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MONTHS TO MINUTES: THE CASE FOR CARRIER COOPERATION AND LSO

Hayim Porat, CTO

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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

Customer Wants:● L3VPN with specific E2E speed, QoS, and

security ● E.g. 2GB symmetrical guaranteed BW

● Ten minutes from order time to turn-up● For a two hour design review● Doesn’t want to pay very much

L3VPN

CGI design studio in Sapporo

Manufacturer in Manchester

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SO WHY MONTHS AND NOT MINUTES?

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THE VENDORS?

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THE REGULATORS?

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THE UNIONS?

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THE MINIONS?

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Copyrights: Universal Studios

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BUT TO SEE HOW WE ARRIVED AT THE CURRENT SITUATION WE FIRST NEED TO GO BACK IN TIME

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CIRCA 1966• Single service: Voice• Global automated connectivity in minutes• Based on carrier cooperation

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THEN AGENTS OF CHANGE HAPPENED Computer communications

(data) Deregulation

Terminal equipmentBreakup of PTT monopolies

Multiplay services The Internet Technology

VLSIFiber opticsRadio

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WHICH CREATED AMONG OTHER THINGS …

Multiple overlapping global networks to

serve multi-national enterprises

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SITUATION UNTIL RECENTLY No unified service definitions

Each provider adopted his own definitions of services

Created international walled gardens and made huge profits for OSS/BSS providers

High speed service take ages to fulfil

Eons if crosses several providers

As long as there was money rolling in, nobody cared

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AND THEN EVEN MORE CHANGE HAPPENED

High Speed InternetCloud Service

Providers

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RESULTING IN …

Global service providers competing with themselves:

International “closed garden” networks

versus

“Good enough” Internet-based solutions

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THE ALTERNATIVE

Customer Wants:● L3VPN with specific E2E speed, QoS,

and security ● 2GB Service● Ten minutes from order time to turn-up● For a two hour design review● Doesn’t want to pay very much

Internet VPN

CGI design studio in Sapporo

Manufacturer in Manchester

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YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT

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Economics dictates that customers will figure out a way to make an inexpensive, “good enough” service work

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BUT WHAT IF THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY?

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Full Speed/QoS/Security expectations

Value-added private network services

WITH: Fast turn-up limited time

services Price competitive with an

Internet solution

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IT’S THE INTEROPERABILITY STUPID

SDN and NFV moved the industry forward in terms of creating unification and vendor agnostic networking

However the elephant in the room is the lack of carrier agnostic services

For carriers to provide a dynamic network they need unified automated carrier-to-carrier connectivity

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WHAT IS REQUIRED

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Mindset change: Service Provider cooperating

instead of self-cannibalizing

Technically: Network slice service

definitions LSO for fast E2E network

slice implementations

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L3VPN NETWORK SLICE EXAMPLE

CE

PE PE

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CE

PE PE

P

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PE PE

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Need to define and coordinate:● VRF sync● PLS Labels sync● Resource allocation● Service context (FW, encryption etc.)● Signaling, information exchange and automation

PE PE

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IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEM?

Business

Operations

Manufacturer CGI Designer

Business

Operations

Business

OperationsOperations

Customer Care

Business

Months

NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller

Manchester Sapporo

MANO MANO MANO MANO

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WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?

Manufacturer CGI Designer

NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontrollerMANO MANO MANO MANO

Manchester Sapporo

Business BusinessBusinessBusiness

Operations OperationsOperationsOperations

Std. API Std. API Std. API Std. API

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Customer CareVPN portal

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Minutes

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ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL BE ADAPTIVE ARE THE ONES INVENTING THE FUTURE. – The Elastic Enterprise

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THANK YOU!