Chair: Ewan Quibell, management systems and service leader, Jisc. 16:15-16:55 - The autonomous network Speaker: Simon Parry, CTO UK public sector, Ciena. You’ve virtualised your servers, virtualised your storage, maybe even virtualised an application, but what about the network that joins it all together? How do you build an agile, open network that responds to the new world of on-demand services, without impacting current performance and while delivering greater efficiencies? Find out how a network operator can save money and deliver a more responsive experience and outcome for your users.

1. Exhibitor session 1a
Chair: Ewan Quibell

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Exhibitor showcase and drinks reception
18:00 -
19:00 Birds of a feather sessions

3. The evolution to the autonomous
network
Simon Parry
CTO UK Public Sector
April 2017
One carrier’s journey….

6. Vendor A NMS Vendor B NMS Vendor C NMS Vendor X NMS
Physical Appliance
Data Center
Public Cloud
Proprietary interfaces create lock-in
Significant cost to evolve/change
TTM to introduce new services
Limited service assurance
Operations limits service catalog choice
Static infrastructure inhibits innovation
IP/MPLS WAN
Optical WAN
CLI
OSS
SNMP TL1 CORBA

7. Common REST APIs
OSS
Vendor A NMS Vendor B NMS Vendor C NMS Vendor Z NMS

8. A rebranded NMS ? NextGen Mgmt + Control ? A centralized control plane?
• Existing NMS + REST based
northbound APIs
• Full FCAPS & OAMP but lacks E2E
path computation/creation
• Likely ‘monolithic’ in architecture
• Traditional NMS capabilities + path
computational support
• May include real-time planning and a
degree of multi-vendor capability
• Built on modern and scalable “Web
2.0” architecture – micro-services &
containers
• Foundation built around control
and data plane separation
• Provides E2E path
computation/creation but likely
lacks FCAPS & OAMP
• Examples include ODL and ONOS
They all have a part to play in our story

9. OSS / BSS
WAN Orchestration
Optical
Controller
Layer 0/1
Optical
Layer 3
IP/MPLS Core
Layer 2
Metro
Ethernet
Controller
IP/MPLS
Controller

11. To expand our service offerings while scaling in an operationally efficient way
Our main character’s objective
Multiple Models RequiredBased on the IETF Framework
•
•
•
•
Data Center
w/ Centralized
Compute
CO/PoP
Distributed
Compute
Remote
Compute
WAN
MANO
Firewall
Encryption
vRouter
VNFs
NFVI
Cloud Mgmt & SDN Control
NFVO & VNF Management

12. Office A
Office B Office D
Office C
WAN
VNF Catalog
HQ
Director“I need a
Firewall”
“I need an encrypted &
WAN optimised service”
“I want my own
custom made
appliance”
“I just need
connectivity”
VNF
On-Boarding

13. WAN OrchestrationNFV MANO DC Control
Multi-Domain Service Orchestration
WAN Data CenterNFV Data
Center(s)
•
•
•
•

14. Analytics Platform
Data
Source
Data
Source
…
Data Normalization
App 1
Data
Sources
…
App N
Analytics: The discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data
Wikipedia
What if we could predict network outages
before they happen?
Analytics is the key to unlocking the autonomous network
What if we could recommend network
augmentations in real time?
What if we could optmise the network based
on current and past behavior?

15. OSS
CO/PoP
Data Center
w/ Centralized
Compute
Public Cloud
Distributed
Compute
Physical Appliance
Remote Compute
IP/MPLS
WAN
Optical WAN
Data LakeOptical “Controllers”
WAN Orchestration
Cloud Mgmt & SDN
NFVO & VNFM
IP/MPLS “Controllers”
Analytics
&
Apps
Multi-Domain Service Orchestration
Public APIs &
Portals

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What we offer

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About us
1,300+
customers across
North America, CALA,
EMEA and APAC
80%
of the world’s largest
service providers
being served
Aiding government, web-scale
providers, Fortune 2000
enterprises, and other private
network operators
5,500+
employees
in 80+ countries
We focus on inspiring and enabling rewarding experiences that lead to exceptional outcomes.
We’re a network strategy and technology company

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Our portfolio
CIENA SPECIALIST SERVICES
An extensive team of specialists, flexible resources, and customized analyses to maximize your network investment.
Automate services and deliver
a relevant and valuable user
experience—from service creation
to orchestration and delivery across
both physical and virtual domains.
SDN / NFV
Best-in-class packet-based products
offer edge to core service delivery
and aggregation with a common
Service-Aware Operating System
(SAOS) to differentiate and
decrease time to revenue.
Packet networking
Monetize and optimize bandwidth with
scale, agility, flexibility and openness.
Award-winning WaveLogic Photonics
and packet/OTN switching accelerate
service delivery.
Converged packet optical Network mgmt. & planning
A customizable dashboard, service
template, and proactive fault isolation
make network management easy.
Both the NOC and end-customer can
visualize service performance data
along with analytics and planning tools
to ensure SLAs are properly met.

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Innovation leadership
• 100G transport SDN testbed adopting
OpenFlow and an open source controller
• Multi-layer, multi-vendor transport
SDN controller based on OpenDaylight
• Coherent optics with 40G and 100G solutions
• OTN control plane on an optical switch
• Carrier Ethernet aggregation switch supporting
a virtualized switching architecture
CIENA HOLDS 2,000+ PATENTS WORLDWIDE
CIENA
WAS THE
1ST
• Intelligent optical core switch
• Packet-optical convergence platform
• Multi-vendor SDN/NFV ecosystem
• Carrier SDN platform
• Multi-domain orchestrator that integrates
data center, NFV, and the WAN
RANKED CIENA #1
Overall Optical Supplier
Optical Transmission and Switching
Optical Supplier
Optical Equipment Vendor Leadership, Global Service Provider Survey, November 2015
Packet Optical
Data Center Interconnect
Market Momentum
Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard, June 2015

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A trusted partner

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Where next?

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No revenue for extra system margin
=
150G
200G
250G
BUT BUTBUT
Lack of data and analytics have historically limited flexibility / agility in optical networks
Reality = unpredictable connectivity requirements
Customers left with an inability to monetize unused bandwidth in real-time
and forced to rely on expensive over-builds to deal with unpredictable growth
Not leveraging latest technologies

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Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum
=
200G
225G
250G
275G
300G
OTN
Packet
FlexEthernet
Fabric
client line
Customer Value: Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum is a software enabled optical toolset that allows operators to…extract maximum value
from network investments…massively scale at the lowest cost-per-bit…and fully monetize available bandwidth
Open Line System
Optical
Packet
Capacity mining
DWDM Visualizer
MCP

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User Defined Policies
• To ”bias” network behavior,
monetize applications, …
• Network Plan (Reservation)
Data Collection
• Viability; margin squeeze, capacity
x reach optimization
• Service planning, including
network augment, and brownfield
• Other advanced functions
Data Reconciliation
• Reconciliation policies
• Reconciliation tracking
• “legacy takeover”
Data Processing
• Real-Time (Recover)
• Non-Real Time (Optimize)
• Historical (Analytics)
Open
Web-scale
Container-based
Micro-services
MCP
Open APIs
Open APIs

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