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Improving time to market

and reducing new service

deployment complexity by

implementing an OSS

orchestration layer

Patricio Latini – Strategy CTO – Intraway

Claudio Righetti – Chief Scientist – Cablevisión Argentina

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Current Situation

▪ Increasing service complexity

▪ IT and Engineering Departments typically working as

independent silos

▪ Increasing competition from non-traditional players requires

to reduce significantly Time-to-Market for new Products

▪ Augmented expectations of product offering flexibility

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Architecture

BSS

OSS

Fulfillment Assurance Billing & Revenue Mgmt

Product Catalog

Customer Order Management

CRM

Billing and Revenue

Management

Service-Resource

Catalog and

Inventory

Service Order

Management &

Decomposition

Service Activation &

Resource Provisioning

Quality and

Trouble

Management

Network Elements

TM Forum Framework

Network Orchestration Layer

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Architecture

Billing

Other

Inventory

SOMCRM Service Provider

Existing Systems

Workflow Function

Parameter Sanitization

Network Connectors

Device

Management

Policy Control

and AAA

Prepaid and

Charging

API TranslationSOAP/REST

Interface

NOC

Other

CSR

SalesSupport

Operation Users

Provisioning Function

Transaction Handling and

Command Processing

Softswitch and

App. ServerOther

CAS and

MiddlewareISP and VAS

HTTP SNMP CLI TL1 FTP

API Layer Function

Connector Design BPM-based

Workflow Mgmt.

NETCONF LDAP OTHER

GPON

WiMAX xDSL

LTE

DOCSIS

ISAT

Cable IPTV

DTH

IMS

VOIP

POTS GSM/3GOTT

OthersIoT / M2M

MPLS

SDN / NFV

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Current Situation

CRM

ITO

pera

tio

ns

Billing

Product

Catalog

Service Order Manager

Network Orchestrator

WFM

Inventory

Others

Network Elements

Other B/OSS Systems

Portals and

Applications

Partners and 3rd Party

Developers

Activation

API

Network

Discovery

API

Service

Assurance

API

Charging

API

Content

Providers

API

Captive

Portal

API

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Benefits of a Network Orchestration Layer

▪ Simplifies integration with Network Elements

Service Order Management systems can use a standardized API instead of custom integrations per network element

Custom networks elements integration is done by the one who knows most about them in the organization

▪ Allows much greater flexibility in the design of complex new services

Creates an abstraction layer where the IT department doesn't need to model the service based on Network Element Capabilities

Allows the introduction of new vendors at network level much easier

▪ Improves Time to Market of new services

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Case Study: GPON Launch at Cablevisión

About Cablevisión Argentina

▪ Largest Cable Operator in Argentina

3.5 Million CATV Subscribers

2.2 Million High Speed Data Subscribers

▪Operates in 172 cities in Argentina

▪Over 10,000 employees

▪ HHPP: 7.8 Million - 50.767 km

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Case Study: GPON Launch at Cablevisión

▪ Cablevisión needed to launch GPON HSD technology in a

new market

All existing processes supported only CATV + DOCSIS

3 month time limit for integrations

All processes needed adaptation to the new technology to reduce

operational training

▪ In a second phase other service must be integrated

▪Multivendor support was required for all Network Elements

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Case Study: GPON Launch at Cablevisión

▪ Initial Environment

iWAY

DOCSISCNR

DHCP

CMTSv2CMTSv1

Management

CM CM

BSS/

OSS

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Case Study: GPON Launch at Cablevision

▪ Phase 1BSS/

OSS

iWAY

DOCSISCNR

DHCP

CNR 2

DHCP

Orquestador /

SDN ControllerACS

OLTv1 OLTv2CMTSv2CMTSv1

Phase I

IP 1 IP 2

Management Management

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Case Study: GPON Launch at Cablevision

▪ Potential ExpansionPhase III

iWAY

DOCSIS

CNR

(DHCP) SDN Controller ACS

OLTv1OLTv2

CMTSv2CMTSv1

Interface

Soap/REST

BSS/

OSS

DATA

COLLECTOR

CM CM ONT ONT

RGW

Orchestator

vCCAPCORE

RPD

CM

Management

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Conclusions: GPON Launch at Cablevisión

▪ Project execution is On-Track

▪ Integration complexity was significantly reduced by adopting

this architecture

▪ Expansion capabilities are key for future stages of the

project