The document proposes a bandwidth exchange that allows network operators to monetize excess bandwidth capacity. It involves operators publishing available capacity on a marketplace portal called CloudStreet. A trading engine then standardizes capacity into tradable securities that are traded on an exchange. When orders are placed, an automation platform provisions the network to fulfill the orders. This allows operators to treat bandwidth as a commodity that can be traded, while enterprises obtain bandwidth on demand.

1. Bandwidth Exchange
Delivering cloud network resources profitably
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2. Business Problem
 Service Providers are losing revenue to Over-The-
Top delivery
 Cloud Computing distributes resources to discrete
parts of the network
 Bandwidth becomes a commodity
 Can resources of Network, Compute & Storage be
linked?
 Current Carriers Operational Support Systems are
designed for internal use and lack the automation
needed for third party on-demand provisioning.
 To trade network resources standards for “Tradable
Units” and “Network Delivery” need to be defined.
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3. Solution
 Data Centres aggregate lots of demand to the same location – the
“unshared” part of the network becomes very small (non existent for
DCs employing virtualisation).
 Data Centres have introduced on-demand services which creates a
compelling use case for “on-demand” bandwidth.
 Enterprise Cloud Services need reliable network connectivity to data
centers, carriers are best positioned to offer this through simple on-
demand provisioning APIs
 Intune technology makes the optical transponder & switching very
flexible – location on an Intune ring is virtually irrelevant.
 Amartus platform enables fully automated service management & rapid
integration across operator networks
 Use financial instruments to trade bandwidth contracts:
 Futures Contracts for Calendar Based Events
 Spot Networks to meet immediate demand
 Infrastructure providers can use income from futures contract to
fund investment
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4. Bandwidth Exchange – Description of the Service
OPERATOR RESOURCES
1 1
FIRST DERIVATIVES
CLOUDSTREET
TRADING ENGINE
2
Work flow 3
1. Operator publishes capacity on
CloudStreet. Trading engine uses part of
inventory to create predefined trading SERVICE COMMANDER
products.
2. CloudStreet updates Service Inventory
4
on Amartus Service Commander
3. Trading engine picks-up connections and
capacity from Service Inventory and NETWORK LAYER
splits it easy tradable securities.
4. Service Commander provisions the
network
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5. The Components – High Level View
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6. NSN
CloudStreet
CloudStreet MarketPlace Portal Portal
Demand/supply OSS Module BSS Module
CloudStreet
CloudStreet
Module • service Inventory • Data Charging OTC
• publishing • order initiation Generation
MarketPlace
• offer/route finding • SLA processing • Iface to Billing
Solution
LBL Synchronization Ordering Process Automation Automation
&
Mediation, Transformation, Adaptation Mediation
FM PM SLA Mgt. Ordering Billing Clearing
OSS / BSS
Connectivity
products
CPE. ACCESS TRANSIT EXCHANGE Network
Infrastructure
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7. CloudStreet
Publish Capacity
Request Capacity
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8. First Derivatives Trading Exchange
Pricing Engine
Standardisation
Price Creation
of Contracts
Liquidity Aggregation
Order Submission
Liquidity
Providers/ Contract
Position Management Customers
Network Activation
Providers
Order Matching
Order Management
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9. First Derivatives Trading Exchange GUI
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10. Cashflow Forecasting
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11. Amartus Service Commander
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12. Optical Packet Switch & Transport
• Single switch deployed as a distributed ring
architecture.
• Virtualise optical capacity for shared
utilisation.
• Packet level granularity.
• Transponders are shared for all destinations.
• Don’t need a new transponder for a new destination.
• Deterministic service performance.
• Through advanced scheduling of packets.
• Standards based interfaces
 Data Plane - 10GE Client I/F
 Management Plane
 Web services/XML/http
• Applications include
 Metro Distribution & Aggregation
 Content Distribution Networks
 Data Centre Virtualisation
• Benefits
 Efficient optical network utilisation (full & constant reuse).
 Very flexible optical connectivity & bandwidth.
 Enabler for new business models e.g. Bandwidth
Exchange/Trading.
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13. Benefits
 Network can be traded as a financial instrument
 Bandwidth on demand is delivered via trades for
calendar based events
 Bandwidth on demand can be spot priced via
the market (Where price is more important than
time)
 Network can we aligned with other virtualised cloud
resources to define an end-to-end service.
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14. Outputs
 “Proof of Concept that Bandwidth can be traded as
a Commodity
 Over the Counter Trading compared to:
 Futures and Spot Trading
 Demo utilises “ RESTful Web Services” but MTOSI
Service Catalog and Activation interfaces are also
supported.
 Unit of trade should also be standardised.
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15. Bandwidth Exchange
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