AutoGraph
Simon Brueckheimer
Leader, Adaptive Network Consulting
GraphTour, Tel Aviv, Feb 2019
Natural signatures spell solutions
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Clients
1,500+
Patents
2000+
Employees
6,000+
Sales
Professionals
750+
R&D experts
2,700+
Offices 65+
Cloud
Providers
Regional
Service
Providers
Enterprises
Financial
Services
Healthcare Utilities
Media and
Entertainment
Retail Public Sector Education

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Adaptive Network™
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Demand Capacity Content Flexibility Competition
Overhead Complexity Cost Timescales
Automation Adaptability
Software
Control
Function
Virtualisation
Programmable
Infrastructure
Seamless
Operations
and IT
Workflow
Transformation
Legacy
Transformation

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Adaptive Solutions Consulting
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Where needs are business, operations, sales, billing, planning, design, …
Needs
Data Analyses
What?
Access?
Sufficiency?
Which?
Feasibility?
Sufficiency?
Mode of
consumption
Scope?
Use cases?
Feasibility?
Type?
Audience?
Novelty?
Custom match

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Many many use-cases
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Design, plan, provision, operate, assure, market, sell, differentiate, expand, evolve …

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Our methodology; our challenges
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Not about horsepower – it’s about necessary complexity – taking it to the bone

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Network = Graph
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CONNECTS_TO
Path computation
Diverse path computation
First k available shortest paths
Many abstractions – structural, physical, logical, geospatial, temporal, spectral, hierarchical

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A simple example
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A stitch in space
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A
B C
D
– time and again

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Graphs stitch for free!
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Rx Port
Tx Port
A
2
Card
Tx Port
Rx Port
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B
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Card
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A
A.2.2.100G to B.4.1.100G
Properties
Identifier
Shelf
Slot
Type
Properties
Identifier
Port
Metrics
CONNECTS_TO
Properties
Identifier
Fibre
CREATE MERGE = IF B THERE CONNECT, ELSE CREATE B AND CONNECT
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Automatic Circuit Stitching
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Graph Enrichment – Real-World Abstraction
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App1
Graph Meta-
graph
Meta-
meta-
graph
App2 Appn… Appn+1…
The art of applying graph technology is to look for natural signatures

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Abstracted Visualisation
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Abstracted network visualisation
A key impetus to move to graph technology
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Streamed Data
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Streaming data – Screaming staff!
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Staff manually wading through history or fighting the unfolding present

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Simple streaming architecture
Stream
write min
schema
Graph
App1
Asynch.
time-tree
aggregation
Appn
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Automated Root-Cause Analysis
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Alarm data transformation
2-3
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Graph-based event clusters
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Time
AlarmLevel
Alarm signals:
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Automating Root-Cause Analysis
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Signatures and endorsements
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Innate graph signatures in networking
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*time, geography, technology type, shared risk
Naturally graphs – whether business, operations, technology or workflow

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App-i
App-n
App-2
Applications
App-1
One repository for all data?
Resources
(external matter of record)
Graph DB
Minor schema on write
Major schema on read
Res-1
Res-n
Highly scalable federation
Disjoint / Connected graphs per
instance
Ever extendable Apps
Single, Chained, Parallel
Customer footprint,
market, business, finance
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Meeting the Adaptive NetworkTM challenge
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Future = autonomy, automation, adaptation, agility – many untapped use-cases

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