The document discusses Ericsson's distributed cloud, highlighting its ability to enable workloads anywhere in the network with benefits like scalability, security, and low latency. It outlines the potential for significant revenue growth in various sectors, particularly noting that distributed cloud can unlock 25% of 5G operator revenue. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of collaboration across industries to develop new business models and solutions leveraging open-source technology.

1. Ericsson
Distributed Cloud

2. Whatisadistributedcloud
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Edge sites
Distributed sites
Central sites
Any workload Anywhere in the network End-2-end orchestrated
VNF
Global clouds
Public
safety
Automotive
FWA
Factory
Video
streaming
Metering

3. 2020 2022 2024 2026
Agriculture
Retail
Financial Services
Automotive
Media & Entertainment
Public transport
Healthcare
Public Safety
Energy & Utilities
Manufacturing
+178%*
619
129
14
*Total growth
year-over-year
426
+14%*
Overall 5G potential
USD bn
Distributed Cloud unlocks 25% of 5G operator revenue potential
Where is the Distributed Cloud
revenue potential
Characteristics enabled
by Distributed Cloud
— Scalability
— Security
— Regulations
— Bandwidth
— Low and very low
latency
— Ultra reliable
— Very high availability

4. Media &
entertainmentManufacturing
Public
transport Healthcare
Energy &
utilities Agriculture LogisticsRetailPublic safety
Financial
servicesAutomotive
Distributedcloud–usecases
$5,6 trillion
from autonomous vehicles
to society
Autonomous
driving
Safety and traffic
efficiency services
Connected
services
Other
Global cost savings
Up to 25%
with AR assisted factory
maintenance
AR assisted factory
maintenance
Cost reduction
Latency DensityPeak data
rate
Video traffic in mobile networks
50%
Today
75%
2022
of content delivery network
traffic close to edge
60-80%
Traffic cached

5. Deploy and scale NFV
– Multi-site SDI and NFVI with SDN interconnect
– Workload distribution, e.g., packet core
– Prepare for Network Slicing, Critical IoT & Enterprise Services
Grow ecosystem
– Expose APIs
– Support service
creation
– New multi-sided
business models
– New offerings for IoT
media acceleration
Implement Network Slicing orchestration
– Greater flexibility & elasticity meeting
fast-changing customer demands
– Distributed user plane
Embrace Cloud Native
– Efficient and flexible infrastructure
usage for demanding future 5G services
Network
slices
Network
function
Network
function
Network
function
E2E network consistency
DistributedCloudjourney

6. V-RAN 5G Core IoT UDN New applications
Cloud execution environment
. . .
EricssonOrchestrator
Ericsson NFVi solution
DynamicOrchestration
Services(e.g.SI,Support,LCM)
Ericsson container platform
Ericsson service enablement
Edge sites Distributed sites Central sites
Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)
vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD vPOD
Ericsson Cloud SDN
Ericsson Distributed Cloud

7. Local application
(VR/Robot)
Central
applications
Edge site Central site
Critical
Traffic
Cloud App
Global clouds
Latency – Bandwidth – Security – Availability – Transport/compute/data offload – Scalability - Regulations
Policy
and charging
vEPC CP
vEPC UP
(CN UPF)V-RAN
vEPC UP
(CN UPF)
Smart manufacturing demo powered
by Ericsson Distributed Cloud

8. Drive industrialization with
– Operators
– Public cloud service providers
– Industries and enterprises
Engaged in E2E collaborations to converge on working solutions
In cross-industry alliance to
ensure that new technologies
and standards will meet the
future needs of the industry
Automotive
use-cases
– Use cases and business analysis
– Industry and eco system alignment
– Requirements on distributed cloud
infrastructure
– Architecture and topology
– Network dimensioning
– End to end network slicing
New business
opportunities
– Architecture
– Technical requirements
– Business opportunities and
technology roadmap
– Focus on verticals like eHealth,
automotive, factories
– Standard definition
Industryalignment

9. – Drive eco-system for common
framework for new applications
– Shorten TTM for service
introduction
– Develop new business models
– Manage virtualization and telco cloud
deployments challenges
– Industry aligned solution, management,
orchestration, and automation
– Cost efficient Life Cycle Management
Solution to manage
end-to-end complexity
Open platform for new business
value
Valuetooperators

10. Open
Industry aligned solution based on SDN, NFV,
and 3GPP Edge Computing, leveraging open
source
UniqueEricsson
valueadded
Modular
Modular E2E solution with open integration
interfaces spanning products and services
Unified orchestration
Unified orchestration and management for
multi-clouds

11. www.ericsson.com/distributed-cloud