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Data Sheet

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.

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 vendor-

proprietary controller.

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.

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 Benets 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

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Data Sheet Virtuora Network Controller

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.

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 data-

modeling. Thus, if you can develop open-platform applications, you can

develop and implement applications for VirtuoraNC.

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

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

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Data Sheet Virtuora Network Controller

Fewer Constraints, More Choices

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.

Element

Management

Northbound Adaptation (APIs and NBIs)

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

Controller Platform

Functional

Application

Adaptation

Interchangeable

Open Source

SDN Platform

Physical

Network Device

Mediation

Model-Driven Service Abstration

(MD-SAL)

Device

Layer

Network

Layer

Logical Functional Layers

Topology, State Change, Alarms,

Events, PM, DB Change Configuration

Datastore

Service

Layer

1FINITY

FLASHWAVE

9500

FLASHWAVE

CDS

Juniper,

Cisco, ALU Other

Design &

Capacity

Packet (L2/L3)

Applications

Multilayer

Applications

Optical (L0/L1)

Applications

OPEN

DAYLIGHT

1

2

3

YANG

Abstraction

API

Definitions

(North)

API

Definitions

(South)

Data

Models

Improve Efciency 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

Virtuora NC provides a unifying framework for network control and management applications and interfaces

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Data Sheet Virtuora Network Controller

Expert Integration Services for Custom SDN/NFV Solutions

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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.

Verication

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