MENLO PARK, Calif.,
June 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- ON.Lab today announced that a team comprised of AT&T*,
ONOS project, PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS) and Sckipio will showcase
the first public demonstration of the Central Office Re-architected
as Data Center (CORD) proof-of-concept (POC) at next week's Open
Networking Summit (ONS2015) in Santa
Clara, Calif.
Many carriers in both the telecom and cable fields are espousing
next generation architectures that borrow heavily from web-scale
data centers and cloud providers. With this, they want to use
SDN and NFV to transform their carrier functions into workloads
that are hosted on common, commodity infrastructure. "CORD" refers
to this approach of providing infrastructure-as-a-service and
networking services as tenant applications for this
infrastructure.
"SDN and NFV are speeding up innovation, as seen in projects
like CORD," said Tom Anschutz,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. "These
technologies create systems that do not need new standards to
function and enable new behaviors in software, which decreases
development time. Faster development time leads to rapid
innovation, something the industry needs to continue satisfying
data-hungry customers."
CORD combines SDN, NFV and cloud with commodity infrastructure
and open building blocks to bring in data center economies of scale
and cloud-like agility to service providers. The CORD solution POC
spans the Telco Central Office, access including Gigabit-capable
Passive Optical Networks (GPON) and G.fast as well as
home/enterprise customer premises equipment (CPE).
CORD enables service providers to build an underlying common
infrastructure with white boxes using ONOS (carrier-grade open
source SDN Control Plane), OpenStack (virtual infrastructure
management), and XOS (an open source service
orchestration/management platform built on OpenStack) with a
diversity of organizations building the services and solutions that
ride above. In effect, this common infrastructure replaces the
fragmented, non-commodity one in today's Central Offices where each
site hosts more than 300 unique deployed appliances, each requiring
a physical install and specialized management.
The first CORD solution POC will be demonstrated at the Open
Networking Summit from June 15-18,
2015 as part of the SDN Solutions Showcase. The demo will
highlight the benefits of the CORD solution POC from the
perspective of three end-users: service providers, subscribers and
third-party providers.
Key capabilities demonstrated at ONS will include:
- Proof-of-concept Central Office: Highlights the open
software and hardware building blocks for CORD - ONOS, XOS,
OpenStack, white box switches, commodity servers, OpenFlow-enabled
GPON OLT MAC from PMC, and OpenFlow-enabled G.fast distribution
point unit (DPU) connected to a G.fast CPE bridge from
Sckipio.
- Service Provider-focused capabilities
- SDN Control, orchestration and management with ONOS, OpenStack
and XOS on commodity infrastructure
- An open high-performance leaf-spine fabric
- OpenFlow-enabled PON OLT MAC
hardware enabling virtualization of the traditional OLT
- OpenFlow-enabled G.fast DPU
- Access-as-service, Subscriber-as-a-service,
Internet-as-a-service Caching/Content delivery-as-a-service,
Virtualized functions including Firewall, URL Filtering, Parental
Control, BNG
- Service Provider portal for intuitive provisioning, management,
monitoring of infrastructure and services
- Subscriber-focused capabilities
- A simple CPE that replaces existing complex CPEs and can be
managed by ONOS
- Subscriber Services: Internet, Firewall, Parental Control
- Subscriber portal for signing up for and managing services
- Third-Party Provider-focused capabilities
- Third-party provider services: Content delivery (Caching) for
its own content in the Service Provider network
- Third-party provider portal for signing up for and managing
services
CORD POC software used for the demo at ONS 2015 will be
available publicly in the ONOS "Drake" release that is slated for
the end of August, 2015. Beyond the ONS demo, the CORD solution
will undergo the next phase of development and advance to lab
trials. A CORD "Pod" bundling together the software and hardware
building blocks into a ready-to-use system, will be made available
for service provider lab trials by the end of 2015.
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®), the leading
semiconductor and software solutions vendor, developed the
standalone OpenFlow-enabled GPON OLT MAC to virtualize the
traditional OLT, creating the first vOLT-enabled device. Sckipio
Technologies, the leader in G.fast modems, provided the
OpenFlow-enabled DPU to demonstrate CORD with G.fast access
technology.
"PMC is a long standing supplier of field-proven, merchant GPON
silicon and software to international service providers," said
Babak Samimi, Vice President of
Marketing and Applications for PMC's Communications Business Unit.
"As the selected GPON partner in ONOS Project's CORD initiative, we
augmented our GPON software stack to enable the full data plane and
control plane visibility required for the targeted NFV
architecture. The combination of our proven architecture and fast
turnaround of a new software interface was the catalyst allowing
ONOS Project to demonstrate the POC."
"Service providers want the freedom to manage their networks in
more effective, flexible, and efficient ways," said David Baum, CEO of Sckipio, the G.fast
technology company. "By collaborating in the CORD solution, Sckipio
will ensure G.fast is well integrated into the end-to-end CORD
solution, which will quickly deliver the freedom service providers
demand."
The CORD team will continue to expand and bring in new
organizations including additional merchant silicon vendors, white
box vendors, software vendors providing Virtualized Network
Functions (VNFs), applications, services and support, testing and
several others.
"The first CORD proof-of-concept is a big step towards
demonstrating AT&T and other providers' vision of reinventing
the central office to bring data center economies of scale and
cloud-style agility to their networks," said Guru Parulkar,
Executive Director, ON.Lab and ONRC. "With CORD, service providers
can architect their central offices using common, commodity
infrastructure such as ONOS, OpenStack, XOS, white box switches and
servers. CORD also represents an open and unique opportunity
with AT&T as the leading service provider, ON.Lab and ONOS
project as providers of open source software platforms, and
merchant silicon vendors PMC-Sierra and Sckipio. This team plans to
enhance the solution with new features and harden it, bring in new
players and advance CORD from lab trials all the way to
deployment."
The CORD POC will be demonstrated as part of The SDN Solutions
Showcase during ONS2015, which will be open during expo hours on
June 16 from 12 – 2 p.m. and 5:30 – 8 p.m.
PDT; June 17 from 12 –
8:30 p.m. PDT; and June 18 from 10:30
a.m. – 2 p.m. PDT. Whitepapers
describing the CORD solution and the demos will be available on
June 12 at onosproject.org
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by
subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T
brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About ONOS project
ONOS is the open source SDN
networking operating system for Service Provider networks
architected for high performance, scale and availability. ONOS'
ecosystem comprises of ON.Lab and organizations that are funding
and contributing to the ONOS initiative. These include AT&T,
NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom, Ciena, Cisco,
Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC; members who are
collaborating and contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI,
Internet2, Happiest Minds, KISTI, KAIST, Kreonet, NAIM, CNIT, Black
Duck, Create-Net, Criterion Networks and the broader ONOS
community. Learn how you can get involved with ONOS at
onosproject.org.
About ON.Lab
Open Networking
Lab (ON.Lab) is a non-profit organization founded by SDN
inventors and leaders from Stanford
University and UC Berkeley to foster an open source
community for developing tools and platforms to realize the full
potential of SDN. ON.Lab brings innovative ideas from leading edge
research and delivers high quality open source platforms on which
members of its ecosystem and the industry can build real products
and solutions. For further information on ON.Lab, visit
http://onlab.us/.
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About Sckipio
Sckipio is the leader in G.fast modems
and is dedicated to delivering ultra-broadband using
next-generation G.fast-based Fiber-to-the-distribution point
(FTTdp) architectures. Sckipio offers a complete G.fast solution –
chipsets bundled with software – for a variety of access and mobile
backhaul applications based on the ITU G.fast G.9700 and G.9701
standards, to which Sckipio is a leading contributor. Founded by a
veteran team of communications experts with deep experience in
broadband access and home networking solutions, and backed by
leading venture capitalists, Sckipio is well positioned to win the
market for the next-generation of broadband access solutions. For
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Press Contacts
ON.Lab PR Contact:
Bob
Eastwood, Engage PR for ON.Lab, 510-748-8200 x215,
beastwood@engagepr.com
ON.Lab & ONOS Contact
Prajakta Joshi, Director of Product, ON.Lab,
prajakta@onlab.us
AT&T PR Contact
Kuriko
Wong
713-513-9520
kh024w@att.com
PMC-Sierra PR Contact:
Manager, Corporate
Communications
Kim Mason, 1-604-415-6239
kim.mason@pmcs.com
Sckipio PR Contact:
Karen
Quatromoni
Rainier Communications for Sckipio
Phone: 508-475-0025 x150
sckipio@rainierco.com
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