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HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and

Services in the New Digital Age

Sanqi Li

CTO, Carrier Network BG

Huawei


• Every business is becoming a Digital Business

• Business model: Transaction → Engagement

• Market : Constantly Changing & Unpredictable

• Business Operation: Stability → Anti-fragility

M2M e-Government

e-Health

Smart city

Digital logistics e-Education

Accelerated Transformation to the Digital World


Challenges Faced by the Telecom Industry

New Revenue Growth

TCO Reduction

New Value proposition in Digital Age

Future Service Model

Social

Networks

Content

Networks

Enterprise

Networks Home

Networks

M2M

Networks

Virtual

Networks Telco

Networks

19%

94%

?

Saturated and Declining

Today’s Service Model

($100B)

Inefficient and Unsustainable

Today’s TCO Structure

TCO

2002 2012

Future TCO Structure

Optimized, Open, Automated & Agile

DevOps

Network

Management

Customer

Services

Cloud IT Service

Innovation

Capex


SoftCOM: Transforming Telco Network to Cloud

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WDM WDM Backbone

Router Router Eth

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Hardware

RRU

RRU

RRU

Hardware CPRI

Hardware

Service Cloud

WDM WDM Metro

Operation Cloud

Control Cloud

Cloud Edge Cloud BB

MxU

ONT

ONT

DSL Hardware

PON Cloud

DSL/OLT

Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open


SoftCOM-MBB: Minimizing Network Transformation Costs

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Hardware RRU

RRU

RRU

Hardware CPRI

Hardware

Service Cloud

WDM WDM Metro

Operation Cloud

Control Cloud

Cloud Edge Cloud BB

Software-Defined RF: • Multi-Band

• Multi-Mode

• Multi-Gen

• All-in-One Blade

Software Defined Baseband: • 2G, 3G, LTE Combined

• Centralized Control

• Clustered (CloudBB)

• Distributed (Easy Macro)

Software Defined Edge: • Single Radio Controller (SRC)

• vEPC

• Gi-LAN Chaining

• vCDN

• IP-RAN Controller

• vSBC

Software Defined Core & DC:

• NFV MANO

• CSB

• DC-SDN Controller

• DCI-SDN Controller

• vIMS

• Video


SoftCOM-MBB: Overview of Customer Engagement

• Blade RRU: Shipment of

~100K modules

• ngRRU: Ongoing

planning with a number of

JIC,

Soft defined RF

• Asia Tier 1 Operator:

Commercial BBU

Stacking BBU for 2G/3G

• China Tier 1 Operator:

Stacking commercial

BBU for CDMA

• China Tier 1 Operator:

Trial conducted CloudBB

Cloud BB

• Europe Tier 1 Operator:

Planned for commercial

deployment in 2014

Software Defined

Edge-SRC

• Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013:

vEPC/vIMS/Gi-LAN chaining

demos

• vEPC/vIMS PoC selected

• Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013:

• vEPC/Gi-LAN chaining demos

• VoLTE on Cloud POC

• vIMS shortlisted

Software Defined Edge- Cloud

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SoftCOM-FBB: Intelligent Edge and Optimized DC Interconnect

Software Defined Edge: • vSTB

• vCPE

• vCDN

• vAR (enterprise)

• VDI

• Opt+IP SDN Controller

• Service Chaining (vFW, vLB, vDPI…)

Software-Defined Access: • OLT OAM automation

Eth

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WDM WDM Backbone

Router Router Eth

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MxU

ONT

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DSL Hardware

PON Hardware

Hardware

Hardware

Service Cloud

WDM WDM Metro

Operation Cloud

Control Cloud

Cloud Edge

Cloud

DSL/OLT

Software Defined Core & DC: • IP Policy SDN Controller

• DC Interconnect SDN Controller


SoftCOM-FBB: Overview of Customer Engagement

• OLT OAM automation

- in planning stage

with a China Tier 1

operator

Access

• vSTB

- demos at three

Europe Tier 1

operators in 2012-

2014

- Field trial planned

for 2014 by a Europe

Tier 1 operator.

• vCPE

Field trial in planning

for 2014 by a Europe

Tier 1 Operator

Edge

(Residential)

• vAR

- demos at a Europe

Tier 1 operator in

2013

- Early planning by

China Tier 1 operator.

Edge

(Enterprise)

• IP+Optical SDN

controller

- demo at a Europe

Tier 1 Operator in

2013

• Cloud BNG

- demo at a Europe

Tier 1 Operator in

2013

• IP RAN

- field trial at a China

Tier 1 Operator

Edge

(Controller)

• DC interconnect

controller

-Europe: POC in 2013,

trial planned for 2014

-Japan: POC 2013, trial

planning for 2014

-China: trial planning for

2014

• TE Policy controller

-China #1 OTT: deploy

planning for 2014

-China Operator: field

trial planning

Core & DC


FusionSphere: Distributed Cloud OS across DC & WAN

with Carrier Enhancement towards ICT Convergence

• Carrier Enhancement centered on distributed environment, HA, low latency and migration

• 50+ commercial deployments & 200k VMs installed in carrier, enterprise and government

• Support of SDN/NFV Initiatives, public/private cloud services and DC consolidation

FusionSphere

Virtualized Distributed Automated Parallel

DMTF, AWS OpenStack API Telecom API Enterprise API

Computing Network Storage

ERP, CRM, OA, Email, … IMS, UC, EPC, BSS, SDP, … EC2, S3, SDB, LB, CDN, …


Cloud Edge: Transform Network Edge to Cloud

for Simplicity, Scalability, Agility and Differentiations

Hardware

Distributed Cloud OS

vEPC

Cloud Edge

MANO

Cloud Edge - Migration across Mobile Edge, IP Edge & Service Edge

vMS

• Gi-LAN

• vPCEF

vHome

• vSTB

• vCPE

WAN cntrl

• IP-RAN

• IP+Opt

• NFVO

• VNFM

• VIM

• MME

• PGW

• SGW

• Designed for distributed cloud deployment for feature migration w/o service disruption

• Ensure carrier grade service availability w/o sacrificing performance

• 20+ PoCs in place with trial availability, commercial deployment planned in 3Q14

Network OS


SoftCOM Execution Strategy:

Be Pragmatic, Structural and Business-driven

Hybrid Overlay

Interwork Interwork

Underlay

Hybrid

Exis

ting

IT

Exis

ting

CT

Existing Core Capabilities

Existing DC Existing Networks

Cloud OS SDN

NFV CEM

Service Enabling

Enabling New Services

Simplifying Operation

Cloud OS Network OS

Huawei is actively engaged with leading carriers through business partnership

Co-develop executable entry strategies to bridge legacy world with cloud world

Early adoption: NFV rich and SDN light with minimum infrastructure transformation cost


• Co-Chair of WG “Architecture of the Virtualization

Infrastructure”

• Three editor positions in other WGs

• NFV overall Program Manager

• Most active contributor in the following areas: E2E

Architecture, Use Cases, Service Chaining

NFV ISG

• Visible driver for Network Service Chain BoF and “Reliable

Virtualized Network Function (VNF) Pool”

• Active contributor to IETF protocol transition towards SDN

• Joined as silver member

• SIMR WG 1 co-chair

• Several editorships in SIMR WG1, E2EA WG1, Marketing

• Initiated and leads Carrier SDN E2E solution (SD-313) and

Flexible Service Chaining (SD-326)

• Leads WP2/11 (SDN and

resource control) in study period

2013-2016

• Appointed as WP chair and

rapporteurs, editors, set up Sup-

SDN，Q.CSO and Q.SBNG

• JCA-SDN

• Main contributor in Carrier SDN, POF, and evolution

to SDN

• Chair of Migration WG

• Vice Chair of Optical Transport WG

• Became as golden member

SoftCOM: Continually Build and Leverage Ecosystem Foundations

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Summary

SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s infrastructure, operation and

services in the new digital age

Eth

Switch

WDM WDM Backbone

Router Router Eth

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Hardware

Hardware RRU

RRU

RRU

Hardware CPRI

Hardware

Service Cloud

WDM WDM Metro

Operation Cloud

Control Cloud

Cloud Edge Cloud BB

MxU

ONT

ONT

DSL Hardware

PON Cloud

DSL/OLT

Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open

THANK YOU www.huawei.com

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