Overview of the Vodafone-wide operational driven transformation for Network Virtualisation, SDN and NFV and the several journeys it includes. Open interfaces and NFV requirements availability.

1. June 20–23, 2016 | Berlin, Germany

2. Vodafone Ocean
Valerio Ceci,
’Network Virtualisation Centre of Excellence’

3. Vodafone Ocean | what it is
• Company-wide operational driven transformation
• True collaboration between Technology, Engineering and
Operations teams
• A mega programme with several parallel journeys to
ensure an efficient live deployment for each operating
company

4. Vodafone Ocean | SDN WAN
• SDN for IP and Optical enabling automation and resource
optimization
• E2E Dynamic Service Instantiation and Transport
Provisioning across domains
• From Underlay to overlay Journey
• Live deployment

5. Vodafone Ocean | E2E Service Orchestration
• Comprised of all ingredients enabling an optimised E2E
service orchestration
• Exploiting Orchestrations, vCPE and Service Assurance:
VPN+, GiLan based Services and Centralisation
• Operations-driven strategy/guidelines for On-Boarding
• Live deployment

6. Vodafone Ocean | Cloudification & Centralisation
• Wide deployment of virtualised core functions worldwide
• clear strategy on how introduce VNF through accelerated plan
• Cloud-native VNFs:
• MICROSERVICES | SEGREGATION OF APPS AND DATA
LAYER | FULL SCALING DYNAMICS | LCM OF APPS
• Centralisation of our core functions:
• Messaging apps first; Huge PoC with long list of objectives later
this year

7. Vodafone Ocean | Enterprise
• Best Experience Ever: Real-time Agility, Simplicity, Self-
Configurable Services and Flexibility. Anytime.
Everywhere.
• New SDN/NFV-based portfolio
• Vodafone New VPN
• Live deployment

8. Vodafone Ocean | Operations & Engineering
• The journey to a new Testing Procedure
• Integration of Orchestrators and Controllers to legacy
OSS/BSS
• Building new skills
• Live deployment

9. Vodafone Ocean | 5G Journey
• Towards 2019: Evolving to 5G Core from our 4G
Networks
• Network Cloudification, SDN and NFV as a key enabler
for 5G
• Network Slicing and our New E2E Architecture
• Mobile Edge Computing

10. Vodafone Ocean | Open Source
• The open-source model : where we see benefit
• The principle: Members participating and leading the
community
• Open source community: de facto standard

11. Vodafone Ocean | Open Interfaces
• Open Interfaces: it is a key guideline in our
transformation. Some of these will be open-source based
• Open source model well apply to interfaces enabling
implementation of open interfaces
• Interface readiness: MANO stack, north bound towards
OSS/BSS, SDNc, neutron APIs

12. Vodafone Ocean | OPNFV
• Addressing carrier grade VIM/NFVI platform to accelerate
the introduction of NFV
• Development and pushing for concreate adoption into
open-source / Openstack community
• Accelerate availability ETSI NFV interface definition

13. Thank you !