The New NFV Powerhouse

Leveraging Pure-Play Virtualization for Customer Choice

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Recap: Overture Acquisition Drivers

• Shared vision around cloud and virtualized networking architecture• Complements ADVA FSP 150 programmable NFV-ready hardware

• Comprehensive software and end-to-end orchestration

• Combined, most advanced solution set for virtualized networks

• Strong customer and product synergy• Creates number one player in Ethernet access devices market

• Complete solution set for all access applications

• Cross-selling opportunities into each other’s customer base

• Additional North American customers; strong global Tier 1 presence

• People• Great talent, strong cultural overlap, additional N American presence

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What Are We Announcing?

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February 17 Announcement

• ADVA Optical Networking launches a new division called Ensemble

• Combines the software engineering capabilities of ADVA Optical Networking and the award-winning NFV portfolio of its most recent acquisition – Overture

• The ADVA Ensemble solution presents communication service providers with the industry’s most comprehensive NFV product suite available

• Users now have an incredible range of choice as to how they implement NFV – choice of hardware platforms, choice of software vendors and choice of deployment locations

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Ensemble Leadership Team

James Buchanan

GM

Sunil Menon

R&D

Chris Swan

BD

Mike Heffner

PLM

Prayson Pate

CTO

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Ensemble Use Cases

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• Customer Problem• Limited operational automation in

appliance-based solutions

• No flexibility for new service introduction

• Stack of boxes required for each new customer

• Challenges• Avoid being locked into expensive,

proprietary appliances

• Enable service activation without new appliances or truck-rolls

• Provide ability to easily change service offering over time

Use Case: Problem With Today’s Services

Cloud Provider

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Solution: NFV-Based Service Delivery

Cloud Provider

• Solution• Ensemble Connector for Carrier

Ethernet and accelerated vSwitch

• VNFs from any supplier can be deployed

• Deployed on standard server

• Benefits• Rapidly launch new services, drive

new revenues and reduce costs

• Real-time, low-touch service deployment and activation

• Subscriber self-provisioning capability for new services

ProVM or vSE

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Use Case: Virtualized Networks

• Enables operators to join

the fray by delivering

NFVIaaS along with Carrier

Ethernet connectivity

• Enables overlay service

providers or enterprises to

manage their own network

without buying or managing

hardware

To this:

From this:

Provider YEAD

Provider X

FSP 150 vSECustomer

Provider Y FSP 150 ProVM

or vSE

Provider XVNFs

Customer

Provider X

VNFs

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Use Case: Micro Data Center

Multi-Tenant Building

Co-locate with end-users to provide network and secure cloud services

GatewayRouter

Customer 2: FSP 150 vSE

PublicInternet

Micro Data Center

NOC

Customer 1: FSP 150 vSE

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Ensemble Architecture and Components

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Ensemble Solution Architecture

ACCESS GATEWAY COMPUTE NODE

SUPPORTING APPLICATIONS

CLOUD MANAGEMENT

NFV & SDN MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION

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Ensemble Components

Ensemble Connector is a high performance network virtualization platform available for hosting multi-vendor VNFs

Ensemble Orchestrator is an ETSI MANO-compliant NFV orchestration platform supporting end-to-end VNF service lifecycle management

Ensemble Controller is a set of networking applications delivered on open SDN frameworks

Ensemble Analytics leverages big data technologies that provides actionable intelligence for service orchestration and assurance

Ensemble Registrar is the central management platform for registration, authentication, access control, licensing, configuration and VNF inventory

Ensemble Dashboard provides the primary graphical user interface and visualization tools for interacting with Ensemble applications

Thank You

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