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Virtuora® Network Controller

Software-Defined Network Control Platform

The Virtuora platform suite provides an SDN/NFV solution that turns the
network into a continuous, innovative service that delivers carrier-grade
reliability. This means end-to-end operational automation, service
orchestration and network programmability. From a business
standpoint, the Virtuora platform is a foundation for building resilient
networks capable of self-repair and able to make the fullest possible
use of resources and capacity. Perhaps most of all, Virtuora can facilitate
moment-by-moment responsiveness to customer needs and set up
services in a few minutes rather than hours, weeks or days.
About the Virtuora Product Suite
Virtuora Network Controller (NC) is the platform for a
comprehensive, adaptable, highly modular suite of software
products that enable you to build and grow a virtualized,
programmable network. The Fujitsu Virtuora SDN product suite
encompasses control, planning and design, operations and
management, and service fulfillment and assurance functions.
How the Virtuora Product Suite Benefits Your Business
Networks based on the Virtuora product suite can help you:
■■Cut long-term operational and capital costs
■■Speed up service launch and delivery
■■Maintain support for current revenue-bearing services
■■Preserve the useful life of existing network assets
■■Choose equipment and technology without vendor dependence
■■Build a resilient network that increases SLA compliance
■■Improve quality of service and customer experience
■■Quickly identify, anticipate, and meet customer needs
■■Open up a rich ecosystem of new revenue opportunities
Virtuora NC — the Control and Management Center of your Network
Built on an open-source foundation such as OpenDaylight or ONOS,
Virtuora NC provides a framework for a collection of applications and
interfaces that enables the control and management center of the
virtual network. This powerful, standards-based software platform
delivers a full-featured, lower-cost, scalable environment that extends
the capabilities of a basic network controller or even a vendorproprietary controller.
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Component-Based Structure Gives you Freedom of Choice
By separating the applications, controller and southbound interface
components, Virtuora NC enables you to rapidly upgrade the controller
or even move to another controller platform entirely, with little or no
impact to southbound interfaces and applications. This layered
functional separation offers complete freedom to choose equipment
and software from any vendor—with minimal cost, reduced testing and
smooth business continuity.
One Controller, One Control Plane, One Network Vision
Virtuora NC centralizes the network control plane by logically
consolidating it into a single software system connected to the diverse
devices, tools, and interfaces that make up the network’s infrastructure.
Regardless of physical location, traffic route or data delivery
mechanism, Virtuora NC communicates with and controls network
elements automatically, effectively and reliably.
This virtually centralized control plane architecture delivers unified
operations and resource orchestration, with universal abstractions that
enable global network programmability and automation. Virtuora NC
also provides for decision-making based on up-to-the minute
information about the characteristics of the network itself.

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A Rich Application Ecosystem
Just-in-Time, Pay-as-you-Grow Networking
“Network agility” means meeting fluctuating and often unpredictable
demand with a network that’s available precisely when needed, for as
long as needed. It also means being able to expand your network
rapidly when new demand or opportunity arises. Virtuora NC lets you
act fast, scale to meet demand, and “pay-as-you-grow.”
Virtuora NC uses software-defined networking to deliver new services to
market faster and more economically. It also enables control of
management, integration and simplified application administration
within a network construct that is dynamic, efficient, scalable, and that
promises improved capacity and resilience. With Virtuora NC, you can
count on a best-in-class controller that is modular, open, interoperable,
and designed to grow with you.
Modular, Standards-Based Architecture
The Virtuora product suite comprises three distinct, functional “layers” of
software that interface with each other via open APIs and YANG models.
Application Layer
The heart of Virtuora NC is the rich variety of modular applications that
provide the network control functions. Network design, control,
management, fulfillment, service assurance, and northbound interfaces
are all delivered via the Virtuora applications. Each application provides
a set of external interfaces to the controller, data collection and
analytics engines, active and available inventory, and next-generation
OSSs. Because these external interfaces comply with open REST
standards, Virtuora applications can be used with any controller that
supports the same open REST standards.
Platform Layer
The open SDN control framework forms the middle layer. Built on
OpenDaylight (ODL), ONOS, or a vendor-proprietary controller, the
modular nature of Virtuora NC provides for rapid upgrades and
migration to other controllers.
Network-Centric Layer
The southbound interfaces make up the foundation layer, which directly
enables multivendor equipment to communicate with the network.
These interfaces to network elements are abstracted via YANG models
and XML. These interfaces also support NETCONF and other
management protocols, and provide multivendor support.
Get to Market Faster and More Economically
With Virtuora NC controlling your network, it is quicker and easier to
provision new or upgraded equipment into service. Virtuora NC also
enables you to knit together heterogeneous devices dynamically. You
can holistically provision data centers across distributed networks and
virtual environments with automated, vendor-agnostic network
elements. The system gets services to market faster and more
competitively because it is modular, flexible and simple—bringing
diverse, dispersed resources together as a unified, integrated whole.
Virtuora NC also Interfaces with the Virtuora Path Computation
application (PCE) to build optimal routes for services, ensuring they are
highly resilient and quick to restore if an interruption occurs.

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Integrating Multivendor Devices and Third-Party Applications
Virtuora NC retains the openness of the platform so that you can
seamlessly integrate multivendor devices and develop applications
using standard interfaces. The southbound interfaces are described
using YANG models and abstracted for simple integration and access
by the controller and network applications. All the data stores in the
platform database, in addition to other platform services, can be
accessed by any application via standardized REST-based APIs and datamodeling. Thus, if you can develop open-platform applications, you can
develop and implement applications for Virtuora NC.
Fast, Easy Service Provisioning with High Availability
■■Includes graphical topology and link views
■■Provides greater security with role-based user access
■■Delivers dynamic service activation and end-to-end provisioning
■■Links dispersed systems and processes automatically
■■Instantiates services and functions on-demand
■■Integrates existing, new, and mixed-wavelength services
■■Supports disaster recovery
■■Integrates external subsystems with REST interfaces
Transform and Innovate—Continuously and Competitively
A network based on open standards and a modular architecture is able
to reinvent itself quickly when needs and opportunities arise.
Virtuora NC is built to a service-driven model based on open-source
technology. It is part of an ecosystem of current and future network
technology that supports cooperative innovation and freedom of choice.
With Virtuora NC powering your network, you can quickly identify and
capitalize on your customers’ needs and improve business outcomes by
adopting continuous improvement practices in a tightly coupled
development/operations organization.
With Virtuora NC, you can:
■■Escape vendor lock-in with multilayer, multidomain or

multivendor networks
■■Ensure consistent service quality and continuity
■■Effectively manage and utilize growing amounts of network data
■■Recover service fast across multiple tiers and vendors
■■Take advantage of “crowd-sourced” innovation on open-source platforms
■■Keep costs in check by using open source technology
■■Do away with configuration tracking and undocumented, localized,
manual processes and procedures

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Fewer Constraints, More Choices

Functional
Application
Adaptation

Element
Management

1

Design &
Capacity

Optical (L0/L1)
Applications

Packet (L2/L3)
Applications

Multilayer
Applications

YANG

Abstraction
API
Definitions
(North)

Northbound Adaptation (APIs and NBIs)
Model-Driven Service Abstration
(MD-SAL)

OPEN
DAYLIGHT
2

Controller Platform

Physical
Network Device
Mediation

3

Southbound Adaptation (NETCONF, OpenFlow, TL1, CLI, Other)

Datastore

Interchangeable
Open Source
SDN Platform

Service
Device
Network
Layer
Layer
Layer
Logical Functional Layers

Topology, State Change, Alarms,
Events, PM, DB Change

FLASHWAVE
9500

FLASHWAVE
CDS

Data
Models

API
Definitions
(South)

Configuration

1FINITY

Juniper,
Cisco, ALU

Other

Virtuora NC provides a unifying framework for network control and management applications and interfaces
Real Benefits from a Programmable, Automated Network
Globalized, programmable and automated networks will ultimately
become commonplace as a direct consequence of virtualizing the
control plane. The result is progressively fewer vendor constraints on
both hardware and software; better access to meaningful real time
performance metrics and topology data; and reduced dependence on
tedious or machine-by-machine local tasks. Virtuora NC organizes and
presents easy-to-read routing information for each service and for
virtual network operations.

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Improve Efficiency and Quality
■■Fewer time-consuming command line procedures
■■Less frequent truck rolls
■■Automation of repetitive tasks
■■Reduced power consumption when demand is low
■■KPI data analysis for choke points and fragmentation
■■What-if analysis for re-grooming services or adding capacity

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Expert Integration Services for Custom SDN/NFV Solutions
Beyond the Baseline: Value-Added SDN Services Integration
Fujitsu offers expert support to assist with end-to-end automation and
integration of all system elements, including network elements,
management functions, controllers and orchestrators.
Verification
Validation testing in a multivendor environment presents complex
challenges because of the unpredictable ways in which components
from multiple vendors interact, as well as the need to engage different
design and engineering groups to analyze issues. As new products are
identified for deployment, Fujitsu can conduct validation testing in a
secure, vendor neutral laboratory under your direction and control.
Fujitsu takes the lead in developing test plans based on customer
requirements, executing the test program, and reviewing final reports
with all parties involved. All interoperability testing is structured to
ensure the combinations meet all customer requirements and planned
deployment guidelines.
Platform Integration
Virtuora NC provides a REST interface supporting all functionality available
in a Fujitsu SDN solution. These REST interfaces can be used to integrate
into other components within the SDN ecosystem. The Fujitsu team can
analyze the systems to be integrated and develop interface mapping to
support custom functionality beyond that of the Virtuora platform.
YANG Model Development and Maintenance
YANG modeling is utilized to model behavior between various layers of
the SDN solution. As new services and components are added to the
SDN architecture, the YANG models need to be updated to include
support for these changes. Fujitsu can provide new or updated YANG
models based on new service definitions, new or updated equipment,
and other changes. The new YANG models can then be used in the SDN
environment to provide the new or updated functionality.

Virtuora Network Management Suite Requirements
Hardware platform
■■Standard x86 server
■■8 multi-threaded CPU cores (or 16 vCPU)
■■32 GB RAM
■■200 GB disk (CPU: Intel Xeon E5 series or higher)
Operating System
■■Server: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.2 or compatible
■■Client: HTML5-compatible browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or
Google Chrome
Platform Architecture
■■OpenDaylight or ONOS SDN platform for configuration and
provisioning
■■Northbound APIs and southbound device drivers
■■YANG models
■■Apache HDFS (Hadoop) data store
■■Apache Spark analytics engine
■■Apache Karaf environment with Apache Karaf Cellar clustering
■■Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform
Interfaces
■■Northbound: Shared HTTPS port for GUI and REST API
■■Southbound: TL1, NETCONF, SNMP, CLI
Clustering
■■Supported

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Tel: 888.362.7763
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