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BT – Some Background
Customers
Global Services Business and Public
Sector
Consumer
EE Wholesale and
Ventures
Openreach
Technology, Service and Operations
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Automation Architecture - Themes
Evolutionary instead of revolutionary
Interworking of new and legacy is essential
Monolithic is problematic
Monitoring and Reporting is a bigdata problem
Fulfilment and Assurance are the same thing
There is Mano at each layer of the architecture
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Reference Architecture
OSS ApplicationAccess Layer
BSS MyAccount Portal
Quote & Order Billing Ticketing
Service Design & Orchestration
Federated UI
TOSCA Orchestrator
Assurance
Catalogue Editor Application Access
Workflow
Network & Service Activation
Min. Diff.
EngineAnalytics
InventoryRemediation
RCA
ReusablePlug-ins
Catalogue
SDN Controllers
VIMs
PNFs VNFs
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
BT’s Cloud Collaboration services
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
Performance-based routing
NFV Optimsation
NFV Firewall
NFV
NFV
NFV Firewall
Key
Provisioning
Configuration
Assurance
Service Design
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Fulfilment
OSS ApplicationAccess Layer
BSS MyAccount Portal
Quote & Order Billing Ticketing
Service Design & Orchestration
Federated UI
TOSCA Orchestrator
Assurance
Catalogue Editor Application Access
Workflow
Network & Service Activation
Min. Diff.
EngineAnalytics
InventoryRemediation
RCA
ReusablePlug-ins
Catalogue
SDN Controllers
VIMs
PNFs VNFs
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
BT’s Cloud Collaboration services
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
Performance-based routing
NFV Optimsation
NFV Firewall
NFV
NFV
NFV Firewall
(1a) Catalogue based provisioning, using current state and min-diff to determine required change
(1b) Activation of NT (PNFs and VNFs) using YANG / NETCONF where available, utilising higher level controllers where appropriate. Activation of IT through VIMs.
Key
Provisioning
Configuration
Assurance
Service Design
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Self Service
OSS ApplicationAccess Layer
BSS MyAccount Portal
Quote & Order Billing Ticketing
Service Design & Orchestration
Federated UI
TOSCA Orchestrator
Assurance
Catalogue Editor Application Access
Workflow
Network & Service Activation
Min. Diff.
EngineAnalytics
InventoryRemediation
RCA
ReusablePlug-ins
Catalogue
SDN Controllers
VIMs
PNFs VNFs
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
BT’s Cloud Collaboration services
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
Performance-based routing
NFV Optimsation
NFV Firewall
NFV
NFV
NFV Firewall
(2) Near-direct exposure of controllers and policy managers for self-service
Key
Provisioning
Configuration
Assurance
Service Design
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Assurance
OSS ApplicationAccess Layer
BSS MyAccount Portal
Quote & Order Billing Ticketing
Service Design & Orchestration
Federated UI
TOSCA Orchestrator
Assurance
Catalogue Editor Application Access
Workflow
Network & Service Activation
Min. Diff.
EngineAnalytics
InventoryRemediation
RCA
ReusablePlug-ins
Catalogue
SDN Controllers
VIMs
PNFs VNFs
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
BT’s Cloud Collaboration services
NFV-enabled Cloud Service Node
NFV-enabled Cloud Service
Node
Performance-based routing
NFV Optimsation
NFV Firewall
NFV
NFV
NFV Firewall
(3) Assurance based on rich event feeds and telemetry.Remediation based on the catalogue service definition
Key
Provisioning
Configuration
Assurance
Service Design
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What we need
Standardised models of infrastructure resources and
services
Closed loop working between open source and
standards
Implementations that work with hybrid infrastructure
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