Javier Benitez keynote from Layer 123 Zero Touch and Carrier Automation Congress in Madrid, March 2018

1. Colt’s SDN & NFV
The Route to
Automation
Zero Touch Congress 2018,
Madrid
Javier Benitez

2. 2
Metropolitan Area
Network
Colt connected city
Operational network
managed end-to-end
900+
Network to network
interfaces
187k+
LDN, metro fibre
and subsea and
terrestrial leased
capacity
25k+
Buildings directly
connected
200+
Cities connected
across 28 countries
800+
Key data centres,
clouds and carrier
hotels connected
Optical Ethernet IP Voice
@ ✆
Security

3. 3
From
Traditional networking
To
Cloud Networking
− Manually driven
− Delivery time in days (10-20 days typically)
− Static (1 to 3 year contracts)
− End to end products
− Vendor-controlled releases
− Software driven
− Delivery time in minutes (5-10 minutes)
− Dynamic (real-time changes &
commercial models)
− Component based products
− Open platform with rapid release cycles
Service
Assurance
Billing
Service
modification
Service
configuration
Service
activation
Service
delivery
OrderQuote
Service
Assurance
Billing
Service
activation
Select and
request
Service
delivery
Manual process
Only when physical work is required
MINUTES
The Route Towards Automation

4. Sentio
Network intelligence
Colt On Demand strategic initiatives
4
Novitas
Network orchestration
Stratus
Network cloud
• Automated real time service
quoting, ordering and delivery
• Service capability development
• SDN federation
• Powered by SDN control and
orchestration
• Automated service management
• Service modification /
restoration based on closed
loop automation
• Intelligent data analysis and
correlation
• Powered by AI / Machine
Learning
• Virtualization of network
resources
• Service chaining
• Powered by NFV telco cloud,
Universal CPE and NFV
orchestration
On Demand Platform
2015 2017 2018

5. Colt On Demand – Automation in action
Fast Delivery
Flexible Bandwidth
Near real-time (few minutes) service activation
Fully flexible service attributes (BW, Vlans, etc)
Coverage On-net, Public Clouds and future off-net (SDN Federation)
Full control Services are self-provisioned via customer portal or API
Disruptive
commercials
Pay-as-you-use billing per-hour no-commitment contracts

6. Colt on Demand consumption models
6
3. Modify in real time
the bandwidth of a
connection
1. Reserve / release
ports
2. Create / delete a
connection between
user-reserved ports
Standard HTTP based RESTful API
delivered with TLS over the internet
Create
Read
Update
Delete
Building Database 
Location    
Port    
Connection    
Request  
Product / Price 
Charges 

7. Colt on Demand platform
7
Colt
IQ Network
NovitasColt On Demand
Web Portal
Service Exposure API
Network
Control
OSS
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
VNF VNF
3rd party Networks
Business
Orchestration
Multi Domain Service Orchestrator
Packet Network
SDN Controller Optical Network
SDN Controller
SDWAN
Controller
Network
Virtualisation
Controller
NFV
MANO
…...

8. Colt On Demand and SD WAN propositions
8
Point to point
“On-net” (Fibre)
Colt On-Demand
Multi-site
“Off-net & on-net”
mix
SD WAN
Two different offerings
1
2
Future Evolution
IPA On Demand
Intercontinental Services
DCA On Demand
IBM & Google Clouds
Regional GWs
US/Asia
Advanced
FW, WAN Opt.
Universal CPE
(NFV)
Optical On Demand
SDN Federation

9. SDN federation – Cross Carrier Automation
9
SDN API
Novitas Engine
3rd Party Network
BSS/OSS/
Orchestration
SDN-NNI
Portal
BSS/OSS Systems
3rd Party’s
Customer
API
On Demand
Colt
Customer
Public Demonstrations
 Jul 2016 : AT&T – Colt
 Nov 2017: MEF17 PoC
 Mar 2018: Verizon - Colt
Colt co-leads standardisation of SDN
APIs in MEF

10. Stratus - Colt unified NFV architecture
10
Fragmented NFV architecture Unified NFV architecture
Compute
Virtualisation
Network
Virtualisation
RR
Generic VNF-Manager
SDWAN
NFV -Orchestration
VIM
OSS / BSS
Systems
Novitas
Engine
NG NMS
Virt.
Route
Reflectors
Virt.
SDWAN
Virt.
SPB
Virt.
Firewall
OSS / BSS
Systems
Novitas
Engine
NG NMS
COMPLEXITY SCALES EXPONENTIALLY
AS EACH NEW VIRTUALISED FUNCTION
IS INTRODUCED
COMPLEXITY SCALES LINEARLY
AS EACH NEW VIRTUALISED
FUNCTION IS INTRODUCED
Fragmented NFV architecture
• Inefficient use of compute and
networking infra
• Operational complexity due to
multiple HW stacks
• Long and complex
introduction of new VNFs
• Parallel and fragmented
service mgmt and orch
Unified NFV architecture
• Automation and shared
infrastructure management
• Cost efficiency
• Rapid VNF on-boarding
• E2e service lifecycle
management
• Service Catalogue offering
• Reduction of operational
overheads and dev cycles
OSS / BSS Systems
NFV
MANO
Shared Compute (x86)
& Storage
Infrastructure
Switching
Fabric
NFV Infrastructure (NFVI)
NFV -
Orchestration
VNF
Manager
Virtual
Infrastructure
Manager
(VIM)
Compute
Virtualisation
Network
Virtualisation
VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3
VNFs
ETSI NFV Reference Architecture

11. Future – AI driven networking (project Sentio)
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• Fully automated service management
• Service modification / restoration (e.g. by
automatic scaling in and out of VNF resources)
Realtime
Closed-Loop
Automation
Infrastructure
Logs, telemetry etc.
Controllers Analytics Engine
• Intelligent data analysis
and correlation
• Based on new machine
learning and artificial
intelligence technics
Traffic flow classification
WAN path optimisation
Fault prediction
QoE modelling
Network security
Service restoration
Network scaling
Intelligent BW on demand

12. 12
Learnings so far
• Networking as an application
• Product cloudification
• Focus on the customer experience
• Consume automation internally
• Open networks – work with partners and
competition
• Manage software complexity
• Redesign organisation and processes

13. Thank you
Colt on Demand demo
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