Colt Optical SDN Innovation

Optical SDN

InnovationExtending Colt On Demand to Optical servicesJavier Benitez

Our network

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Metropolitan Area

Network

Colt connected city

Operational network

managed end-to-end

Our network


Metropolitan Area

Network

Colt connected city

Operational network

managed end-to-end

25k+Buildings directly

connected

200+Cities connected

across 28 countries

6Languages

supported by

24/7 customer

service

900+Network to network

interfaces

100+Industry awards

25k+Customers

5k+Employees

187k+LDN, metro fibre

and subsea and

terrestrial leased

capacity

800+Key data centres,

clouds and carrier

hotels connected

Colt SDN/NFV transformation programme (Novitas)

And delivering important benefits:

Elastic

Topology

Elastic

Service

Deliver programmable flexible topologies

based on overlay and underlay networks.

Deliver virtualised off-net and on-net L2 and

L3 edge services on top of basic connectivity.

SDN

NFV

Elastic

Bandwidth

Deliver programmable elastic links with

variable bandwidth.

The Vision: to transform the way network services are ordered and consumed, delivering a cloud like customer experience (self-provision, in real-time)

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Flexible

commercials

Bandwidth

scalability

Real-time

provisioning

Self-

service


Novitas customer propositions

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Point to point

“On-net” (Fibre)

Colt On-Demand

Multi-site

“Off-net & on-net”

mix

SD WAN

Two different

offerings targeting

different use cases:

1

2


Ethernet on demand offerings – Live!

Market demand Colt on-demand solution Value proposition

On-Demand connectivity between data centres

On-Demand connectivity to enterprise buildings

On Demand connectivity into the cloud

1

2

3

+24% yoy

Traffic Data Centre

to user

+32% yoy

Traffic Data Centre

to data centre

+100% yoy

Private Cloud

connectivity

Ethernet

on Demand

Data centresEnterprise

Buildings

DCA on Demand

Data

centre Public

Clouds

Enterprise

Building

DCNet on Demand

Data centres Data centres


Optical on demand (future) – The same proposition!

Market demand Colt on-demand solution Value proposition

On-Demand connectivity between data centres

On-Demand connectivity to enterprise buildings

On Demand connectivity into the cloud

1

2

3

+24% yoy

Traffic Data Centre

to user

+32% yoy

Traffic Data Centre

to data centre

+100% yoy

Private Cloud

connectivity

Data centresEnterprise

Buildings

Data

centre Public

Clouds

Enterprise

Building

Data centres Data centres


Optical On Demand

Optical On Demand

Optical On Demand

NOVITAS roadmap

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Ethernet On Demand evolutionColt Asia, High BW, Public Cloud

extension, IQNet Integration,

Intercontinental services

SD WAN evolutionInternet-only, MPLS-only, Basic &

Advanced FW, self-install CPE, High BW

CPE, Regional GWs (US, Asia), WAN

Optimisation

PlanningDevelopment Research

Target NFV PlatformDistributed Unified NFV Cloud

Standard SDN/NFV NNIIndustry collaboration to develop

standard SDN/NFV East-West APIs

(MEF LSO Sonata/Interlude)

IPA On DemandInternet Access On demand

Optical SDNfully disaggregated, SW-controllable

optical transport network (Layer 0-

Photonic/WDM & Layer 1-OTN)

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Optical SDN definition and use cases

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A fully disaggregated, software-controllable optical transport network both across Layer 0-Photonic/WDM as well as Layer 1-OTN


Operator (Internal)

• Network & Service

Automation

• Multi-vendor Optical

Network

• Multi-layer Optical/Packet

Optimisation

Customer (External)

• Service Flexing (BW,

Topology, NFV)

• Optical interfaces: grey,

single wave and WDM

• P2P & Optical VPN

• Route On Demand

Optical SDN enabling technologies


Enabling Technology Description

Programmable ROADMOptical wavelength switch with colourless/directionless(/contentionless)

capability

Super-ChannelHigher speed composite P2P channel made of individual optical sub-

channels

Sliceable BW-variable

Transponder

One line interface supporting multiple services with different light paths

Flexible GridNew WDM frequency grid improving spectral efficiency with fine 6.25GHz

granularity

SD-ModulationConfiguration of modulation technique (QPSK, BPSK, 8QAM, etc.) in

software depending on optical link conditions

Alien Wave /OLS/Open

ROADM

Adoption of openness in optical, supporting mix of transponder and

ROADM systems

Flexible Ethernet (Flex MAC)Bringing flexibility to the client layer (e.g. rate control)

GMPLS/PCEP/BGP-

LS/OpenFlow

Control plane protocols, essentially inherited from packet

Standard/Open T-APIsOne single API to develop and deploy, supporting all internal & external

customers

Data

Plane

Control

Plane

API

Optical SDN high level service architecture


Application Layer

Novitas

Portal

Novitas

Engine

Control Layer

Customer Customer

Colt

OSS/BSS

Novitas

API

Novitas

API

Novitas

API

Optical Infrastructure Layer

CM

D

WSS

WSS

WS

S

CM

D

WSS

WSS

WS

S

CM

D

WSS

WSS

WS

S

CM

D

WSS

WSS

WS

S

TP

TP

MP

MP

TP

TP

MP

MP

TopologyPath

Computation

Service

Abstraction

Resource

Manager

AP

I

AP

I

Open ROADM

Control

REST, RESTconf, NETCONF

PCEP, BGP-LS, NETCONF, OVSDB, OTS, REST, OpenFlow, SNMP

UI

Colt deliveryUI

Programmable ROADM,

flexible grid and GMPLS

Super-channel,

sliceable and

SD modulation

Flexible Ethernet

Alien wave, open line

system and open ROADM

High Level SDN/NFV Architecture including Optical


Novitas EngineChoreographer

Service orchestration

OSS & BSS SystemsAnalytics

Authentication

Customer Care

InventoryInvoicing

Monitoring

Customer Applications

Physical networksColt Ethernet / IP packet

Colt optical / OTN core

3rd party infrastructure (SP, Cloud)

Novitas Portal UI

Novitas Public API

APIs

Infrastructure virtualisationNode compute infrastructure

Netw ork switching fabric

x86 CPE

SDN ControllersPacket-optical multi-layer controller

Netw ork domain orchestrator

SD-WAN controller

Netw ork virtualisation controller

NFV ManagementNFV management & orchestration (MANO)

Conclusions


• Packet SDN is a reality – Colt’s Packet OD solutions live

• Next step is to expand OD to the optical domain

• Colt RFI on-going (Vendors/Analysts/SDOs)

• Optical SDN journey may take longer – higher proprietary environment

• Internal Operator use cases expected to bring quicker benefits

• Still, we observe some customer demand

• First Optical SDN tactical solutions planned for 2018

• Keep tuned… you will hear from us!

Thank you

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