Build a network to thrive in the Digital age

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Build your network to thrive in the digital age

Welcome to your webinar


Build your network to thrive in the digital age.

Discover how to unlock the full potential of the cloud by

developing a wide-area network (WAN) that brings your

business into the digital age.

A BT Ireland/Current Analysis webinar with:

• Steve Coakley, Head of Network Propositions, BT.

• Joel Stradling, Research Director, Business Network & IT Services, Current Analysis.

• Keith Langridge, VP Connect Portfolio, BT.

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The digital age

quantum computing

artificial intelligence

robotics

The Internet of Things

autonomous vehicles

3-D printing

nanotechnology

biotechnology

materials science

energy storage

We’re only now starting to understand

the implications of the digital era.

Steam, water,

mechanical production

equipment.

Division of labour,

electricity, mass

production.

Electronics, IT,

automated production.

Cyber-physical

systems.

FirstIndustrial

revolution.

SecondIndustrial

revolution.

ThirdIndustrial

revolution.

FourthIndustrial

revolution.

Source: World Economic Forum


Source: The BT CIO report 2016 - the digital CIO.


Every organisation is becoming a digital organisation

…but it’s not easy.

• The pace of technological change is driving

significant disruption in IT departments in Ireland.

• 62% of all CIO/IT Leaders are finding it difficult to

keep pace with technological change and

are underestimating the level of change to

their role.

• 61% reported a growing demand to

demonstrate greater impact and

business benefits from IT. Nearly

half reported that change to their

role is being driven by board

level decisions.

Source: research by BT Ireland/Amárach,

December 2015


You are telling us that you...

…require more bandwidth at lower cost.

…want convergence of voice and IP, whilst still managing legacy.

…need to comply with legislation and regulation.

…have a growing demand for a mix of private and public networks.

...need to innovate and take advantage of the latest technologies

such as NFV / SDN in order to meet your business challenges.

…want to take advantage of cloud services.

Organisations require an intelligent hybrid network.

Networks for the Digital Age

by Joel Stradling

Agenda

• Evolution of Corporate IT and Networks

• Changing Challenges & Demands on the WAN

• Digital Transformation and the Move to Virtual IT

• Executive Summary

Evolution of Corporate IT & Networks

All departments now have budget

IT departments still need to fix it if it goes wrong

Democratized IT Spend

There can be a lot going that is not even approved!

Consumer behaviour-driven

Shadow IT

The Democratization of Technology IT Budget

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

Solely the ITorganization

Individualbusiness

units with ITguidance

Combineddecision byall affected

parties

CEO/CFO

Entities Involved in Purchasing Decisions

Cloud

Voice/Video/Collaboration

Enterprise Mobility

Network andSecurity

Big data andAnalytics

Source: Kable ICT 2016 study

Evolution of IT & Networks (Cont.)

Everything-as-a-Service

Public/Private Cloud

(strong on-going adoption & shifting boundaries)

Big Data AnalyticsAPIs

(enabling IT evolution)

There is a strong

appetite for...

0% 20% 40% 60%

Removal of Spanning Tree

Layer 4-7 service chaining

Enabling DevOps

Improved multi-cast/broadcast

End to end data center to campus LAN SDN

End to end campus LAN to cloud service SDN

Campus LAN network virtualization

Over the top remote office networking (SD-WAN)

Network slicing/Network isolation

Network orchestration/automation

Improved fault tolerance/fault recovery

End to end data center to cloud service SDN

Hybrid cloud

Inter-data center SDN

Private cloud

Data center network virtualization

IT process automation

Use Cases for SDN

SDN Adoption

Data Center and Cloud Services lead SDN implementation areas; IT process

automation is the top cited immediate use case:

Campus: 31%

Cloud Service: 65%

Data Center: 69%

WAN: 47%

Planned SDN Implementation Areas

Q: In which areas of the organization does your organization use or plan to use SDN?

Base: Companies that are in production of or plan to implement

SDNn = 438

Q: What are your top immediate use cases for SDN? Choose all that applyBase: Companies that are in production of or plan to implement SDNn = 438


Outsourced IT functions

• Application function

most likely to remain

in house, followed by

infrastructure

• Management

function most likely

to be outsourced

• Of those that keep

service desk in house,

over half are

considering

outsourcing the

function in the next 2

years

Source: Kable 2016 ICT Survey

Cloud solutions in use, and prioritised for

investment

• Significant

interest in

hybrid in

the near

future

IaaS SaaS Private Cloud

PaaS Hybrid Cloud

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Next 2 Years


Demands on the WAN

• There is ever growing demand for bandwidth

– Drivers: video, collaboration tools, transactions, etc...

• Companies need the flexibility to expand/contract

operations

– With such activities comes potentially complex

integration tasks

Demands on the WAN (Cont.)

• Some apps will be jitter/delay sensitive

– For example moving to certain hosted voice solutions may

be a perilous IT journey without sound WAN engineering

• Democratization of IT spend means many apps can get

deployed in a less controlled fashion

– Does the WAN have the appropriate mechanisms to

manage all the apps?

– Might shadow IT decisions compromise security?

Future: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN Concepts Merge

Management &

Orchestration

SDN NFV

SD-WAN

Management &

Orchestration

Management &

Orchestration

Where they merge

Shared

management and

orchestration

SD-WAN Merges with SDN & NFV (Cont.)

• Applications management coordinated with underlying data plane(s)

• Single interface to manipulate all layers of the network stack for optimized services

SDN +

SD-WAN

• Virtualized devices handle agnostic access, management, app control and other functions

• Deployment of service features within hybrid clouds

NFV +

SD-WAN

Enterprise WAN Recommendations

• Choose a hybrid WAN solution that will give you app visibility and

control; including in public clouds

• It is less about raw network performance today (i.e. avail., packet

loss, jitter) and more about a secure end-to-end user experience

and & individual app response times

– Congestion and slow app response can damage your business’ revenue

• Design the hybrid-cloud-WAN for heavy cloud usage from the out-

set

– Taking into consideration shadow IT environment

– Ready to support growing hosted video and collaboration

• It is a good time to have early conversations with your provider

about possible small scale SD-WAN implementations

Evolving your hybrid WAN

by Keith Langridge


Cloud computing is becoming the norm for enterprise IT delivery.

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Making the Cloud of Clouds work for you.

Cloud is all about choice. BT facilitates choice and puts you in control.


Customer scenarios.

BT was selected to reduce risk and provide an optimal connectivity

solution:

• A PCI compliant connection to cloud-based CRM

• A model for future connectivity into services such as Azure, O365, HP

Helion and Oracle Cloud.

A financial services

company needing a

compliant connection

to the cloud.

A retailer seeking to

incorporate the

internet into their

WAN architecture.

BT designed a Hybrid WAN solution combining MPLS and business-grade

internet connectivity to deliver secure connections to web-based

services plus offer a secondary connection to the data centre,

providing resiliency.


Our customers are looking to bring together the benefits of performance,

security, scale and cost savings within the network.

Performance

and agilitySecurity Scale

Cost

optimum

The wrong balance will impact an organisation’s ability to drive cost savings or

improved performance.

Intelligent Hybrid Network – it’s a question of balance.


ABB chooses BT to transform and secure its global

communications services.

Challenge.

Single global partner to standardise and manage network-

related services around the world.

Solution.

End-to-end responsibility for quality and

performance of WAN and LAN serving 700

locations with BT Assure Cyber protection

and managed firewall services.

Value.

Collaboration, innovation and

business transformation for over

140,000 ABB employees in

more than 100 countries.

Case study: ABB.

The alignment with BT will enable

us to move to a globally-

consistent, high-quality network.

Andy Tidd, Chief Information Officer, ABB.


The next step in your Hybrid WAN evolution.

NFV / SD WAN – Network function Virtualisation / Software Defined WAN.

Part of our CPE Network function Virtualisation capability.A single piece of equipment, with functions that can just be turned on such acceleration and optimisation.

Management layer.Market-leading service provider multi-tenant platform.

BT Connect Intelligence IWAN.

Managed IWAN with BT gives...

Application visibility.

• Know what is happening

with your network almost in

real-time.

• Monitor, control and

improve business critical

application performance.

Look at what’s going on.

WAN traffic balancing.

• Utilise any and all of your

connections governed by

your policy.

• Ensure applications run on the

best path based on real-time

understanding of the situation.

• Traffic-independent VPN.

Send traffic the right way.

WAN Optimisation.

• Compression of data and

acceleration of applications.

• Improve user experience

without costly WAN upgrades.

• Reduce branch-office footprint

through server and service

consolidation.

Optimise and accelerate

your end-user experience.

Application experience.

• Akamai – local level caching

means no buffering on devices,

no jitter and faster playback.

• Cisco and Akamai provide a

unique capability that mitigates

the impact of uncontrolled

software updates in a BYOD

environment.

Localise content to

speed up delivery.


Walgreens Boots Alliance with businesses in the UK and in

around 20 other countries taking advantage of BT’s service

reach and scalability to support their international operations.

Case study: Walgreen Boots Alliance.

Solution.

A fully managed Connect Intelligence IWAN

service which includes comprehensive design,

set-up and configuration. Monthly reports

from an Application Specialist on how their

network and applications are performing, with

recommendations on how to improve

performance.

Value.

Optimal performance for apps,

improving productivity, security

and user experience.

Challenge.

To reduce costs by securely interconnecting remote sites

over hybrid network options and to securely transfer

information.


In conclusion - you need to:

• Take advantage of the latest cloud services without

compromising on enterprise-class performance and service

levels.

• Evolve your global WAN, to regain control of the

cost performance balance, wherever you are.

• Use application visibility and control to

make informed business decisions

and operate with the agility your

business demands.

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Questions.


Contact:

Joel Stradling

Research Director, Business Network & IT Services

Mobile: +34 (0) 672 766060

E-mail: [email protected]

Contact:

Keith Langridge

VP Connect Portfolio, BT


Contact:

Steve Coakley

Head of Network Propositions, BT

Mobile +353 (0) 86 8386270
