28-29 APRIL 2015 Crowne Plaza Barcelona, Fira Center, Barcelona, Spain

SUPPORTED BY

1 5 - 1 7 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 5 M E L I A AV E N I D A , M A D R I D

G O L D S P O N S O R : S I LV E R S P O N S O R S : A S S O C I AT E S P O N S O R :

R E V I E W B E S T P R A C T I S E B U S I N E S S M O D E L S T O S U C C E S S F U L LY D E P L O Y A N D

M O N E T I Z E S D N & N F V

S E N I O R AT T E N D E E S

E X P E R T S P E A K E R SI N C LUD I NG :

S P O N S O R S & E X H I B I T O R S

F O R U M

F R E E -T O - AT T E N D F O R O P E R AT O R S

Dear Colleague, A very warm welcome to the VNF Management and Orchestration Conference! This year’s forum features over 20 engaging sessions across two days delivered by 20 of the industry’s leading Operators, Service Providers and Industry Innovators. Understanding VNFs & the NFV Infrastructure, Integration & Orchestration of VNFs, the Impact of NFV on Network Management & OSS, Lifecycle Service Orchestration and Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software are all among the core topics to be thoroughly explored during the 2015 Forum. Some of the industry’s leaders in VNF Management & Orchestration have joined us for the event including Telecom Italia, Sri Lanka Telecom, Colt, Verizon, ACG Research, PT Inovação, KVH, CTTC, Orange and the MEF, as well as our Host Operator Telefonica. The Forum relies on their support and we’re delighted to be offering free delegate passes to operator attendees as a result of their involvement. I’d also like to send a huge thank you to our conference Silver Sponsors Mavenir, PacketFront Sotware and QualiSystems, as well as our Panel Partner Overture for supporting the gathering. Please take some time to visit their stands and also take part in our live “Demo Tour” during Day One to learn about the innovative technologies available to you. Over the course of the next two days, I hope you take full advantage of the numerous learning and networking opportunities and take away many new contacts and ideas for your business. Our VIP networking sessions take place in the morning of both main conference days; speak to our VIP Relations Managers, Lucia Santos for further details. Should you have any further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact any member of the IIR Telecoms and Technology team. We hope that you find the event both stimulating and informative!

Kind regards, Jamie Davies Senior Conference Producer IIR Telecoms and Technology Wireless is available at the

venue please see the registration desk for the code

Tweet about the Forum by using

#VNFOrchestration

Welcome

FIRE & EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

In the Event of Fire

The fire alarm sound for the venue is a siren.

Should you hear the signal to evacuate, please leave immediately by the nearest exit.

The assembly point is located outside the hotel or located next to the parking access.

Do not stop to collect personal belongings and do not use the lifts.

When you reach the assembly point, remain there and await further instruction.

If You Discover a Fire

Raise the alarm by pull station.

Please leave by the nearest exit and go to the assembly point and await further instruction.

In the Event of a Medical Emergency

In the event of an accident or an emergency contact a member of staff or dial these numbers.

If you are using a mobile phone or dialing from an outside line, dial 00 34 93 4262223 If you are using an in-house phone dial these extensions. First Aid/ Medical as appropriate: 9 Fire: 9 Security: 9 First aid is available from reception. Where a defibrillator is available, please state its location: reception

In the case of any emergency situation you must follow instructions given by the venue staff.

Arrangements for disabled evacuation are as follows: Hotel staff evacuate the guests to the assembly point, and also we do have a wheel chair available.

If you have any queries about the fire procedure or you require special assistance in any of the above circumstances then please approach a member of staff.

For both safety and security purposes ensure that gangways and fire exits are kept unobstructed at all times and that personal items are kept with you. NB. If you see anything suspicious then report it immediately to a member of staff.

Health and Safety

You can download the presentations from the online networking tool. You should have already been sent your username and password by email. If not, please speak to the Mollie Lloyd: mlloyd@iir-telecoms.com To access the presentations click on the Presentations tab at the top of the screen you will then be asked to complete the evaluation form on line before you can download the presentations. The link to the networking tool is http://networking.vnfmanagement.com

Downloading Presentations & Networking

SILVER SPONSORS

PANEL PARTNER

Thank you to our Sponsors

VNF MANAGEMENT & ORCHESTRATION SUMMIT

Agenda Day One: Tuesday 28th April 2015

08.00 – 09.00

Morning Refreshments & Registration

09.00 – 09.05

Welcome from the IIR Telecoms & Technology Team

09.05 – 09.10

Chair’s Opening Remarks: Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead, Cloud Computing and Virtual Infrastructure Technologies, ACG Research

Understanding VNFs & the NFV Infrastructure

0910-0930

Case-Study Validating the Operationality of NFV Infrastructure

When you put a virtual network function on an NFV you need to validate that the virtual function works on the NFV infrastructure – so, how do you do this? Join this panel discussion to find out:

• How you validate that the NFV infrastructure is working • How to ensure that NFV is ready for testing and fault finding • What is the minimum level of automation required • How you measure that VNFs are set up correctly

Marco Ughetti, NFV Orchestration Chief Architect, Telecom Italia

0930-0950

Operator Challenges in Softwarizing Networks

• Network Transformation: Legacy to NGN to Softwarization • Technical and non-technical challenges • The importance of right Softwarization strategy

Anuradha Udunuwara, Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom

0950-1030

Panel Discussion: Round Up of SDN and NFV Initiatives: Where Are They Now and What Has Been Achieved?

Led by the industry’s leading initiatives, the panellists will provide you with answers to some fundamental questions, including

• How are SDN and NFV progressing in telecom networks to date? • How are SDN and NFV transforming networks? • How are standards evolving? • Are we making as much progress towards implementing SDN and NFV this year as

we wanted? • What are the expectations for the development of SDN and NFV for the coming

year?

Alfonso Tierno Sepulveda, Senior Researcher - Network Virtualization Initiative, Telefónica

Javier Benitez, Senior Network Architect, Colt Anuradha Udunuwara, Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom

1030-1125

Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking

What is speed networking?

Speed Networking is an efficient, face-to-face professional networking model similar to “speed dating” that enables participants to make new contacts through one-on-one focused conversations lasting

Agenda

between 2-4 minutes. Speed networking helps you forge new connections during the event. These are informal, fun and highly effective introduction sessions giving you a maximum exposure to a large number of conference participants in the shortest time!

1125-1150

Fireside Chat: When Does Software Become a VNF and How Do You Make it Ready for NFV?

There is a lot of misconception on what NFV is - putting a piece of software in the cloud does not make it NFV, with this in mind the panellists will look at:

• What needs to happen for a piece of software to become a VNF • How to ensure that the VNF is ready to be deployed on a NFV infrastructure • How to launch new virtual functions on an NFV infrastructure

Ashay Chaudhary, Lead Cloud Architect, Verizon

1150-1215

NFV DevOps Orchestration

• How are carriers today building cloud-enabled models for rapid proof of concepts, service innovation, live environment hand-offs between teams, collaborative, asymmetric certification cycles and continuous integration.

• How can DevOps move beyond the borders of the service provider organization by enabling cloud-based integration and innovation eco-systems to drive service attachment through encouraging open development communities against service APi’s

Maya Ber Lerner, VP Sales, QualiSystems

1215-1240

Practical Approaches to NFV Orchestration Deployment

NFV promises huge cost savings, increases service agility and network flexibility. However, there are some practical approaches to consider that allows operators to effectively manage NFV infrastructure. In this session you will gain insights from Mavenir Systems while deploying NFV Orchestration technologies.

In this presentation the audience will have an opportunity to learn and discuss about:

• What strategy to implement • What changes to bring in the mode of operation • When and what to virtualize

Carlos Molina, Director of Platform Strategy, Mavenir

1240-1415

Eat with the experts: Operator hosted lunch tables - We know that hearing someone speak for 30 or 40 minutes might not always provide enough opportunity for your burning questions to be answered, which is why each of your speakers will be on separate tables during this networking lunch break – so you can do just that.

Integration & Orchestration of VNFs

1415-1440

The Holy Grail: Finding an Orchestration Platform that has the Ability to Unify Multiple Vendor Offerings

The desire of the operators is to find one orchestration platform that supports multi-vendor functions. The objective of this session is to look at the vendors who claim that they can offer this to ensure it is not just marketing hype but the real deal.

Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead, Cloud Computing and Virtual Infrastructure Technologies, ACG Research

1440-1510

Orchestrating Network Services: A Big Data flavour

• How will the T-NOVA, a FP7 framework project allow operators to deploy VNFs for their own needs and offer their customers’ value added services composed with

Agenda

one or more of those NFs, in an NFV marketplace • Understand why a scalable and reliable infrastructure has to be in place in order

for dynamic and optimal (re-)allocation of computing and communication resources to happen in an acceptable time-frame for each one of those value-added services and the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are kept

• Discuss the core elements of the infrastructure, namely the orchestrator which accepts requests for services’ instantiations and, based on the currently available infrastructure usage and the requested SLA for that service, optimally allocates the required infrastructure

Jose Bonnet, Senior Technology Consultant in the Big Data and Cloud, PT Inovação

1510-1540

Demo Tour – A guided tour throughout the conference exhibition area to view 5 minute demonstrations from all our sponsors and exhibitors

Featuring:

• Manenir • Packetfront Software • QualiSystems

1540-1610

Afternoon Refreshments & Business Meetings

1610-1625

Interactive Polling Session

1625-1710

Managing and Orchestrating Individual Virtual Functions - Ensuring They Interact with Each Other and Amongst the Different Layers

There are many complexities that arise when managing and orchestrating various virtual functions as many are owned by different vendors. During this session the panellist will discuss:

• How to ensure that all virtual functions seamlessly interact with each other • How to overcome the challenges of orchestrating virtual functions across layers

Alfonso Tierno Sepulveda, Senior Researcher - Network Virtualization Initiative, Telefónica

Gint Atkinson, Vice President, Network Strategy & Architecture, KVHHenrik Johansson, Product Management, PacketFront Software

1710-1735

A Pragmatic Approach to SDN & NFV

SDN & NFV will solve many problems, but they will not solve all your problems. You will not rip and replace your entire network. You will not redo your entire OSS/BSS stack. So how can SDN & NFV help you today?

Henrik will talk about some low hanging fruit on your road towards NFV nirvana. And even if you don't get there in a long time, you can still have major gains with very little investment. At the end of the day, this is all about making money, so what can be done to shorten e.g. lead-times for new service offerings?

Henrik will demonstrate technology available already today and usable in your existing network and he will look at and discuss a few different practical use-cases and he will propose a pragmatic, step-wise approach for the transformation of your network.

Henrik Johansson, Product Management, PacketFront Software

1740-1900

Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Networking Drinks Reception (Piano Bar)

Agenda

VNF MANAGEMENT & ORCHESTRATION SUMMIT

Agenda Day Two: Wednesday 29th September 2015

0800-0845

Morning Refreshments & Registration

0845-0900

Chair’s Opening Remarks: Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Overture

0900-0935

Panel Debate This House Believes that Taking an Open-Source Approach to Network and Control Management is the Right Choice

• Is open-source is the best option for developing a controller to manage the heterogeneous and interoperable virtual network?

• What are the risks associated with open-source solutions? Does the reward offset the risk?

• How do you weigh up the pros than cons of open-source? • Standarisation vs. open-source – which one do you choose? • Is the shift towards open-source orchestration platforms inevitable?

How does it work? The panellists will begin by putting their view forward and then the chair will declare the motion 'open to the floor’, where you will have the opportunity to ask questions and speak for or against the motion; so come prepared!

Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead, Cloud Computing and Virtual Infrastructure Technologies, ACG Research

Ricard Vilatta, ONF Research Associate, The Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CCTC)

0935-1000

Case-Study: In-the-Cloud NFV Proof of Concept

Javier Benitez, Senior Network Architect, Colt

1000-1025

SDN/NFV for Transport Networks: a Research Perspective

• Research perspective on SDN/NFV Cloud Computing and Transport Network Orchestration.

• Introduction of an overall architecture for offering different NFV use cases running on the ADRENALINE Cloud Computing Platform and Transport Network for 5G Services.

• Examples of the proposed VNFs are: a virtual Path Computation Element (vPCE) and the deployment of virtual SDN controllers (vSDN) on top of virtualized transport networks

Dr Ricard Vilalta, Researcher, CTTC – Optical Networks and Systems Department

Impact of NFV on Network Management & OSS

1025-1130

Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking

What is speed networking?

Speed Networking is an efficient, face-to-face professional networking model similar to “speed dating” that enables participants to make new contacts through one-on-one focused conversations lasting between 2-4 minutes. Speed networking helps you forge new connections during the event. These are informal, fun and highly effective introduction sessions giving you a maximum exposure to a large number of conference participants in the shortest time!

Agenda

1130-1200

Case-Study Global OS: An Operating System for Virtualised Infrastructures

Jean-Pierre Temime, Director Technology and Innovation, OrangeThierry Stephant, Head of Research on Network Management Systems, Orange Labs

1200-1220

Interactive Polling Session

1220-1300

Panel Discussion Management Challenges Operators Face when Introducing NFV

To ensure you are prepared and ready to deal with the management challenges you will face when implementing NFV, join this interactive session to hear the speakers as they discuss:

• How NFV will impact traditional network management • What are the various approaches that operators need to take to overcome these

new management challenges • How to successfully manage virtualised networks to ensure that you are reaping

the full benefits of NFV • The reliability of VNFS: peak traffic capacity management, interoperability, fault

tracing and failure situations

Panellists:Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Overture

Jose Bonnet, Senior Technical Consultant, PT InovacaoAshay Chaudhary, Lead Cloud Architect, Verizon

1300-1400

Eat with the Experts: Networking Lunch Break - We know that hearing someone speak for 30 or 40 minutes might not always provide enough opportunity for your burning questions to be answered, which is why each of your speakers will be on separate tables during this networking lunch break – so you can do just that.

Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) hosted by MEF

1400-1420

The Third Network: LSO, SDN and NFV

This keynote looks at the role of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), SDN and NFV as three pillars of the new kind of service defined by the MEF as “the Third Network.”

Nan Chen, President, MEF

1420-1440

The MEF Work Towards the Third Network

A detailed review of the MEF LSO Reference Model including the underlying information models and APIs of LSO, SDN and NFV and the importance and challenges in aligning them. It includes the latest developments with collaboration between the MEF and other SDOs, new Ethernet service and standardized operational functionality.

Daniel Bar-Lev, Director, Certification and Strategic Programs, MEF

1440-1515

Service Provider Panel: Ethernet Services Migration to LSO, SDN and NFV

A service provider panel discussing strategies for the migration of Ethernet services delivery from current network architectures and existing BSS/OSS solutions to take advantage of the benefits of LSO, SDN and NFV in the short to mid-term, and in preparation for Third Networks services in the longer term.

Moderator:Daniel Bar-Lev, Director, Certification and Strategic Programs, MEF

Agenda

1515-1545

Afternoon Refreshments & Business Meetings

Open-Source Vs. Proprietary Software

1545-1615

Interactive Polling Session

1615-1645

Case-Study: Real World Deployment: The Journey to a Virtualised Network

During this case-study based session an industry speaker will share with you their experiences on:

• How they have transitioned to a virtualised network • Where they were yesterday vs. where they are now and how they got there • How has NFV and SDN altered their revenue model? • What was the impact of SDN and NFV on their existing networks?

Gint Atkinson, Vice President, Network Strategy & Architecture, KVH

1645-1700

Chair’s Closing Remarks and End of Summit

Agenda

Gint Atkinson Vice President - Network Strategy

and Architect KVH

Daniel Bar-Lev Director, Certification and

Strategic Programs MEF

Javier Benitez Senior Network Architect

COLT (representing ONF)

Maya Ber Lerner VP Sales

Qualisystems

Jose Bonnet Senior Technology Consultant in

Big Data and Cloud PT Inovacoa

Ashay Chaudhary Lead Cloud Architect

Verizon

Nan Chen President

MEF

Fred Feisullin Vice President - Network Strategy

and Architect Sprint

Henrik Johansson Product Management

Packetfront Software

Carlos Molina Director of Platform Strategy

Mavenir

Paul Parker-Johnson Practice Lead, Cloud Computing

and Vital Infrastructure Technologies

ACG Research

Prayson Pate Chief Technology Officer

Overture

VNF Management andOrchestration Speakers

VNF Management and Orchestration Speakers

Jean Pierre Temime Director Technology and

Innovation Orange

Jean Pierre Temime Director Technology and

Innovation Orange

Jean Pierre Temime Director Technology and

Innovation Orange

Marco Ughetti NFV Orchestration Chief Architect

Telecom Italia

Ricard Vitalta Researcher

CTTC - Optical Networks and Systems Department

VNF Management andOrchestration Speakers

Mavenir Silver Sponsor

Mavenir Systems (NYSE: MVNR) provides software-based networking solutions that enable mobile service providers to deliver next generation services over 4G LTE networks. Mavenir™ has a fully virtualized end to end portfolio of Voice/Video, Messaging and Mobile Core products that include IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Session Border Controller (SBC). Mavenir’s solutions, based on the award-winning mOne® software platform, leverage NFV and SDN technologies for deployments on cloud-based infrastructure.

PacketFront Software Silver Sponsor

PacketFront Software delivers automated multi-vendor network management since 2001 through its unique OSS system BECS. BECS provides zero touch configuration and automated service provisioning for any IP network hardware and topology and offers operators a seamless migration path from legacy networks to SDN and NFV. Our active API enables easy and flexible integration to existing OSS/BSS systems. 100 operator customers in 23 countries have chosen BECS for efficient network operations.

Qualisystems Silver Sponsor

QualiSystems provides DevOps automation solutions that turn data center infrastructure, networks, sandboxes and labs into clouds with reservation-based self-service, automated provisioning and resource reclamation. Quali’s CloudShell powers Cisco DevNet Sandbox Labs. QualiSystems solutions help service providers, IT infrastructure teams and technology companies innovate and get to market faster. www.qualisystems.com

Sponsor and Exhibitor Profiles

Overture Panel Partner

Overture is the preferred provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions for the metro edge. Known for innovative solutions that enable high-capacity Ethernet services over any media including fiber, copper and TDM, Overture has extended its commitment to innovation with Ensemble OSA™. Ensemble OSA is the industry’s first open architecture that brings the benefits of the cloud, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and open innovation to the metro edge. By leveraging Overture’s Carrier Ethernet expertise and this new open architecture for software-defined services, network operators and service providers worldwide can maximize operational efficiencies and introduce new revenue-generating services on a scale never before possible. Overture is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with sales offices around the globe. For more information, visit http://www.overturenetworks.com.

Sponsor and Exhibitor Profiles

Notes

Notes

Notes

Brought to you by: