One of the major challenges of integrating network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions for carriers is that they have to be “carrier grade” from the beginning.
So, even though NFV is at the proof of concept stage for most carriers, those operators need to be sure that it can scale and is reliable before they introduce it into their production networks.
That’s one of the reasons why we’re so excited about our proof of concept (POC) at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, which will take place from 2-5 March: it demonstrates dynamically programmable orchestration of a multi-vendor NFV service, which is a key step to improved scalability and reliability.
For the show, we are joining up with Openet, Procera, Red Hat and Intel in an ETSI NFV POC.
The demonstration will highlight how a carrier can enable a “free Internet service” promotion leveraging multiple virtual network functions. During the demo we will walk the attendees through the whole process to show how virtual machines are created and services implemented with all processes instantiated from Amartus’ Chameleon SDS GUI. We’ll discuss more details of the POC in a future blog post during the show.
The critical role of orchestration
Amartus’ Chameleon SDS provides the NFV service orchestration in this POC, giving the carrier the ability to model and manage the full service lifecycle (onboard, instantiate, scale out, terminate) spanning the compute, network and storage resources via a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) and the multi-vendor VNFs via their respective VNF managers – from a single platform.
What makes Chameleon SDS stand out as a service orchestrator is its dynamic, runtime programmability – it dynamically reads XML descriptions of everything required to introduce and orchestrate the full life cycle for any end-to-end service, that incorporates any technology, including NFV, SDN, Cloud and WAN. This dynamism means that when you need to introduce a new element into your infrastructure, Chameleon SDS can communicate with it and model it – with no code updates – and that element can be orchestrated as part of a service.
The POC proves the combined value proposition of Real-time OSS/BSS, Service Orchestration and NFV as a means to achieve rapid rollout out, provisioning and operation of services in an automated way that lowers costs, maximizes use of resources and provides more innovative dynamic, elastic pay per use customer services.
Want to know more about Chameleon SDS or see it in action while at Mobile World Congress? Send us an email to set up a meeting.