “developed” once and “used” many times and 2) a run - time execution en vi ro nm en t to execute the logic programmed in the design en vi ro nm en t for uniform delivery and lifecycle management. Figure 2 . NSO Solution Lifecycle Flows During the Design Time framework, one of the solution’s key differentiators is its flexibility to model in a structured approach Network Services, VNFs, associated virtual and infrastructure resources, configuration requirements, thresholds, lifecycle actions, policies, etc. This onboarding process - driven approach comes with full lifecycle management and versioning. VNF vendor / system desi gner info Captured in the NSO catalog Lifecycle actions and parameters – P arameters and validation for lifecycle requests Business Interaction model – What is to be e ntered via portal / API call Structural details – VDUs and their resource requirements – VNF Topology (internal & external connectivity) Service and Service Configuration model – Each VDU is listed in the service configuration . Specify flavor (e.g. small/medium), number of instances – Each link is listed in the configuration Dynamic model – Design rules – Policies for scaling and healing (includes KPIs, thresholds, actions) ‘Design and Assign’ and ‘Calculate Technical Actions’ rulesets – Covers all re quirements for lifecycle actions with southbound systems VIM/ VNFM / EMS/ SDN controller artefacts: system images, configuration files, HEAT/vApp templates Ad apted configuration files, Heat/ vApp templates Table 1 . Example of VNF details captured in the NSO s olution catalog for on - boarding . 3 | ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS NETWO RK SERVICE ORCHESTRA TION SOLUTION ORACLE DATA SHEET RELATED PRODUCTS Supports intelligent network service orchestration integrated into key operational processes: • Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator • Oracle Communications Rapid Service Design and Order Delivery • Oracle Communications Network Resource Management During run - time execution , the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution enables service providers to :  I nstantiate and configure network services and their constituent, interconnected VNFs including all required resources .  Manage network service s / VNF s scaling , healing and termination . This can include the specification of customer network traffic flows (“network forwarding paths”) using the SDN Controller as part of the orchestration of the end - to - end service , or during load - balancing for example after a scaling action. The run - time function exe cutes the on - boarded lifecycle actions automatically or via manual steps. The graphic below shows how additional gaming server VMs can be added to support the processing load for a gaming network service . Figure 3 . On - demand elastic scaling example for a gaming network service.  Lifecycle rules and logic (i.e. which action to take) are monitored and triggered by : existing OSS assurance solutions, open source solutions (e.g. Ceilometer) or advanced policy and analytics solutions. When an action is received , the solution automatically reconfigures the network to enable closed - loop and elastic scaling of the network service.  Integrate with complementary components with in a broader solution footprint using RESTful APIs (Web Services) for automated operation . O racle Intelligent Orchestration Framework The Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework is an industry - defining approach to NFV that orchestrates services, applications and network elements with guidance from policy management and insights from real - time analytics with a flexible Oracle or third party mix and match approach . The framework gathers and analyzes network performance information, evaluates the network’s operation against predefined policies and business rules, and automatically trigger s the Ora cle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution to appropriate ly modify the behavior of services, network functions, and virtualized 4 | ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS NETWO RK SERVICE ORCHESTRA TION SOLUTION ORACLE DATA SHEET infrastructure – in a closed loop manner. Figure 2 . The NSO Solution within the Oracle Intelligent Orchestration Framework Rapid Path to NFV The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution helps CSPs accelerate their evolution to NFV in multiple ways:  Seamless extension of Oracle OSS solution to support the rapid introduction of virtual network functions alongside physical network functions and the zero - touch fulfillment of end customer services on the hybrid infrastructure. The NSO solution is pre - integrated through a common design - time framework and information model aligned to the TM Forum SID.  When combined with the pre - integrated Oracle Application Orchestrator (VNFM) and Oracle VNFs , the overall solution can be deployed faster and automate complex core vIMS (VoLTE, VoWiFi) network scenarios  As part of the hy brid or virtualized multi - vendor NFV solution (VNFs, EMSs, VNFMs) , the NSO solution orchestrat es the end - to - end network domain with an open integration framework for any third party tool, including assurance, policy and analytics or upstream OSS CONTACT US For more information about Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution, please contact us at comms - oss_ww@oracle.com . CONNECT WITH US Copyright © 2016 , Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only, and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error - free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document, and no contractual ob ligat ions are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under licens e and are tradema rks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. 0116