Red Hat Summit 2017 – Telco Cloud Transformation

Telco cloud transformation

Red Hat Summit 2017Susan James – Head of NFV Infrastructure

Telco Cloud Transformation | Red Hat Summit 2017 | Public | 2017-05-02 | Page 2

5G & IOT use cases

LOW DATA VOLUMES

HIGH DATA VOLUMES

HIGH MOBILITY

LOW/NO MOBILITY

10-100XEnd-user Data Rates

5XLower Latency

10-100XConnected Devices

10XBattery Life

1000XMobile Data Volumes



VNF VNF

Management & Orchestration & Analytics & Exposure

Virtualization Software Defined

Networking (SDN)

Distributed Cloud Network Slicing

The journey to nfv

@



Operators will deploy NFV/SDN

Will adopt NFV within

this or next year

Will adopt SDN within

this or next year

Source: TBR NFV/SDN Customer Adoption Study H2 2016

Revenues for new services and cost reduction are service provider’s

main drivers for NFV/SDN adoption.Telco Cloud Transformation | Red Hat Summit 2017 | Public | 2017-05-02 | Page 4

Integrated

nodes

network evolution to 5G

Virtualized

deployment

Cloud deployment

Network

application

5G Core

Enterprise

Massive MTC

Critical MTC

Mobile Broadband



The best from two worlds

• Industrialized OpenStack Solution

• Support SLA for RHEL workloads

• Software Defined Storage (CEPH)

• End-to-end NFVI solution support

• Carrier Grade

• Unified O&M (Fault and performance management)

• Advanced networking

• Software Defined Infrastructure

• Common management interface

A FLEXIBLE, SCALABLE, CLOUD PLATFORM FOR ENTERPRISES AND TELCOS



The Nfvi glue

• Red Hat Openstack Platform (RHOSP)

• Increased number of supported workloads

• Customers chose the platform(s) they want

• Multi vendor

• No lock-in

• Pure open-source player, upstream first

MOSRHOSP



NFVi is the enabler

Technology People Process Business



Ericsson Target operating model



Telco transformation services

Optimised SDN/NFV Solution Design

Business Benefits

Accelerated Delivery & Integration

NFV Test and DevOps framework



Early deployment experience

Telecom grade readiness

VNF requirements on NFVi

Operational and LCM processes

ETSI NFV interface maturity for multivendor testing



Lessons learned



VNF Onboarding is

Time Consuming

and Costly

Customer Challenges in nfv

Manual VNF

Validation is Time

Consuming and

Costly

Lifecycle

Management is

Complex



Customer challenges in nfv

HW delivery and

installation (weeks)

Migration of

subscribers (hours)

Acceptance testing

(weeks)

Ordering

(days)

Dimensioning

(weeks)

Orchestration/ configuration

of node (days)

SW delivery and

Installation (days)

Live validation

(days)Orchestration/ configuration

of node (hours)

SW installation

(days)



Ericsson factoryAccelerate verification & on-boarding

Workflow

Driven

Automation

DashboardsTest

Management

Self Service

Web PortalsServices

• Onboarding

and Test

Strategy

• Onboarding

and Test

Automation

• Onboarding

and Test

Execution

• Vendor

Management



Nfv impact on service velocity

Manual Operations Automated Operations

Add

capacity

ERICSSON NFVI

GUI

Automation Activate

new service

60 days

21 days

2 hours

15 min

30 staff 7 staff



346

339

324

6

VoLTE

Services:

Wi-Fi calling

MBB

Enterprise

IoT

New Business

Drivers:

Modernization

Transformation

Capacity Build-out

20+Deployments

LIVE

90+Commercial

Customers

NFV IS MAINSTREAM

Ericsson

VNF


Automation


Why Ericsson NFVi?

TelefonicaSoftbank

Telstra

SwisscomNTT DoCoMo

Modular Certified Solution End-to-end Support

Vodafone

>70contracts

12 livenetworks



Customer cases

Telefonica

Softbank

Telstra

Swisscom

NTT DoCoMo

Vodafone



Ericsson NFV leadership

High Performing VNFs

Deployment

Experience

Services for the

Ecosystem

Automation10 min to Service

Managed Operations

Carrier-Grade

NFV-I

Realize NFV

Benefits
