Digital Experience in Telco CloudChallenges and Opportunities

January 2019

Khaled Al Samahi

SD/Telco Cloud

Etisalat

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Challenges in Deploying Telco Cloud

Skillset• Linux, Cloud SW (OpenStack, SDN, Open Source)• Lack of systems integration expertise

Products, Operational and SLA Challenge• Lifecycle management, onboarding, scale in/out• How to achieve continuous integration & continuous testing?

Technology Readiness Challenges• Lack of industry standards• limited interoperability and operational complexity

Business Case• How can we prove the cost saving?• How to achieve the faster Time-to-market?

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VNF & NETWORK

SERVICE ONBOARDING

AUTOMATION

Key Challenges and Gaps in NFV/TCloud Operation

operational challenge

of CSPs is the lack

of simple tools for Service

Design and VNF/NS

onboarding.

Top 3

The VNF Onboarding is one of the most important

operational process in Telco Cloud Domain.

No Simple tools for Design & Onboarding.

No Capability Exposure for Internal Users.

No Unified License Management Tool.

No Unified governance for SW Updates.

No…..

No…

However, there is

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Telco Cloud - Services Evolution

An Open, Modular, &

Standard Framework

The more

capabilities

developed,

the more

services to

provide

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IaaS

IaaS

PaaS

IaaS

PaaS

XaaS

Telco Cloud

RCA

Automation

NFVO

VNFM

NFVI

FM/PM

Telco Cloud

VIM

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Why Digital Experience for Telco Cloud?

The automation for VNF Onboarding

requires digital experience enabling

users to invoke VNF Onboarding

requests, capitalizing on CI/CD

Pipeline with an E2E visibility to the

Whole Onboarding process.

User-driven VNF Onboarding

Design Environment exposed as NFVaaS

Eliminates the gap between Tcloud & VNF Teams

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Etisalat Telco Cloud Digital Experience

Digital Experience Portal

VNF

Marketplace

(Library)

Capacity Planning

Tool (CPT)

CI / CD

Pipeline

MANO

Testing Tools

Business

Process

Automation Code Repository

Development

Environment Telco Cloud

(Virtual Compute, Storage and

Networks)

CSP LDAP

• VNF Designers

• VNF Testers

Email

Notification

Service Owners• TCloud DevOps

• TCloud Admin

Single

Sign

On

VDOC- Network

Designer

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Etisalat Telco Cloud Digital Experience

Service Owners NFVaaS Portal

Request Analyze Design Develop Certify Publish

Testers

Designers

Engineering

VNF Vendors

VNF / NS Catalog

VNF On-boarding

Library

VDOC-CPT

VDOC-CPT

MANO

VIMVDOC-Network Designer

VDOC Network Designer

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Summary

Focus on the automation of

VNF Onboarding

Make it always open &

Standard

Build a Telco Cloud

Marketplace

Build a framework for

automation and work with

the right partners

Rely on market proven tools

with an alignment to the

standards

Make sure that all Tcloud

capabilities and services are

efficiently exposed

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Thank You