SOLUTION OVERVIEW

DRIVE NEW SERVICES AND GROWTH

WITH NOKIA CLOUD PACKET CORE
ON VMWARE vCLOUD NFV
Embrace the Cloud to Deliver Innovative Broadband and IoT/
MTC Services
As organizations (cloud service providers [CSPs], enterprises, verticals, and
governments) look for new ways to lower costs, accelerate time-to-market for
differentiated services, expand business productivity and collaboration
applications, and prepare their networks for the 5G era, they are drawn to the
agility, scalability, and cost advantages of the cloud in conjunction with new
network technologies. Nokia and VMware® are working together to help
organizations easily make this transition. Specifically, by running the Nokia Cloud
Packet Core (CPC) on VMware vCloud® NFV™, an industry-proven multi-vendor
common platform, organizations can automate and accelerate the delivery of
innovative services to drive new opportunities for business growth, revenue
potential, and productivity enhancement—all while laying the foundation for 5G.

Capitalize on Mobile Broadband, IoT/MTC, and 5G Opportunities

Tremendous possibilities exist with the continued growth of mobile broadband,
and with new services tied to the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Type
Communications (MTC), and 5G on the horizon. But to take advantage of these
opportunities, the packet core must be able to connect to a greater variety of
devices and deliver a broader range of services over an array of standards-based
access technologies, including wireless licensed, unlicensed, and shared spectrum,
and fixed access technologies.

Nokia has found a way to meet these requirements with the Nokia CPC—a flexible,
multi-access cloud-native packet core that delivers the web scale, agility,
reliability, and high performance needed for a diverse set of services. Nokia’s CPC
takes full advantage of a cloud environment—namely, the incredible flexibility,
agility, and resiliency of VMware’s vCloud NFV common platform—while still
retaining the features and field reliability of bare-metal deployment.

By combining the Nokia CPC with the VMware vCloud NFV platform,
organizations gain a powerful joint solution that allows them to confidently
embrace and successfully act on the future of telecommunications.

Nokia Cloud Packet Core

Diverse mobile broadband, IoT/MTC, and 5G service requirements will need to be
delivered across a wide range of wireless and fixed technologies that can be used
individually or together to realize the delivery of a converged service experience
and personalization.

The Nokia CPC is offered in a range of configuration options, supporting the wide
array of functions required in the packet core. These network functions can be
deployed as separate instances or in combination, providing maximum
configuration flexibility. CPC elements can be deployed as virtualized network
functions (VNFs) or as physical network functions (PNFs) within a common
management system to support a consistent operations model across hybrid
deployments, while also enabling a seamless transition to NFV and software-
defined networking (SDN).

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JOINT NOKIA AND VMWARE OFFERING Nokia’s CPC is composed of the following elements:
DELIVERS DISTINCT ADVANTAGES
Cloud Mobility Manager: The Nokia Cloud Mobility Manager (CMM), built on a
• Software disaggregation, moving
beyond control and user plane cloud-native architecture, provides the web-scale and state-efficient design
separation1 needed to meet the growing control plane demands of broadband evolution, IoT/
MTC, and the transition to 5G. Deployed as either a standalone 4G Mobility
• Stateless CPC functional elements
Management Entity (MME) or combined MME/Serving GPRS Support Node
with “state-efficient” processing
(SGSN) in 2G/3G/4G networks, the CMM uses field-proven application software to
together with a common data layer1
ensure feature and service consistency between cloud and physical network
• Distributed and centralized function implementations. CMM runs on a wide variety of IT computing hardware
deployment to support service and and virtualized operating environments. The CMM delivers the scalability,
application requirements1 flexibility, high availability, and performance to meet growing network signaling
• Network slicing for service loads for consumer mobile and IoT/MTC services.
management and monetization1
Cloud Mobile Gateway: The Nokia Cloud Mobile Gateway (CMG) has been built
• Cloud agile operations, allowing from the ground up on the principles and design requirements of cloud networking
the automation and lifecycle
and web scale. It, too, runs on a wide range of standard IT computing hardware
management of individual CPC
and virtualized operating environments. The CMG performs a wide variety of
elements1
gateway functions, including SGW, PGW GGSN, HA, ePDG, TWAG, and enhanced
• Stability and resiliency, using one TDF/Service Steering Gateway. Its high-performance, elastic, and state-efficient
of the most widely deployed NFV design addresses the growth of mobile broadband and the delivery of new IoT/
platforms in the market MTC services, and provides an evolutionary path to 5G. These network functions
• Platform flexibility and agility to can be deployed as separate instances or in combination, providing maximum
support today’s virtual network configuration flexibility. The CMG control plane is highly resilient and delivers
function (VNF) needs and future bearer and system level management with the reliability that is expected in the
technology evolutions (without a packet core network. The data and forwarding plane uses a distributed processing
forklift change) architecture that takes advantage of the NFV’s dynamic scale and flexibility.
• Secure multi-tenancy with a
common platform that ensures
tenant isolation, preserving the Nokia Cloud Packet Core on VMware vCloud NFV
integrity of VNFs and end users
VNF Management
• Lower costs with increased CBAM

efficiency and platform agility

VNF FCAPS NSP
• On-demand capacity sizing for
greater agility in service deployment
• Proven performance with hundreds
of millions of mobile subscribers
serviced by multi-vendor VNFs CMG VNF CMM VNF
running over vCloud NFV OAM OAM NECC NECC Cloud
CDL CDL

• Field-proven packet core software, CP CP ESPS ESPS

Packet
deployed in over 140 4G/LTE Core
networks DP CDL DP CPPS CDL CPPS

Cloud-native attributes.
1 LB LB IPDS IPDS

NFV Infrastructure NFVI Ops

vROPS
vSphere NSX vSAN vCD
Log
Insight
vCloud NFV

Compute Storage Networking

Figure 1. Nokia Cloud Packet Core on VMware vCloud NFV

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Operating the Nokia CPC over VMware vCloud NFV enables organizations to
achieve near bare-metal capacity in a virtualized environment without resorting to
restrictive performance enhancement functions. With VMware virtualization, the
Nokia CMM and CMG can provide better scaling and improved host utilization with
minimal hypervisor overhead. VMware vCloud NFV also delivers balanced
performance with scaling and dynamic resource scheduling. The VMware solution
has the elasticity needed to scale up or down, based on services or capacity
demand. It also provides the security assurance many organizations are looking
for with tenant isolation that maintains end-user integrity when connecting to the
packet core.

Automate and Accelerate Services with VMware vCloud NFV

VMware vCloud NFV is a modular, horizontal, common NFV infrastructure
platform built on proven virtualization technologies for compute, storage, and
networking, along with integrated dual multi-tenant Virtual Infrastructure
Managers (VIMs). This solution enables cloud-centralized operations and
management across the deployed topologies, and delivers an integrated set of
NFV service delivery, operations, and management capabilities. It augments the
Nokia CPC through:

Services Management Automation: vCloud NFV provides flexible, automated

VNF onboarding and full-service lifecycle management through multi-VIM
capabilities, greatly accelerating new service onboarding and expanding
customers with faster time-to-market (TTM). With VMware vCloud Director®
(VCD) or VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)—a full OpenStack
implementation—organizations can automate the process of deploying VNFs and
NFVI resources, including the configuration and provisioning of compute, storage,
and networking resources. With policy-based provisioning, vCloud NFV simplifies
the resource allocation for VNFs, giving organizations a multi-tenant, robust VIM
that automates and accelerates service deployment.

Carrier-Grade Performance and Availability: vCloud NFV provides proven

carrier-class performance, extending control and data plane separated cluster
design. Workloads can take advantage of the high-performance fabric with
built-in dynamic high availability and scalability to meet application demands.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees are met through resource isolation,
reservations, and dynamic workload placements with DRS and VMware vSphere®
vMotion® technologies. The platform can be scaled from a branch office virtual
PoP to a large centralized data center to achieve micro-data center and multi-
tenant network sliced designs.

Integrated Operations Management: vCloud NFV is a fully integrated, single pane

of glass cloud solution that ensures and restores service levels using near real-time
operation monitoring, analytics, automation, and remediation. The solution
provides an overall integrated and correlated view across service, access, network,
and virtual and physical tiers, with issue isolation and recommendations for
RightScale Cloud Appliance (RCA). Northbound triggering closes the loop with
service and resource orchestration remediation and network management
systems/operations support systems (NMS/OSS) notifications. The solution can
be extended with custom data feeds, and third-party domain and technology
expert analytics systems.

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COMPONENTS OF THE VMWARE

vCLOUD NFV PLATFORM VMware vCloud NFV Architecture
• VMware vSphere
OSS/BSS
• VMware vSphere® with Operations
Management™ and VMware vRealize®
NFV Solutions NFVO
Operations Insight™
EMS EMS EMS
• VMware Virtual SAN™
VNF VNF
• VMWare vCloud Director for Service Nokia CPC
VNF-M

Providers
NFVI NFVI Ops

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

• VMware NSX® VMware vCloud
vRealize Operations
Integrated Director vRealize Log Insight
• VMware Site Recovery Manager™ vSphere Virtual SAN NSX OpenStack VIM vRealize Network Insight

vCloud NFV

Figure 2. VMware vCloud NFV Architecture

Nokia CPC and VMware vCloud NFV—A Winning Combination

Nokia and VMware are committed to building solutions that help organizations
(CSPs, enterprises, verticals, and governments) embrace and profit from mobile
broadband, IoT/MTC, and 5G opportunities. Nokia’s approach to this opportunity
is a flexible, multiple-access, cloud-native packet core that uses cloud technologies
to provide the required flexibility, performance, web scalability, reliability,
efficiency, and improved operations that organizations demand. This is why Nokia
is working with VMware—to ensure the rapid innovation and agile delivery of new
services that capitalize on these market and business opportunities.

Similarly, VMware has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry,

delivering NFV-based service platforms that transform operator businesses
through significant reductions in cost and increases in service agility. The maturity
of VMware’s integrated virtualization platform—along with associated operational
support capabilities and resource management—enables organizations to rapidly
adopt new ways of deploying service infrastructure.

Nokia’s Cloud Mobility Manager (CMM) and Cloud Mobile Gateway (CMG) VNFs,
which together form Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core (CPC), have achieved VMware
Ready for NFV certification. The VMware Ready certification provides
organizations with the confidence that Nokia’s CPC solution will deploy, run, and
interoperate with the VMware vCloud NFV platform. Details of the Nokia CMM
and CMG VMware Ready for NFV solutions are available on the VMware Solution
Exchange (https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/network-function-
virtualization).

Together, we bring to market a solution that is truly best-in-breed—a solution that

combines a strong application from a company that’s been in business for over a
hundred years with one of the most widely deployed and proven virtualization
platforms in the industry. Through these efforts, we’re enabling organizations to
capitalize on the exciting opportunities that exist today and confidently embrace a
new era of telecommunications where they are empowered to succeed.

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