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CloudBand

Nokia
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+358 10 44 88 000
10,000+ employees
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2017 NFV Report Series Part 2: NFV MANO and Service Assurance Categories:
  • NFV Orchestration, Management, including Service Orchestration
  • Service Assurance

2017 NFV Report Series Part 2: Orchestrating NFV - MANO and Service Assurance - Online Edition > Chapter 11: NFV and Service Orchestration Products > CloudBand

CloudBand from Nokia

Nokia CloudBand helps services providers deliver a better class of cloud service by making it simple to host, orchestrate, automate, & manage VNFs & services. Its modular, scalable & flexible products help reduce time to revenue for new services & use automation & optimization to make network operations lean. With CloudBand, you benefit from the rapid pace of open-source innovation & get a carrier-grade product that’s ready for deployment.

Brochure/Datasheet: networks.nokia.com/portfolio/solutions/cloudband

CloudBand
Category NFV Orchestration, Management, including Service Orchestration
Managment and Orchestration Functions End-to-end Service and LSO, NFV-centric telco cloud orchestration, NFV Orchestrator and VNF Manager
Value Proposition

An ETSI MANO system with commercially proven reliability, automation, repeatability and security. Flexibly architected for any combination of NFV Infrastructure (NFVI/VIM), VNF Manager and NFV Orchestrator which serves VNFs from Nokia & other suppliers. Extensive use of open source code backed up by a highly experienced team reduces risk and accelerates deployment.

Top Use Cases
  1. Service Orchestration for Dynamic Enterprise Services, CloudBand Network Director (NFVO) manages a hierarchy of workflows to automate activation of SD-WAN enterprise VPNs and 3rd party VNFs and automates VNF provisioning workflows
  2. Orchestrate Mobile cloud core functions (VNFs from Nokia, partners and competitors) to support services such as mobile data, VoLTE, VoWiFi and IoT. Supported VNF types span the mobile packet core, IMS, network databases & applications
  3. Nokia Government Cloud Enablement Platform empowers agencies to offer cloud ICT to improve services for their citizens. It provides an open, distributed cloud platform for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, for rapid application integration
Customer Deployment Details

Nokia’s MANO portfolio, with 53 contracted commercial deployments, has 17 in live service and 36 in-progress. Use-cases aside from the above top 3 include cable VoIP, large enterprise collaborative communications, IoT, public safety and CS mobile core. Deployments evolved from initially NFVI/VIM-centric to now 75% (rising) including VNFM, and 15% (rising) including NFVO, which reflects customers’ drive for VNF lifecycle management automation and rapid, repeatable network service activation.

Key Customers Three UK, Altan Redes Mexico, Elisa Finland, Burkina Faso, Bharti India
Industry Standards Participation ETSI NFV ISG, Broadband Forum, OPNFV, MEF, OASIS, OpenStack Foundation, Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP), TM Forum and Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)
Linux Foundation Projects OpenDaylight, ONOS and OVS
Supported VIMs OpenStack and VMware vRealize/vCAC/vCD
NFVI or VNF Integration Generic NFVO & VNFM use same SW for Nokia, partner & competitor VNFs. 16 of 53 deployments have others’ VNFs. Recently won multinational MANO bid as cloud platform w/ mobile core VNFs mostly from Tier 1 competitors. HW similar w/ Nokia AirFrame, Dell and HPE supported, plus blueprint for new HW.
Product Differentiation
  • Skills & knowledge: 100s PoCs, 53 contracts, 50+ validated VNFs (Nokia & partners), production deployment toolset
  • Pre-integrated or Open choice of NFVI, VIM, VNFM, NFVO
  • Telco grade resiliency & security. Remains operational during component outages; in-service software upgrade, patch management, backup and restore Performance
  • Generic VNF manager simplifies onboarding and increases interoperability. 1st open templating system for automating VNF integration & lifecycle management
  • 1st ETSI NFV phase 2 normative stds (IFA007) enables long term interop as generic-VNFM
  • Plug-in arch for multi-VIM/VNFM/EMS/SDN solution
  • Infrastructure validation tool
  • Nuage SDN integration option
  • Long term Red Hat relationship
  • VMware & OpenStack option
OSS/BSS Integration

Provides ETSI NFV standard interfaces at both the NFVO (Os-Ma-nfvo) and VNFM (VE-Vnfm-) levels and open Restful Northboud APIs for integration. VNF’s and network service models are read using template packages and plugins.

VNF Support

Yes. Generic VNFM & NFVO w/ same SW for VNFs from Nokia, partners and competitors. Our open templating system was published 5Dec2016, http://nok.it/-amhBW+

Monitoring and Instrumentation

Our solution comes with OpenStack Vitrage, the RCA engine for OpenStack that maintains a graphical representation of the cloud entities and their inter-relations. It also comes configured with Zabbix, which provides data collection and graphs.

Analytics Support CloudBand uses Vitrage for a clear, holistic view of complex networks that reflects how physical and virtual entities relate to one another, allowing operators to expose & understand faults, and clearly view network resource changes due to failures.
Performance and Scalability CBND: 10,000s Network Services (NS), each w/ dozens VNFs & network objects. CBAM: 1000s VMs across 100s of VNFs, even w/ dedicated VIMs. Hierarchical system enables multiplicative capacity scaling, CBND x CBAM. NS average deployment in minutes.
Pricing Software is priced based upon the number of vCPU's required to support particular VNF's, so is fully scalable with deployment size and functional need. Available with either an annual or perpetual right to use license and software support agreement.
Key Partners Intel, Red Hat, NetApp (storage), Dell, HPE

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Other NMS, EMS, OSS, BSS, Management and Orchestration Products

  • Cisco NFV Infrastructure
  • ConfD (on-device management for OEM)
  • Microsoft Operations Management Suite
  • OneFabric Connect Software-Defined Networking Solution
  • evolve : SDN Orchestration

Other Products from Nokia

  • 7750 Service Router (SR)
  • Cloud Data Center Interconnect (Cloud DCI)
  • Insight Driven Network Automation
  • Nokia IMPACT IoT platform
  • Virtualized Service Router (VSR)

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2017 NFV Report Series Part 2: Orchestrating NFV - MANO and Service Assurance - Online Edition

  1. Chapter 1: NFV MANO Primer
  2. Chapter 2: Organizations Impacting MANO
  3. Chapter 3: NFV Orchestration and OSS/BSS
  4. Chapter 4: NFV MANO and LSO
  5. Chapter 5: Open Source and MANO
  6. Chapter 6: MANO Product Architectures
  7. Chapter 7: Key MANO Requirements in 2017
  8. Chapter 8: MANO and Service Assurance
  9. Chapter 9: State of MANO Deployment in 2017
  10. Chapter 10: Leading MANO Vendors and Products
  11. Chapter 11: NFV and Service Orchestration Products
  12. Chapter 12: Service Assurance Products

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