1. TOSCA complementing NFV (Network Function Virtualization)
Qin Jin
Deepanshu Gautam

2. NFV History White Paper on NFV.
DT, BT, AT&T, Orange, TI, Telefonica, Verizon
ETSI-ISG Formed
+100 members
NFV #1
at ETSI head quarters
4 ISG level documents read for publication
E2E Architecture, High-Level Requirement, Terminology and Use case
Oct 2011
Jan 2012
Nov 2013
Dec 2011
Oct 2013
NFV#4 planned
Sunnyvale hosted by Juniper+IBM (social event)
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3. Objectives
Removing tightly coupled network function’s software from underlying hardware
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4. Structure with leaderships
Chairman
TSC
NOC
Working Groups
INF
SWA
MANO
REL
Expert Group
PER
PoC
SEC
ISG Level Groups
E2E ARC
Use Case
Requirements
Terminology
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5. Members Community
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6. E2E Architecture
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7. MANO – Architecture
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8. TOSCA-OVF-CIMI/Openstack for MANO
PaaS
NSD
OSS/BSS
SP Portal
NodeType A
NodeType B
Operations
VNF1
VNF2
TOSCA
Service Template
User Portal
Any other SP domain entity
RelationshipType X
TOSCA ServiceTemplate for topology, dependencies, services and artifacts of VNFG.
TOSCA Plan for lifecycle operations of VNFG e.g initiation, configuration etc
Required computational resources (OVF)
MANO
Orchestrator
TOSCA
Container
VNF Manager
(TOSCA Container)
CIMI Client
CIMI/OpenStack & OVF
Create a new VM
Adding volume (storage) to an existing VM
IaaS
NFVI
CIMI Server VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor Layer
Underlining Hardware Layer
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9. Current work in MANO WG
TOSCA CSAR
TOSCA RELATIONSHIP
TOSCA NODETYPE
MANO is Defining Information Model for VNFD/NSD
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10. TOSCA is already in NFV NFV-MAN001v0011
An informative example of IMF-MRF NSD representation in TOSCA meta-model has been included in the MANO Group Specification.
TSC Task Mapping
NFV Technical Steering Committee has started an ISG wide initiative related with gap analysis with existing technologies explicityly mentioning TOSCA and others including TMF-SID, OpenStack, DMTF-CIMI, IETF-??
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11. Recommendation to TOSCA TC
Facilitate a formal liaison statement from OASIS TOSCA to ETSI NFV proposing ETSI NFV to consider TOSCA’s work in there proceedings as required.
NFV has already received number of liaison statement from TMF and BBF on further collaboration and information exchange.
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12. THANK YOU