The document outlines Colt's journey and plans for integrating Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) into their service offerings, targeting an enhanced customer experience through faster, more agile network services. It discusses the challenges customers face with increasing bandwidth demands, slow service delivery, and the need for cost-efficient scaling, prompting Colt's investment in a high-capacity network infrastructure and on-demand solutions. The Novitas initiative aims to transform network service ordering and consumption, providing real-time capabilities and a cloud-like experience.

1. Colt’s Carrier SDN & NFV
Experience, Learnings and
Future Plans
ONS 2017, Santa Clara
Javier Benitez
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2. Contents
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Colt Introduction
SDN and NFV transformation (Novitas)
Roadmap
Learnings
Future developments
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3. 25k+
Business
customers
SME
Enterprise
Carrier
Voice
Services
205
Cities
3
Continents
50+
Industry
Awards
24/7
5k+
Employees
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7
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2
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Colt in focus
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Data Centre
Services
Network
Services
28
Countries
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4. Underpinned by our world-class network
• 187,586 km of LDN, metro fibre and subsea & terrestrial leased
capacity connecting 28 countries across 4 continents.
• 200 connected cities; metropolitan area networks
in 49 cities
• 24,000+ buildings directly connected
• 700+ 3rd-party DCs and 29 Colt-owned DCs
• 919 COs (635 EFM) and 390 E-NNIs (180 cities,146 countries)
• Single end to end SLA
• Consistent and predictable user experience across
geographies
• Single view of service activity and performance
• Ability to rapidly change your services as business
needs change allowing you to flex and grow
• 24/7 operational management
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5. Underpinned by our world-class network
• 187,586 km of LDN, metro fibre and subsea & terrestrial leased
capacity connecting 28 countries across 4 continents.
• 200 connected cities; metropolitan area networks
in 49 cities
• 24,000+ buildings directly connected
• 700+ 3rd-party DCs and 29 Colt-owned DCs
• 919 COs (635 EFM) and 390 E-NNIs (180 cities,146 countries)
• Single end to end SLA
• Consistent and predictable user experience across
geographies
• Single view of service activity and performance
• Ability to rapidly change your services as business
needs change allowing you to flex and grow
• 24/7 operational management
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6. The world around us is changing at a rapid pace
Four mega technology trends transforming IT:
2.5 Trillion
Gigabytes
Data created
globally each
day
6.4
billion
Connected things
in use worldwide
in 2016
85%
Of enterprises
use at least one
cloud service
today
75%
Of world’s
mobile traffic will
be video by 2020
BIG DATA
INTERNET OF
THINGS
SHIFT TO THE
CLOUD
MOBILITY
Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected
things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30
percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion
by 2020
Worldwide revenues from public cloud
services will reach more than $195 billion in
2020. This will be more than double 2016
revenues and represents a CAGR of 20.4%
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7. our customers are facing a new set of challenges
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Need for
higher
bandwidth
Customer demand has a strong growth:
WAN bandwidth requirements are
increasing above 30% per annum every
year
Customers can set up new cloud services in minutes, yet delivery
times for new VPN sites and Ethernet connections are still
measured in weeks and months.
Radically faster
network
delivery
Need for more
in-life agility
Cost efficient
scaling
Cloud services can be scaled up and down on demand, while
bandwidth upgrades and feature changes for the network are
traditionally manually requested and take days/weeks to deliver
Since 65% of WAN budgets are flat or declining, cost efficient
scaling of bandwidth is crucial.
“With a progressive uptake of video, IP audio and cloud, the compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of IP traffic is above 30% per year”

8. In response to this we are…
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Investing in a new ultra-high bandwidth
network
Introducing a high bandwidth
optimised portfolio
Launching On Demand and
Software Defined WAN Services
Further increasing focus on Enterprise
market

9. Investment in ultra-high bandwidth “IQ” network:
4 focus areas
Build an Integrated Core and
Metro Packet Network
• Single integrated IP and
Ethernet core network,
covering 200+ data centres
across Europe and Asia
• Delivers 100Mbps to 100Gbps
services via plug and play
model
4 key investments will transform the backbone networks that support our
customer services
• New metro optical network
across 90+ data centres in 13
key cities in Europe and Asia
• Off the shelf delivery of
100Gbps & 200Gbps waves
• Rapid leadtimes – 5 days for
10Gbps waves
High bandwidth optical network
between major data centres
Evolve our voice network
New optical backbone:
“Express” Long Distance Network
• Next generation SIP Trunking
session board controller
• SIP Trunking coverage expansion
to
21 countries
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• Build “Express” long haul
network between 30 major
European cities
• Based on architecture optimised
for high bandwidth
connectivity
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3 4
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10. Novitas what is the customer need?
Today’s digital economy means our customers can:
Place an order, and it is delivered the next day
Book a taxi via an app, it turns up in minutes
However, most telecom services are still ordered and
delivered in the same way they were 20 years ago!
Order cloud IT services and it is delivered in
seconds
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11. Novitas what does it mean?
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NOVITAS transforms the way that network services are ordered and
consumed, and brings a cloud like customer experience
Delivery in weeks
Manual configuration
Steep bandwidth vs cost curve
Traditional telco experience
Today’s cloud experience
Real time delivery
Colt NOVITAS
Portal consumed network services,
delivered in real time!

12. Colt SDN/NFV transformation programme (Novitas)
Self-
provision
Near
real-time
Interworking
with other
providers
Available
through portal
and APIs
Provides
performance
analytics
And delivering important benefits:
Supports
value added
services
Elastic
Topology
Elastic
Service
Deliver programmable flexible topologies
based on overlay and underlay networks.
Deliver virtualised off-net and on-net L2 and
L3 edge services on top of basic connectivity.
SDN
NFV
Elastic
Bandwidth
Deliver programmable elastic links with
variable bandwidth.
The Vision: to transform the way network services are ordered and consumed,
delivering a cloud like customer experience (self-provision, in real-time)
2015
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13. NOVITAS Engine (Choreographer / Service Orchestration)
Colt portalAPIsCustomer portal
Packet/Optical
Multi-layer SDN
Controller
SDN
Network
virtualisation
controller
NFV
MANO
Node
Infrastructure
Cloud (x86 &
Merchant silicon)
SDN
Fabric
3rd-Party Network
Infrastructure
Optical / OTN
Core
Address
Book
Inventory
Billing
Order Mgmt
Customer Care
Monitoring
Analytics
OSS/BSS
Systems
Software Defined Networking
Network Function Virtualisation
Telco Node Virtualisation
APIs
Network
domain
orchestrator
(Model-driven
YANG/TOSCA)
SD WAN
Controller
IQ Network
(integrated
Ethernet+IP)
SP Cloud
x86
CPE
SDN NFV
Compute
Virtualisation
NOVITAS target architecture
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14. 14
NOVITAS roadmap (Original)
vCPE for Internet
Pre-NFV PE-based
QoS alignment in the metro
DSCP-PCP mapping, queue sharing
Edge integration
Core integration
Technical capability
2014
2013
2015
2016
DCNet On Demand
Ethernet P2P service on-demand
2017
Multi-vendor WAN SDN
Modular Multi-service Network (M-MSP)
SDN in the DC
IP fabric overlay
vCPE for IP-VPN
Pre-NFV PE-based
NFV PoC
CG-NAT & MANO
Novitas v1
Novitas v2
Ethernet On Demand
SDN & NFV devs
SD WAN On Demand
(first customer-facing NFV
function)
Novitas v3+
Dedicated Cloud Access
On Demand

15. NOVITAS roadmap (progress and update)
2017
2016
2018
2019
2020
SD WAN
Basic service for hybrid site
(MPLS & Internet), Oct’16
In Planning
Target NFV Platform
Distributed Unified NFV Cloud
DCNet On Demand
Inter-DC Ethernet on Demand
Apr’16 (27 sites)
Ethernet On Demand
Extension to Enterprise buildings
(~ 300 buildings, Nov’16)
DCA on Demand
Public Cloud Access on
demand
Microsoft Azure (Feb’17) and
AWS (Mar’17)
DCNet & Ethernet On Demand
400 DCs eligible, 42 Managed capacity
~ 5000 enterprise buildings, Mar’17)
On Demand evolution
Colt Asia, BW Calendaring, additional sites
Public Cloud extensions
In Development
SD WAN evolution
Internet-only, MPLS-only, FW,
DPI, self-install CPE, etc
IQNet Packet Network
MPLS SR, external SDN
Control (PCE), vBGP RR
In Research
Standard SDN/NFV NNI
Industry collaboration to develop
standard SDN/NFV East-West
APIs (MEF LSO Sonata/Interlude)
IPA On Demand
Internet Access On demand
Optical SDN
fully disaggregated, SW-
controllable optical transport
network (Layer 0-Photonic/WDM
& Layer 1-OTN)
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16. Ethernet on demand (solutions)
Market demand Colt on-demand solution Value proposition
On-Demand connectivity
between data centres
On-Demand connectivity
to enterprise buildings
On Demand connectivity
into the cloud
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2
3
+24% yoy
Traffic Data Centre
to user
+32% yoy
Traffic Data Centre
to data centre
+100% yoy
Private Cloud
connectivity
Ethernet
on Demand
Data centres
Enterprise
Buildings
DCA on Demand
Data
centre Public
Clouds
Enterprise
Building
DCNet on Demand
Data centres Data centres
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17. Ethernet on demand (definition)
Customer
DC
Enterprise
Public Cloud
SDN Enabled
Network Layer
• Select locations
• Select ports
• Create, change (BW/Vlan),
cease Ethernet connection
• Real-time Provisioning
A-End B-End
1Gbps
On Demand
Self-Service Portal (or API)
M-MSP
Colt
OSS/BSS
(Premise, XNG, …)
DC
Enterprise
Public Cloud
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18. Ethernet on demand (definition)
Customer
DC
Enterprise
Public Cloud
SDN Enabled
Network Layer
• Select locations
• Select ports
• Create, change (BW/Vlan),
cease Ethernet connection
• Real-time Provisioning
A-End B-End
1Gbps
On Demand
Self-Service Portal (or API)
M-MSP
Colt
OSS/BSS
(Premise, XNG, …)
DC
Enterprise
Public Cloud
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19. Ethernet on demand (learnings)
 Product/sales innovation required (new commercial model)
 Full leadership support a must
 Equal priority to API and Portal/GUI
 Agile development requires internal alignment & agreements
 Commercial APIs (NB & SB) not 100% mature
 IT development trade offs (java vs cloud)
 Effective automation requires a clean inventory
 OPS transformation is paramount
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20. SD WAN on demand (enterprise challenges)
More Bandwidth
Flexible Traffic PatternsNeed to increase Agility
Bandwidth requirements increase by
20 – 30%per y ear
while
65%of WAN budgets
are Flat to Declining
Implementing changes
(portal driv en, not off-lineprocess)
Adding a new branch site
(in hours, not weeks)
Upgrading bandwidth
(instantaneous, not days)
Public Cloud impacts WAN traffic patterns
• WAN “break-out” to public Internet no more
centrally , but close touser, e.g. SalesForce
traf fic at customer site
• Need f or Firewall
f unctionality and
network-wide policy
management
High WAN Costs
Which Portion of Your Network is the Most Expensiv e?
Cloud
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
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21. SD WAN on demand (definition & benefits)
MPLS
QoS
enabled
Branch site 1
Novitas CPE
E.g.
Salesforce
Ethernet OLO (premium)
MPLS VPN
IPsec Tunnels
Internet
On-net site
Data centre
Management
SD WAN
Controller
Premium
Traffic
Internet
Best Effort Traffic
Branch site 2
Novitas CPE
Cloud
SD-MPLS
GW
Customer
portal
Cost
Delivered using competitively priced public Internet
services, meaning only high priority traffic is routed
across premium MPLS paths.
Resilience
Either network path (MPLS or Internet) can be used
as backup in the event of a failure.
Speed of delivery
Using customer’s existing Internet Access enables a
much quicker service deployment than OLO tails.
Multi function
CPE
X86 architecture means that one CPE can act as a
router, firewall, or application performance monitor
via a single device.
MPLS WAN
Public
Internet
MPLS WAN
Enterprise / branch
office site
Enterprise / branch
office site
Public
Internet
SD WAN
Colt SD WAN – Benefits at a glance
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22. SD WAN on demand (learnings)
 Initial technical complexity (IPSEC/MPLS/BGP)
 Not 100% technology maturity
 Compute performance limitations
 Self-Install / ZTP a must
 Big change in the operating & development model
 Strong customer demand (renewal requirement)
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23. Packet SDN IQ Network (under deployment)
 Integrated Packet Network (Internet,
IPVPN, EVPN)
 MPLS to the edge with last mile CE
 MPLS Segment Routing:
 Same LDP / RSVP-TE functionality,
plus ..
 higher scaling
 improved FRR
 SDN centralized control
 SDN controller for SR:
 path computation (PCE) for traffic
steering (disjoint E2E, low latency,
BWoD using live traffic analytics,
custom paths)
CoreMetro MetroL2 PECPE
PE
P
PE
P
PE PE
PE
P
PE
P
L2 PE
Customer
CPE
Customer
MPLS SR
CE CE
MPLS SR
MPLS SR
Service & Network Orchestration
SDN Controller
PCE / Topology / Resource Manager / Analytics
CLI,
NETCONF
CLI,
NETCONF
SNMP,
BGP-LS,
PCEP
SNMP,
BGP-LS,
PCEP
SDN Controller
NB API
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24. NFV platform architecture (under planning)
 Tiered-Deployment Model
 Tier 1 sites - OpenStack cloud
 Tier 2 sites - virtualisation pods & BM
 Customer sites – Colt x86 CPE
 VIM – OpenStack & Virtualisation pods
 Compute Hypervisor – KVM
 Colt Standard Compute & Network
 Evaluation
 NFV Orchestrator
 Generic VNF Manager
 Network Virtulisation
Customer Sites
Tier 2 sites
Tier 1 sites
Central Mgt.
OpenStack
CloudKVM
VNFs
OpenStack
Cloud KVM
VNFs
OpenStack
Cloud KVM
VNFs
OpenStack
CloudKVM
VNFs
KVM
VNFs
KVM
VNFs
NFV - O
Portal
VNF
MGR.
Bare Metal
VNFs
L2 CPE
Bare Metal
VNFs
L2 CPE
L2 CPE
L2 CPE
L2 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
L2 CPE
L2 CPE
Control Path
CPE Data & Control Path
OSSBSS
Public Cloud
VNFs
Public Cloud
VNFs
VNFs
VNFs
VNFs
VNFs
Colt x86 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
Colt x86 CPE
VNFs
VNFs
VNFs
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25. 25
NFV platform use cases (under planning)
L2/L3 Packet
Colt
Integrated
MPLS Core
INTERNET
(IPv4/IPv6)
MPLS VPN
Customer
L2/L3 Packet
Tier 1Site
Tier 1 / 2 Site
Peering
Transit
L2 CPE
NFVI
PE/P
PE/P
SD WAN Hybrid
Customer
Colt x86
CPE
PR
L2 PE
L2 PE
L2 PE
L2 PE
L3 CPE
ENNI
OLO
L2/L3 Packet
Tier 1 / 2 Site
PE/P
PE/P
L2 PE
L2 PE
SD WAN
Customer
FlexVNF - SD WAN GW
SD WAN Controller
Local Management
(Analytics & Syslog Collector)
FlexVNF –
vCPE, vFW, vLB,
Filtering
vBGP RR
NFVI
vFW
vLB
NAT
vIDS
vCPE
vCPE
IPAoD
Customer
NFVI
vPE/PvPR
vFW NAT
vLB vIDS
vSBC
L2 CPEColt x86
CPE
FlexVNF –
vCPE, vFW, vLB,
Filtering
Colt x86
CPE
SFP
L2 CPE
x86
slot
L2 CPE

26. Standard SDN/NFV NNI (under research)
 SDN NNI PoC (July 2016)
AT&T
Network
AT&T
(New
Jersey)
Colt London
Beaufort House
Colt Barcelona
Colt Frankfurt
AT&T portal
Novitas portal
Novitas
engine
 Service Enquiry
 Service Activation
 Service
modification
(Bandwidth
Flexing)
 Service Cease
Novitas SDN API
calls
SDN
E-NNI
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27. Standard SDN/NFV NNI (under research)
 SDN NNI PoC (July 2016)
 SDN/NFV API standardization
 MEF is the right Forum
 MEF provides right framework (LSO)
 TMForum provides the API
background
 Open industry collaboration: AT&T,
Orange, Colt, Comcast, Level 3,
Sparkle, PCCW, Verizon
 8 API definitions in scope: Address
validation, Service availability,
Ordering, Quoting, Billing, Assurance,
Testing and Change management
Backend
Access
Ring
3rd-party
Network
Colt
Network
Node
NNI
3rd-party
portal
Novitas
portal
OSS/BSSOSS/BSS
SDN/NFV
Service Abstraction
Layer
API
Backend
Colt
SDN & NFV
Controller
3rd-party
SDN & NFV
Controller
API
VNF A VNF B
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28. Optical SDN (under research)
 Objective: Fully disaggregated, software-
controllable optical transport network
(Photonic/WDM and -OTN)
 Operator internal use cases
 Service and network automation
 Multi-vendor optical network (open line
system, open ROADM)
 Optical & packet multi-layer resource
optimization
 Customer use cases
 Optical connectivity on-demand (Grey,
colored and WDM/spectrum)
 Optical VPN (p2p and mp2mp)
 Route selection on-demand
(centralized PCE engine)
Application Layer
Novitas
Portal
Novitas
Engine
Control Layer
Customer
Customer
Colt
OSS/BSS
Novitas
API
Novitas
API
Novitas
API
Optical Infrastructure Layer
CMD
WSS
WSS
WSS
CMD
WSS
WSS
WSS
CMD
WSS
WSS
WSS
CMD
WSS
WSS
WSS
TP
TP
MP
MP
TP
TP
MP
MP
Topology
Path
Computation
Service
Abstraction
Resource
ManagerAPI
API
Open
ROADM
Control
REST, RESTconf, NETCONF
PCEP, BGP-LS, NETCONF, OVSDB, OTS, REST, OpenFlow, SNMP
UI
Colt delivery
UI
Programmable ROADM,
flexible grid and GMPLS
Super-channel,
sliceable and SD
modulation
Flexible Ethernet
Alien wave, open line
system and open
ROADM
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29. Thankyou
For your time
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