Software Telco Congress - NFV and Voice Network as a Service

Building New Applications for SDN and NFV Networks:Voice Network as a Service

Software Telecom Congress 2014Clint Peck - VP Technology

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VoIP Evolution

Monolithic to Decomposed to Virtualization

Is Rebuilding a Voice Network with NFV the right approach?

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Building the Next Network is Too Risky

TOO MUCH

Spending averaged 159% of budget

TOO LATE

Projects took 174% longer than promised

TOO UNCERTAIN

61% of IT projects did not succeed

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Where is the Business Model Transformation?

• Build it and they will (come/stay?) – CAPEX required• Maintain large operations and engineering team – fixed OPEX• Extensive and disruptive rebuild process• Management and support nightmare• Repeat again in 5 years

• Voice is becoming a commoditized feature on next gen networks – it makes sense to deliver it in the least expensive and lowest risk manner possible

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Even Virtualized It’s Still a Monster

IMS Virtualization

Virtualized IMS

Leverage the Cloud

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The World Has Turned to the Cloud

>$600 Billion will be spent on cloud services

2013-2016Source: Gartner

Now Service Providers Can Leverage The Cloud for Voice Service Delivery

Cloud Voice Platform is Hosted NFV

• NFV is core technology, but only a starting point

• Hosted NFV‐ Elastic technology benefits ‐ More elegant management,

single vendor for support ‐ Success-based SaaS business

model

• Cloud provides NFV Benefits without CAPEX

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NFV Inside

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VirtualizationLayer

Cloud-Like vs Cloud-Based

SBC

Hypervisor

Servers

Telco Software

IMS core

Provisioning

Cloud Voice Platform

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MediaServer

Fraud prevention

SBC IMS core

Provisioning

AS

MediaServer

Fraud prevention

Building a Cloud Using the Cloud

Resource Manager

Orchestration

Monitoring

Hypervisor

Resource Manager

Orchestration

Monitoring

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Why NFV In The First Place?

• Why NFV in the first place?‐ Reduce CapEx‐ Reduce OpEx‐ Accelerate time to market‐ Deliver agility and flexibility

• Cloud solutions deliver all the same benefits but with less risk

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NFV In The Cloud

• It makes sense for cloud operators to embrace NFV

• How has Alianza embraced NFV today?‐ Agile development‐ Virtualize everything‐ Servers – OpenStack‐ Storage – OpenStack & Ceph‐ Network – Load balancers

‐ End-to-End orchestration and automation‐ Improved monitoring and reporting‐ Continuous delivery of features and platform updates

• Where are we going with NFV tomorrow?‐ Virtualize everything else‐ SBC‐ Network – Commodity network gear and SDN‐ SoftSwitch – Virtualize all functions‐ IMS Functions

‐ End-to-end elasticity, push-button provisioning

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