In typical IT equipment rooms, cabinets installed in rear leading-out mode are as follows.

The following figure shows

the front view:

Cloud Insights: NFV Theory and Practice

The following figure shows the rear view:

01 Network: Overview
Devices are installed with a full
understanding of customer
requirements and consideration of
power, number of terminals,
bottom-heavy device sequence, cable
length, and cabling direction.

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 If a cabinet cannot provide sufficient power, an E9000 subrack may be deployed in each cabinet. Network and storage In traditional networks, each (several) cabinet is an NE and provides specific network functions. A PS network can be set
devices with little power consumption are installed separately in the cabinets containing E9000 subracks. However, the up by connecting the cabinets according to the network topology in the above figure. However, under the NFV
key issue is that hardware resources need to be combined to set up a PS network, which allows UEs in mobile networks architecture, these cabinets provide computing, storage, and network functions.
to continuously access external networks with a high quality.

vU2000
U2000

vPRS
CloudPRS

vUSN
CloudUSN

MME

CloudUGW
eRAN vUGW
Internet
SAE-GW

The following operations are required during network planning:

1. Deploy function NEs according to customers' expectation on network functions.
2. Allocate appropriate computing, storage, and network resources to set up capability entities according to traffic
requirements and device functions.
3. Combine computing resources on different boards and subracks. Connect storage resources to NEs. Properly
configure network connections to enable different boards and subracks to connect to external networks clearly and
safely.
4. Install software into capability entities to realize different network functions – VNFs.

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 Therefore, in the network design for an NFV system, the plan and design need to be implemented from the dimensions
U2000 of capability, distribution, and relationship for computing, storage, and network resources.

Resource Capability Distribution Relationship

The computing capability

CloudPRS depends on the computing
CloudUSN
volume. According to the
Computing traffic model, identify how
many computing resources
resource
are needed to ensure that
is the system has sufficient Plan and deploy all the
CloudUGW processing capabilities to computing, storage, and
support the service traffic. network resources on
Design the topology
different boards, subracks,
according to the service
The storage capability storage devices, and switch
direction and management
depends on the devices to realize network
relationship of traditional
performance and capacity. reliability, security, and
networks. Specially design
According to the service performance. Optimal
Storage the resource mounting
characteristics and traffic performance, security
relationship and network
resource volume, plan the storage (avoiding single point
connections according to
resources for NEs with failure or providing disaster
the characteristics of NFV
different performance, recovery), or separation of
architecture.
reliability, and capacity. internal networks from
external networks can be
used as criteria during the
Plan network resources, planning.
including bandwidths and
interoperability for different
Network NEs. Ensure that different
modules and network
resource
segments in the system
realize inter-blade and
inter-subrack Layer 2 and
Layer 3 interoperation.

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