The Telco Cloud Infrastructure Edge Reference Architecture network solution consists of separate orchestration, management, control, and data planes.

Management Plane: This plane is responsible for central configuration and monitoring. The management plane helps with the automatic onboarding of CE/PE routers into the NSX-T Edge T0/T1 overlay.

Control Plane: This plane builds and maintains the network topology and makes decisions on traffic flows.

Data Plane: This plane is responsible for forwarding packets based on decisions from the control plane.

Note:

The WAN connectivity between Central and Edge sites is beyond the scope of this reference architecture; customers must ensure connectivity between the two sites. All Edge Sites are connected to its respective aggregation site which is the corresponding Core data center for the region.

Figure 1. Telco Edge Deployment Network Design
Telco Edge Deployment Network Design