A Carrier Grade Solution? The facts are checked

A fact-checker helps us to do the due diligence we should be doing to ensure we make the best choice for our needs.

As in politics, there are plenty of marketing claims out there and sometimes it’s hard to separate the fact from the fluff, and in some cases just plain fiction. This is why Wind River teamed up with HPE and Spirent to have Wind River Titanium Server validated by a respected third party validation and certification company, The Tolly Group.  The goal was to demonstrate and quantify exactly what we mean by ‘Carrier Grade,’ specifically in regards to performance and reliability.

Along with the Tolly Test Report which outlines the facts, a white paper titled, ‘Carrier Grade Performance and Reliability in Network Virtualisation’ was also produced to help put those facts into a business context by illustrating the impact of a high-performance, ultra-reliable solution in a virtualised telco environment. To complement the white paper a web seminar, ‘Is your NFV Platform Carrier-Grade? Prove it.’ was also recorded, which includes a live product demonstration.

HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade is a server platform that is built specifically for telecom deployments looking to leverage Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV.) Titanium Server is integrated into HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade.

Titanium Server is a high performance and ultra-reliable NFV infrastructure which can run a wide array of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs.) Titanium Server was purpose built to help Service Providers virtually deploy their services faster while reducing CAPEX and OPEX through increased efficiency and minimising downtime. Simply put, Titanium Server puts the Carrier Grade in HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade.

As a premier independent test lab and provider of third-party validation services, The Tolly Group was brought in because Wind River wanted to quantify precisely what sort of performance a service provider could, and should, expect when running our solution. We also wanted to validate our ability to keep a network up and running, and we wanted it done by a trusted, impartial agency.

Together, multiple test cases were defined and Tolly found that the HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade platform delivered consistent, high throughput and robust responses to failures. Integral to the HPE solution, Titanium Server’s integrated accelerated virtual switch (AVS) achieved:

• Line-rate 10GbE forwarding performance for a single VNF at a frame size of 256bytes.
• Line-rate 10GbE forwarding performance for multiple VNFs at a frame size of 512bytes.
• Consistent performance across ten test runs
• Consistent low latency of less than 50 microseconds across all packet sizes
• Link aggregation group (LAG) failover in 27 milliseconds
• Compute failure detection and recovery in 1 second

In the report , white paper  and web seminar, they are facts that are provided. Wind River define a ‘Carrier Grade’ NFVi platform and prove how our platform makes the grade.

Delving into the details behind the testing methodology, the results of the testing, and what those results could mean to your bottom line, and of course the lice demo is included in the web seminar.

This ‘fact checking’ provides essential information for a service provider to consider when selecting a platform to virtualise network infrastructure.

Courtesy of Wind River.