Telefonica in deal with Brocade for NFV solutions

Telecom company Telefónica has partnered with networking solutions provider Brocade for deployment of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions within the Telefónica NFV Reference Lab framework.

The establishment of NFV benchmarks is part of a joint effort by both the companies. In the tests performed by Telefonica, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter achieved 80 Gbps on a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Intel -based x86 server.

Deployed within a Red Hat KVM environment, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 was deployed as a single Virtual Machine (VM) and supported all of the server’s available ports at line rate.

“The promise of NFV is rapid service creation and highly elastic scalability. While virtualization is significant to achieving this agility, it has historically been the fundamental limiter to the kind of performance required for scalability,” said Enrique Algaba, network innovation and virtualization director at Telefónica.

“In less than two hours, we deployed the Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter from a memory stick and completed our performance tests in our NFV Reference Lab. These results are allowing us, as network operators, to aggressively change our perspective regarding what is possible with software-driven networking in order to accelerate the adoption and deployment of these revolutionary technologies,” said Francisco-Javier Ramón, head of Telefónica NFV Reference Lab.

In addition to Brocade vPlane technology, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter takes advantage of Intel  Xeon processor-based servers and the Intel  Data Plane Development Kit to achieve the performance required by the world’s largest telecommunication and service providers.

“The Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter has removed the performance barrier from the NFV adoption conversation and our focus is now on expanding its capabilities for broadest possible leverage across the service provider network,” said Kelly Herrell, VP and GM of Software Networking at Brocade.