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Tayeb BEN MERIEM

Senior Standardization Manager, Orange

(On behalf of Catalyst Team)

PROOF-OF-CONCEPT: Going Beyond the Hype of Blockchain

“Catalyst Blockchain Unleashed” and Next StepsDallas, September 24th, 2018

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Content

❑ TMForum Blockchain Activity

❑ Blockchain Unleashed Catalyst (DTW, Nice May 16-17th 2018) + 6mn demo

❑ Key learnings

❑ New use cases on Telecom Marketplace: Orange proposal

❑ Blockchain in Context of Orange

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TMForum Blockchain Activity

❑ 1) IoE Program (Exploring Trust models, Blockchain Use Cases)

❑ 2) ZOOM (Zero touch Operations and Orchestration Management) Program: «Trust & Traceability» in the OLM (Onboarding Lifecycle Management) Work Item

❑ 3) ODA (Open Digital Architecture) Program: « Trust & Traceability : Blockchain applied to SW Licensing » Work Item (Co-lead AT&T and Orange)

❑ 4) Catalyst Program (PoCs)

❑ 5) Research Program with

❑ member companies (CSPs, their Suppliers and Consultants including both Deloitte and Accenture):

❑ How they are using or intend to use Blockchain,

❑ Where the potential stumbling blocks are

❑ How collaborating on Standards can help address the challenges.

Specification (Use Cases description) Requirements Implementaion (Catalyst/PoC)

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TMForum Blockchain Deliverables

❑ Trust Challenges and Opportunities (TR 270, Release 17.5.0, December 2017)

❑ Communication Service Providers Use Cases Utilizing 1Blockchain (TR 279 , Release 17.5.0, December 2017)

❑ Trust & Traceability for VF (Virtual Function) Package SW Licensing (IG 1141 A, Release 18.0)

❑ First Catalyst (PoC) on SLA Monitoring /Smart Contact in July 2017 (Vanacouver), showcasingSLA Mangement use case (based on TMForum SLA Management API, TMF 623) + collaboration with Stanford University (on Smart Contract)

❑ Catalyst (PoC) « Blockchain Unleashed » showcasing 5 Use Cases as an implementation of a sub set of use cases described in TR 279 (TMForum Digital Transformation World, DTW, Nice May 2018)

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First Catalyst: Use case categories of interest to Service Providers (from TR 279, Release 17.5.0)

SelectedUse Case as first Catalyst(PoC): 2017

LeveragingTM Forum SLA Management API (2014)TMF 623

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Blockchain Unleashed Catalyst (PoC) demonstrated at DTW Nice, May 16-17th 2018,

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Participants

Blockchain Catalyst (PoC) demonstrated in Nice, May, 16-17th 2018

Champions

9 Service Providers 4 Vendors

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❑ 5 Use cases described and showcased❑ Use case 1: Roaming❑ Use case 2: Identity Management❑ Use case 3: SLA Monitoring❑ Use case 4: Prevention of Mobile Phone Theft❑ Use case 5: Mobile Number Portability

❑ How each use case is addressed❑ The Catalyst defined Top 5 Criteria for use case selection to maximize the benefit of Blockchain, and

to avoid using Blockchain just for the stake of using it

❑ 1) Problem statement and User Story❑ 2) Current state process and challenges ❑ 3) Blockchain solution architecture: Overview and Benefits

Catalyst: Structure of the work

« Blockchain is the answer, but what was the

question? »Orange statement

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Catalyst Demo (6mn)

https://vimeo.com/270879471

Demo (Video) by Kevin John Lee (Globe Telecom)

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Key learnings, Contributions, and Readiness for commercial launch and Next Steps

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TM Forum Assets Used

CurateFX (Online Tool)

Defining the problem statements, Illustrate

various Blockchain ecosystems, and

identifying stakeholders

• Efficient way to handle e2e eco system solution from

problem statement to design and sharing learnings,

outcomes

• Selection of the right APIs and TMForum assets for

individual use cases and helps in completeness. Easy

mapping of entities, interfaces for varied use cases

• Shared few enhancement features for CurateFX

platform

Open APIsLeveraging Open APIs for Digital Telco Blockchain

use cases (11 APIs used)

• Use Case 1: Roaming– TMF 635 Usage Mgmt. API, TMF

651 Agreement API, TMF 636 Billing Mgmt. API

• Use Case 2: Digital Identity (ID As A Service) – TMF 632

Party Management API, TMF 669 Party Role Management

API, TMF 644 Privacy Management API

• Use Case 3: SLA monitoring – TMF 623 SLA Management

API

• Use Case 4: Reduce Mobile Phone Theft – TMF 639

Resource Inventory API, TMF 621 Trouble Ticket API

• Use Case 5: Mobile Number Portability – TMF 641 Service

Ordering Management API, TMF 681 Communication API

eTOM (Business Process)Business process for varied telco scenarios

• Ready business process for the Telco scenarios of

Blockchain Unleased project

SID (Information Model)Entity definitions

• Ready data model definitions, along with OpenAPIs

helps to fast track the design and development activities

for Blockchain Unleashed distinct 5 solutions

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Key Learnings

• Due to technology limitations today, there’s no efficient way to create digital rules and logic from legal documents which can be incorporated into the blockchain.

The Challenge

Faced:

• There is no automated way to convert existing

business logic or legal contracts into Bockchain

readable snippets of code (a.k.a. smart

contracts/chain code)

• Although these smart contracts may be created

manually, no automated way to calibrate or configure

them exist.

Call To Action: • Research should be continued together with research

firms to accelerate the study and PoC to be able to

adopt Bockchain as an avenue for mechanization

(e.g. Stanford University’s research on

Blockchains adoption for computational law) .

Key Learnings

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1

Open API enhancements for ID management

2

Open API and SID model extensions for Network Slicing

3

Linkage of Open APIs and ONAP

Contribution to TM Forum

4

Blockchain working group

5

CurateFX enhancements

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Contribution To TM Forum

1Open API enhancements for ID management

Value

Proposition:• Enhancements to Open APIs:

• TMF 632 Party Management API,

• TMF 669 Party Role Management API,

• TMF 644 Privacy Management API

• CRs created and connected with Open API Lead:

• https://projects.tmforum.org/jira/browse/AP-1026

• https://projects.tmforum.org/jira/browse/AP-1043

Contribution to TM Forum

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Contribution To TM Forum

2Open API and SID model extensions for Network Slicing

Value

Proposition:• Analysed for 5G Network Slicing Market Place use

case

• Enhancements to Open APIs to handle Network Slice

Fulfilment, assurance, billing related Open APIs and

data models

Contribution to TM Forum

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Contribution To TM Forum

3Linkage of Open APIs and ONAP

Value

Proposition:• Bridging Blockchain for Slice Market Place and ONAP

to handle 5G network slices

• Contribution to ONAP community, including:

• Market place for 5G network slices

• Enhancements to ONAP to accommodate 5G

network slices

• Enhancements to data models, Open APIs

• Potential new catalyst focusing on 5G +

blockchain + ONAP

Contribution to TM Forum

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Contribution To TM Forum

4Blockchain working group

Value

Proposition:• Blockchain working group focusing on smart

contracts for SLA management, Open APIs and

automation

• Collaboration with TMForum and Stanford University

on Blockchain Legal Specification Protocol project

• Potential linkage to the new ODA WI on « Trust & Traceability : Blockchain applied to SW Licensing »

Contribution to TM Forum

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New use cases on Telecom Marketplace:Orange’s proposal

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Catalyst Project for 2019 (Use Case proposals under discussion)

Orange presented a proposal on:1) « Telecom Infrastructure Marketplace »

2) « VNF Package Marketplace »

Infosys presented a proposal on « 5G » Marketplace

Globe presented a proposal on

5G Service Composition

« Pâtisserie »

Other proposals expectedfrom the Catalyst Team

TMForum Blockchain Lab (Sandbox) « May 2018 »

for relevant Blockchain-focused TM Forum projects to prototype and test ideas quickly

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History of VNF Marketplace concept in TMForum ZOOMback to 2014!

❑ VNF Marketplace concept has been introduced in TMForum in 2014, in the IG 1133 C

Release 15.0 (2015) “Federated Catalogs for (Automated) Procurement – Orange Case Study”

❑ The idea is to create an Ecosystem of VNF Catalogs in federated manner within an automated

procurement process

❑ One key player in this federation is a VNF Marketplace so called “ZOOM NFV Yellow Pages / Catalog

❑ How to operationalize this VNF Marketplace (hypothesis)

❑ TMForum could play the role of the Owner and Administrator of such a Marketplace as a Trust party

❑ It could be offered to the TMForum members first

❑ What is new in the Marketplace space

❑ Digital Transformation is being generalized and it requires more efficient Trust models

❑ Trust and Traceability shall be built-in in any Digital Ecosystem without any centrlized intermediary body

❑ Service Providers seek an new model to allow moving from traditional and costly BUY / MAKE /RENT model to an On

Demand Marketplace model in some use cases

Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) is considered as a key enabler

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Federated dynamic NFV Catalogs (VF Package Marketplace):IG 1133 C Release 15.0 (2015) “Federated Catalogs for (Automated) Procurement – Orange Case Study”

Regulator

Blockchain

Platform ?

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Mapping of NFV Procurement & Operations life cycle to the SP’s Operations Master Plan and related NFV Pattern dynamic & NFV Catalogs (VF Package Marketplace)

VF PackageMarketplace

VNF Journey

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VF Packages Marketplace Macro-Design (Automated Search Agent / Engine)

Regulator

Blockchain Platform

Discover/Order

Offer/ P

ub

lish

Discover/Order

Verify

Deliver

Deliver

Use Case #1

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“Telco Infrastructure” Marketplace: Business motivation

❑ Service Provider would like to order passive infrastructures made available by some actors to allow sourcing On Demand-basis rather than under traditional costly renting model to perform some Network Mobile Network deployment scenarios

❑ Potential real use cases ❑ The flexible passive infrastructure may be ordered for reinforcing existing infrastructure during a

temporary event at a crowded location: to ensure connectivity of a stadium, coverage of a white area, or a country for a given period (e.g. 5G, RAN Sharing)

❑ More precisely, Service Provider would like to Discover, Query & Find in a “Passive infrastructure” Marketplace the frequency, the cell (e.g. high altitude platforms, WiFi Access Point), the passive infrastructure (e.g. Tower co), the backhaul (flexible satellite connection) for such dedicated purpose and need

❑ The goal is to move away from traditional costly Make / Buy / Rent models of Mobile Network Resources to an Auction-based model that is more efficient and transparent and most appropriate for such use cases

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Blockchain

Platform

FrequencyProvider

CellProvider

RegulatorAuditor

3rd Party sponsor

Service Provider

InfrastructureProvider (e.g. Tower)

ConnectivityProvider

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 1011

12

Licence & Authorization rules

Publish/Order Funding

Verify infrastructure

On demandTelco

infrastructureMarketplace

“Telco Infrastructure” Marketplace: Macro-Design

Use Case #2

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Blockchain in Context of Orange

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Blockchain Context at Orange

Cloud services

Cloud Native Applications

Expertise & practices

Public cloud

Strategy

Conception

Implementation

Support & coaching

IaaS, CaaSPaaS, SaaS

Big Data & IOT

E-Commerce

Payment

Health

Security

Network

Private cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Multi-cloud

Applications 1

2

3

Orange

Blockchain-as-

a-service

platform

Hyperledger

framework

(BlockChain-as-a-Service)

BloCaaS

BloCaaS

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Orange BloCaaS Architecture

Client application

Orange Cloud

Hyperledger

Administration

Supervision

Utilisation

Business

Development

Cello

Cello Utils

Admin VM

Composer restserver

Explorer

Composer playground

Client VM

CA

orderer

Peer

Hyperledger

network

(worker

VM(s)

Tenant Admin

Tenant Client 1

Composer restserver

Explorer

Composer playground

Client VM

CA

orderer

Peer

Hyperledger

network

(worker

VM(s)

Tenant Client 2

Europe

Region

Europe Region

OtherRegion

(BlockChain-as-a-Service)BloCaaS

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❑ A) Maturity level: Position your company

❑ 1) Exploring and understanding the technology

❑ 2) PoC / Trial: (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)

❑ 3) Pre-commercial deployment : (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)

❑ 4) Commercial deployment: (a) Make, b) Make with): (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)

❑ B) Which Business sector are you exploring

❑ 1) Finance

❑ 2) Health

❑ 3) Insurance

❑ 4) Real estate transactions

❑ 5) Agriculture

❑ 6) Energy

❑ 7) Telecom

❑ 8) Others

❑ C) Do you think Asset Marketplace approach is relevant to your business

❑ If Yes, are you involved in a Marketplace ecosystem(s)

❑ D) Standardization-Consortium

❑ 1) Are you involved in an SDO on DLT

❑ E) Process and project management

❑ 1) Did you create a selection process before launching a use case and at which stage: PoC, Pre-commercial stage?

❑ 2) Did you create a dedicate department for Blockchain to address your customers’ demands

Questions

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Q&A

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