- OTTs own revenues, networks own costs
- Enterprises moving to ITaaS & cloud
- Trend toward on-demand & agile consumption
- Rivals in the value chain are software-powered
- Solutions to operational challenges lie in software
- Supporting on-demand & agile consumption
- Reducing capex & opex growth
- Boosting monetization & accelerating innovation
HW
SW
- Create an information-powered decision plane in software
- To drive a programmable data plane in hardware
- Move network control plane to software (SDN)
- Shift data plane hardware to COTS (NFV)
- Heart of network business value creation
- Ecosystem-based innovation & operator differentiation require open
system architectures
Operator 1
Operator 2
Operator 3
Application Layer
Control Layer
Infrastructure Layer
Vendor A Software Other Software
API
API
open source
Application Layer
Infrastructure Layer (multi-vendor)
SDN
Control
Layer
Service Abstraction Layer
Multilayer
WAN
Controller
Ciena
NW Apps
Ericsson
NW Apps
Joint
NW Apps
3rd-party
NW Apps
Multilayer
Network
Topology
Multilayer
Policy
Database
Layer 0
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
VTN
Cloud
apps FCAPS
Multilayer
Planning
Business
apps
TL1 CLI NetConf Other OpenFlow CORBA
- Built on the OpenDaylight open framework & platform
- Able to support single- or multi-layer SBIs, esp. OF
- Supports NBIs for SP and 3rd party app development
Demo in
Exhibition
Hall
One instance
is easy…
En masse…
How many trucks
& drivers?
- Enables enterprise to connect to multiple cloud providers without
dedicated connections – even to those not connected to their local
metro provider
- Detects vMotion or VM Import to EC2 events
- Orchestrates on-demand connections bridged across two networks
Navigate
V-WAN
Optimize
Protect
MyPortal
MyAdapter
Demos in Exhibition Hall
- Enterprise trend toward ITaaS
- Network performance-on-demand: dynamic self-service
- “Consignment” models close the gap for providers … they owe
when and as they earn … but problematic for vendors
- NFV may support “virtual consignment” models more palatable for
vendors: but still issues to resolve
- With dynamic self-service comes an expectation of pay-as-you-eat
- But providers still have to invest in infrastructure up front:
an investment risk and timing gap