OpenStack and NFV (TelcoCloud)

Learn OpenStack and network function virtualization NFV together.

Created by: Asad Khan
Systems Solution Architect at Ericsson

What Will I Learn?

• Excellent Hands-On experience on all the OpenStack & NFV components. Build your own lab (for free) & create VMs & VNFs
• Completely understand the purpose of Virtualization & Cloud computing & also understand why Openstack is essential for mobile operators.
• Excellent understanding & decoupling of TelcoCloud components. Journey of a legacy Telco node from a proprietory machine to a Virtual network function (VNF).
• Capacity planning for cloud infrastructure, Deep dive in Openstack networking concepts, Basic linux hands-on
• ETSI - MANO, NFV & SDN concepts
• Advanced OpenStack topics for VNF performance like CPU pinning, NUMA awareness & Hugepages
• Advanced networking topics like OVS, DPDK & SRIOV

Requirements

• Absolutely nothing. I cover everything from scratch however, it will be good to have basic knowledge of Linux & Networking
• No programming knowledge required.
• You just need your own time & zeal to learn this course. The biggest prerequisite is our own will-power. Rest, be assured about the contents

Target audience

• Any Telecom Engineer who wants to shift his career from Legacy to Cloud - System integrators, RAN engineers, Core network, Packet core , RF , Maintenence (O&M), Transmission, Configuration, Network
• Sales people - Sales engineers, Pre-sales enginners, Solution engineers
• Managers - Project managers, Product managers, Incident & Problem managers
• Budding TelcoCloud enthusiasts who aspires to be a - Solution architect, Solution designer, Cloud engineer, Cloud integrator, etc
• Any managment executive who wants to understand NFV & OpenStack