summit 16: arm mini-summit - nfv for the masses - marvell

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NFV for the Masses

Maen Suleiman Marvell Semiconductor Inc.

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Every Body Talks about NFV

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vCPE centralized model

VNF vRouter

VNF

vNAT

VNF vDPI

VNF vFW

NAT ?

Router ?

Firewall?

Parental Control?

Home

Branch/Corporate

Service Provider

VNF vVPN

VPN ?

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vCPE distributed model

VNF vDPI

VNF vFW

NAT ?

Router ?

Firewall?

Parental Control?

Home

Branch/Corporate

Service Provider

VNF vVPN

VPN ?

VNF vNAT

VNF vRouter


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NFV seems great idea ! Web Filter

I want to use it !

Network On Demand !

Saves Money and effort !


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Not that fast !

Very few VNFs are publicly or commercially available and specially on ARM

VNFs ?

What should be done to enable VNFs development ?


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Strong Compute

Virtualization support

High bandwidth network IO

Hardware accelerators

….

VNF Requirements : Hardware


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Virtualization Ecosystem

Data Plane Ecosystem

Software Mainline Support (Upstreaming)

Management and control

Deployment and Orchestration

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VNF Requirements : Software


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VNFs Challenge

Commodity Hardware Almost no affordable hardware available

Mostly expensive x86 hardware is accessible

Almost no community developers Mostly employees in companies with access to

expensive hardware (x86)

Community Developers

NFV Technology is accessible to few only ! NFV should reach the masses of developers to have

enough VNFs availability !

What is Missing ?


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Introducing Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K vSoC family

*http://www.anandtech.com/show/9184/arm-reveals-cortex-a72-architecture-details

Available today

The only Production Device featuring Cortex-A72 CPUs

ARMADA 8K ARMADA 7K

Armada 8040 Armada 8020

Armada 7040 Armada 7020


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ARMADA 8040 vSoC

State-of-Art Features and Connectivity 2x10GbE + 4x2.5GbE connectivity

Advanced Packet Processor

Advanced Security Engine

SATA3.0, USB3.0, PCIe3.0

Quad Cortex-A72 @ 2.0GHZ Highest Performance ARM CPU

Better Performance and power than Cortex-A57

End to End Virtualization Full ARMv8 CPU Virtualization

Full I/O Virtualization

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ARMADA 8040 Software Ecosystem

Linux

UEFI U-Boot

netmap

Upstream Support

Public Git

Open Source

Mainline Linux Mainline ODP

Mainline U-Boot Mainline UEFI

More to come ...


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ARMADA 7K/8K vSoC @ NFV Scene

Enterprise vCPE

Home

Branch/Corporate

Service Provider ARMADA

7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

ARMADA 7K/8K

Home vCPE

SDN Controller

Centralized vCPE

Centralized vCPE


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How can ARMADA 8040 help in bringing NFV to everyday ARM VNF developer


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Introducing ARMADA 8040 Networking Community Board

• Quad Cortex-A72 @ 2.0GHZ

• DDR4 (64-bit, ECC)

• 2 x 10GbE

• 1 x 2.5GbE

• 1 x 1GbE

• 1 x PCIex4 Gen3.0

• 4 x SATA3.0

• 1 x USB3.0

• 1 x microSD

• 1 x MCI

• 96Boards low speed expansion slot


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• Standard Mini-iTX Form Factor

• Price: 349$

• Pre-orders available now ($50 discount) • Through our partner, SolidRun: https://www.solid-

run.com/product/armada-8040-networking-

community-board/

• For more information, see ARMADA 8040 page:

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-

processors/armada-80xx/

• Email :

[email protected]

Affordable & Accessible Network community Board

Introducing ARMADA 8040 Networking Community Board

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ARMADA 8040 vSoC - Summary

Affordable & Accessible Networking Community

Board

Quad Core Cortex-A72 @ 2.0 GHZ

Full CPU and IO Virtualization support

Data Plane software ecosystem

Open Source and mainline support

U-Boot

Advanced Networking and Rich Connectivity Advanced Packet Processor and Security Engine

1Gbps / 2.5Gbps / 10 Gbps, PCIe3.0, USB3.0 , SATA3.0


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ARMADA 8040 Networking Community Board brings NFV Technology to the Masses

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ARMADA Networking Community Links summary: • ARMADA 8040 page:

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-80xx/

• Pre-orders through our partner, SolidRun:

https://www.solid-run.com/product/armada-8040-networking-community-board/

• Email : [email protected]

• Press Release: http://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID=8317

Thank You !

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