Open Networks, SDN & Virtualization towards Telco-Cloud

How will NFV impact 5G? Considering Network Slicing, Automation, Machine Learning, Analytics and Big Data, MEC, Distributed Cloud Computing, Integration and Cross-Cloud Application Deployment for Vertical Markets

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When

March 13-15, 2018

Where

MacDonald Randolph Hotel

Oxford, UK

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Limited to 100 seats

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Attendance open to all IWPC Members


Introduction

Considering near term (18 months to 2 years) plans on how the industry gets to true cloud in terms of technology evolution and business operations. How can initiatives such as ONAP help to achieve global consistency in orchestration and automation and can claims of operational cost reduction be realized? 

This workshop will explore the impact a move from vertical silos to horizontal cloud will have on service assurance and aim to clarify differences in business cases for virtualizing new service and revenue generators versus legacy services

Workshop Goals

  • Understand what Telco Cloud actually means and what it will look like?
  • Explore how global consistency in automation can be achieved?
  • Address service provider and vendor alignment for the coming 18 months to 2 years

Agenda

DAY 1
March 13

Tuesday

Tour at the University of Surrey 5G Innovation Centre

  • Technology and Applications Demonstrations on 5GIC Virtualised Flat Distributed Cloud Architecture ( 5G core)

Brief registration at hotel at 12:30, bus to depart at 13:00

**Limited to 20 persons, first come, first served**

19:00

Evening Reception & Registration

At Hotel

DAY 2
March 14

Wednesday

07:00

Registration and Coffee

08:00

Welcome and Introductions

 

09:00

Keynote

  • 5G
  • Telco Cloud
  • Mobile Edge Computing
  • Open Source and Standards
  • Operations and Automation
  • Analytics and Big Data
  • Products and Services

Keynote Presentation

 

Head of Network Virtualization

 

10:00

Networking Break

  

10:40

5G - Network and Radio Perspectives, Products and Services

  • Service drivers for 5G
  • State of 3GPP / 5G Core Standards
  • 5G NSA Deployments (Leverage Existing EPC) v/s Evolution to 5G Core (5GC)
  • Core Technology Deployment Roadmap for 5G (Options for Migration)
  • Addressing future demand through 5G (spectrum efficiency at the RAN level)
  • Addressing low latency and high performance requirements addressed by 5G
  • 5G and regulations

5G Case for Telco Automation

  • Why SDN and NFV play an important part in 5G rollout ?
  • 5G Case for adoption of SDN/NFV for Transport & DC networking
  • Universal CPE, 5G related Opportunities and challenges
  • Does 5G necessitates Practical orchestration and delegation of responsibility, a layered approach

Discussion Lead

 

Network Strategy Manager

 

 

5G Network Architecture, Design and Optimisation

 

Principal Network Architect

 

 

3GPP 5G Core Network Enablers for Virtualization and New Services

 

Manager, Network Research Group

 

12:00

Networking Lunch

  

13:00

5G Continued, Telco Cloud

  • Assessing current implementation & B/OSS/Management Platform Readiness status for Telco’s
  • Is 5G Platform itself the killer use case for Telco’s
  • Exposure of 5G Core network functions all the way to application layer – How to leverage 5G at core in new customer service propositions ?
  • Prospect of SDN & NFV deployment for Mobile Operators, how is it related to 5G ?
  • Role of Cloud Native Architecture & Micro services in Stack Readiness for 5G Rollout
  • Assuring 5G Services, can you guarantee SLA and ultra-low latency requirements for 5G propositions
  • Role & Important of Security in 5G & Telco Cloud
  • Dynamic Delivery of LTE / 5G enabled Services
  • Co-Creation and Ecosystem Play of 5G in a Telco Cloud Environment

Discussion Lead

 

Chief IT Systems Architect

 

 

 

Telco Cloud and Deployment Challenges

 

Head, 5G Architecture

 

 

 

Towards 5G and Converged Cloud for Network and IT

 

Research Scientist

 

 

 

Next Generation Platform as a Service 5G Cloud Native Solution

 

Research Manager Bell Labs

 

15:00

Networking Break

 

15:40

Multi-Access Edge Computing

  • Multi-Access Edge Computing: Status
  • Deployment architectures
  • Role of SDN and SD-WAN at the edge of the mobile network
  • MEC hardware and software infrastructure and its relationship to NFV and IT Cloud technologies
  • Automation of deployment and life-cycle management: a) for edge platforms and b) for edge applications
  • Hybrid clouds (public cloud + network edge clouds) and workload migration
  • Challenges related to scaling the number of deployed edge stacks and enabling flexible stack capabilities
  • Challenges with deploying telecom workloads in a distributed cloud
  • Challenges and solutions for VNF validation over SDN for the mobile edge
  • Edge cloud brokers (edge nodes available across different network operators)
  • The role of MEC services and their APIs
  • Edge computing and acceleration offload from devices, offload APIs
  • Resilience at the network edge, enabling service level agreements
  • MEC, device mobility and persistent service quality
  • MEC use cases and challenges in market adoption

Discussion Lead

 

Senior Manager, R&D

 

 

 

Juniper 5G Ready Network: SDN/NFV Driven Distributed Mobile Cloud Enabling Pervasive Security

 

Chief Architect

 

 

 

Open Approach to MEC and NFV-I

 

Chief Technologist NFV EMEA

 

 

 

Edge Computing for CommSP

 

Lead Architect, Telco

 

17:30

Adjourn

 

19:00

Networking Dinner - Balliol College (University of Oxford)

Depart Hotel at 18:30

DAY 3
March 15

Thursday

07:00

Registration and Coffee

  

08:00

Technology Enablers - Open Source and Standards

  • Open Networks, SDN & Virtualization in 5G workframe SDN, NFV, Open Source, Open Networking, ODL, ONAP, OPNFV, ONOS, CORD, TOSCA
  • Linux Foundation Networking Group / TMF / ETSI / MEF
  • On boarding and standard interop between vendors and service providers
  • Plugfests, Plugtests and interoperability testing efforts
  • What has changed for testing, compared to legacy network testing, with NFV / Methods and techniques for testing NFV

 

Discussion Lead

 

‎Principal Enterprise Architect

Network Virtualisation and SDN/NFV Architect

 

 

 

Challenges with Deploying Telecom Workloads in the Cloud

NFV Architect

 

 

 

Cloud Native is the New Standard

 

CTO

 

 

 

How Agility and Open API’s Enable Interoperability Success

 

Director, Global Consulting

 

09:30

Networking Break

 

10:10

Technology Enablers - Operations and Automation

  • Zerotouch automation – what does it actually mean?
  • Automated VNF/Application lifecycle management (including on-boarding and acceptance testing) and how will operators consume vendors SW – (Implications of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD etc. for operators)
  • What is a service and why services exist at many hierarchical levels?
  • The role of Orchestration and use of Declarative Models to describe services and their service assurance expectations
  • What is the NG-OSS story?
  • Standardised APIs, Models, modeling languages

Discussion Lead

 

Technical Strategist and Architect

 

 

 

Boost 4G to 5G – Network Slicing, Transport Intelligence, and Distributed Cloud

 

Expert Cloud SDN

 

 

 

Leveraging Machine Learning for the Adaptive Network

 

CTO EMEA

 

 

 

NFV & 5G Testing - Overview

 

Lead Technologist, Product Management and ETSI Chair

 

12:00

Networking Lunch

  

13:00

Technology Enablers - Analytics, Machine Learning and Big Data

  • Relevance of Analytics in SDN NFV, Telco Cloud on the road to Virtualization
  • Can we leverage Machine Learning & AI in Virtualized world ?
  • Big Data, is it an Open Source or a Vendor play ?
  • What is the real difference between Real time, near real time and non-real time analytics and how does it matter ?
  • What is the best data assimilation / collection mechanism in a Virtual work ?
  • Will functions like assurance, testing etc…migrate from traditional specific vendors to analytics based algorithms ?
  • Are there any standards in Analytics, AI, Big Data, Machine Leaning ? Are they relevant ?
  • What is the Business Case for Analytics in Virtual World ? Why do we need it ? Can we justify it ?

Discussion Lead

 

Principal Enterprise Architect

 

 

 

Implementing Operational AI in Telco Environments

 

CTO

 

 

 

Machine Learning applied to Automation in 5G Management & Orchestration

 

Head, Cognitive Network Management, Bell Labs

 

 

 

AI for Future Network Operation and Design

 

Principal Engineer

 

15:00

Networking Break

  

15:40

Technology Enablers - Products and Services

  • Achieving End-To-End Service Orchestration across Hybrid and Multiple Networks
  • How would Service Fulfilment & Assurance evolve to an end to end Service Orchestration and management ecosystem?
  • Delivering Optimal Service through Automated On boarding, Service Design and Policy Management
  • Can a Lego brick / building block approach work in a Virtual World ? Federated v/s Pre-Integrated Stack, what is the desirable stack play ?
  • Should there be any impact on Billing and Charging in a Virtual world ?
  • Next-Gen Service Assurance Enablement, what does future hold for this
  • Monetisation of SDN/NFV, how do we make money ?
  • How do we achieve Rapid Service Deployment, Launch New Services in a Virtual World ?

Discussion Lead

 

‎Principal Enterprise Architect

 

 

 

Application-Aware Network Slicing - The Profitable Path to 5G

 

Founder & CTO

 

 

 

Network Virtualization is Missing Service Assurance

 

Technical Sales Engineer

 

 

 

Static Structures are the Enemy of Agility

 

CEO

 

17:00

Closing Discussion

  
19:00 Dinner (Dutch*)
* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs. 		 

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    Deadline for electronic version of presentation/handout materials: Monday, March 5, 2018

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    Beaumont Street
    Oxford, UK OX1 2LN
    Phone: +44 344 879 9132
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