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Beyond Basic
VoLTE Services
Avoiding 3 mistakes
of the past
Grant Henderson
VP MediaEngine Business
grant.henderson@radisys.com
LTE Voice Summit - October 11, 2016
© Radisys 2016
What if instead of this…
Your desk looked like this?
Why do we allow this to continue?
Voicemail
Prepaid/
Recharge
Business
Audio
Conference
Self Serve
(IVR)
CRBTTelevoting
Is this a talk about NFV and NFVI?
Proprietary Network Elements NFV Era Architecture
Resources are shared & reused
Agility and elasticity are paramount
Open is far more than lip service
Value add is more important than ever
In the emerging NFV/Dev Ops World…
IMS and Value Added Services
MGW
MRFP
BGW
FTTHPSTN 2G/3G DSL CABLE
User/Data
Plane
Session&
ControlPlane
Application&
ServicesPlane
…
MMTel
BTAS
UC-AS
CRBT-AS
MGCF
CSCF
MRFC
BGCF
VAS Service
Delivery
Transcoding
Service
Platform
Infrastructure
Problem 1: Service Nodes and Silos
Opportunity: True Multiservice MRF
“Open MRF” - Driving CAPEX and Opex down
Case Study – Tier 1 Incumbent (Europe)
One
Commmon
MRF
Business Audio
Conferencing
(Vendor R)
Fixed TAS
(Vendor E)
Next gen IN
(H-NA)
Next gen
Messaging
(H-NA)
SDP
(Vendor H-C)
Mobile TAS
(Vendor M)
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
SIP Netan,
VXML
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
Vendor,
Application,
& Protocol
Agnostic
Case Study – Asia Pacific VoLTE Greenfield
One
Commmon
MRF
WebRTC Services
(Vendor W)
Mobile TAS
(Vendor N)
Audio/Video RBT
(Vendor C)
ANY MEDIA
RICH
SERVICES
IPTV Video
Conferencing
(Organic)
IP Centrex/BTAS
(Vendor G)
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
SIP Netan,
VXML
SIP
MSML
SIP
MSML
The Impact of Contemporary Codecs…
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
RelativeComputationalComplexity
VoIP Era Today 5G Era
Is Even More Pronounced with Video/RCS
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Audio
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
H.261 H.263 H.264 VP8 H.265 VP9
Video
RelativeComputationalComplexity
RelativeComputationalComplexity
VP8
VoIP Era Today 5G Era VoIP Era Today 5G Era
Problem 2: SBC Design in the Virtual Era
Integrated
Signaling
Audio
Transcoding
RTP Packet
Processing
& Security
SBC or MGW with
integrated
media processing
Decomposed
Decomposed SBC
or MGW with
integrated
media processing
Signaling
Audio
Transcoding
RTP Packet
Processing
& Security
Adjunct
SBC or MGW
complemented
with
adjunct
media processing
Signaling
Multimedia
Transcoding
RTP Packet
Processing
& Security
Opportunity: Adjunct Transcoding (AMR-WB)
80k Sessions of
Signaling
17k Sessions of
Transcoding
5 X SBCs 1 X SBCs + 1 Adjunct Transcoder
Adjunct
Transcoder
63k sessions of Supplemental
Transcoding, additional HD Audio
and Video Codec Support
Keep complex
signaling capabilities
in the SBC and use
the excess signaling
capacity
OR
Comparative analysis of 80,000 AMR-WB transcoding sessions
Restricted to 17k
Sessions of Signaling
17k Sessions of
Transcoding
Even more pronounced with EVS
15 X SBCs
80k Sessions of
Signaling
5K Sessions of
Transcoding
1 X SBCs + 4 Adjunct Transcoder
X
5
Adjunct
Transcoder
75k sessions of Supplemental
Transcoding, additional HD Audio
and Video Codec Support
Keep complex
signaling capabilities
in the SBC and use
the excess signaling
capacity
OR
Adjunct
Transcoder
Adjunct
TranscoderRestricted to 5k
Sessions of Signaling
5k Sessions of
Transcoding
Adjunct
Transcoder
Comparative analysis of 80,000 EVS transcoding sessions
Case Study: Asian Operator OTT Service
LTE
Peer
IP Network
Adjunct
Transcoder
Opus
(VOIP)
AMR-WB<>Opus
AMR-WB
(IR.92)
AMR-WB
(IR.92)
SBC
Problem 3: OpEX and Openness
Opportunity: Truly Open/Modular Hardware
Rear Optical
interconnect With 4x
Blind Mate Conn.
Power Bus Connector
Case Study – Telco Datacenter
http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/7a/Mesoscon_2016_cneth.pdf
How will you architect your vIMS/5G network?
Voicemail
Prepaid/
Recharge
Business
Audio
Conference
Self Serve
(IVR)
CRBTTelevoting
Thank You
Shared media processing can deliver up to 45% CAPEX/Opex savings
Virtualizing data plane elements needs to be considered carefully
The era of truly open solutions, both hardware and software is upon us
Incase you don’t know Radisys…
The Services Acceleration Company
• Experts in Enabling Technology
• 30 years of telecom excellence and experience from RAN to
Core
• Publicly traded on NASDAQ (Symbol: RSYS)
• Headquartered in Portland, OR, USA
• 700+ employee globally; 80% in Bangalore, India and Shenzhen
China
• Strategic focus on software and software-rich systems for
network transformation in the NFV/SDN and 5G era
• Software-Systems business
• 35% year-on-year growth in 2015
• 70%+ of total employees dedicated to the Software-Systems
business
• A leading player in initiatives such as On.LAB’s CORD,
Facebook’s TIP, and contributor of open source hardware to OCP
(CG-Openrack-19)
• Differentiated Products and Global Tier 1
Customers
• Software and systems products deliver disruptive solutions
required in next generation networks
• Strategically evolving from embedded applications to direct
engagements with service providers
Product Portfolio
Product
Lines
Radisys
Products
AppsStrategic
Focus
CellEngine TM
TOTALeNodeB (LTE)
Femtotality (3G)
Trillium Protocol Software
Small Cell Software
3G, LTE, Advanced-LTE
Enhanced Packet Core
Small Cell
SC
Mobility
Professional Services (Hardware, Software)
MediaEngine TM
MPX-12000 MRF
TRF-12000 Transcoder
vMRF and vTRF
VoLTE, VoWIFI, WebRTC
Conferencing, Transcoding
IMS and OTT services
Media Processing
MP
IP Communications
FlowEngine TM
TDE-1000, -500, -200
Intelligent Load Balancer
SDN, NFV, DPI,
Data Plane Load Balancing
Traffic Distribution
TD
Cloud
DCEngine TM
DCEngine
Radisys CORD
Central Office Rearchitected
As a Data Center
NFV Infrastructure
DC
Telco Data Center
Enabling Platform
EP
Next Gen Platforms
Embedded Products
T-Series, ComE, RMS,
Perfect Fit Hardware
Communications and
Medical Imaging
PS
Board of Directors
Ron de Lange – Chairman
Formerly CEO Tekelec, Sr. VP Oracle
Hubert de Pesquidoux
Formerly CFO Alcatel Lucent,
Chairman Tekelec
Dr. Niel Ransom
Formerly CTO Alcatel,
Bell South, Bell Labs
Dr. Mike Hluchyj
Formerly Founder & CTO Sonus Networks,
CTO Carrier Product Akamai,
Founder & CTO Verivue
Vince Tobkin
Formerly Chairman Tellabs, Global Telecom
Practice Leader Bain & Company, Partner McKinsey & Co
Scott Gibson
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Beyond Basic VoLTE Services: Avoiding 3 Mistakes of the Past

  • 1. Beyond Basic VoLTE Services Avoiding 3 mistakes of the past Grant Henderson VP MediaEngine Business grant.henderson@radisys.com LTE Voice Summit - October 11, 2016 © Radisys 2016
  • 2. What if instead of this…
  • 3. Your desk looked like this?
  • 4. Why do we allow this to continue? Voicemail Prepaid/ Recharge Business Audio Conference Self Serve (IVR) CRBTTelevoting
  • 5. Is this a talk about NFV and NFVI? Proprietary Network Elements NFV Era Architecture
  • 6. Resources are shared & reused Agility and elasticity are paramount Open is far more than lip service Value add is more important than ever In the emerging NFV/Dev Ops World…
  • 7. IMS and Value Added Services MGW MRFP BGW FTTHPSTN 2G/3G DSL CABLE User/Data Plane Session& ControlPlane Application& ServicesPlane … MMTel BTAS UC-AS CRBT-AS MGCF CSCF MRFC BGCF VAS Service Delivery Transcoding Service Platform Infrastructure
  • 8. Problem 1: Service Nodes and Silos
  • 10. “Open MRF” - Driving CAPEX and Opex down
  • 11. Case Study – Tier 1 Incumbent (Europe) One Commmon MRF Business Audio Conferencing (Vendor R) Fixed TAS (Vendor E) Next gen IN (H-NA) Next gen Messaging (H-NA) SDP (Vendor H-C) Mobile TAS (Vendor M) SIP MSML SIP MSML SIP MSML SIP Netan, VXML SIP MSML SIP MSML Vendor, Application, & Protocol Agnostic
  • 12. Case Study – Asia Pacific VoLTE Greenfield One Commmon MRF WebRTC Services (Vendor W) Mobile TAS (Vendor N) Audio/Video RBT (Vendor C) ANY MEDIA RICH SERVICES IPTV Video Conferencing (Organic) IP Centrex/BTAS (Vendor G) SIP MSML SIP MSML SIP MSML SIP Netan, VXML SIP MSML SIP MSML
  • 13. The Impact of Contemporary Codecs… 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 RelativeComputationalComplexity VoIP Era Today 5G Era
  • 14. Is Even More Pronounced with Video/RCS 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Audio 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 H.261 H.263 H.264 VP8 H.265 VP9 Video RelativeComputationalComplexity RelativeComputationalComplexity VP8 VoIP Era Today 5G Era VoIP Era Today 5G Era
  • 15. Problem 2: SBC Design in the Virtual Era Integrated Signaling Audio Transcoding RTP Packet Processing & Security SBC or MGW with integrated media processing Decomposed Decomposed SBC or MGW with integrated media processing Signaling Audio Transcoding RTP Packet Processing & Security Adjunct SBC or MGW complemented with adjunct media processing Signaling Multimedia Transcoding RTP Packet Processing & Security
  • 16. Opportunity: Adjunct Transcoding (AMR-WB) 80k Sessions of Signaling 17k Sessions of Transcoding 5 X SBCs 1 X SBCs + 1 Adjunct Transcoder Adjunct Transcoder 63k sessions of Supplemental Transcoding, additional HD Audio and Video Codec Support Keep complex signaling capabilities in the SBC and use the excess signaling capacity OR Comparative analysis of 80,000 AMR-WB transcoding sessions Restricted to 17k Sessions of Signaling 17k Sessions of Transcoding
  • 17. Even more pronounced with EVS 15 X SBCs 80k Sessions of Signaling 5K Sessions of Transcoding 1 X SBCs + 4 Adjunct Transcoder X 5 Adjunct Transcoder 75k sessions of Supplemental Transcoding, additional HD Audio and Video Codec Support Keep complex signaling capabilities in the SBC and use the excess signaling capacity OR Adjunct Transcoder Adjunct TranscoderRestricted to 5k Sessions of Signaling 5k Sessions of Transcoding Adjunct Transcoder Comparative analysis of 80,000 EVS transcoding sessions
  • 18. Case Study: Asian Operator OTT Service LTE Peer IP Network Adjunct Transcoder Opus (VOIP) AMR-WB<>Opus AMR-WB (IR.92) AMR-WB (IR.92) SBC
  • 19. Problem 3: OpEX and Openness
  • 20. Opportunity: Truly Open/Modular Hardware Rear Optical interconnect With 4x Blind Mate Conn. Power Bus Connector
  • 21. Case Study – Telco Datacenter http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/7a/Mesoscon_2016_cneth.pdf
  • 22. How will you architect your vIMS/5G network? Voicemail Prepaid/ Recharge Business Audio Conference Self Serve (IVR) CRBTTelevoting
  • 23. Thank You Shared media processing can deliver up to 45% CAPEX/Opex savings Virtualizing data plane elements needs to be considered carefully The era of truly open solutions, both hardware and software is upon us
  • 24. Incase you don’t know Radisys…
  • 25. The Services Acceleration Company • Experts in Enabling Technology • 30 years of telecom excellence and experience from RAN to Core • Publicly traded on NASDAQ (Symbol: RSYS) • Headquartered in Portland, OR, USA • 700+ employee globally; 80% in Bangalore, India and Shenzhen China • Strategic focus on software and software-rich systems for network transformation in the NFV/SDN and 5G era • Software-Systems business • 35% year-on-year growth in 2015 • 70%+ of total employees dedicated to the Software-Systems business • A leading player in initiatives such as On.LAB’s CORD, Facebook’s TIP, and contributor of open source hardware to OCP (CG-Openrack-19) • Differentiated Products and Global Tier 1 Customers • Software and systems products deliver disruptive solutions required in next generation networks • Strategically evolving from embedded applications to direct engagements with service providers
  • 26. Product Portfolio Product Lines Radisys Products AppsStrategic Focus CellEngine TM TOTALeNodeB (LTE) Femtotality (3G) Trillium Protocol Software Small Cell Software 3G, LTE, Advanced-LTE Enhanced Packet Core Small Cell SC Mobility Professional Services (Hardware, Software) MediaEngine TM MPX-12000 MRF TRF-12000 Transcoder vMRF and vTRF VoLTE, VoWIFI, WebRTC Conferencing, Transcoding IMS and OTT services Media Processing MP IP Communications FlowEngine TM TDE-1000, -500, -200 Intelligent Load Balancer SDN, NFV, DPI, Data Plane Load Balancing Traffic Distribution TD Cloud DCEngine TM DCEngine Radisys CORD Central Office Rearchitected As a Data Center NFV Infrastructure DC Telco Data Center Enabling Platform EP Next Gen Platforms Embedded Products T-Series, ComE, RMS, Perfect Fit Hardware Communications and Medical Imaging PS
  • 27. Board of Directors Ron de Lange – Chairman Formerly CEO Tekelec, Sr. VP Oracle Hubert de Pesquidoux Formerly CFO Alcatel Lucent, Chairman Tekelec Dr. Niel Ransom Formerly CTO Alcatel, Bell South, Bell Labs Dr. Mike Hluchyj Formerly Founder & CTO Sonus Networks, CTO Carrier Product Akamai, Founder & CTO Verivue Vince Tobkin Formerly Chairman Tellabs, Global Telecom Practice Leader Bain & Company, Partner McKinsey & Co Scott Gibson Formerly CEO Sequent Computer, General Manager - Intel