SDN and NFV have recently changed the way we operate networks. By decoupling control and data plane operations and virtualising their components, they have opened up new frontiers towards reducing network ownership costs and improving usability and efficiency. Recently, their applicability has moved towards public telecommunications networks, with concepts such as the cloud-CO that have pioneered its use in access and metro networks: an idea that has quickly attracted the interest of network operators. By merging mobile, residential and enterprise services into a common framework, built around commoditised data centre types of architectures, future embodiments of this CO virtualisation concept could achieve significant capital and operational cost savings, while providing customised network experience to high-capacity and low-latency future applications. This tutorial provides an overview of the various frameworks and architectures outlining current network disaggregation trends that are leading to the virtualisation/cloudification of central offices. It also provides insight on the virtualisation of the access-metro network, showcasing new software functionalities like the virtual \ac{DBA} mechanisms for \acp{PON}. In addition, we explore how it can bring together different network technologies to enable convergence of mobile and optical access networks and pave the way for the integration of disaggregated ROADM networks. Finally, this paper discusses some of the open challenges towards the realisation of networks capable of delivering guaranteed performance, while sharing resources across multiple operators and services.
翻译:SDN和NFV最近改变了我们运行网络的方式,通过拆分控制和数据平面操作,并虚拟化其组件,它们开辟了新的边界,降低网络所有权成本,提高可用性和效率。最近,它们的适用性转向了公共电信网络,其概念包括云-CO,在接入和地铁网络中率先使用云-CO:这一想法迅速吸引网络运营商的兴趣。通过将移动、住宅和企业服务合并为一个共同框架,围绕商品化数据中心的建筑类型建立起来,这一CO虚拟化概念的未来体现可以实现巨大的资本和运行成本节约,同时向高能力和低延迟的未来应用程序提供定制网络经验。这一指导性提供了各种框架和结构的概览,概述了当前导致中央办公室虚拟化/封闭的网络分类趋势。它也使人们深入了解了接入网的虚拟化、住宅和企业服务,展示了虚拟化数据中心(CDBA)的虚拟虚拟化机制等新的软件功能。此外,我们探索了如何将网络定制化,同时将多功能化的网络和多功能化网络化化,以便最终将多功能化的网络整合起来。