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© 2016 TM Forum | 1 Procurement and Onboarding Challenges - call for industry collaboration & actions Guy Lupo Head of Orchestration and Data 2020, Telstra Jenny Huang Standards and Industry Alliances, AT&T
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Procurement and Onboarding
Challenges
- call for industry collaboration & actions
Guy LupoHead of Orchestration and Data 2020, Telstra
Jenny HuangStandards and Industry Alliances, AT&T
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Problem Statements
Based on 2014 SP interviews
Common key challenges & high priority issues in NFV transformation:
Procurement• When I buy a Network Service or VNF
What is in the box?• How do I determine it is fit for purpose?• How do I acceptance test it? • And when should I pay for it?
Operations• When a Network Service or VNF is
delivered, how do I manage and onboard into my organization?
• What management tools does it support? • And how will I manage it automatically
within my IT and network operations?
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Transformation from HW to Software Impacts
▪ Service provider pressure to reduce cost and vendor competition is driving virtualization of function
▪ Vendors are providing their products in virtual form
▪ Service providers will face also new categories of Vendors besides traditional ones (Native NFV SW vendors, Open Source SW Vendors, SW co-developers (e.g. Vendor+ Service Providers)
▪ However what was once integrated, tested and under one SLA is now 4 different components
▪ Service providers are facing with an integration, quality , security and new commercial management challenges before they can realize the benefits of VNFs
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VNF On Boarding Driving Questions
▪ We can categorize VNF on-boarding as a set of tasks to support the following 4 main business functions:
1. Procurement (Vendor Management) – How to buy a VNF ?
2. Validation (Product Engineering) – How to validate, test, certify and catalogue a VNF ?
3. Service Creation (Product Management) - How to use and instantiate a VNF ?
4. Operation (Infrastructure Manager) – How to optimize, support VNF and its lifecycles?
CSP Offering
Operation Service Creation
ValidationProcurement
VNF
Vendor
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VNF
Vendor
B
VNF
Vendor
C These questions remain high-priority issues for all CSPs
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Package ID Maturity Metrics
SLA License Functional Descriptors
Testing Descriptors
Metrics Descriptors
[body of package]
Service designerService implementer
Implementation project manager
Product manager
Service delivery manager
Partner manager
Subscriber/Enterprise
Policy engineer
Customer care
Market Analyst/ Procurement
Product solution designer
Process engineer
TM Forum Opportunities
Driving Common CSP Requirements of
Procurement checklist for supply chain management & technical solutions
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Vendor Onboarding
• Market place
• B2B Partnership
Procurement
• Market Intelligence
• Procurement Strategy
• Product Maturity
Capability Onboarding
• Validation
• Acceptance
• Cataloging (product, service, resource)
Offer Creation
• Composition
• Blueprinting
• Cataloguing (offering)
Use
• Service design
• Configure (service)
• Instantiate
• Inventory
Manage
• Monitor
• Update
• Upgrade
• Billing
• Usage/metrics
Retire
Migrate User
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TM Forum Service Providers Community Focus
▪ We are going to focus on the requirements from vendor management and procurement
officers to help them streamline the process
▪ This is outcome will be used by vendor management and procurement officers in the SP community to
drive the standard with the vendors and open source communities.
Co
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t • Create an acceptable check list for VNF procurement
including:
• Standard package contents
• Standard technical definition
• Operational flow
• Licensing and support
• Version management
• Etc…
Example only -
VNF
Vendor
A
VNF
Vendor
B
VNF
Vendor
C
Procurement
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TM Forum Related Efforts
Analyzing the
problem
space:
IG1120
IG1121
IG1123
Procurement
Transformation
&
Survival Kit
IG1133
Part: A, B, C
Solution
Exploration
Catalyst &
Guidebook
IG1141
SP Interest
Group
Launched,
Catalyst,
Specs.
(TR269) &
Crowdsourcing
Governance
(RACI)
Further
building SP
alliances,
Vendor out
reach
2016
2015
2014
1H
201
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2H
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1H
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Acceleratewith your support!
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TM Forum Objectives
Tenant onboarding (VNF customization and instantiation to customer prem)
Customization Service Chaining Instantiation Inventory
Products onboarding (VNF combines into a CSP product)
Service Composition Testing Create Offers Cataloging
Vendor Service & Resources onboarding (VNF as a resource/service)
Package Validation Acceptance Test Cataloging
Partner Onboarding (VNF Vendor)
Capability, Trustworthy Assessment
Business Contract Cataloging
Provide consistency and information flow through for all layers, all stakeholders and for all infrastructure environment
SP perspectives
Procurement
Testing
Certification
VN
F
Whole
sale
PN
F
Platform onboarding/
actualization
Multiparty Ecosystem Collaboration
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Identify Metadata is Hard (Discovery, Agreements & Relationships)
http://bit.ly/wepackage
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Well-defined & modeledLess-defined
Options
Setting the Structure to Advance Industry Conversations
TR269
Fully
Automated +
Interoperability
Provide interoperability from Day 0 with minimal specification
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Many Topics
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Highlights of Related Catalyst Projects
▪ Enabling the Digital Marketplaces (with onboarding automation)
Championed by 6 CSPs, 6 solution providers and 3 times Catalyst award winner in 2016
Automate OSS functions (PM, FM, testing, etc) during onboarding of VF, using package metadata
and runbooks concept
Demonstrate value proposition of a vibrant VF marketplace
Underpinned by an advanced metamodel solution for well-enabled package
▪ Joint Agile Delivery – Phase II
Platform-based, crowdsourced, multi-party solution DevOps environment
Testing metamodel and testing DSL (domain specific language) for consistency and reuse.
Service assurance triggers automatic testing for CI/CD
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Join Us
ZOOM Project:
https://www.tmforum.org/collaboratio
n/zoom-project/
Contact:
CSPs ✓ Join the Service Providers Procurement
workshop & interest group▪ Thursday May 18th PM – limited seating
SDOs, Open Source Communities:✓ Inputs to packaging metadata and RACI
mind-maps▪ Identify relevant projects to collaborate
All: ✓ Join the ZOOM project
✓ F2F meeting ▪ Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 25-29th, 2017
