New SDxCentral Report: Rising Roles of MANO, LSO and Assurance - NFV Report Series Part II
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) May 08, 2018 -- SDxCentral.com announces the availability of a new report: The 2018 NFV Report Series Part II: Rising Roles of MANO, LSO and Assurance.
Since ETSI and the world’s leading communications service providers (CSP) launched the ETSI ISG for NFV (Network Function Virtualization) in early 2013, the world of network functions virtualization (NFV) continues to mature and expand. NFV is now an established open architecture for distributing network-centric applications targeted at the business and communications markets.
NFV-based networks provide the foundation for many leading-edge solutions, such as 5G and IoT offerings, and require specialized management and infrastructure tools to drive new these services. Our 2018 NFV reports series covers a wide range of topics, from industry-standard commercial off-the- shelf (COTS) hardware as NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), to hypervisors and the Virtualized Infrastructure Managers (VIMs), to Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and the management and orchestration (MANO) necessary to deploy these functions.
The second report in the series, the MANO and LSO report, focuses on the management and orchestration (MANO) necessary to deploy NFV, as well as the topic of service assurance. As CSPs slowly transition their infrastructure, they are all realizing that NFV adoption is not simply a technology problem but involves business processes and culture. And the portion of NFV that ties in closely with business processes, the traditional BSS/OSS systems, is NFV MANO. To make sense of this new world of NFV and MANO, this report presents an overview of the emerging MANO solutions and how they tie back into the overall NFV ecosystem.
Key trends covered include Linux Foundation ONAP vs ETSI OSM dynamics, MEF LSO inter-carrier Sonata API uptake, importance of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), the role that assurance plays in successful NFV deployment and how Containers might shift the entire playing field.
The report also includes results from a survey conducted by SDxCentral’s research team with select members of the SDxCentral community. This report is complimentary and available for download at SDxCentral.com. Vendors who are interested in participating in future versions of this report or other reports published by SDxCentral.com can contact us at https://www.sdxcentral.com/inquiry/research/.
SDxCentral will also be shortly launching NFV Report Part III, which will cover virtual network functions (VNFs).
Report Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction to NFV MANO and Service Assurance Report
NFV MANO Primer
-VIM and NFVI Resource Management
-VNFM (VNF Manager) and Life-cycle Management of VNFs
-Inside the NFVO (NFV Orchestrator)
Organizations Impacting NFV MANO
-ETSI
-TMForum
-MEF
-Linux Foundation
Business and Technical Benefits of NFV MANO
NFV MANO Product Architectures
-ETSI Standard NFV MANO Architecture
-OpenSource MANO (OSM) Architecture
-ONAP Architecture
-OPNFV Architecture
-LSO Architecture
-Other projects: Tacker, OpenBaton and More
-Commercial Architectural Foundations of NFV MANO
The State of NFV MANO and LSO in 2018
-Learn from the SD-WAN success
-Competition to Co-opetition to Cooperation
-MEF releases LSO Sonata for Inter-carrier Service Interworking
-NFV MANO Usurped by Carriers’ Implementations
-ONAP vs OSM
New NFV MANO Requirements in 2018 – Rise of Containers
NFV MANO and Service Assurance
2018 NFV MANO Survey Results
-Open Source Solutions
-NFV Assurance
-Build vs. Buy Patterns for NFV Solutions
Conclusion - Looking forward on NFV MANO
-ONAP Futures
-CI/CD and Containers
-Expanding into vRAN
-MANO for Edge and IoT
2018 NFV MANO Products
Covered Companies and Organizations
Accedian Networks, ADVA Optical Networking, AdvisorSLA, Affirmed Networks, Amdocs, Anuta Networks, CA Technologies, CENX, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Cloudify, Ericsson, ETSI, Fujitsu Network Communications, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei, Ixia, Juniper Networks, Linux Foundation, Lumina Networks, Luxoft, MYCOM OSI, Netcracker, Netrounds, Nokia, OpenStack Foundation, Ribbon Communications, Spirent Communications, Telco Systems, TEOCO Corporation, and Veryx Technologies.
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Roy Chua, SDxCentral, https://www.sdxcentral.com/, 408-740-3131, [email protected]
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