CORD

Delivering cost-performance leadership and cloud-style agility to Service Provider networks

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CORD Highlights

CORD Partnership

What is CORD?

CORD is an end-to-end solu?on POC that combines SDN, NFV, Cloud with
commodity infrastructure and open building blocks to deliver datacenter
economies of scale and cloud-style agility to service provider networks

CORD Value proposi6on

CORD enables service providers to build an underlying common infrastructure

in Central Oce with white boxes, ONOS, OpenStack, and XOS with a diversity
of organiza?ons building the services and solu?ons above.

CORD open building blocks

ONOS(SDN Control Plane), Openstack(Virtual infrastructure mgmt), XOS (Services

mgmt), open commodity hardware, OF-enabled OLT MAC and G.fast DPU

CORD Building Blocks

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20K-100K subscribers/CO

CORD key components-

Commodity hardware
SDN Control Plane (ONOS)
NFVI Orchestra?on (XOS, Openstack)
Open Leaf Spine Fabric
Simple on-prem CPE + vCPE
Virtualized Access (PON OLT MAC + vOLT)
Virtualized Func?ons
Virtualized BNG

Applications

SDN Control Plane

ONOS

NFVI orchestra?on
XOS

Spine
Switches

Control

Fabric

Leaf
Switches

Simple Switch

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Access
Link

I
O
I
PON OLT
O
MACs

LDAP

vBNG

vOLT
vCPE

DHCP

I
O
Metro
Core
Link

RADIUS

Commodity hardware
Central Office Re-architected as Datacenter

Data

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CORD Value proposi?on

1

End-to-end SDN/NFV solution

Solu?on spans Central Oce,
Access (GPON,G.fast..), Home/
Enterprise

Reduces OPEX
Reduces OPEX with automated service
orchestra?on

Common infrastructure with

Open Building Blocks

Reduces CAPEX

Disaggregates proprietary
boxes, virtualizes their
Providers can architect Central
func?ons and instan?ates on
Oces with open, commodity
so[ware and hardware building blocks commodity hardware

Faster time-to-market

Adds value to cloud services

Accelerates ?me-to-market
with programmable, exible
networks

Adds value to exis?ng cloud services

by adding edge footprint.

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CORD in Action what you will see at the demo

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Subscriber

CORD Demo-
From the users perspec?ve

Service Provider

Third-party content provider

Demo showcases the CORD solu?on from the perspec?ve of 3 users

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CORD Demo- Proof-of-concept Central Oce

Applications

NETCONF

G.FAST

GPON
ONT

G.FAST

G.Fast
Bridge

Distribu?on Point
Unit (DPU)
<400 meters
Upto 1Gbps over copper wiring

Simple CPE

ONT

GPON

A CORD Pod, with all these so[ware and

hardware building blocks will be on the demo oor.

SDN Control Plane- ONOS

NFVI Orch- XOS

Spine
Switches

Control

Simple
CPE

OPENFLOW

Fabric

Leaf
Switches

Access
Link

I
O
PON
I
OLT
O
MACs

LDAP

vBNG

vOLT
vCPE

DHCP

I
O
Metro
Core
Link

RADIUS

Commodity hardware
Central Office Re-architected as Datacenter

Data

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CORD Demo- Service Provider

Service Provider portal for intui?ve provisioning,
management and scaling of services, monitoring

Proof-of-concept central oce, virtualized access and
virtual CPE - with open building blocks
as described on previous slide

Services
Access-as-service
Subscriber-as-a-service
Internet-as-a-service
Caching/Content delivery-as-a-service
Firewall, URL Filtering, Parental Control

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CORD Demo- Subscriber

Simple sign on, congura?on and customiza?on of services
through Subscriber portal
Simple home equipment that replaces complex CPEs plug
and play
Subscriber services Internet, Firewall, Parental Control etc
Tracking services, ac?vity, usage, users
A virtual CPE (LXC container) per subscriber in the
Central Oce interes?ng possibili?es

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CORD Demo- Content Provider

Simple sign on, congura?on and customiza?on of
services through Third-party provider portal

Third-party provider service- Content delivery
(Caching) for its own content in the Service
Provider network

Tracking service, ac?vity, usage

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CORD Demo Set-up

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CORD Demo Set-Up (with GPON)

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vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal
Third-party
Provider portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Control
Channel

Laptop

Simple CPE
(Netgear with
Open WRT)

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

XOS

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)
Dataplane

vOLT

GPON
ONT

vCPE

GPON OLT
MAC
vBNG

CORD with GPON access

vBNG
App

Central Oce

Internet

Virtual CPE
(container) per
subscriber

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CORD Demo Set-up (with G.fast + GPON access)

vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Third-party
Provider portal

Control
Channel

Simple
CPE

G.FAST

G.fast
Bridge

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

OPENFLOW

NETCONF

G.FAST

GPON
ONT

XOS

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)
Dataplane

GPON OLT
MAC

Distribu?on Point
Unit (DPU)

vOLT

vCPE

vBNG

<400 meters
Up to 1 Gbps over copper wiring

CORD with G.fast + GPON access

vBNG
App

Central Oce

Internet

Virtual CPE
(container) per
subscriber

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CORD whats under the hood?

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SDN/Control Plane/NFVI Orchestra?on

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Services

Manages
Services

XOS
SDN Control Plane - ONOS

NFVI Orch-XOS

Manages Fabric and

host Control Apps

Manages Virtual
Infrastructure

Control Applications

ONOS

Openstack
Nova

Keystone

Virtual machines
(Instantiated on
commodity servers)

Neutron

Interface to OVX
(Virtual Networks)

Flow rules
(programmed into
switching fabric)

Open Source building blocks- ONOS, XOS, Openstack

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SDN Control Plane - ONOS

Apps
NB Application Intent Framework

ONOS
Instance 1

Distributed CoreONOS

ONOS

Instance 2 availability, state management,

Instance 3
(performance, scale-out,
notifications)

ONOS
Instance N

Southbound Core API

Adapters

Adapters

Adapters

Adapters

Protocols

Protocols

Protocols

Protocols

XOS- Service Orchestra?on for CORD

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Customers

BNG CDN CG-NAT Firewall

Residential
Customers

VPN WanEx DSA IDS

Enterprise

Firewall

Parental Control

Subscriber-as-a-service

CDN-as-a-service

BNG

CGNAT

Internet-as-a-service

..

XOS
vBNG app

Openstack
Nova

Keystone

Firewall
Caching/
CDN

vBNG
CGNAT

Commodity Hardware

NFVI Orch-XOS

vCPE app

ONOS

Neutron

vCPE

vOLT app

Service Abstrac?on

Customers

Service Composi?on

PGW XCODE NLA CDN

Mobile

1
8

DPI

XOS- built on Openstack- provides two important

abstractions: Service and Service composition

Open Leaf-Spine Fabric

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Open Source
SDN-based
Bare-metal

L3 Clos Segment Routed

Fabric Control app

ONOS

Leaf-Spine
Fabric

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

OF 1.3 + TTP

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

White Box

OCP-
ONL,
ONIE

Indigo OF
Agent
OF-DPA

OCP Bare-metal Hardware

Whitebox Switch

CORD Demo virtual CPE

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vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal
Third-party
Provider portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Control
Channel

Laptop

Simple CPE
(Netgear with
Open WRT)

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

XOS

Dataplane

vOLT

GPON
ONT

Complex CPE replaced with a simple CPE with Open

WRT
Func?ons virtualized and moved to CO inside vCPE.
vCPE app on ONOS interfaces with XOS to request
spin up of vCPE for new subscriber.

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)

vCPE

GPON OLT
MAC

Central Oce

Parental
Control
Virtual CPE (LXC
container) per subscriber

vBNG

vBNG
App

Internet

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vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal
Third-party
Provider portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Control
Channel

Laptop

Simple CPE
(Netgear with
Open WRT)

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

GPON
ONT

XOS

OLT disaggregated into standalone GPON OLT MAC

Other func?ons of tradi?onal OLT virtualized (in
vOLT, Fabric etc)
vOLT App on ONOS interfaces with RADIUS and
handles 802.1x authen?ca?on

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)
Dataplane

vOLT

vCPE

GPON OLT
MAC
vBNG

vBNG
App

Central Oce

Internet

Virtual CPE
(container) per
subscriber

CORD Demo virtual BNG

NFV

vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal
Third-party
Provider portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Control
Channel

Laptop

Simple CPE
(Netgear with
Open WRT)

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

XOS

Dataplane

vOLT

GPON
ONT

vBNG App on ONOS provides NATing and

Rou?ng.
Related rules are programmed into the vBNG.

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)

vCPE

GPON OLT
MAC
vBNG

vBNG
App

Central Oce

Note- the demo only includes par4al virtualiza4on of BNG func4ons specically those related to Internet connec4vity

Internet

Virtual CPE
(container) per
subscriber

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vOLT App
RADIUS

Service
Provider Portal

ONOS

Subscriber
Portal

Third-party
Provider portal

Control
Channel

Simple
CPE

G.FAST

G.fast
Bridge

Segmentrouted fabric
Control App

vCPE App

OPENFLOW

NETCONF

G.FAST

GPON
ONT

XOS

vBNG
App

ONOS

Leaf Spine Fabric

(controlled by ONOS)
Dataplane

GPON OLT
MAC

Distribu?on Point
Unit (DPU)

vOLT

vCPE

vBNG

<400 meters
Up to 1 Gbps over copper wiring

Central Oce

Internet

Virtual CPE
(container) per
subscriber

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CORD whats coming next?

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CORD Roadmap
From demo to deployment

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AT&T and ONOS project
dene CORD Solu6on POC

Jan15

June15

CORD Lab trials

Lab trials with CORD POD

Dec15

CORD POC demo at ONS

June16

CORD trial deployments

phase 2

Dec16

CORD trial deployments

phase 1

2017

Service Provider deployments

Deployments by mul?ple Service
Providers

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Expanding the team

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June 2015

2015-2016

Other Service
Providers

Merchant
Silicon
Vendors

White Box
Manufacturers

So[ware
Vendors

Your
organiza6on?

Learn about CORD and join the team at onosproject.org

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