The document outlines a webinar featuring expert panelists discussing the role of open source in the telecommunications industry. It covers the historical context of open source, its benefits, and the challenges faced by traditional vendors as they adapt to new open source platforms and technologies. The discussion emphasizes the shifting landscape towards flexibility, interoperability, and new deployment strategies in telecom enabled by open source initiatives.

2. Your panelists for today’s webinar:
• Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief, RCR Wireless News
• Dana Cooperson, Research Director, Analysys
Mason
• John Isch, Network and Voice Center of Excellence,
Orange Business Services
• Suzanne Kelliher, Product Line Manager, Radisys
• Bryan Hill, VP of Engineering, Sonus

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4. RCR Wireless News Feature Report
Open Source:
Opening up the
telecom world to new
opportunities and
challenges
Available via RCRWireless.com

5. Dan Meyer
Editor-in-Chief
RCR Wireless News

6. What is open source?
• Most often linked to a model in which source
code for an application or architecture is
available to others to alter or help in developing.
• Term coined in the late 1990s, with the Open
Source Initiative noting the label was created at
a “strategy session” surrounding the Netscape
web browser held on Feb. 3, 1998, in Palo Alto,
California.

7. What is open source?
• By early 2000, open source received a boost
from the formation of the Open Source
Development Labs, which focused on the
deployment of the Linux platform for enterprise
computing.
• The OSDL merged with the Free Standards
Group in 2007 to form the Linux Foundation.

8. Open source in telecom
• The traditional telecommunications space has a history
of using hardware and software systems that are
proprietary to a specific vendor, though are in some
cases geared towards using similar technology standards
– such as GSM, TDMA and CDMA – making sure
telecom operators can deploy solutions from different
vendors and have them work across their network.
• This approach to using multiple vendors allowed telecom
operators to an extent to open source some of their
network operations, though not to the degree typically
connected with open source software.

9. Open source in telecom
• The telecom space has more recently begun to
take a more computing view of the open source
space, highlighted by growing operator and
vendors moves towards deployment plans using
cloud, NFV and SDN technologies.
• This is being helped by a rapidly maturing
ecosystem surrounding telecom-focused open
source platforms.

10. Open source in telecom
• Operators are also on board with the new wave
of vendors the open source world is bringing to
the market.
▫ AT&T Domain 2.0
• This ability to reach outside the traditional
vendor model was echoed by a number of
operators, who cited a chance to bring new
players and better platforms into their
operations.

11. Growing support for open source
• One key challenge for growing the support of
open source into the telecommunications space
is through various organizations that are looking
to either bolster the use of open source or build
platforms based on open source specifications.
• These efforts are seen as beneficial to operators
and vendors looking to take advantage of open
source platforms.

12. Growing support for open source
• ETSI’s recent Open Source MANO initiative
launched its OSM Release One stack.
• Work has also flourished under The Linux
Foundation umbrella with highly touted work
through OPNFV and OpenDaylight.
• In general, telecom operators seem to welcome
the help from open source organizations, noting
their ability to provide a level of stability
assurance for platforms.

13. Open source challenges
• Operators have for years denounced the dreaded
vendor lock scenario that has shackled them to a
dwindling equipment vendor community.
• But, those vendors are exceedingly familiar with
the needs of telecommunication operators and
have built a level of trust with the network
operations folks in terms of comfort with
equipment deployments.

14. Open source challenges
• The new world of open source and software is
bringing with it the web-based mindset of “fast
fail,” which is similar to the application model
where software can just be updated after it’s
released.
• That might be a good model for “Angry Birds,”
but is a different story for operators dealing with
specific and expensive service level agreements.

15. Vendor challenges
• The move towards open source has had a
somewhat divisive impact on the vendor
community, with established telecom suppliers
now having to share the attention – and budgets
– of operators with new entrants.
• One of the most cited challenges for established
vendors is the obliteration of past business
models that has come with the move towards
open source platforms.

16. Vendor challenges
• Established vendors are taking on the challenge,
with all of the big names having joined various
open source industry groups and implemented
open source platforms to some extent into their
operations.
• Established vendors can also take some solace in
the history they have with telecommunication
operators.

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Open source:
virtualization platforms, standards,
deployments
DANA COOPERSON
January 18, 2017

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Interaction of players in the virtualisation value chain
Interoperable hardware/software solutions are key to achieving the benefits of virtualisation and automation. Observations:
• Communities are proliferating, mutating, merging.
• Software could start out one thing (ECOMP) and mutate into something else (OpenECOMP).
• “Down the stack” (VIM, OpenStack) and cross-industry (OCP, OpenStack) a bit easier to do than ‘up the stack’ (ECOMP, OSM, Open-O).
• Few CSPs can afford major contributions to open source communities.
Open source communities are one piece of the
interoperability and deployment value chain
Standards Orgs
IETF, MEF, ETSI, 3GPP, TM
Forum, IETF, OIF
Open source communities
(OpenStack, ONF, ODL, ONOS, OPNFV,
OPEN-O, OSM, OCP, OpenECOMP, etc.)
Vendor solutions
Vendor ecosystems
CSPs
Industry consortia/
MSAs
Open ROADM, T-API
Deployments
Interoperability
Solutions
CSP Labs
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Vendor
solutions
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Solutions based on OpenStack and Linux (for example) will combine with solutions from current and future ecosystems to create de factostandards
To make open source a success in telecom:
• Vendors (especially NEPs) must change the way they make money, how they add value
• “Forked” versions of open source should be minimized
• CSPs must change the way they operate
Open source + ecosystems should enable interoperability
through de facto standards and help avoid vendor lock-in
Sustainable
business model,
network effects
Pre-packaged,
model-based, off
the shelf
Future
ecosystem
Pre-integration in
labs
pre-built adaptors
Per-project
integration,
customisation,
adaptors
Current
ecosystem
Source:AnalysysMason
De facto
standards
Open source
(e.g. Linux,
OpenStack)
Work by
open source
community
Upstream
Distribution
or
fork

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AT&T’s ECOMP architecture is an influential blueprint for next
generation operations, but what about OPEN-O and OSM?
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Research from Analysys Mason
Clients across the breadth of telecoms, media and technology sectors rely on our research and analysis to inform business-
critical decisions.

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Analysys Mason has carried out more than 20 NFV/SDN-related consulting
engagements over the past 2 years
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1 For more information, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iU3gY843MU; 2 For more information, see Analysys Mason’s White Papers at http://www.analysysmason.com/White-Papers/
Selected NFV/SDN consulting engagements
Nokia’s Telco Cloud Index1
assesses the maturity of
an operator’s telco cloud
strategy (NFV/SDN)
vCPE: global spending on
related professional
services
IT architecture review,
virtualisation blueprint and
TCO assessment for a large
group operator
Impact of NFV/SDN on
network design and
planning
Strategic advisory
1
Thought
leadership white
paper2
2
vCPE services business
case: potentially billions
of dollars payback for
fixed CSPs
The impact of telco cloud
transformation and
hybrid network
managements on CSPs’
operations
Next-generation OSS is
critical to delivering
service agility in new
virtualised networks
Customised
forecasts
3
Software-controlled
networking: spending on
NFV/SDN in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Software-controlled
networking: global
spending on NFV/SDN
per product segment

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Contact details
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Cambridge
Tel: +44 (0)1223 460600
cambridge@analysysmason.com
Milan
Tel: +39 02 76 31 88 34
milan@analysysmason.com
Dubai
Tel: +971 (0)4 446 7473
dubai@analysysmason.com
New Delhi
Tel: +91 124 4501860
newdelhi@analysysmason.com
Dublin
Tel: +353 (0)1 602 4755
dublin@analysysmason.com
Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 72 71 96 96
paris@analysysmason.com
London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7395 9000
london@analysysmason.com
Singapore
Tel: +65 6493 6038
singapore@analysysmason.com
Madrid
Tel: +34 91 399 5016
madrid@analysysmason.com
Manchester
Tel: +44 (0)161 877 7808
manchester@analysysmason.com
@AnalysysMason linkedin.com/company/analysys-mason youtube.com/AnalysysMason analysysmason.com/RSS
Dana Cooperson
Research Director
Dana.Cooperson@analysysmason.com
Dana Cooperson
DanaCooperson
Boston
Tel: +1 202 331 3080
boston@analysysmason.com
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3669 7090
hongkong@analysysmason.com

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About Orange
€40,2B
($ 43.9B) in
2015 group revenue
256M
customers
154,000 employees445,000km
of underwater cable
3,000+
multinational
customers
21,000+
employees dedicated
serving enterprises
€6.4 bn
($7.0 bn)
Orange Business Services
revenue 2015
2million+
professional, SME
and business
customers in France
A domestic telecom
operator in 29 countries
Largest seamless network for
voice/data in the world,
covering 220 countries
and territories
John Isch
Director of Network and Voice Practice

25. 25
SDN/NFV Architecture
Network controller
Virtual
infrastructure
manager
VNF VNF VNF VNF
BSS (+ some OSS functions)
NFV orchestrator
service & resource orchestration
VNF manager
dNFV CPE
(under study)
Service subscription,
creation and delivery
VNF configurator
Hypervisor KVM
Routers
X.86
servers
Virtual Infrastructure
Management (VIM)
SDN engine
Programmable
network
Operational support
system

26. 26
Orchestrate our customers’ need
With open and flexible SDN/NFV WAN strategy
Best-of-breed,
multivendor
virtualized services
on-demand
SDN
orchestrator
Orange network
overlay
Orange NFV PoPs:
Consistent and quick application of global policies to every end-point
Zero touch next gen CPEs:
Faster execution at the network edge
Order
Activate
Configure
Monitor
Global centralized control for
better resource and service
management across PoPs and
CPEs (virtualized and legacy)
Customers’
self-service portal
SDN/NFV

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Benefits of Open Source for our customers
 Allows for “best of breed” functions
 Open source platforms allow for more flexibility in
network functions
 Simplification of control over
disparate virtualized functions
 Greater flexibility in overall
network design (PoP and site
based deployments)
 Testing and integration at the
carrier rather than enterprise
 Consistent billing options

28. RCR Wireless Radisys Introduction Suzanne Kelliher
DCEngine Product Line Manager

29. Radisys Credentials
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25+ Years
Telecom Software
Experts
a new operator centric company
essential for the
Agile, DevOps world.
+ =Telecom Hardware
Experts
25+ Years
Carrier Scale
hardware design expertise
Telecom and Datacom software expertise Open source hardware - no “closed systems” hidden
agenda like Dell and HP
World class supply chain management End to end network protocol expertise Nimble, vendor agnostic systems integration
Deep and rich 3rd party hardware
ecosystem
Agile/DevOps centric mindset First mover advantage in open source telecom
OCP, ONOS, CORD, …
Operational excellence and nimbleness Open source tool chains and software
for system automation
telco datacenter transformation experts
With deep open source software competency
Trusted and Proven
Hardware Partner
Open Software and
Integration Expertise
The Best Choice for Open Telecom
Solutions in the DevOps Era
+ =

30. Radisys DCEngine: DevOps Ready / Rapid Deployment Clusters
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+ =Telecom
OCP Rack
Radisys
Professional
Services and
Software Tools
Commercial
& Open
Source
Software
Radisys
DCEngine+
Test
Automation
Deploy &
Upgrade
Rack
Management
Scripting
Tools
Inventory &
Lifecycle Mgmt
Radisys Management &
Automation Tools
Patch
Automation
For example, …
And others available upon
request.

31. How Fast You Roll Out With Radisys ?
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Racks in
Your Cloud
in Days
If we pre-
load and test
software …
Even less
time.
Multiple Sites
in Parallel
Means Fast
TTR
Unprecedented Turn Up Speed for Data Centers: 30 Rack Integration ~ 1 week
Day 1
• Commissioning
• Unpacking
• Installation
• Packing
disposal
Day 2-3
• Spine/Network
• Cabling
• Connectivity
• POD Power-
on
Day 4
• Software
Validation
• Network access
• Cluster Ready
and handed
over to you

32. Proof Point: DCEngine in Production at Verizon
http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconna2016/7a/Mesoscon_2016_cneth.
pdf
Modular Sled Architecture
Up to 152 Xeon Processors Up to 3.0 PB Storage

33. 33
Has What Matters
Security
Intelligence
Scale
in the Cloud
Reliability

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 Importance of OpenStack distribution content,
timing and on-going support
 Meeting Tier 1 customer expectations with
OpenStack features
 Adoption of microservices architecture to deliver
scale and technology choices
Open Source Role in Cloud RTC

35. 35
Packet Processing
Signaling
Transcoding
CPU CPU Sonus
Platforms
Sonus
Platforms
RFC 4117
MRF
3rd Party
Platform
Network
Based
SDN
Control
Independent
Scaling
GPU
Microservices Architecture
Technology Choices

36. Panel discussion

37. Questions?
• Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief, RCR Wireless
News
• Dana Cooperson, Research Director, Analysys
Mason
• John Isch, Network and Voice Center of
Excellence, Orange Business Services
• Suzanne Kelliher, Product Line Manager,
Radisys
• Bryan Hill, VP of Engineering, Sonus

38. RCR Wireless News Feature Report
Open Source:
Opening up the
telecom world to new
opportunities and
challenges
Available via RCRWireless.com