Okay. Hello. My name is Modelliniag. I'm product manager for the 5GNH at OpenEblast Systems.
And today I would like to present to you a few skates related to the highly distributed cloud architecture
for Telco and VD deployments. I split my presentation in three parts. Firstly, yeah, representing
OpenEblast Systems and talking about OpenEblah. I need to introduce these notions to you.
After that, I would like to enter more in that related to these use cases. And in the end,
I will present a very easy example on how we manage to test these use cases. Firstly,
OpenEblah is the product. OpenEblah Systems is the company. OpenEblah Systems has developed and
supported OpenEblah since 2010 and is a European open source technology vendor. Headquartered in Madrid,
but also having offices in Brussels, Bruno and USA. And yeah, we are a widely spread team across
Europe, US and Central America. This is a success story that has emerged from new innovation programs
arriving nowadays to be the leader in several innovation projects like cognitive cloud or advanced
5G, playing the key role in access forums here say and sharing the U cloud alliance and EPSIC's
industry facilitation group. We are also members of Linux Foundation, cloud native computing
foundation, Linux foundation edge and silver. That is about the company, now related to the product.
We are handling the virtualization layer, offering a simple and simple solution and a light profile
ensuring an extensible architecture and supporting multi-tenancy and multi-VM's. And art so
is DevOps friendly. It supports virtual machines, system containers, and on top of virtual machines
Kubernetes clusters. Talking about Kubernetes, we have our own distribution called one key
and insights that distribution we have different add-ons. All those in order to support cloud
edge continuum applications. We have multiple advantages trying to combine simplicity and agility
of public cloud together with the performance and security of the private cloud. We try to bring
the real freedom to your enterprise cloud, letting you to control as you wish your cloud,
having customer approach to security privacy and management. We give the freedom to choose
the infrastructure, offering a parallel choice of infrastructure and cloud providers,
but also the freedom to change, avoiding vendor location. We support any kind of application.
We measure Kubernetes and virtual machines. We deploy manage and provision those,
any type of infrastructure across cloud edge continuum and any type of cloud.
Saying those, let's get closer a little bit to our use cases. One H5G is a Spanish project
that brought us in the telco and 5G world. And from this project, we were able to shape
better our priorities, bringing intelligence and automation for the operation of distributed edge
systems and beyond 5G infrastructures. We started focusing on 5G, but nowadays of course 5G
being deployed, we have to shift our focus to beyond 5G or 6G how it's called. We need to satisfy
the demand for opening European technology for beyond 5G telco cloud. We need to integrate the
functionality of beyond 5G to improve the cloud continuum and to expand it, making use of open
solutions to manage a moment of private and widely spread beyond 5G networks. As said, we need to
expand the cloud edge continuum to new beyond 5G infrastructures and to facilitate the distributed
management of cloud edge continuum for business and users. All those in order to create an
ecosystem of research and innovation of advanced beyond 5G networks for next generation cloud edge.
Talking about top priorities, as I said, we started as or we are the result as multiple European
projects and we continue to support European Commission in all its ideas and diverse or initiatives.
One of them is to enable the European Union started to have 10,000 climate neutral
highly secure edge nodes. Here we are to what means highly distributed telco networks.
If you look in the digital decade policy program for 2030, you will find this picture going from
own device to cloud that can go thousands of kilometers away from devices and yeah, sovereign
edge initiative will try to put all the European in-house initiatives in this big idea of
European Union and to try to bring the cloud in a huge house cloud to this idea.
Open Nebula Systems is committed to support this through multi-country large scale projects dedicated
to data infrastructure, 5G communications, high-performance computing, AI farms, public administration,
digital innovation hubs and to ensure that 75% of cloud update by EU enterprises in 2030.
Also, we try to support the European SMEs willing to explore innovative business models.
Another example of what means highly distributed cloud architecture is when operators are having
very distributed network beyond the borders of a country or when new business solutions are appearing on
the market, offering services across multiple countries or even multiple continental continents.
Pricewaterhouse cooperates defined last year. This kind of new business models highlighted
in the right table and what happens when we have a company that is solution co-platform co and
net co developing solutions and products for business customers as convention services,
bringing orchestrating and brokering services among multiple network companies and
wholesale buyers or owning and operating fixed or mobile network that sell access and capacity
to telecom as multi-asset world seller. The things are getting much more complicated to support
those and we need to deal with long-fat networks that are having very high latencies and
small throughput. Besides that, the target architecture should support new and very complex
VM-based workloads such as firewalls, load balancers, routers and other non-generic compute services.
In order to support this kind of initiative, so this kind of business models,
we've in openable assistance, we try to adapt openable or with or better said, we try to map
openable out to different initiatives. First of them talking about visualization is of course
it's in a VMAM. I'm using here I think a release three picture and but the purpose is to say
that openable is a VM in this context. Being robust and flexible, being designed for heterogeneous
infrastructure, managing the software images, the virtualization resources, the performance,
the NAV acceleration capabilities, but also ensuring the orchestration of usage and provisioning
of the virtual infrastructure. Having a northbound interface towards VMFM and NVVU, but also a
southbound interface to the NAVIs elements. In the same time, or in this context, as I highlighted before,
it's not enough only to talk about virtual infrastructure manager, but also run infrastructure
manager, which is a VM a little bit more particular. A second initiative to which openable
a tries to map itself is infrastructure and service, openable assistance being a general sponsor
of Linux Foundation in Europe City. Through that we are trying to ensure unified infrastructure
as service layer, supporting a deployment of 5G networks over cloud edge continuum,
and to that to easily and efficiently scale the networking computing capacity servers and
or storage resources to their cloud tailored for every specific use case. We want to bridge the cloud
edge continuum to the containers and service platform and in the same time to deliver the optimal
performance for the services built on top. I mentioned before that we have one key distribution
as well, that can act as a container as a service, but that will be led for a later phase.
Anyhow, I just want to mention that is offered by ourselves to telecom actors benefiting from
the control and orchestration down via a cap. Another flavor that open-nebula can fulfill in this context
is the facilitator of the revitalization. Last year, Gardner brought to everyone's attention
to the concept of revitalization, practically being a virtual to virtual migration.
And of course, that means that arises from the idea to address a viability or commercial risk.
It's a concept at its peak, being applicable to 5% to 20% of the companies.
This has been on the market since more than 10 years, but now it's as its peak, as I said.
And open-nebula systems supports this. And in the same time, tries to avoid
devirtualization. That's a very big risk for the virtualization in this moment.
And open-nebula has a very particular approach mapped on the advantages that open-nebula can offer
what also on the projects where it participates. It offers a unified management for a single control
pain. It ensures an easing migration from VMware, including dedicated feature and workflows.
So we have developed that. We have developed those specifically for this use case.
We try to enhance the security using open source solution for both VMs and containers.
We ensure the scalability, helping to adapt VM container workloads to meet dynamic network demands,
but also ensure the coexistence and seamless integration with other platforms.
Because, of course, migrating from one virtualization platform to another cannot be done like that.
In its time, so the coexistence is much needed.
Coming back to this kind of example.
Of course, we have to simulate that once we enter in this kind of project,
the things will go smoothly. And for that, we perform an exercise with our partner
and we try to simulate the long-fat networks. I mentioned them before and I would like to come back
to them as I said. We have latencies that are over 200 milliseconds and the throughput is limited
even to 100 megabits per second. Moreover, our partner said, we don't care about the infrastructure.
We don't want to focus on that. That's your job. We want to focus on the functionality of the VMFs
and those have to work without interruption. We want to avoid putting too much effort into
underlying layer. And on top of that, we need to ensure that the coexistence of VM and containers
can work. The points of presence that our partner had were resource constraint and more
over they wanted multi-tenacity. So we entered in a very long exercise with them and that's still
continuous. Ensuring that we have different types of points of presence, here I'm highlighting
only two of them, a central one and a remote one, gathering storage networking, management, playing
APIs, webgoos and, of course, open-nabla.net manages everything. And open-nabla is there to ensure that
the migration of the VMs from one virtualization platform to another can be fulfilled. But also helps
our partner to grow its basis or to why it's network in other locations as well.
And yes, the tests were oriented towards virtual infrastructure manager because that was the language
that our partner speaks. And we had to have a tailored test scenarios to showcase open-nabla's
advantages. We started, of course, with VM-based features like host aggregation, back-apply recovery,
long-fat network support, authentication, access control mechanism. The second step consisted
into validating the VM-advanced features like tenant management, multi-image data store exposure,
automatic, and manual host placement, manual installation of VM movement and relocation
infrastructure usage and conception. And in the end, we showcased also the networking and enhanced
platform awareness features like, obviously as the PDK SRI or the PCAPT in Numa awareness,
your based Numa scheduling and Numa higher affinity, huge pages and CPU trading policies.
All those to ensure that automatic and demand deployments of points of presence of
bar metal support, bar metal servers are giving hypervisor is supported. We can use the existing infrastructure
and we can add the PDK SRI before enhancing the performance. We can ensure that the central
multi-tannent add-driven node management can exist and can support the whole deployment. We can
use efficiently the infrastructure that we have at node and points of presence that I'm
ensuring that open-nabla uses minimal hardware and everything else. Every other workload is using
the available hardware efficiently. And in the same time, we avoid locking, increase flexibility,
and we minimize the costs for our partner. Thank you very much, that was all, and that's
I said, everything started from this project and we move forward with that one in order to
map customer demands on our functionality and vice versa. Thank you very much.
Yes, please.
Epsices. Networks slices. We are not involved in that one.
We can talk about that. I presented only two flavors. My colleagues will come later and we
present another flavors. Some of them may be related to this one. Epsices, for example, which is
the biggest European open source project and that can be also another flavor that can be mapped
on clouded continuum and one of its sub-initiatives like Virtuaera that will be also presented.
Yes, please. So, both those European governments are around 5G on top of open stock and governance
on top of that. So, how do you position yourself? I mean, where do you see the market?
We are also as an alternative to top of stock. And we are, all types of stuff, I know,
are key are key things up and stuff. And we are in a place where the end of funders
are going to Kubernetes, right? Yes. I'm very sure for example, and if you prefer to have
their own Kubernetes and cluster, so I'm just thinking how you can, you know, how open the
Google can position in this market, but it's already top out. We are a recent, yes, sorry.
The gentleman here asked about how open, able, can be positioned in the 5G framework,
taking to account that most of the operators are using open stack for the virtualization layer.
And on top of that VNFs and moreover that operators are willing to move towards Kubernetes clusters.
From open stack. Well, as I said, we are as an alternative to open stack and a lot of operators
we like to migrate from that one, because when you deploy open stack, you need an army behind.
Here is a 5 minutes deployment. And it's not really, not really. Not really.
Not really. I read recently about a study that
looking at the 5G stand-alone. There are very few operators that are using that. And 5G stand-alone
was built for cloud-nated or having cloud-native in its base at its bases. Here, open-enbular
arrives. We are supporting a green field virtualization. We are supporting Kubernetes on top of
infrastructure service, on top of VMs, and also ensure the regularization, as I said.
It's not only about VMware, it's also about open stack. And we have had few successful projects
showcasing this kind of things. So it's not too late for us. On the contrary, we just arrived
on this market and we are coming with a huge package of features that can help operators transition
and make this kind of 5G deployments much smoother, easier to handle, easier to maintain.
Is anyone currently using it? I mean, I asked my question, but I'm more here with y'all
in conversation about it. I've got my hand out to you. Yes, please.
Yes.
What's the state of arms support? Have you seen the man for arms service in a few decades?
Yes. The gentleman here asked about the state of the arm and if we saw the demand of arm on the
market. Well, yes, we are on the verge to support it and express it through our EPSIC project.
We'll bring that on the market. And we see some of our potential customers requiring this kind of thing
because, as I said, we are supporting multiple types of clouds. And if we are getting closer to
this, to the device or to on premise, we say the need for supporting this kind of low resources
environments. Yes, please.
I was talking about an appla. Our video is also allowed like IC and occupation, for example,
when you call a border and you don't interrupt the connectivity one border and another one company.
Yeah, the gentleman here asked about if open ebola supports this kind of transition moving from one
country to another, crossing the border. I think that's what roaming is about, right? So you
was the boy and you don't lose the connectivity? You actually lose the connectivity?
Well, that for sure has to be handled at a higher level. It's not as the low level. We
managing the cloud edge continuum. We do not have this kind of capacity to handle this with the
upper layer messages between the coordinate work and the device for the for the telco. We ensure
that all the resources are met for the 5G or 6G workloads. And through that, after what's happening
at the upper layer is not all business anymore. Yes, please.
Yes. Very good question. The lady behind us does about what kind of workloads we have
on top of open ebola. And if we met this kind of picking us of different vendors, which we are
cooperating. Yeah, that's not so public yet. We have multiple projects. If you look on our website,
you will see a rise from Sweden that is public and uses multiple types of vendors on top of open
ebola enabling different types of workloads on top of our product. But open ebola being so flexible
hasn't created any issue for the moment, really regards to this kind of vendors. They works very
well. And our partners who took open ebola handled that complexity for us if exists. But
to our knowledge, it was some kind of like plug and play. Yeah. Any other questions?
Thank you.