Case Study
Collaboration between Red Hat, Dell and Big Switch for a tier-1 US Service Provider embracing large scale NFV deployments on OpenStack withSDN
Collaboration between Red Hat, Dell and Big Switch for a tier-1 US Service Provider embracing large scale NFV deployments on OpenStack withSDN
© Big Switch Networks 1 Case Study: Industry’s Largest NFV Deployment Collaboration between Red Hat, Dell and Big Switch for a tier-1 US Service Provider embracing large scale NFV deployments on OpenStack with SDN NFV deployments represent some of the most demanding workloads in OpenStack clouds, yet the economic and operational promise of NFV makes this a high-value technical challenge for service providers worldwide. This paper will discuss the collaboration between Dell, Red Hat and Big Switch for a tier-1 US service provider in the industry’s largest deployment of NFV infrastructure to date. Four key areas of collaboration were needed to bring the deployment from lab to production: § Resiliency & Performance at Scale § Design & Deployment Flexibility § Re