Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

Committees/Program Update

Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

Eric PuetzAT&T, Co-Chair

Sachin VasudevaCalix, Co-Chair

Certification Committee Update

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CE 2.0 Services Certification

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Retail Wholesale

• 51 Service Providers

• 45 Equipment Manufacturers

• Program well established after 2.5 years

• Future growth will come primarily from Wholesale

• Major contribution expected from MEF Services Interconnect Program

• MEF engaging with ITU-T and European Commission to further accelerate adoption of CE 2.0

• Emphasis on certification toolkits for CE 2.0 companies

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MEF Certification in Leaderboards

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New Modular Approach• 100G

– 7 manufacturers in pilot phase– Announcements at GEN15

• E-Transit– Pilot starts 3Q15

• New Certification Model– Based on ‘Reference Circuit’

concept– Enables incremental certification

on top of existing or new CE 2.0 services

– 3 categories of certification modules proposed including Lifecycle and LSO

– First candidate module: Service Configuration and Activation

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MEF-CECP

Companies with Highest # of MEF-CECPs• Level 3 Communications (371)• Time Warner Cable (336)• Fujitsu Network Communications (152)• Coriant (136)

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• MEF-CECP Certification (as of July 25, 2015)– 3,402 MEF-CECPs

– 74 countries

– 364 employer organizations

• Standardized name of “MEF-CECP” to also include MEF-CECP 2.0 certification

• Expiry policy changed from ‘no expiry’ to ‘3 year validity’

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C3 Professional – Development Plan

• Ongoing development of new Professional Certification – ‘C3 Professional’

• Concepts and terminology for all areas of MEF work

• Prototype available 3Q15

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Ongoing Promotion of MEF Certification

Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

Global MC Co-Chairs

Ralph SantitoroFujitsu

Rami Yaron Telco SystemsMatthew Duckworth

Verizon

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MEF Marketing Committee Teams• Regional Co-Chairs

– EMEA• Johan Witters

– Benelux• Johan Witters• Marc Panneel

– Nordics• Youcef Ayad

– South Africa• Gary Williams

– CALA• Emerson Moura • Andres Ramos

• MEF Staff– Bruno Giguere– Stan Hubbard– Mary Hecht-Kissell– Ana Maciel– Kevin Vachon

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• Launch of New The Third Net Vision• 8 New White Papers (most ever in 1 year)• Launched New Innovations Webinar Series• Launched New Seminar Series• GEN14 MEF Event• Launch of• Renewed attention to Social Media• Rebranding (Metro Ethernet Forum MEF)

– MEF.net, wiki.MEF.net

2014-2015 Highlights

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8 White Papers

Vision and StrategyBased on Network as a Service

Principles

November 2014

Carrier Ethernet and SDNPart 1

An Industry Perspective

August 2014

Carrier Ethernet and SDNPart 2

Practical Considerations

September 2014

CE 2.0 Service Management Lifecycle

August 2014

The Third Network Lifecycle Service

Orchestration Vision

February 2015

Understanding Bandwidth Profiles for

MEF 6.2 Service Definitions

June 2015

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Seminars, Workshops and Surveys

– Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, Bogota, Pretoria, Stockholm

• Event Workshops and Panel Sessions– (Paris, Mar. ‘15)

– Nordics Carrier Ethernet Event (Stockholm, Mar. ‘15)

– (Barcelona, Apr. ’15)

– NFV World Congress (San Jose, May ‘15)

– OpenFlow World Congress (Singapore, May ‘15)

• Surveys– Third Network, LSO, SDN, NFV Survey

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New Innovations Webinar Series

Upcoming Webinars• New MEF Professional Certification• Service Activation Testing Power Play• Mobile Backhaul

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Marketing Committee Working Groups and ProjectsSocial Media MarketingCo-Chairs: J. Parkhill & G. Nienaber

CE-NFV PositioningChair: Anthony Peres

Wholesale Ethernet ServicesChair: Bob Mandeville

Prof. Cert. MarketingChair: Mark Fishburn

MEF Social Media Presence• LinkedIn (Several

Groups), Twitter

Create Positioning of CE and NFV• Focus on Use Cases

Market Wholesale Ethernet work• OVC services, EIP,

ATIS/OBF

Market MEF-CECP

Ethernet Service ManagementChair: Isabelle Morency

Mobile BackhaulChair: Rami Yaron

CE Case Studies & Success StoriesChair: John Hawkins

Package & promote work on Ethernet service management• SAT Power Play, YANG

models, MIBs

Package & promote Front-, Mid-, Backhaul projects • Small Cell, • Multi-CoS

• Package and market use cases from GEN14 Ethernet Excellence Award submissions

2Q15 Vancouver Meeting

Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

Welcome to Vancouver!

2015 MEF Q3 Meeting

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Define, streamline and standardize processes for buying, selling, delivering and operating MEF-defined services.

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Service Operations Areas and Projects

• Lifecycle Service Orchestration Reference Arch.• Ethernet Service Lifecycle Process Model (MEF 50)• Ethernet Product Catalog• Ethernet Ordering• Ethernet Service Configuration and Activation• Ethernet Performance Reporting Framework

• Ethernet Service Qualification Questionnaire

• Ethernet Serviceability• Ethernet Interconnect Point

Lifecycle Management Partnership Management

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Project Update – Lifecycle Management

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Lifecycle Service Orchestration Reference Architecture (Scott Mansfield)

MEF 50 - Ethernet Service Lifecycle Process Model (Brian Hedstrom)

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Ethernet Product Catalog (August-Wilhelm Jagau)

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Project Update – Lifecycle Management

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Ethernet Ordering (Michael Bugenhagen/Dawn Kaplan)

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Ethernet Service Configuration and Activation (Jack Pugaczewski)

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Ethernet Performance Reporting (Chunming Liu)

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IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

IncubationProject

ApprovedCfC #1 CfC #2

Letter Ballot

Ratification

Project Update – Partnership Management

Ethernet Services Qualification Questionnaire (Colin Stormont)

Ethernet Serviceability (Manoj Manoharan)

Ethernet Interconnect Point (Dan Blemings)

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Service Operations - RoadmapLifecycle Management

Partnership Management External

Product Service

Launch Products Service Conf. & ActivationEnd-to-End

Service TestingService Problem

Management

Billing & Revenue Management

Terminate Customer Relationship

Service & Resource Design

Capture Customer Order ENNI

Market Analysis & Product Strategy

Marketing Fulfillment Response Qualification Cross-Committee

Product Design Sales Proposal & Feasibility Contracting Cross-Forums

Awaiting Contribution

Active Contribution

Color LegendService Quality Management

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2015 Q3 – Vancouver Meeting

Technical Committee

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MEF Work: 4 Technical Areas

CEN A CEN B

Services (Subscriber view)

User Network Interface (UNI)

Architecture (Functional View of

Interfaces & Services)

Management (Models, Service OAM,

Service Activation)

Services (Operator view)

External Network Network Interface (ENNI)

CE CE

Customer Equipment

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APIs

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MEF Work: Services Area

CEN A CEN B

MEF 6.2 EVC Services (Subscriber view)

User Network Interface (UNI)

OVC Services (Operator view)

External Network Network Interface (ENNI)

CE CE

Customer Equipment

CEN CServices

Service Definitions

• OVC Services Definition

Service Attributes

• Amendment to MEF 10.3 - UNI Resiliency Enhancement

• ENNI and OVC Attributes (MEF 26.2)

• Ad hoc - Amendment to MEF 10.3 – No PHY

• Ad hoc - MEF Services with OpenFlow

Implementation Agreements

• Mobile Backhaul Phase 3

• Class of Service Phase 3

• Ad hoc – Token share (bandwidth profile)

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Virtual or Physical Endpoint

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Network Layer

SDN ControllerElement Management

Lifecycle Service Orchestrator

MPCEN A CEN B

CE CE

Customer Equipment

CEN C

MEF Work: Management AreaProtocol Neutral Information Model• MEF 7.3 CE Information Model• Cloud Services Management

Interface

Protocol Specific MIBs• SOAM PM MIB (SNMP) MEF

36.1• YANG Modules for MEF Services

Service Activation and Test• Amendment to MEF 49 SAT

Control Protocol & PDU Formats• Revision of MEF 48 for SAT for

EVC Services

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Q3 2015 Decisions

Progress2015 Q2 - Lisbon

https://wiki.metroethernetforum.com/display/TC/2015Q2-TCMotions

2015 Q3 - Vancouver(Proposed)

New LBs 3 LB approved• MEF 36.1 (SNMP PM MIB)• OVC Services• MEF 45.0.1 (SAT PDU & Control)

AA UNI

New ADs 1 AD approved• OVC Services

AA UNIENNI & OVC (MEF 26.2)

New CfCBs 1 CfCB approved• AA UNI (MEF 10.3.z)

CoS IA (MEF 23.2)ENNI & OVC (MEF 26.2)MBH IA (MEF 22.2)YANG

New Work 1 Modified project proposal3 Ad hocs

1 Modified project proposal (YANG)~8 Ad hoc/project proposals

Other 2 Outgoing Liaisons

Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

UNITE Report

MEF initiative to promote collaboration

among industry stakeholders for the definition, delivery

and management of open connectivity services

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Overview• MEF UNITE

– Involve key industry standards development bodies, associations and open source projects

• Goal– To accelerate deployment and realization of Agile, Assured and Orchestrated

network as a service – the Third Network• Scope

– Facilitate collaboration support for both internal (MEF and OCC) and external initiatives to enable the MEF Vision and Strategy in the industry

• Value– Communication among all parts of the MEF – Provide other industry organizations with a point of engagement with the

MEF for new projects and collaboration

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Empowerment

• UNITE works when membership engaged!

• Use UNITE to report on what is going on

• Use UNITE to help find contacts in another organization

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TM Forum• 2013-2014

• Use of eTOM for MEF 50• January 2015

• UNITE facilitates TM Forum presentation at Denver plenary• February 2015

• TM Forum invites MEF to TMF Action Week in Lisbon• UNITE facilitates MEF member-hosted TM Forum Business Model Canvas with

MEF members• April 2015

• TM Forum presents to SOC at Lisbon Quarterly Meeting• June 2015

• MEF co-champions Catalyst (based on GEN14 PoC) at TM Forum Live!• July 2015

• MEF presents on TM Forum Webinar on Zero Touch Orchestration• TM Forum – MEF joint working day in Vancouver

• UNITE facilitates/orchestrates• Development of strong relationship with

another industry organization’s leadership

• Close collaboration on multiple levels between SOC, TC and MC on the one hand and theindustry organization on the other

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ETSI• EVE002

– Report on MEF Carrier Ethernet Services Use Cases– This work is stalled in ETSI until the MEF has Virtualization

Use Cases ready to share– UNITE facilitating the sharing of work from the Marketing

Committee to get the ETSI NFV project back on track• EVE006

– Industry Landscape– Information has been provided as an individual

contribution– MEF SoC and TC may want to review request and submit

more information

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IETF• I see YANG people

• Routing Coordination– https://

trac.tools.ietf.org/area/rtg/trac/wiki/RtgYangCoord – Provides list of all YANG models under development– Tools for compiling and verifying YANG– Pointers to the Repositories

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YANG work at IETF 93• Yang Data Model for DHCPv6 • YANG Data Model for IPv4-in-IPv6 Softwire

Configuration and Management• Yang module for IEEE 1588• LIME Base YANG Model Work Update • LMAP YANG Data Model• netconf-yang-patch• netconf-yang-library• netconf-yang-push• draft-wilton-netmod-intf-ext-and-intf-vlan-yang-00 • draft-ietf-netmod-yang-json-04• draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-01 • YANG-Model-Coordination-Group (netmod)• draft-bogdanovic-netmod-yang-model-classification-03 • draft-mansfield-uml-to-yang-00 • YANG Model Coordination Group (opsarea)• 1 - L2VPN Yang • 4 - draft-lee-ccamp-wson-yang-02• 7 - draft-dharini-netmod-g-698-2-yang-04 • wu-idr-flowspec-yang-cfg • draft-zheng-mpls-lsp-ping-yang-cfg• draft-raza-mpls-ldp-mldp-yang • MPLS YANG activities report • OSPF YANG Model • 7. L2VPN IETF Yang model - Patrice BRISSETTE

• 1.1. Status of TE Topology Yang Module• 2.4. YANG Model for PCEP• draft-mcallister-pim-yang• draft-liu-rtgwg-ipipv4-tunnel-yang • draft-chen-rtgwg-key-table-yang • draft-liu-rtgwg-yang-rip • draft-acee-rtg-yang-key-chain• draft-rtgyangdt-rtgwg-device-model• draft-li-rtgwg-utunnel-yang• YANG Data Model for Segment Routing• YANG Data Model for TE Topologies• RSVP/TE Yang Models• Usage of IM for network topology to support TE To

pology YANG Module Development

• Topology requirements YANG Module Development

• draft-tran-ipecme-yang-ipsec • 5 - TWAMP Data Model (draft-cmzrjp-ippm-twamp

-yang-01)

• 6 - TWAMP Light YANG data model (draft-mirsky-ippm-twamp-light-yang-00)

Particular Interest to MEF

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Important Collaboration• YANG Doctors

– List of YANG modules• https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-netmod-16.pdf

– Tool help– http://www.claise.be/IETFYANGPageCompilation.html

• Interesting Statistics

• MEF should validate and support…– http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/ops/trac/wiki/YANGModelingEffortsinTheIndustry

• LIME – Layer Independent OAM Management in the Multi-Layer Environment– Creating a technology-neutral abstraction for OAM (MEP, MIP, CC, CV, LM, PM…

etc.)• BESS & PALS

– BGP Enabled Services– Pseudo-wire and LDP Enabled Services– Drafts that are defining YANG models for L2VPN common services (VPWS, VPLS)

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ITU-T• Study Group 15 meeting

– MEF Work update to the SG15 meeting (TD216/GEN)– A revision of G.8052 (Ethernet Equipment Information Model)

was consented (enters the approval process)• Study Group 13

– Lead study group on Cloud and SDN• Global Standardization Collaboration Meeting

– GSC-19 held in July– http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/gsc/19/Pages/default.aspx – Documents open to all– Topics Included

• Critical Communication and public safety• IoT• IMT-2020 (5G)

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ITU-T• Big Picture engagements• ITU-T Focus on “Trust”

– Meeting with Director of TSB– The “Assured” part of the Third Network Story

• Opportunity created by engaging…

Heavy Reading Insider: “The Telecom Industry Rates Its Standards & Trade Groups” Vol. 15 No. 5, May 2015

Vancouver, BC July 27-30, 2015

Mehmet Toy, Ph.DOCC Board Member,

Distinguished Engineer, Comcast

OpenCloud Connect Report

Technical Committee update• Ad-hoc on NFV and SDN resulted in the first version and Call for Comments of

the document 'OpenCloud 1.0 Reference Architecture with NFV and SDN Constructs' - concluded July 23

• Second Call for Comments for 'OpenCloud 1.0 Use Cases' - concluded July 22• Security WG - support the Security Test Case in OCP 1.0, draft cloud service

secure interface• Analytics WG - provide analytics attributes definition and support for the OCP

1.0 RT-CaaS test case

• In planning: • OpenCloud Interfaces • Implementation Agreements - generalize the three test cases (VM Mobility,

Security, CaaS) in OCP 1.0

Marketing Committee update• OCC value proposition eBook completed with quotes from OCC members – we

encourage you to read it!• Reviewing the whitepaper and use cases

Recruitment• Jeff Smith from Interxion taking lead on recruitment• Good number of leads generated from US & Interop • Proposed survey to engage existing and prospective members, especially SPs

and Cloud SPs (including MEF members)

Media coverage for OCC reference architecture and initial use cases• Significant coverage from NetEvents x 2• Good coverage Interop x2• TelecomTV coverage in Vancouver• Articles published for OCC by James (InformationWeek), Hongwen (UK Times),

and Anton (Cloud Computing World)

OCC Q2 COVERAGE ACROSS THE GLOBE !

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OCC Q2 Key Speaker ActivityOCC Speaker Activities 2015

March Cloud Expo Europe – James Walker - Speaker

April InfoTech China 2015 – Hongwen Zhang – Speaker

April NetEvents, San Francisco – Jeff Schmitz, Opening Keynote

April/May Interop Las Vegas - Sunil Khandekar, Keynote plus OCC panel

April (CWF) Telco Cloud – James Walker - Speaker

June DataCloud 2015 – James Walker - Speaker

June Interop London – James Walker – Keynote plus OCC panel

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Top OCC Prospects:• VMWare – considering• EMC – considering• Cloud Street – positive call• Tech2000 – positive call• Peer1 – positive call• Cloud66 – second call scheduled• Verne Global – second call scheduled• Amazon, Google, Microsoft – in progress

• 83 new enquiries / 48 contacted• Renewal discussions this month with Ciena &

Huawei

OCC Recruitment activity June/July

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OpenCloud Project

• Reference test bed to accelerate the development of industry standard Cloud networks and services

• Feedback from lab and field tests valuable resource for OCC technical work

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OpenCloud Testbed

OpenCloud Project Progress Report• First live demonstration of OpenCloud test bed during Interop in Las Vegas, April 2015 (with press

briefing during NetEvents in San Francisco)• "Secure and Managed Cloud Service" use case: nation-wide managed connection from Comcast connects the OpenCloud test

bed to a major IaaS Cloud Service Provider

• Extension of the test bed to include the other use cases resulting from the call for participation• "Real Time Communication as a Service" use case: managed connection from Tata Communications connects OpenCloud test

bed to Avaya Cloud Lab in Santa Clara• "Dynamic end-to-end connectivity use case”: data centers in London from Interxion connected to the OpenCloud test bed• "Virtual Machines mobility and redundancy use case”: Verizon Cloud connected to the OpenCloud test bed

• Technical tracks for the development of test cases identified:• Cloud connectivity baseline verification (Iometrix lead)• Cloud connectivity service activation and configuration (BTI/Interxion lead)• Cloud compute/storage baseline verification (Tata Communications/Iometrix lead)• Virtual Machines mobility and redundancy (Comcast/Tata Communications/Verizon lead)• Security (Wedge Networks lead)• Communication as a Service (Avaya lead)

• Draft of OCC 1.0 Iterative Test Suite in progress• Plan for a second live demonstration of the OpenCloud test bed during GEN15 in November 2015

OpenCloud Project & OCC Technical Committee Plans AheadCreate an agile standards process for cloud services based on use cases, compliance testing and real world deployments

Reference Architecture

Use Case 1

Use Case 2

Use Case 3

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Test Plan 1

Test Plan 2

Test Plan 3

Test Plan n

Integrated Test Framework

Implementation Agreement 1

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Get to know OpenCloud Connect“Open House” Wednesday 5pm – Salon FHere at the Vancouver meeting!

Name Change: OpenCloud Connect

• Align forum name with focus and mission

• Initiated and approved by board

• Press release issued on March 17th 2015

• New forum web site: www.opencloudconnect.org

Technical Committee Update• Ad-Hoc on NFV and SDN resulted in the first version and Call

for Comments of the document 'OpenCloud 1.0 Reference Architecture with NFV and SDN Constructs' - concluded July 23

• Second Call for Comments for 'OpenCloud 1.0 Use Cases' - concluded July 22

• Security WG - support the Security Test Case in OCP 1.0, draft cloud service secure interface

• Analytics WG - provide analytics attributes definition and support for the OCP 1.0 RT-CaaS test case

• In planning: • OpenCloud Interfaces • Implementation Agreements - generalize the three test cases

(VM Mobility, Security, CaaS) in OCP 1.0

Marketing Committee Update• Completed OCC value proposition eBook with quotes from OCC members• Reviewing the whitepaper and use cases• Media coverage for OCC reference architecture and initial use cases

• Significant coverage from NetEvents x 2• Good coverage Interop x2• TelecomTV coverage in Vancouver• Articles published for OCC by James (InformationWeek), Hongwen (UK

Times), and Anton (Cloud Computing World)

OCC Speaker Activities 2015

March Cloud Expo Europe – James Walker - Speaker

April InfoTech China 2015 – Hongwen Zhang – Speaker

April NetEvents, San Francisco – Jeff Schmitz, Opening Keynote

April/May Interop Las Vegas - Sunil Khandekar, Keynote plus OCC panel

April (CWF) Telco Cloud – James Walker - Speaker

June DataCloud 2015 – James Walker - Speaker

June Interop London – James Walker – Keynote plus OCC panel

OCC Q2 COVERAGE ACROSS THE GLOBE !

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• Jeff Smith from Interxion taking lead on recruitment• Good number of leads generated from US & Interop • 83 new enquiries / 48 contacted Top OCC Prospects:

• VMWare – considering• EMC – considering• Cloud Street – positive call• Tech2000 – positive call• Peer1 – positive call• Cloud66 – second call scheduled• Verne Global – second call scheduled• Amazon, Google, Microsoft – in progress

• Proposed survey to engage existing and prospective members, especially SPs and Cloud SPs (including MEF members)

Recruitment

OpenCloud Project

Create an agile standards process for cloud services based on use cases, compliance testing and real world deployments

Reference Architecture

Use Case 1

Use Case 2

Use Case 3

Use Case n

Test Plan 1

Test Plan 2

Test Plan 3

Test Plan n

Integrated Test Framework

Implementation Agreement 1

Implementation Agreement n

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OpenCloud Testbed

OpenCloud Project Progress Report• First live demonstration of OpenCloud test bed during Interop in Las Vegas, April 2015 (with press briefing

during NetEvents in San Francisco)• "Secure and Managed Cloud Service" use case: nation-wide managed connection from Comcast connects the

OpenCloud test bed to a major IaaS Cloud Service Provider

• Extensions of the test bed • "Real Time Communication as a Service" use case: managed connection from Tata Communications connects

OpenCloud test bed to Avaya Cloud Lab in Santa Clara• "Dynamic end-to-end connectivity use case”: data centers in London from Interxion connected to the OpenCloud

test bed• "Virtual Machines mobility and redundancy use case”: Verizon Cloud connected to the OpenCloud test bed

• Technical tracks for the development of test cases identified:• Cloud connectivity baseline verification (Iometrix lead)• Cloud connectivity service activation and configuration (BTI/Interxion lead)• Cloud compute/storage baseline verification (Tata Communications/Iometrix lead)• Virtual Machines mobility and redundancy (Comcast/Tata Communications/Verizon lead)• Security (Wedge Networks lead)• Communication as a Service (Avaya lead)

• Draft of OCC 1.0 Iterative Test Suite in progress• Plan for a second live demonstration of the OpenCloud test bed during GEN15 in November 2015

Get to know OpenCloud Connect“Open House” Wednesday 5pm – Salon FHere at the Vancouver meeting!