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NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION: OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT?
CAPACITY & PROXIMITY
DEVICES & DEMANDS
CONVERGE & CONNECT SCALE & STREAM
VELOCITY & SIMPLICITY
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10€ / USER DEVICE 1€ / MACHINE
1 DEVICE / USER 10 DEVICES / USER
DEVICES & DEMANDS
100× LOWER COST BIT
1 BIG CELL / NODE
100× MORE BYTES
10 SMALL CELLS / NODES
CAPACITY & PROXIMITY
10 SEPARATE DOMAINS
100 CLOSED NETWORKS
1 CONVERGED NETWORK
1 OPEN NETWORK
CONVERGE & CONNECT
1 SYSTEM / SERVICE
1B APPS DOWNLOADED
10M SERVERS / SERVICE
1B CLOUD SERVICES DELIVERED
SCALE & STREAM
1 SERVICE / DECADE
100 OSS SYSTEMS
1 SERVICE / DAY
1 CLOUD OSS
VELOCITY & SIMPLICITY
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
YEARS AFTER INTRODUCTION
CUMULATIVE UNITS
1.5B TABLETS (2017)
2B WEARABLES (2018)
6.5B M2M CONNECTIONS (2017)
6.5M CLOUD SERVERS (2015)
0.5B SDN INVESTMENT (2013)
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NETWORK OPERATORS
Assets: Ultra-broadband Access
New Services: Limited and Closed
E/R: Increasing Network spend, flat revenue
Innovation Speed: Years
WEB OPERATORS
Assets: Massive global compute and storage
New Services: Limited but Open APIs to Web
E/R: Increasing DC spend, growing revenue
Innovation Speed: Days
IP TECHNOLOGIES IT TECHNOLOGIES
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NETWORK 1.0 NETWORK 2.0
VIRTUALIZED IT PLATFORMS
+ SDN1.0
DEDICATED PLATFORM
+ NETWORKS
WEB/IT DC
INTERNET
TELCO DC
MANY ACCESS
NETWORKS
INTERNET
WEB/IT DC
TELCO IT DC
UBB IP ACCESS NETWORK
DISTRIBUTED TELCO IT DC
VIRTUALIZED IT PLATFORMS
+ SDN2.0
VIRTUALIZED AND FEDERATED
IP NETWORKS
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NUMBER OF PROCESSORS
SPEEDUP
0
20
1
VIRTUALIZATION IS THE ANSWER
AMDAHL’S LAW OF PARALLEL PROCESSING
65536
VIRTUALIZATION
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COST GAIN
CORE ROUTERS & ETHERNET
SWITCHES
FFTx, RF, COHERENT OPTICAL
EDGE ROUTERS
RADIO ACCESS
NETWORK
PACKET GATEWAYS
MEDIA GATEWAYS
MEDIA SERVER AND CDN CPE
NETWORK APPLIANCES
NETWORK APPS
ANALYTICS PLATFORMS
CHARGING APPLICATIONS
NFV / SDN CONTROL
OSS/BSS
EMS / NMS
MORE LESS
LOW
HIGH
DYNAMIC CONTROL
GAIN
CONTROL PLANE FUNCTIONS
THREAT
OPPORTUNITY
THREAT OPPORTUNITY
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ULTRA- BROADBAND ACCESS
CLOUD DYNAMIC
PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK
SDN BUSINESSES
HOMES
CONSUMERS
vNF vNF vNF vNF
CLOUD OPTIMIZED
ROUTING
CLOUD OPTIMIZED PLATFORM
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