2. ATS – Key Differentiators
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Customized
Business
Solutions
Proof of Concept
as a Services
(PoCaaS)
KGPCo Partner
Network
KGPCo Portfolio
for Rolling Out
Devices if
Needed
24/7 x 365
Managed
Services
• Vendor Agnostic
• Best of Telecom and Software Expertise
• Cloud DevOps Excellence
ATS Supports:
Professional Services Model
Managed Services Model
3. ATS Services
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Proof of Concept as a Service
(PoCaaS)
What ATS/KGPCo Offers?
• Deep Networking / Infra / Software
expertise
• Vendor Agnostic
• Host a PoC in our labs – Mimic
Customer Environment
• A rich KGPCo partner network
• A trusted partner to roll-out and
support Technology at a larger
scale
Domains:
• SD-WAN product evaluation and
integration
• VNF Validation and Onboarding
• Private/Public Cloud Migration
Public Cloud Services
(AWS/Azure/GCP)
What ATS/KGPCo Offers?
• Public Cloud Migration and
Automation
• DevOps and Operational
Integration Services
• Managed Migration Services
• Design and Planning
• Big Data Deployment
• Consultancy and Advisory Services
• Network Load Migration
• Cloud Security and Compliance
• Cloud Monitoring
• 24x7x365 Tier1/2 support
• CI/CD Implementation and
Management
Software Development Lifecycle
as a Service
Linux Foundation Silver Member
Expertise: Open Source, Mobility,
Networking/SDN, Cloud and Analytics
Open Contrail, Open Daylight, VPP
,
FD.IO, PNDA
All Stages of SDLC:
• Requirement gathering and
analysis
• Design
• Implementation or coding
• QA
• Deployment
• Maintenance
Data Analytics
Data Analytics Platform:
• Supports multiple data sources out
of the box
o SNMP
o TWAMP
o Sflow
o Syslogs
o GRPC
• Is highly Customizable to give
deep insight into the Network
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Challenges Faced by SPs Today
Why ATS/KGPCo?
• Deep Networking/Infra/Software expertise
• Vendor Agnostic
• Host a PoC in our labs – Mimic Customer Environment
• A rich KGPCo partner network
• A trusted partner to roll-out and support Technology at a
larger scale
Differentiators:
• Customized Business Solutions - Best of Telecom and
Software Expertise
• PoCaaS
• Vendor Benchmarking and IoT
• Integration Services with OSS/BSS
• Solution Modification
• KGPCo Partner Network – Trusted Business Advisor
• 24/7 * 365 Managed Services
• KGPCo portfolio for rolling out devices if needed
Challenges
Infrastructure Resources
Skill Set / Human Resources
Multi-Vendor Support
OPEX Model / Pay As You Go
Agility to Adopt New Technology
5. Software Development Lifecycle as a Service
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• Technology Delivery Organization
• International Presence: USA, India,
evaluating Guyana
• Domains: Leadership Team - Deep
Telecom Expertise
• Software Development DNA – Best
of Telecom and Software Expertise
• Expertise: Open Source, Mobility,
Networking/SDN, Cloud and
Analytics
• ATS enables consumption of Telco
DC/Edge Cloud Technologies
through Distribution, Service and
Operational Management offerings
and ecosystem creation
• Linux Foundation Networking – Silver
Member
• Areas with Expertise today - Open Contrail, Open
Daylight, PNDA, FD.io, DNOS (Open Source), ONAP
,
Akraino, Edge
• Upstreaming integration into the Projects
• Open Source Expertise –OpenStack, K8s, Tick
Stack
• Expertise in DevOps and CICD
• Key Areas
• SDN/NFV Feature Enhancement
• SDN/NFV CICD
• SDN/NFV Dev Support – Troubleshooting,
Configuration, Monitoring, R&D
• SDN (OC) and VPP integration
• Network Analytics
• Smart NICs – SDN and VNFs on Smart NICs
• Client Engagements
• DC SDN, Compute, CICD, Edge SDN
• Network Data Analytics
• DNOS
• RFC Impl;ementation
• Open Source Area of Focus
• Projects: Tungsten Fabric, ODL, ONAP
, VFd (EDGE
focused SDN/Mobility Use Cases)
• White Box Tooling
• Intentbased Loops
• Analytics
• OSS/BSS integration
• VNF/SDN/MANO
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PoCaaS: One Window Service for Entire PoC and Beyond
Private/Public Cloud Migration:
• Create a POC lab mimicking desired Customer
Environment
• Interoperability ( VIM / Application)
• Workload Migration
• Integrate Different Solutions Together
• Develop Test plan to validate the following parameters:
• Performance
• High Availability (HA)
• Cloud Mobility
• Functionality (eg Service chaining)
• Test end to end reachability
• Compile Test results and share with the customer
• Create step by step deployment guide
Domains:
SD-WAN product evaluation and integration:
• Customized solutions based on customer need
• Choose from any of the top SD-WAN vendors
• Significantly Reduces WAN Costs
• Provides Greater Business Agility
• Simplifies Network Security
• Customer Facing Portal Development
• Integrate Data-Analytics for Deep Insights
• Create step by step deployment guide
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PoCaaS: One Window Service for Entire PoC and Beyond
VNF Testing and Certification:
VNF Functional and Testing
• Environment integration validation
• Module development for VNF’s south-bound Interface
• Functionality testing: life-cycle-orchestration, feature
testing
Performance and Stability Testing:
• Load testing
• High-volume functions testing
• Stability testing
• Multi-node environment testing
Interoperability testing:
• VNF-SDN interoperability testing
• VNF-VNF Interoperability testing
VNF Validation:
Definition Documentation:
• Functional case (scope) related to business needs
• Success criteria for the deliverables and the demo
Initial VNF assessment and environment preparation:
• VNFs documentation is analyzed
• 3rd party software and hardware dependencies are
analyzed
• VNFs image (s) obtained
• Determining certification’s scope (for what functions the
NFV will be certified)
• Setup lab environment in accordance to the determined
scope
• Performance characterization (value added)
• Service chaining (if any)
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PoCaaS: One Window Service for Entire PoC and Beyond
VNF Validation – Three Tiers:
VNF Validation and Onboarding:
• Silver Validation is first tier of qualification that says a
VNF successfully operates in the NFV environment
• Cloud platform environment integration validation
• Includes validation of basic VNF functionality running on
Open NFV Reference platform
• Deployment in virtual infrastructure Manager (VIM)
• VIM Level Monitoring Setup
• VIM VNF Setup Testing
• Gold Validation includes everything in Silver plus
performance testing of scalability, evaluating that the
VNF can scale up and out to address demand volatility of
Telco
• Capable of Service function Chaining
• Validation of OSS integration
• VNF functional testing & Perf testing
• Software defined networking setup (SFC/NS)
• Service Model (NFV-D) integration
• Platinum Validation includes everything in Gold and
guarantees that the VNF will remain functional as
software and hardware continue to update and change
• Upstream OSS adapters and Lifecycle management
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9. Cloud Services
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DevOps Team
Big Data
Deployment
Cloud Security
Managed
Migration
Services
Consultancy and
Advisory Services
24x7x365
Tier1/2 support
Design and
Planning
Network Load
Migration
Cloud Monitoring
One Window Service to
manage private and public
cloud
10. Data Analytics
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Troubleshooting:
The system provides basic and enhanced status check and
troubleshooting functions for outage diagnostic and repair.
Deterministic Analytics:
Extra-granular packet collection and Big Data-based analysis means
providing hard to duplicate precision of network data analytics.
Network Surveillance:
Aggregated alarm view and diagnostic functions for Provider’s SEs to
proactively monitor platform status and react on customer outages.
Predictive Analytics:
Based on our proprietary algorithms we predict the BW demands of
the virtual infrastructure in real-time.
Machine Learning:
We have developed our own algorithms that learn and understand
what the norm is for a network.
Smart Discovery:
Platform discovers the entire infrastructure, not only what is present
there, but also how each element is talking to the other elements.
