- OTTs own revenues, networks own costs

- Enterprises moving to ITaaS & cloud

- Trend toward on-demand & agile consumption

- Rivals in the value chain are software-powered

- Solutions to operational challenges lie in software

- Supporting on-demand & agile consumption

- Reducing capex & opex growth

- Boosting monetization & accelerating innovation

HW

SW

- Create an information-powered decision plane in software

- To drive a programmable data plane in hardware

- Move network control plane to software (SDN)

- Shift data plane hardware to COTS (NFV)

- Heart of network business value creation

- Ecosystem-based innovation & operator differentiation require open

system architectures

Operator 1

Operator 2

Operator 3

Application Layer

Control Layer

Infrastructure Layer

Vendor A Software Other Software

API

API

open source

Application Layer

Infrastructure Layer (multi-vendor)

SDN

Control

Layer

Service Abstraction Layer

Multilayer

WAN

Controller

Ciena

NW Apps

Ericsson

NW Apps

Joint

NW Apps

3rd-party

NW Apps

Multilayer

Network

Topology

Multilayer

Policy

Database

Layer 0

Layer 1

Layer 2

Layer 3

VTN

Cloud

apps FCAPS

Multilayer

Planning

Business

apps

TL1 CLI NetConf Other OpenFlow CORBA

- Built on the OpenDaylight open framework & platform

- Able to support single- or multi-layer SBIs, esp. OF

- Supports NBIs for SP and 3rd party app development

Demo in

Exhibition

Hall

One instance

is easy…

En masse…

How many trucks

& drivers?

- Enables enterprise to connect to multiple cloud providers without

dedicated connections – even to those not connected to their local

metro provider

- Detects vMotion or VM Import to EC2 events

- Orchestrates on-demand connections bridged across two networks

Navigate

V-WAN

Optimize

Protect

MyPortal

MyAdapter

Demos in Exhibition Hall

- Enterprise trend toward ITaaS

- Network performance-on-demand: dynamic self-service

- “Consignment” models close the gap for providers … they owe

when and as they earn … but problematic for vendors

- NFV may support “virtual consignment” models more palatable for

vendors: but still issues to resolve

- With dynamic self-service comes an expectation of pay-as-you-eat

- But providers still have to invest in infrastructure up front:

an investment risk and timing gap