Lightning Talk: NSM, Network Service Mesh at Scale for Telco... Giang Tran, Ericsson & Lionel Jouin
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-05-19

Lightning Talk: NSM, Network Service Mesh at Scale for Telco Networking - Giang Tran, Ericsson & Lionel Jouin, Ericsson Software Technology

Network Service Mesh (NSM), a CNCF sandbox project, offers a framework for building network services that addresses current networking challenges for Telco Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs) deployed on Kubernetes. What does this imply? And how can NSM be brought in for advanced use-cases? This speech will present a framework for network services extensions using NSM as foundation for addressing the networking challenges seen around Telco CNFs. Such CNFs inherently have high demands on networking capabilities such as VPN e2e network separation & isolation, connectivity through acceleration hardware, L3 forwarding and LB of Telco protocols as a Service (aaS). In addition, Telco CNFs require scalability and high availability. The design is realized by the open-source Meridio project published on GitHub. Issues related to NSM found during the implementation; and how they have been addressed by the community will be put forward.