Cisco Q-vBN
Quantum Virtual Broadband Network
Flexible, Programmable, Application Aware
March 4, 2014
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Introducing Q-vBN
Broadband Today
Services
Services
Virtualize Services
Virtualize Network
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API Exposure
Broadband Tomorrow
Services
Services
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Q-vBN: What is it?
A software based virtualization system that runs standard
broadband CPE code and services in the cloud
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Q-vBN Environment
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API Exposure
Network Overlay
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CPE tunnel to Data Center where services are located
Services – Video UI,
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Virtualization Infrastructure
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CPE lifecycle can be extended as intelligence moves to the cloud
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Allows for rapid deployment of broadband services
Storage, VDI, etc
Enable Service Orchestration
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API driven service control plane
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Integrated control of vCPE, overlay and services using APIs
Datacenter
L2 PWE Switch
Access Node
Edge Node
Internet
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Q-vBN for Minimal Virtual CPE Application
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Hosting
Cloud GW
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No L3 functionality in the gateway
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All L3 functionality in a “cloud gateway”
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Home broadcast domain extended to Cloud GW
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Setup demonstrated at CES
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Access Node
Edge Node
Internet
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Q-vBN: LAN Extension to the Cloud
API Exposure
vBN
Hosting
Cloud GW
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Network design unchanged – no forklift
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Home LAN extended to a Service
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Storage (NAS) Backup
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IPv6 as a service/v4
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Individual device management
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M2M
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Access Node
Edge Node
Internet
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Control Plane
API
Event
Data
Exposure
processor
Store
Analytics
Quantum Service Bus (QSB)
XMPP Pub/Sub
Legacy Event Gateways
SNMP, syslog, etc
Q-vBN manager
SP WiFi
Mobile
Event Feed
Event Feed
Datacenter
Services - Video UI,
Cloud GW
Storage, VDI, etc
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Demo Setup
API Exposure
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QvBN + Control Plane - Zotac A12, AMD E1700, 8G RAM, SSD
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Test cases – VMs using direct overlay attachment on a generic laptop
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Demos
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VCPE – Firewall, NAT, QoS
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Virtual Storage
Access Node
Edge Node
Internet
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Thank You
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