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Reinventing the Network

Ronan Kelly

CTO EMEA APAC Region

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History of Network Reinvention

Canals (1700 -1830s) – Superior Distribution opened up new markets

– Birth of Industry towns (Staffordshire, Birmingham, Lancashire)

– Catalyst in Industrial Revolution

Railways (1820 – 1850) – Nationwide coverage took over 30 years

– Rapid scheduled delivery of heavy goods & Passengers

– Steel towns Emerge (Sheffield, Scunthorpe, Corby )

– Early leisure industry

Air (1930s to present) – National Airports and Airlines

– High speed National & International reach

– World markets, business & leisure travel

Roads 2.0 The Motorways (1960s to present) – National motorway build program

– Flexible, Ubiquitous, Unscheduled

– Commuter belts, Domestic leisure travel,

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Christensen’s Disruptive Technology S Curve

1700 1812 1930 1960 2010

Canals

Railways

Air

Roads

Perf

orm

ance /

Adoption

Time

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The Disruptive S Curve & Internet Access

Dial-Up

ADSL

VDSL

G.fast*

Period of Discontinuity

1990s 2005 2010 2015

Perf

orm

ance /

Adoption

Time

What about FTTH?

2020

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The Impact of Access Reinvention

Flex56K & V.90

Physical Content

Usage based Billing

ADSL

Digitized Content

Always On

VDSL2

Instant Delivery

High Speed

G.Fast

& FTTP

N x Ultra-HD Internet of Things

1990s 2000 - 05 2006 - Today 2015 Onwards

Dial Up Era Always On Superfast Ultrafast

Instant Gratification

Is The Base Line

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Instant Gratification Networks

Nx10/100G DWDM

Metro Transport

Enterprise

Gateway

The

Cloud

RG

CE NID

Service

Orchestration

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ADTRAN Instant Gratification Architecture

Nx10G C/DWDM

Access Star/Ring

Nx10/100G DWDM

Metro Transport

Nx

10/100G

Integrated100G

Transport

Non-blocking Access.

Aggregation

Multi-Service Gateways

Cloud Edge to Subscriber Edge Per-Flow Services Management

GPON/

NGPON

GE/xPON

Cloud

G.Fast

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Expansion of Gigabit Communities

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ADTRAN History Of Reinvention

2002 Reinvented with the world’s first sealed outdoor DSLAM Breaking DSL free from the exchange and the cabinet

12 years of market leadership

2010 Reinvents with the worlds first Reverse powered DPU – Reinvents large scale Wi-Fi systems through disaggregation of control /

data plane functions

2011 Reinvents the access / metro transport dyad – Optical Networking Edge – Worlds First Converged MSAN with

integrated ROADM based optical transport

2014 Reinventing Access – G.fast – Bringing Gigabit services to the masses

– Next Generation Optical access solutions protecting todays investments

Visit ADTRAN at Booth E#30 and see Reinvention in action