SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION AND THE NEED FOR A NEW OSS

David Amzallag Vice President and CTO, Virtual Telecommunications and Cloud Solutions

May 16th, 2013

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OPERATIONAL SIMPLICITY

AGILITY

COST EFFICIENCIES

NEW REVENUE STREAMS

MOBILE

CORE

IPTV

RNC/BS

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IMS

CDN

OSS/BSS

ENTERPRISE

SERVICES

CDN

MOBILE

CORE

IPTV

IMS

CDN

OSS/BSS

ENTERPRISE

SERVICES

MDM

RNC/BS

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THE PROMISE OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION

FROM THE CARRIER OF TODAY … … TO THE CARRIER OF TOMORROW.

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NFV IS MORE THAN VIRTUALIZATION

MEET CARRIER APP NEEDS DRIVE OPERATIONS EFFICIENCY

REAL TIME / QoS

99.999%

SECURITY

DISTRIBUTION

MASSIVE SCALE

AUTOMATION

CO-EXISTENCE WITH

LEGACY

E2E ROOT CAUSE

ANALYSIS

COMMODITY HW

OPEN SOURCE

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WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF ETSI NFV?

ETSI NFV INDUSTRY SPECIFICATION GROUP

FOUNDED IN JANAUARY 2013

SHORT LIFETYME (<2 YEARS)

NETWORK OPERATOR DRIVEN

100+ MEMBERS & PARTICIPANTS

HIGH ENERGY

REQUIREMENTS AND

ARCHITECTURES TO SUPPORT vNFs

GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPING vNFs

NO NEW STANDARDS (WORK WITH

OTHER STANDARDS COMMITTESS

DESCRIPTION PURPOSE

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POPULAR USE CASES: vCDN, vCPE, vIMS/COMMUNICATIONS, vEPC

• 2013: Year of the PoC • 2014: Year of the live trial

TIER 1 CARRIERS HAVE ALREADY STARTED

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EXAMPLE: VIRTUAL CPE MOVE FAST EVOLVING FUNCTIONS INTO THE CLOUD

BRAS

Radios Switch Firewall

DHCP

@ TR69

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UPnP NAT Routing

Modem

CPE

Radios Switch Modem

CPE

BRAS

TR69

NAT

IPv4/v6

DHCP

UPnP

Firewall

PBX

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MEETING THE OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES

Cloud Management

System

E2E Service Management

New OSS

I II III

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THE NEW OSS ECOSYSTEM

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OPEN, MULTI-VENDOR

LEVERAGE THE NETWORK

APPLICATION LIFECYCLE

MANAGEMENT

DISTRIBUTED CLOUD

ANALYTICS

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

CARRIER CLOUD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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• MANAGE AT SCALE

• RELIABILITY MODEL

• SMART PLACEMENT

• OPTIMIZATION

• MULTI STACK

• APPS, NOT VM’s

• AUTOMATE HEALING

• AUTOMATE SCALING

• SIMPLIFYONBOARDING

AND APP MIGRATION

• RECOGNIZE TRENDS

• OPTIMIZE RESOURCES

• OPTIMIZE PORTFOLIO

• MANAGE YIELD

• OPEN API

• REDUCE LOCK-IN

• COMMUNITY SPEED

• OPEN SOURCE TO

REDUCE COSTS

• AUTOMATED

• CUSTOM TOPOLOGY

• LEVERAGE SDN

• SUPPORT LEGACY

• AS SIMPLE AS EC2

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END-TO-END SERVICE MANAGEMENT A NEW CHALLENGE – NO ONE IS CURRENTLY ADDRESSING IT

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ORCHESTRATION

ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS

TODAY’S OSS/BSS INTERFACE & MIGRATION

RIGHT BUILD & PARTNER BALANCE

CONVERGED FULLFILLMENT

DATA FEDERATION

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A NEW OSS III ONBOARDING & LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

FREQUENT/REAL-TIME CHANGES

SOFTWARE INVENTORIES & REPOSITORIES

CO-EXISTANCE WITH BARE METAL & LEGACY SYSTEMS

SERVICE MOBILITY

DIFFERENT CAPACITY

MANAGEMENT

MANAGEMENT

E2E

VIEW

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CONCLUSIONS HOW NFV WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY?

YEAR

2013

PROOF OF CONCEPTS

CARRIER CLOUD MANAGEMENT

YEAR

2014

LIVE TRIALS

E2E SERVICE MANAGEMENT

A NEW OSS

NFV IS HERE, IS HAPPENING NOW AND IS GLOBAL ATTENTION TO OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES OSS/BSS COMMUNITY TO BE PART OF THIS NEW EXITING JOURNEY TM FORUM HAS A LEAD ROLE TO PLAY ALU CLOUDBAND™ IS ADDRESSING SOME OF THE CHALLENGES

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