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Enabling Agility through Modularity and MicroservicesTM Forum Middle East Jan 2018

VP APIs & Ecosystems, TM Forum

Joann O’Brien

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5G open ecosystems represent a $582bn opportunity as other industries digitize – accelerated change in industry

Public Transport Public Safety

Manufacturing

Healthcare

Enterainment

CURRENT OPERATOR + 5G ADDRESSABLE REVENUES INCREMENTAL $582BN SPLIT BY INDUSTRY (2026)

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Modularity

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Reduced time to market

Business agility and interoperability

By supporting an architecture based on modularity and reuse where capabilities are exposed through industry agreed Open APIs

Partnering for new services

Enable new products and services to be created by providing services to, and consuming services from, other business units, subsidiaries and external 3rd parties from telco and increasingly other verticals

Simplification of the IT estate

By enabling systems rationalisation

By enabling the configuration and reconfiguration of systems and capabilities through Open APIs to deliver new business solutions

Business Benefits

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Isolation

Isolation is at the heart of microservices. A microservice is meant to be architected, created, deployed, maintained and retired without affecting any other microservice. You can't do

any, let alone all, of that without good isolationDonald Belcham

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Modularity & Organisational Structure

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Open Digital Architecture

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Open APIs: enabling Business Agility & Interoperability

Signees of TM Forum’s Open API Manifesto

18 months Since Program Launch

50+ Open API specifications

35 Member Companies

Signed Open API Manifesto committing

to deploy TM Forum Open APIs

24 Service Provider Markets deployed &

27 by end of 2017

680+ Member Companies & 4600+

Professionals downloading & using the

TM Forum Open APIs

8 Open Hacks 400+ Hack Participants 70

Innovative solutions

Peer-to-peer Community of 24,000Professionals

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Examples of Open APIs Currently Available

• From IoT device management to complex B2B value fabrics• Managing partner arrangements across any business boundary • Onboarding, SLA management, policy management and revenue sharing & settlement• Geographic Address, Geographic Site & Geographaic Location

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Governance Process

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Successful transitions

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Three UK selects MYCOM-OSI due to Open API Strategy

Three UK has selected MYCOM OSI to assure its next-generation core network, which is billed as “the world’s first Telco Cloud”, and TM Forum Open APIs helped the supplier ink the deal.

https://inform.tmforum.org/open-apis/2017/10/open-apis-important-factor-three-uk-choosing-mycom-osi-telco-cloud/

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5G Service Operations – Real Time Service AssuranceTM Forum Live Nice 2017

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uMTC OpsuRLLC Ops

Smart Devices - uRLLC Vehicle Monitoring and Assistance- uMTC

Network-Operations-Consumer Scenario

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Catalyst Scope

▪ Focus on two 5G based IoT use cases with the goal of:

― Composing repeatable services for industry verticals in hours

― Zero friction integration into OSS /BSS Operations Center of the Future

― Dynamically and autonomously fulfilling and assuring numerous

concurrent slice instances (in parallel) with total isolation and security to

meet carrier-grade standards.

▪ Explore the impact of 5G networks and network slicing on operations in creating and automating many parallel end-to-end network slices that cross multiple network types to:

― Explore technology readiness and close potential gaps in 5G operations

― Enable CSP to automate the creation and modification of specific network slices for new IoT services with specific SLAs and characteristics

― Leverage open source to address the needs of IoT and to accelerate innovation

uRLLC(Ultra-reliable and low latency communication)

uMTC(Ultra-reliable machine-type communication)

Connected Factories

Autonomous Cars

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5G Operation – Management platforms and flow

Service AssuranceService

Orchestrator

2. Network Slice On-boarding

3. . Network Slice Inventory/Lifecycle

4. Performance Collection and Thresholding TMF 628

VNF Event Stream (ONAP) Metrics

Simulation

Platform Capability

5G

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Platform Capability

5. uMTC Slice Type Operations

5. Slice Scaling request (Scaling API evolving towards Entity Provisioning API)

Closed-loop Assurance

5. uRLLC Slice Type SLA

Operations

5G Network Slice

1. Slices creation and fulfillment

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Orange Launches Banking Services Nov 2017

• Instant, secure mobile payment service as well as a free debit card

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Design Thinking Process

Test & Learn

Prototype (Co-)

Create DefineExplore

Iterate

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”

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Thank You

Joann O’BrienVP, APIs & EcosystemsTM Forumjobrien@tmforum.org

Next Steps:

Read the Getting Started information at: https://www.tmforum.org/open-apis/

• Download the Open API eBook • Enabling Business Strategy through Open APIs

• Download the Open API Poster• Join the API project team• Request the APIs in RFPs• Take Open API Fundamentals Online Training• Self Certify your APIs

Pierre Gauthier

Chief API Architect

TM Forum

pgauthier@tmforum.org