Rethinking TelecomWinning The Next 10 Years

Vish Nandlall

Telecom Tipping Point

Technology vs Practice

Product to Utility

Business Model Strategies

Network Architecture is Changing

From Specialised Product

To Good Enough Commodities

Scale-Up Scale-OutN+1 Design for FailureDR Testing Chaos Engines

But the processes to manage these systems have not

Best Practices evolve more slowly than Best Technology

Source: Simon Wardley

Danilo CiscatoGartner Research Director

November 4, 2016

“ To ensure their teams possess the right skills to select the most appropriate network components and integrate them in an automated infrastructure, organizations need to invest in their people

Technology and Practices are evolving from Product to Utility

The Journey to Cloud ComputingGoing from Product to Commodity

Server Era Server Virtualization

Multi-Tenancy

Automation & Orchestration

IaaS Business Model

Test & Development

Capital Efficiency

Capacity on Demand

Self-managing Datacenter

Cloud Computing

Innovation

Benefit

Source: VMWare, Vish Nandlall

The Journey to Cloud NetworkGoing from Product to Commodity

Switch and Router Era

Network Function

Virtualization (NFV)

Bandwidth Liquidity

SD-WAN/MANO

Cloud RAN/M-CORD

Build Network Capacity

Capital Efficiency

Capacity on Demand

Self Organising Network

Cloud Network

Innovation

Benefit

Source: VMWare, Vish Nandlall

Utility Bandwidth Part I

Shared access/unlicensed

High Altitude/Small Cell

High Altitude/Small Cell

Wireless

Utility Bandwidth Part II

So what is the future ?

Niels BohrNobel Prize in Physics, 1922

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

How does value change when the network is a utility ?

Mobile Telephony Mobile Compute

Video

Consolidate

IoT

Network Apps Data Fabric

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