Presentation to INCA SDN/NFV Workshop 21/6/17

1. SDN / NFV
for Vodafone
Jonathan Newton
June 2017
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Our Vision for 2020 | Creating the Gigabit Society

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Vodafone Ocean

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Increasing Pace of Adoption and Driving Scale to Achieve Benefits
• Multiple vendors engaged
• Strong interoperability and collaboration.
• Initial business models provide learnings.
• Virtualisation widely deployed
• Majority of VNFs on VMWare today
• OpenStack and Orchestration in arrival
• Differentiating customer experience
• Winning network performance battle
• Business cases on track with opportunity
• Broad set of use cases in production
• Nearly all major services represented
• Capacity and new service needs drive

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SDN & NFV Architecture | Conceptual Layers
Physical – Logical Connectivity LayerCPE
End to End Service Management
Customer
Endpoint Domain
SDN Connectivity Domain Application / Network Function Domain
App: Nat
App: DHCP
App: Firewall
App:
Enterprise
ERP & CRM
App: Firewall
App: DDOS
Internet
A
B
C
Service CatalogueCustomer
Installed Base
DynamicVirtual
Inventory
Service Order
Decomposition
Decomposed Service Order in Abstracted Building Blocks+ + Updated Customer
Installed BaseDynamicVirtual
Inventory
+
TechnologyCentre External TechnologyCentre
TechnologyCentre TechnologyCentre
A
B
C
TechnologyCentre
Hybrid
Compute
Storage
Pool
Deployed
NFV Building Blocks
Deployed
NFV Building Blocks
Deployed
NFV Building Blocks
Deployed
NFV Building Blocks
Deployed
NFV Building Blocks
Internet
SLA & QoS Needs
Enables
Delivers
+
Live
DynamicService
NFV & APP Building Blocks
APP
NFV & APP Building Blocks
APP
NFV & APP Building Blocks
APP
Customer
Need
End to End
Service
Resource
Domain
Technology
Infrastructure
Customer Management
Access to any Vodafone
product via a single portal and
get a single bill
Products are chains of services
using resources anywhere
across Vodafone
Resource domains operate
autonomouslywith full
operational capabilities (e.g.
support)
Technology management
provides fine grain control for
efficient utilization and fast
close loop response
The real physical
infrastructure resources

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• Not just functions and protocols but also other aspects, notably:-
– 1. Standardising the information and data models, modelling languages, description of services/nodes etc.
– 2. Standardising the processes, the steps that make things happen.
• Standardisation makes Ocean building blocks vendor agnostic and interchangeable
• Leverage relevant Standards Development Organisations and Open Source projects and drive
areas that are missing
Openness is a key principle
Key Open Source ProjectsKey bodies

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Industry work impacting the access domain
Access, and Aggregation
Network Edge Cloud
Core
Core Datacentre Public Cloud
WT384
Cloud Central OfficeTR317
Network Enhanced
Residential Gateway
WT328
Virtual Business Gateway
WT370
Fixed Access
Network Sharing
Multi-access
Edge Computing WT-345
BNG Virtualisation
OPEN APIs
MEF Lifecycle Service
Orchestration

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Next Steps for the Coming Year
Technology Evolution
Introduce orchestration,
Scale SDN, expand
OpenStack and initiate cloud
native
Use Case Validation
Critical enterprise and
consumer use cases,
operational excellence
Delivering
capabilities to
customers
Market Acceleration
Support commercial
imperatives across all
Vodafone markets

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Vodafone Ocean
Thank you!