Total telecom congress - Neo4j -Jesus Barrasa

1. Graph-Enabled Network
Automation Solutions with
Neo4j
Dr. Jesús Barrasa - @BarrasaDV
Director Telco&Media - Neo4j
London - 29th October 2019

2. The #1 Platform for Connected Data

4. Not this type of graphs!

5. The Property Graph Model
Optical MUX Filter Card

7. Are you still NOT using Graphs?
Here are a few reasons why you should

8. ”Graph analysis is possibly the single most effective
competitive differentiator for organisations pursuing
data-driven operations and decisions“

9. 1. Adoption

10. Adoption Highlights
Top MVPD
2 of the Top 5 US multichannel
video service providers have
chosen Neo4j
Leading OSS Vendors
Half of the leaders in the 2018
Gartner MQ for OSS embed
Neo4j in their products
2 of the 3 world’s largest CSP
use Neo4j in mission critical
solutions
Largest Telcos

11. IoT OSS/BSS
Governance &
Metadata Mgmnt
IAM &
Fraud Analysis
Common Graph Use Cases in Telco
• Assurance
• Orchestration
• CRM/Support
• Planning &
Optimisation
• Regulatory
compliance
• Data Lineage
• Consent Mgmnt
• Identity &
Access Mgmnt
• Smart Home
• Smart Cities
• Industrial
/Manufacturing
Customer
Experience Mgmt
• Personalisation/Rec
ommendation
• Customer Journey
Analysis
• Customer 360 - KYC

12. 2. Key Business Benefits

13. • Flexibility: Dynamic Schema
• Developer Productivity: Agility, Declarative query language
Faster Time-To-Market (Solution/Production)
• New data paradigm
• Graph representation of data
Innovation Enabler
• Timeliness
• Accuracy
Better decisions drive better business outcomes
• 10x less CPU with index-free adjacency
• 10x less hardware than other platforms
Hardware efficiency
Neo4j: Graph Platform Benefits

14. why?

15. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility
Performance

16. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility
Performance

17. Stockholm, March 2019

18. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility
Performance

19. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility
Performance

20. Audience Experiment:
Dependency modelling

21. Look at this data…
Element Depends On
A B
A C
A D
C H
D J
E F
E G
F J
G L
H I
J N
J M
L M

22. Element Depends On
A B
A C
A D
C H
D J
E F
E G
F J
G L
H I
J N
J M
L M
Time challenge #1: Does A depend on F ?
?

23. Look at this data again…

24. Time challenge #2: Does E depend on M ?
?
M
E

25. MATCH (a:Element { id: “A”})
MATCH p = (a)-[:DEPENDS_ON*]->(n { id: “N”})
RETURN p
SELECT
d1.ElementId, d2.ElementId, d3.ElementId
FROM dpndncs AS d1
INNER JOIN dpndncs AS d2
ON d1.dependsOnElemId = d2.ElemId
INNER JOIN dpndncs AS d3
ON d2.dependsOnElemId = d3.ElemId
… <arbitrary number of joins>…
WHERE d1.ElementId = “A”
AND d3.ElementId = “N”
Element Depends On
A B
A C
A D
C H
D J
E F
E G
F J
G L
H I
J N
J M
L M
Does X depend on Y ?

26. Things get more complicated: Route diversity,
SPOF detection…

27. some example projects

28. Assurance
IA/RCA
Orchestration
PC

29. Graph-Based Network Dual Model
Route Oriented Model
Least cost path from A to B
Diverse routes
+
Dependency Oriented Model
No shared underlying resources
IA/RCA

30. Path Computation
Diverse Routing
?

31. 🏦 :DEPENDS_ON
:DEPENDS_ON
:DEPENDS_ON
IF/AX2431
💥
Customer
Event Correlation
Event Prioritisation
Service Assurance
IA/RCA

32. MATCH (fe:Link { linkId: $id})<-[:DEPENDS_ON*]-(s:Service)
RETURN max(s.priority) AS severity
{ alarmType: “LOS”,
notifyingEntity: “IF/AX/0/3”, …}
Service Assurance
IA/RCA
GET http://localhost:11001/engine/ia/s1_361_sdh
{"severitySummaryCode": 4,
"severitySummaryDesc": "MAJOR",
"detail": [{"elem":"2217/ol",
"impact" : 1,

33. Graph Size: ~50M nodes (avg depth: 6)Graph Size: ~1K nodes (avg depth: 5)
Simulation: 128 clients, synchronous requests with1ms wait between requests
AT SCALE
50000x increase in size of dataset -> 1.14x impact in query performance
Graph Native Matters!!!
(Deep) Impact/Root Cause Analysis

34. Smart Homes

37. 100 requests/day x 11 devices/zone x 1.3 Mill Zones = 1.43 Bill w/req to Neo4j/day

38. The future…

39. Customer Journey Analysis

41. Come meet us at Stand 30 in the Exhibition Area to
see Neo4j in action
Join us at 12:50 for the Data Driven Technologies
roundtable on “How to bring Graph Analytics into
your projects: From Network Operations to Customer
Journey Analysis”
Thank you!