VP - Head of Strategy and Practice for SDN/NFV

Hema KadiaNFV/SDN New Revenue Streams, and What has been Achieved to Date

Innovation Flash Talks

Innovation FlashTalks

Successful SDN/NFV

Use Cases, thus far

What enabled the

success?

Main Obstacles

still to Overcome

Benefits / ROI on

SDN/NFV deployments

Prodapt

Introduction

2

EXCLUSIVE FOCUS

ON THE DIGITAL SERVICE

PROVIDER (DSP)

VERTICAL

Trusted partner to leaders in the communications industry, including Fortune 500 customers and 95% of clients have re-engaged

Part ofThe Jhaver Group

$1.3 Billion

64 Locations

16,500 Employees

Key Clientele

35%+ YOY Growth

Portfolio

▪ RPA/Telebots

▪ SDN/NFV

▪ AI/ML and IoT

▪ OSS/BSS and BPO

▪ DevOps & Microservices

Who We Are

Right-Sized, Flexible Partner with multi-shore delivery model

Global Operations

3

FROM OUR CUSTOMERS AND WIDER INDUSTRY,

BELOW ARE THE KEY USE CASES BEING

SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED

SD-WANSoftware Defined

Wide Area Network

vE-CPE / uE-CPEVirtual or Universal Enterprise Customer Premise Equipment

Security Functions e.g. vFW

Virtual Firewall

vPEVirtual Provider Edge

vCAAPVirtual Converged Cable

Access Platform

vCDNVirtual Content Delivery

Network

vEPCVirtual Evolved Packet Core

vIMSVirtual IP Multi-Media System

Carrier Ethernet Services

E-Line, E-Access

Optical Wavelength Services

4

Southbound Interfaces (SBI)

Northbound Interfaces (NBI)

Service Templates

(TOSCA/HEAT)

Virtual Network Function (VNF)

Engineering

Routing and Switching

Enhancements

DevOps and Testing

Automation

Virtual Infrastructure

Manager (VIM) Integration

Key Areas enabling the successful SDN/NFV deployments

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

5

Closed Loop Assurance with

AI/ML

Applications Operations and

Maintenance

Managed Network Upgrade

Open Source Solution

Hardening

10 11 12

Right Solution Platform

Benefits & ROI from SDN/NFV Solutions

vE-CPEROI

Payback in 3 yrs

30-50% per site

SD-WANWAN Cost ReductionWith 10% increase in

Bandwidth

150%

50%

6

2 Months

12 Months

Faster Time-to-Market

Faster Revenue

Reduced Service

Provisioning Time

From Weeks to Days

SOURCE: CUSTOMERS, VENDORS, AND

INDUSTRY ANALYSTS

Main Obstacles Still to Overcome

Interoperability

Solution Platform Maturity

Enabling Customer Control

with Open Interfaces

IT & Network Skillset Bridging

System Integration Challenges

Pace of Standards Definition

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Contact Us

www.prodapt.com

www.linkedin.com/company/prodapt

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Hema.Kadia@Prodapt.com

Integrated Network and Security Solutions - Verizon

Oliver Cantor & Peter Konings

Verizon Virtual Network Services

Product

Integrated Ecosystem

Platform

▪ Customer chooses products

▪ Orchestration between products

▪ Integration between products

▪ High operator added value

▪ Operator chooses products

▪ Limited orchestration capability

▪ Moderate operator value

▪ Resale of technology product

▪ No integration between products

▪ No operator added value

WAN

OptSD-WAN SecurityRouting

WAN

OptSD-WAN SecurityRouting

Platform

Apps

SLA’s

Cx

Platform

Cloud

Hosted Network Services Cloud

CurrentFunctionPackages

DeploymentModels

Complex Service Chains Software-defined

Secure BranchSecure Cloud

Interconnect

SD-WAN

Controller

Secure Cloud

Interconnect

WirelessOptimizeSecurityRouting Voice ProbesSD-WAN

Managed SD-WAN Universal CPE

White box Grey box

Verizon Cloud Platform

Verizon Virtual Network

Services – Seamless Choice

Physical Virtual

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THANK YOU

INNOVATION FLASHTALKS: NFV/SDN – New Revenue

Streams, and What Has Been Achieved to Date?

Moderator:

Barry Graham

Senior Associate

TM Forum

Oliver Cantor

Associate Director Product

Strategy

Verizon

Hema Kadia

VP & Head of SDN/NFV, Strategy &

Practice

Prodapt

Peter Konings

Director Products

EMEA

Verizon