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The NFV Opportunity and Challenge:
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology, combined with existing Software Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities, has the potential to revolutionize the industry, enabling a truly agile, scalable and heterogeneous networking environment. However, in the rush to market, current NFV solutions result in difficult deployments and unnecessary complexity, while having poor performance and limited functionality. The complexity currently hindering NFV arises not from how any one of the pieces is built, but instead from how they are woven together into an overall system.
The Lean NFV Approach: Thus, rather than standardizing on all-encompassing proprietary architectures, or adopting large and complicated codebases, a successful NFV solution needs to simplify the points of integration, leaving all other aspects of NFV designs open for innovation. This minimal approach, known as Lean NFV, reduces complexity, eases deployment, encourages interoperability, and spurs innovation. A Lean NFV system has three key architectural characteristics: minimal integration with the computational infrastructure, minimal integration with the virtualized network functions (VNFs), and a modular controller architecture. The Nefeli Solution
Nefeli has built a product that leverages all the benefits of the Lean NFV architecture, and is differentiated in important ways:
– Service Chain Automation: Nefeli brings advanced automation capabilities that are unparalleled in the market. These include logic-driven service chaining, autoscaling, auto-healing, dynamic change management, and uCPE workload offloading
– Simplified Configuration: Nefeli eliminates the need for many configuration parameters to do launching, placement and chaining
In addition, Nefeli uses an intuitive, menu-driven configurator that minimizes the effort to bring up the system.
– Programmable Open Architecture: Nefeli’s orchestrator and data plane are both modular, meaning customers can customize our solution by adding their own orchestration micro-controllers or data plane modules
– Unique Monitoring Visibility: Nefeli enables direct measurement of key data plane metrics, such as throughput and latency, without VNF support. This information drives our automation and can be used by customers for accounting and troubleshooting
– Seamless Heterogeneous Environment: Given our distributed architecture and minimal integration, using VNFs from multiple sources can be done without extensive rewrites, time-consuming configuration, or technology-specific APIs
Nefeli has built operational features for immediate deployment, which include:
– Service Chaining: Nefeli creates chains based on policy, resource consumption, DPI, and application semantics
– Performance Optimization: Nefeli automates the provisioning and placement of VNFs to ensure both high performance and efficient use of resources, without the need of a VIM layer
– Automated Sizing and Elastic Scaling: Nefeli continually and seamlessly adjusts to changes in workloads
– Monitoring and Reporting: Nefeli provides customizable statistics on our dashboard or integrated to another system
– Failure Recovery and Upgrades: Nefeli detects failures, automatically restores service, and enables seamless upgrades
– High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Nefeli enables large-scale multi-region deployment with seamless recovery
– Security: Nefeli has internal authentication and RBAC, and can integrate with external authentication services
Benefits to Our Customers
✓ Agility through faster deployment of new capabilities in a distributed and open architecture
✓ Reduced cost by leveraging commodity infrastructure, opens source VNFs and lowest overhead
✓ Operational efficiency because Nefeli provides operational capabilities that span across heterogeneous NFV environments
✓ Flexibility through and open, modular architecture that accepts contributions to the controller framework and custom VNFs
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology, combined with existing Software Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities, has the potential to revolutionize the industry, enabling a truly agile, scalable and heterogeneous networking environment. However, in the rush to market, current NFV solutions result in difficult deployments and unnecessary complexity, while having poor performance and limited functionality. The complexity currently hindering NFV arises not from how any one of the pieces is built, but instead from how they are woven together into an overall system.
The Lean NFV Approach: Thus, rather than standardizing on all-encompassing proprietary architectures, or adopting large and complicated codebases, a successful NFV solution needs to simplify the points of integration, leaving all other aspects of NFV designs open for innovation. This minimal approach, known as Lean NFV, reduces complexity, eases deployment, encourages interoperability, and spurs innovation. A Lean NFV system has three key architectural characteristics: minimal integration with the computational infrastructure, minimal integration with the virtualized network functions (VNFs), and a modular controller architecture. The Nefeli Solution
Nefeli has built a product that leverages all the benefits of the Lean NFV architecture, and is differentiated in important ways:
– Service Chain Automation: Nefeli brings advanced automation capabilities that are unparalleled in the market. These include logic-driven service chaining, autoscaling, auto-healing, dynamic change management, and uCPE workload offloading
– Simplified Configuration: Nefeli eliminates the need for many configuration parameters to do launching, placement and chaining
In addition, Nefeli uses an intuitive, menu-driven configurator that minimizes the effort to bring up the system.
– Programmable Open Architecture: Nefeli’s orchestrator and data plane are both modular, meaning customers can customize our solution by adding their own orchestration micro-controllers or data plane modules
– Unique Monitoring Visibility: Nefeli enables direct measurement of key data plane metrics, such as throughput and latency, without VNF support. This information drives our automation and can be used by customers for accounting and troubleshooting
– Seamless Heterogeneous Environment: Given our distributed architecture and minimal integration, using VNFs from multiple sources can be done without extensive rewrites, time-consuming configuration, or technology-specific APIs
Nefeli has built operational features for immediate deployment, which include:
– Service Chaining: Nefeli creates chains based on policy, resource consumption, DPI, and application semantics
– Performance Optimization: Nefeli automates the provisioning and placement of VNFs to ensure both high performance and efficient use of resources, without the need of a VIM layer
– Automated Sizing and Elastic Scaling: Nefeli continually and seamlessly adjusts to changes in workloads
– Monitoring and Reporting: Nefeli provides customizable statistics on our dashboard or integrated to another system
– Failure Recovery and Upgrades: Nefeli detects failures, automatically restores service, and enables seamless upgrades
– High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Nefeli enables large-scale multi-region deployment with seamless recovery
– Security: Nefeli has internal authentication and RBAC, and can integrate with external authentication services
Benefits to Our Customers
✓ Agility through faster deployment of new capabilities in a distributed and open architecture
✓ Reduced cost by leveraging commodity infrastructure, opens source VNFs and lowest overhead
✓ Operational efficiency because Nefeli provides operational capabilities that span across heterogeneous NFV environments
✓ Flexibility through and open, modular architecture that accepts contributions to the controller framework and custom VNFs
