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Dr Lester Thomas
Chief Systems Architect, Vodafone Group
Greg Tilton
CEO, DGIT Systems
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Agenda
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An Operational Domain within ODA
The Custodian of Services
Serviceability
Service Spec
Inventory
Capacity
Catalog
• Expose Standard TMForum Open APIs
Events
Order
Test
• Standard Service Definition Formats
• Maintain and expose a catalog of services
• Operate and Assure Services
Closed Loop Service Orchestration
• Manage Service Lifecycle Concept to Exit
Inventory Catalog
Infrastructure Control
Lifecycle
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Industry is Enabling NFV
• Industry projects TMF, ONAP, MEF have concluded that the industry should use a generic
interaction model to present both network and compute resources
• All the proposed models agree on the need for autonomous services with a standardized
presentation
• This reduced instruction set is made possible through dynamic APIs where API payloads are
abstracted and governed by meta-data
IT DIGITIZATION LAYER
share
Dynamic Data
Payloads Standardised APIs
Meta
Data
NaaS (Technology & Vendor Independent)
SONATA
TMF640
TMF
NAL
TMF640 TMF633 TMF641
LEGATO
VENDOR API
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The same approach across all network domains
AUTOMATING NETWORK AS A SERVICE
USING ODM, TM FORUM OPEN APIS & MEF LSO
SONATA
TMF640
TMF
NAL
TMF640 TMF633 TMF641
LEGATO
VENDOR API
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OPEN DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE
Making OSS BSS dynamic enough for NFV
Marketplace of customers & Partners
DYNAMIC APIs CATALOG QUALIFY QUOTE ORDER INVENTORY EVENT TICKET + MORE!
NFV RESOURCES
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Commercial in Confidence
Evolution to 5G
Challenges
• Use-cases for 5G are still being defined.
• We are facing Tsunami of Integration.
• What is the role of a Communication
Service Provider in the 5G world?
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Step 1: Make every Technology Domain Programmable
Programmability
VNF VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
5G Radio
Technology
Devices Radio & Fixed Access Edge cloud Core Connectivity
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Step 2: Technology Domain Component Services
Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs
Device Services RAN Services Access Services Core Connectivity Services Application/Network Functions
Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain
Assurance ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator Assurance ML Orchestrator
ML Orchestrator Assurance Assurance Assurance
Enablement
Programmability
VNF VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
5G Radio
Technology
Devices Radio & Fixed Access Edge cloud Core Connectivity
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Step 3: End-to-End Network-As-A-Service
Open APIs
End to End Service Management End to End Service Assurance Analytics / ML End to End Service Orchestration
Composition
Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs
Device Services RAN Services Access Services Core Connectivity Services Application/Network Functions
Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain
Assurance ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator Assurance ML Orchestrator
ML Orchestrator Assurance Assurance Assurance
Enablement
Programmability
VNF VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
5G Radio
Technology
Devices Radio & Fixed Access Edge cloud Core Connectivity
Innovation
Open APIs
End to End Service Management End to End Service Assurance Analytics / ML End to End Service Orchestration
Composition
Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs
Device Services RAN Services Access Services Core Connectivity Services Application/Network Functions
Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain Domain Analytics/ Domain
Assurance ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator ML Orchestrator Assurance ML Orchestrator
ML Orchestrator Assurance Assurance Assurance
Enablement
Programmability
VNF VNF VNF VNF
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
5G Radio
Technology
Devices Radio & Fixed Access Edge cloud Core Connectivity
• A common set of industry standard open APIs across all network and compute.
• Dynamic data payloads are the key to making this possible.
• Network Service Orchestration is a critical enabler for our future networks.