SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and Services in the New Digital Age
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Huawei Technologies outlines its SoftCom initiative aimed at transforming telecom infrastructure and operations for the digital age. The document highlights the need for telecoms to evolve amid changing market conditions and emphasizes adopting cloud-based and software-defined technologies. Key focus areas include minimizing network transformation costs, enhancing customer engagement, and supporting innovations such as NFV and SDN.
SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and Services in the New Digital Age
- 3. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and Services in the New Digital Age Sanqi Li CTO, Carrier Network BG Huawei
- 4. Page 2HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. • Every business is becoming a Digital Business • Business model: Transaction → Engagement • Market : Constantly Changing & Unpredictable • Business Operation: Stability → Anti-fragility M2M e-Government e-Health Smart city Digital logistics e-Education Accelerated Transformation to the Digital World
- 5. Page 3HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Challenges Faced by the Telecom Industry New Revenue Growth TCO Reduction New Value proposition in Digital Age Future Service Model Social Networks Content Networks Enterprise Networks Home Networks M2M Networks Virtual Networks Telco Networks 19% 94% ? Saturated and Declining Today’s Service Model ($100B) Inefficient and Unsustainable Today’s TCO Structure TCO 2002 2012 Future TCO Structure Optimized, Open, Automated & Agile DevOps Network Management Customer Services Cloud IT Service Innovation Capex
- 6. Page 4HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM: Transforming Telco Network to Cloud Eth Switch WDM WDMBackbone Router Router Eth Switch Hardware RRU RRU RRU Hardware CPRI Hardware Service Cloud WDM WDMMetro Operation Cloud Control Cloud Cloud Edge Cloud BB MxU ONT ONT DSL Hardware PON Cloud DSL/OLT Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open
- 7. Page 5HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM-MBB: Minimizing Network Transformation Costs Eth Switch WDM WDMBackbone Router Router Eth Switch Hardware Hardware RRU RRU RRU Hardware CPRI Hardware Service Cloud WDM WDMMetro Operation Cloud Control Cloud Cloud EdgeCloud BB Software-Defined RF: • Multi-Band • Multi-Mode • Multi-Gen • All-in-One Blade Software Defined Baseband: • 2G, 3G, LTE Combined • Centralized Control • Clustered (CloudBB) • Distributed (Easy Macro) Software Defined Edge: • Single Radio Controller (SRC) • vEPC • Gi-LAN Chaining • vCDN • IP-RAN Controller • vSBC Software Defined Core & DC: • NFV MANO • CSB • DC-SDN Controller • DCI-SDN Controller • vIMS • Video
- 8. Page 6HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM-MBB: Overview of Customer Engagement • Blade RRU: Shipment of ~100K modules • ngRRU: Ongoing planning with a number of JIC, Soft defined RF • Asia Tier 1 Operator: Commercial BBU Stacking BBU for 2G/3G • China Tier 1 Operator: Stacking commercial BBU for CDMA • China Tier 1 Operator: Trial conducted CloudBB Cloud BB • Europe Tier 1 Operator: Planned for commercial deployment in 2014 Software Defined Edge-SRC • Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013: vEPC/vIMS/Gi-LAN chaining demos • vEPC/vIMS PoC selected • Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013: • vEPC/Gi-LAN chaining demos • VoLTE on Cloud POC • vIMS shortlisted Software Defined Edge- Cloud
- 9. Page 7HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM-FBB: Intelligent Edge and Optimized DC Interconnect Software Defined Edge: • vSTB • vCPE • vCDN • vAR (enterprise) • VDI • Opt+IP SDN Controller • Service Chaining (vFW, vLB, vDPI…) Software-Defined Access: • OLT OAM automation Eth Switch WDM WDMBackbone Router Router Eth Switch MxU ONT ONT DSL Hardware PON Hardware Hardware Hardware Service Cloud WDM WDMMetro Operation Cloud Control Cloud Cloud Edge Cloud DSL/OLT Software Defined Core & DC: • IP Policy SDN Controller • DC Interconnect SDN Controller
- 10. Page 8HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM-FBB: Overview of Customer Engagement • OLT OAM automation - in planning stage with a China Tier 1 operator Access • vSTB - demos at three Europe Tier 1 operators in 2012- 2014 - Field trial planned for 2014 by a Europe Tier 1 operator. • vCPE Field trial in planning for 2014 by a Europe Tier 1 Operator Edge (Residential) • vAR - demos at a Europe Tier 1 operator in 2013 - Early planning by China Tier 1 operator. Edge (Enterprise) • IP+Optical SDN controller - demo at a Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013 • Cloud BNG - demo at a Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013 • IP RAN - field trial at a China Tier 1 Operator Edge (Controller) • DC interconnect controller -Europe: POC in 2013, trial planned for 2014 -Japan: POC 2013, trial planning for 2014 -China: trial planning for 2014 • TE Policy controller -China #1 OTT: deploy planning for 2014 -China Operator: field trial planning Core & DC
- 11. Page 9HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. FusionSphere: Distributed Cloud OS across DC & WAN with Carrier Enhancement towards ICT Convergence • Carrier Enhancement centered on distributed environment, HA, low latency and migration • 50+ commercial deployments & 200k VMs installed in carrier, enterprise and government • Support of SDN/NFV Initiatives, public/private cloud services and DC consolidation FusionSphere Virtualized Distributed AutomatedParallel DMTF, AWS OpenStack API Telecom API Enterprise API Computing NetworkStorage ERP, CRM, OA, Email, …IMS, UC, EPC, BSS, SDP, …EC2, S3, SDB, LB, CDN, …
- 12. Page 10HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Cloud Edge: Transform Network Edge to Cloud for Simplicity, Scalability, Agility and Differentiations Hardware Distributed Cloud OS vEPC Cloud Edge MANO Cloud Edge - Migration across Mobile Edge, IP Edge & Service Edge vMS • Gi-LAN • vPCEF vHome • vSTB • vCPE WAN cntrl • IP-RAN • IP+Opt • NFVO • VNFM • VIM • MME • PGW • SGW • Designed for distributed cloud deployment for feature migration w/o service disruption • Ensure carrier grade service availability w/o sacrificing performance • 20+ PoCs in place with trial availability, commercial deployment planned in 3Q14 Network OS
- 13. Page 11HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. SoftCOM Execution Strategy: Be Pragmatic, Structural and Business-driven HybridOverlay InterworkInterwork Underlay Hybrid ExistingIT ExistingCT Existing Core Capabilities Existing DC Existing Networks Cloud OS SDN NFV CEM Service Enabling Enabling New Services Simplifying Operation Cloud OS Network OS Huawei is actively engaged with leading carriers through business partnership Co-develop executable entry strategies to bridge legacy world with cloud world Early adoption: NFV rich and SDN light with minimum infrastructure transformation cost
- 14. Page 12HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. • Co-Chair of WG “Architecture of the Virtualization Infrastructure” • Three editor positions in other WGs • NFV overall Program Manager • Most active contributor in the following areas: E2E Architecture, Use Cases, Service Chaining NFV ISG • Visible driver for Network Service Chain BoF and “Reliable Virtualized Network Function (VNF) Pool” • Active contributor to IETF protocol transition towards SDN • Joined as silver member • SIMR WG 1 co-chair • Several editorships in SIMR WG1, E2EA WG1, Marketing • Initiated and leads Carrier SDN E2E solution (SD-313) and Flexible Service Chaining (SD-326) • Leads WP2/11 (SDN and resource control) in study period 2013-2016 • Appointed as WP chair and rapporteurs, editors, set up Sup- SDN，Q.CSO and Q.SBNG • JCA-SDN • Main contributor in Carrier SDN, POF, and evolution to SDN • Chair of Migration WG • Vice Chair of Optical Transport WG • Became as golden member SoftCOM: Continually Build and Leverage Ecosystem Foundations
- 15. Page 13HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Summary SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s infrastructure, operation and services in the new digital age Eth Switch WDM WDMBackbone Router Router Eth Switch Hardware Hardware RRU RRU RRU Hardware CPRI Hardware Service Cloud WDM WDMMetro Operation Cloud Control Cloud Cloud EdgeCloud BB MxU ONT ONT DSL Hardware PON Cloud DSL/OLT Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open
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