Autoscaling with VCCAP and StableNet^®

Infosim^® and Dimension Data PoC

What is VCCAP? Already in 2013, Dimension Data decided to get involved in new and upcoming application virtualization concepts for Service Providers. The Virtualized Carrier Core Application Platform (VCCAP) was born to combine IaaS with SDN under the hood of ETSI-NFV concepts. Dimension Data selected best-of-breed hardware from their different vendors and followed open standards to build their infrastructure. They are using OpenStack as Virtual Infrastructure Management Layer and different service orchestrators for application onboardings and lifecycle management. The entire setup is hosted in their data center in Frankfurt. For a showcase at TM Forum Digital Transformation World in Nice, Infosim^® added StableNet^® to VCCAP to illustrate how to manage carrier grade environments based on the ETSI-NFV framework.

Demonstrated live in Nice, the PoC showed how StableNet^® can be used in cloud environments to monitor web application load and adapt to changing conditions so that applications can adapt to them. Among others, the following use case was shown: Web application was rolled out in a fully automated fashion in OpenStack private cloud. Bulk of HTTP GET requests was generated with stepwise increasing load profile by IXIA IxLoad. StableNet^® was provisioned to monitor the load of application and instructed by a business logic script to detects it and to triggers scale out. This logic was also designed to free up resources as soon as traffic load dropped.

TechTalk Summits 2019, New York City

Events

November 7th, 2019

TechTalk Summits is a great opportunity for leaders in the technology community to network in a social setting after work.

Infosim® announces release of StableNet® 9.0

News

Würzburg/Austin/Singapore, December 20th, 2019

Infosim® announces their yearly StableNet® Release 9.0. The new release offers major performance and usability improvements, including an improved GUI scaling on high resolution monitors. It is now possible to set up StableNet® without root access. We have also improved the zero-touch module and extended the monitoring possibilities for Cisco ACI.