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ADVERTORIAL

NFV Solutions Atsuo Kawamura,
for Network Senior Vice President,
Service Innovation NEC

NEC network functions virtualization solutions help innovate network service NFV Solutions Orchestrating Innovative Network Services
experiences and boost business opportunities with optimizing TCO.

Communication service infrastructure around the world is having to cope with rapidly-
growing, massive volumes of data traffic, on ever-lower levels of investment. At the same
time, communication service providers need to create new innovative services and
operations to provide new user experiences. Simply extending existing network capacity
will not provide CSPs with the opportunity to carve new revenue, offer new customer
experiences, or optimize TCO. NEC’s NFV solutions can provide tailor-made solutions to
suit each individual CSP, and help them meet specific challenges head on.

SDN/NFV OFFERS NEW REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES AND SERVICE EXPERIENCES
NEC offers advanced software-defined networking and network functions virtualization

technologies that can achieve optimal virtualization resource management, sophisticated
orchestration and service chaining. With service agility and new business opportunities, it
provides various benefits for service users.

• Prompt service launch on demand: Service users no longer have to wait for new
services to be launched, and service providers don’t have to sacrifice potential revenue
by launching services before demand increases. Launching new services using complex
legacy solutions combined with numerous dedicated hardware boxes can take months.
In sharp contrast, NEC’s orchestration and service chaining technologies can shorten
lead times drastically by instantly deploying, provisioning and chaining necessary virtual
appliances to serve individual service users on demand.

• Enriched, flexible, innovative services: NEC’s NFV solutions can chain simple, OPEN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH WITH FIELD-PROVEN RELIABILITY
dynamically-virtualized functions to satisfy service change requests in real-time. A An open approach enables multi-vendor platforms and optimized and organic service chaining,
specific set of security functions, such as firewalls and IDS, can be added to enterprise
customer accounts on demand. Also NEC’s virtual appliance ecosystem creates a resulting in investment and cost optimization, and service and operation flexibility. NEC’s open-
broader service menu by combining various partners’ appliances with NEC’s appliances. concept NFV solutions comply with ETSI standards. The VNF applications running on open
Each customer can start using rich, on-demand services immediately after ordering platforms supporting OpenStack and on mass-produced COTS servers with industry-standard
them from a service portal. hypervisors. It runs in ecosystem environment that are shared with third-party vendors.

• Flexible service payment and contracts: Service capacity can be changed automatically on NEC’s NFV applications have proven its openness and interoperability in trials led by a
demand or in a planned manner through optimized virtualization resource management. Tier 1 operator in which multiple vendors participated. NEC's vEPC successfully operated
Planned capacity upgrades can be designed to coincide precisely with business or workforce on the virtualization platforms built by each participating vendor, and this testing
expansions. Real-time, on-demand capacity upgrades can be enjoyed by enterprises such as demonstrated that systems can be built freely using vendor-independent combinations.
online gaming companies that experience limited period of heavy testing.
NEC employs its deep knowledge and rich experience amassed over many decades, to
NEC can increase the benefits of NFV solutions for CSPs even further by offering provide an NFV solution that is open, but which also assures carrier-grade quality, including
network-wide orchestration. NEC orchestration offers vendor-agnostic, end-to-end control latency and availability required for CSP’s life-critical services such as voice over LTE
over entire networks spanning NFV, SDN-based transport networks, data centers and (VoLTE). NEC’s vEPC has proven its high availability, stability and reliability in field
traditional, physical-based network equipment. CSPs can enjoy the benefits of SDN/NFV operations spanning over a year to date in Myanmar.
without replacing existing equipment. Leveraging NEC’s rich experience and deep
knowledge in both telecom networks and IT, together with NetCracker’s expertise in the 2015: NFV BUSINESS TO TAKE OFF
OSS/BSS field, NEC’s end-to-end orchestration can offer total solutions for entire networks, NEC believes 2015 will be the year that NFV business starts in earnest. Operators and vendors
tailored to the needs of individual operators and the specific challenges they face.
have now built a common consensus for open ecosystems using standard NFV architecture. As
NFV SOLUTIONS TO OPTIMIZE TCO a leader in the NFV field, NEC is looking to a network-wide open ecosystem that brings much
NEC’s NFV solutions can also help optimize operational cost, in various aspects including greater benefits for carriers in terms of network service agility, flexibility and programmability.
NEC is committed to maximizing the benefits of SDN/NFV for CSPs by developing open
elastic system configuration, flexible deployment, remote and automatic operation, the use partnerships with third-party vendors and players across the SDN/NFV industry.
of common hardware resources, and the reuse of existing network equipment, etc. In fact,
the primary motivation for Telefonica’s joint verification tests of NEC’s world-first virtualized NEC having rich experience and
customer premises equipment (vCPE), was to reduce operating costs by removing the need deep knowledge in both telecom
for on-site maintenance visits, moving the CPE service out of the home to a centrally- network and IT field knows how to
controlled location on the network edge. NEC’s virtualized evolved packet core (vEPC) orchestrate to optimize network in
gateway solution separates the data and control planes to allow flexible deployment of data both aspects. Together with
plane components. This facilitates local offloading of traffic and helps reduce the expense NetCracker’s expertise in OSS/BSS field, NEC’s end-to-end orchestration provides total
of transporting massive data-plane traffic nationwide. solution to the entire network in best-suited manner tailored to each operator’s needs
and facing challenges.

www.nec.com/sdn

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