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Tayeb BEN MERIEM
Senior Standardization Manager, Orange
(On behalf of Catalyst Team)
PROOF-OF-CONCEPT: Going Beyond the Hype of Blockchain
“Catalyst Blockchain Unleashed” and Next StepsDallas, September 24th, 2018
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Content
❑ TMForum Blockchain Activity
❑ Blockchain Unleashed Catalyst (DTW, Nice May 16-17th 2018) + 6mn demo
❑ Key learnings
❑ New use cases on Telecom Marketplace: Orange proposal
❑ Blockchain in Context of Orange
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TMForum Blockchain Activity
❑ 1) IoE Program (Exploring Trust models, Blockchain Use Cases)
❑ 2) ZOOM (Zero touch Operations and Orchestration Management) Program: «Trust & Traceability» in the OLM (Onboarding Lifecycle Management) Work Item
❑ 3) ODA (Open Digital Architecture) Program: « Trust & Traceability : Blockchain applied to SW Licensing » Work Item (Co-lead AT&T and Orange)
❑ 4) Catalyst Program (PoCs)
❑ 5) Research Program with
❑ member companies (CSPs, their Suppliers and Consultants including both Deloitte and Accenture):
❑ How they are using or intend to use Blockchain,
❑ Where the potential stumbling blocks are
❑ How collaborating on Standards can help address the challenges.
Specification (Use Cases description) Requirements Implementaion (Catalyst/PoC)
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TMForum Blockchain Deliverables
❑ Trust Challenges and Opportunities (TR 270, Release 17.5.0, December 2017)
❑ Communication Service Providers Use Cases Utilizing 1Blockchain (TR 279 , Release 17.5.0, December 2017)
❑ Trust & Traceability for VF (Virtual Function) Package SW Licensing (IG 1141 A, Release 18.0)
❑ First Catalyst (PoC) on SLA Monitoring /Smart Contact in July 2017 (Vanacouver), showcasingSLA Mangement use case (based on TMForum SLA Management API, TMF 623) + collaboration with Stanford University (on Smart Contract)
❑ Catalyst (PoC) « Blockchain Unleashed » showcasing 5 Use Cases as an implementation of a sub set of use cases described in TR 279 (TMForum Digital Transformation World, DTW, Nice May 2018)
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First Catalyst: Use case categories of interest to Service Providers (from TR 279, Release 17.5.0)
SelectedUse Case as first Catalyst(PoC): 2017
LeveragingTM Forum SLA Management API (2014)TMF 623
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Blockchain Unleashed Catalyst (PoC) demonstrated at DTW Nice, May 16-17th 2018,
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Participants
Blockchain Catalyst (PoC) demonstrated in Nice, May, 16-17th 2018
Champions
9 Service Providers 4 Vendors
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❑ 5 Use cases described and showcased❑ Use case 1: Roaming❑ Use case 2: Identity Management❑ Use case 3: SLA Monitoring❑ Use case 4: Prevention of Mobile Phone Theft❑ Use case 5: Mobile Number Portability
❑ How each use case is addressed❑ The Catalyst defined Top 5 Criteria for use case selection to maximize the benefit of Blockchain, and
to avoid using Blockchain just for the stake of using it
❑ 1) Problem statement and User Story❑ 2) Current state process and challenges ❑ 3) Blockchain solution architecture: Overview and Benefits
Catalyst: Structure of the work
« Blockchain is the answer, but what was the
question? »Orange statement
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Catalyst Demo (6mn)
https://vimeo.com/270879471
Demo (Video) by Kevin John Lee (Globe Telecom)
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Key learnings, Contributions, and Readiness for commercial launch and Next Steps
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TM Forum Assets Used
CurateFX (Online Tool)
Defining the problem statements, Illustrate
various Blockchain ecosystems, and
identifying stakeholders
• Efficient way to handle e2e eco system solution from
problem statement to design and sharing learnings,
outcomes
• Selection of the right APIs and TMForum assets for
individual use cases and helps in completeness. Easy
mapping of entities, interfaces for varied use cases
• Shared few enhancement features for CurateFX
platform
Open APIsLeveraging Open APIs for Digital Telco Blockchain
use cases (11 APIs used)
• Use Case 1: Roaming– TMF 635 Usage Mgmt. API, TMF
651 Agreement API, TMF 636 Billing Mgmt. API
• Use Case 2: Digital Identity (ID As A Service) – TMF 632
Party Management API, TMF 669 Party Role Management
API, TMF 644 Privacy Management API
• Use Case 3: SLA monitoring – TMF 623 SLA Management
API
• Use Case 4: Reduce Mobile Phone Theft – TMF 639
Resource Inventory API, TMF 621 Trouble Ticket API
• Use Case 5: Mobile Number Portability – TMF 641 Service
Ordering Management API, TMF 681 Communication API
eTOM (Business Process)Business process for varied telco scenarios
• Ready business process for the Telco scenarios of
Blockchain Unleased project
SID (Information Model)Entity definitions
• Ready data model definitions, along with OpenAPIs
helps to fast track the design and development activities
for Blockchain Unleashed distinct 5 solutions
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Key Learnings
• Due to technology limitations today, there’s no efficient way to create digital rules and logic from legal documents which can be incorporated into the blockchain.
The Challenge
Faced:
• There is no automated way to convert existing
business logic or legal contracts into Bockchain
readable snippets of code (a.k.a. smart
contracts/chain code)
• Although these smart contracts may be created
manually, no automated way to calibrate or configure
them exist.
Call To Action: • Research should be continued together with research
firms to accelerate the study and PoC to be able to
adopt Bockchain as an avenue for mechanization
(e.g. Stanford University’s research on
Blockchains adoption for computational law) .
Key Learnings
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1
Open API enhancements for ID management
2
Open API and SID model extensions for Network Slicing
3
Linkage of Open APIs and ONAP
Contribution to TM Forum
4
Blockchain working group
5
CurateFX enhancements
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Contribution To TM Forum
1Open API enhancements for ID management
Value
Proposition:• Enhancements to Open APIs:
• TMF 632 Party Management API,
• TMF 669 Party Role Management API,
• TMF 644 Privacy Management API
• CRs created and connected with Open API Lead:
• https://projects.tmforum.org/jira/browse/AP-1026
• https://projects.tmforum.org/jira/browse/AP-1043
Contribution to TM Forum
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Contribution To TM Forum
2Open API and SID model extensions for Network Slicing
Value
Proposition:• Analysed for 5G Network Slicing Market Place use
case
• Enhancements to Open APIs to handle Network Slice
Fulfilment, assurance, billing related Open APIs and
data models
Contribution to TM Forum
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Contribution To TM Forum
3Linkage of Open APIs and ONAP
Value
Proposition:• Bridging Blockchain for Slice Market Place and ONAP
to handle 5G network slices
• Contribution to ONAP community, including:
• Market place for 5G network slices
• Enhancements to ONAP to accommodate 5G
network slices
• Enhancements to data models, Open APIs
• Potential new catalyst focusing on 5G +
blockchain + ONAP
Contribution to TM Forum
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Contribution To TM Forum
4Blockchain working group
Value
Proposition:• Blockchain working group focusing on smart
contracts for SLA management, Open APIs and
automation
• Collaboration with TMForum and Stanford University
on Blockchain Legal Specification Protocol project
• Potential linkage to the new ODA WI on « Trust & Traceability : Blockchain applied to SW Licensing »
Contribution to TM Forum
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New use cases on Telecom Marketplace:Orange’s proposal
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Catalyst Project for 2019 (Use Case proposals under discussion)
Orange presented a proposal on:1) « Telecom Infrastructure Marketplace »
2) « VNF Package Marketplace »
Infosys presented a proposal on « 5G » Marketplace
Globe presented a proposal on
5G Service Composition
« Pâtisserie »
Other proposals expectedfrom the Catalyst Team
TMForum Blockchain Lab (Sandbox) « May 2018 »
for relevant Blockchain-focused TM Forum projects to prototype and test ideas quickly
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History of VNF Marketplace concept in TMForum ZOOMback to 2014!
❑ VNF Marketplace concept has been introduced in TMForum in 2014, in the IG 1133 C
Release 15.0 (2015) “Federated Catalogs for (Automated) Procurement – Orange Case Study”
❑ The idea is to create an Ecosystem of VNF Catalogs in federated manner within an automated
procurement process
❑ One key player in this federation is a VNF Marketplace so called “ZOOM NFV Yellow Pages / Catalog
❑ How to operationalize this VNF Marketplace (hypothesis)
❑ TMForum could play the role of the Owner and Administrator of such a Marketplace as a Trust party
❑ It could be offered to the TMForum members first
❑ What is new in the Marketplace space
❑ Digital Transformation is being generalized and it requires more efficient Trust models
❑ Trust and Traceability shall be built-in in any Digital Ecosystem without any centrlized intermediary body
❑ Service Providers seek an new model to allow moving from traditional and costly BUY / MAKE /RENT model to an On
Demand Marketplace model in some use cases
Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) is considered as a key enabler
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Federated dynamic NFV Catalogs (VF Package Marketplace):IG 1133 C Release 15.0 (2015) “Federated Catalogs for (Automated) Procurement – Orange Case Study”
Regulator
Blockchain
Platform ?
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Mapping of NFV Procurement & Operations life cycle to the SP’s Operations Master Plan and related NFV Pattern dynamic & NFV Catalogs (VF Package Marketplace)
VF PackageMarketplace
VNF Journey
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VF Packages Marketplace Macro-Design (Automated Search Agent / Engine)
Regulator
Blockchain Platform
Discover/Order
Offer/ P
ub
lish
Discover/Order
Verify
Deliver
Deliver
Use Case #1
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“Telco Infrastructure” Marketplace: Business motivation
❑ Service Provider would like to order passive infrastructures made available by some actors to allow sourcing On Demand-basis rather than under traditional costly renting model to perform some Network Mobile Network deployment scenarios
❑ Potential real use cases ❑ The flexible passive infrastructure may be ordered for reinforcing existing infrastructure during a
temporary event at a crowded location: to ensure connectivity of a stadium, coverage of a white area, or a country for a given period (e.g. 5G, RAN Sharing)
❑ More precisely, Service Provider would like to Discover, Query & Find in a “Passive infrastructure” Marketplace the frequency, the cell (e.g. high altitude platforms, WiFi Access Point), the passive infrastructure (e.g. Tower co), the backhaul (flexible satellite connection) for such dedicated purpose and need
❑ The goal is to move away from traditional costly Make / Buy / Rent models of Mobile Network Resources to an Auction-based model that is more efficient and transparent and most appropriate for such use cases
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Blockchain
Platform
FrequencyProvider
CellProvider
RegulatorAuditor
3rd Party sponsor
Service Provider
InfrastructureProvider (e.g. Tower)
ConnectivityProvider
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 1011
12
Licence & Authorization rules
Publish/Order Funding
Verify infrastructure
On demandTelco
infrastructureMarketplace
“Telco Infrastructure” Marketplace: Macro-Design
Use Case #2
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Blockchain in Context of Orange
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Blockchain Context at Orange
Cloud services
Cloud Native Applications
Expertise & practices
Public cloud
Strategy
Conception
Implementation
Support & coaching
IaaS, CaaSPaaS, SaaS
Big Data & IOT
E-Commerce
Payment
Health
Security
Network
Private cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Multi-cloud
Applications 1
2
3
Orange
Blockchain-as-
a-service
platform
Hyperledger
framework
(BlockChain-as-a-Service)
BloCaaS
BloCaaS
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Orange BloCaaS Architecture
Client application
Orange Cloud
Hyperledger
Administration
Supervision
Utilisation
Business
Development
Cello
Cello Utils
Admin VM
Composer restserver
Explorer
Composer playground
Client VM
CA
orderer
Peer
Hyperledger
network
(worker
VM(s)
Tenant Admin
Tenant Client 1
Composer restserver
Explorer
Composer playground
Client VM
CA
orderer
Peer
Hyperledger
network
(worker
VM(s)
Tenant Client 2
Europe
Region
Europe Region
OtherRegion
(BlockChain-as-a-Service)BloCaaS
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❑ A) Maturity level: Position your company
❑ 1) Exploring and understanding the technology
❑ 2) PoC / Trial: (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)
❑ 3) Pre-commercial deployment : (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)
❑ 4) Commercial deployment: (a) Make, b) Make with): (a) Make, b) Make with, c) BUY (Turnkey)
❑ B) Which Business sector are you exploring
❑ 1) Finance
❑ 2) Health
❑ 3) Insurance
❑ 4) Real estate transactions
❑ 5) Agriculture
❑ 6) Energy
❑ 7) Telecom
❑ 8) Others
❑ C) Do you think Asset Marketplace approach is relevant to your business
❑ If Yes, are you involved in a Marketplace ecosystem(s)
❑ D) Standardization-Consortium
❑ 1) Are you involved in an SDO on DLT
❑ E) Process and project management
❑ 1) Did you create a selection process before launching a use case and at which stage: PoC, Pre-commercial stage?
❑ 2) Did you create a dedicate department for Blockchain to address your customers’ demands
Questions
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Q&A
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