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1. Your Digital Network. Your Future
Unlocking the True Benefit of
Software Defined Networking
Amol Phadke
October 2016

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Sensors
28.1B
sensors expected
by 2020
Motion
Location
Sound
Chemical
Light
Heat
Networks
4.9B
people accessing
4G-LTE networks
by 2018
APIs
80%
Fortune1000couldoffer
publicAPIsbyendof2016
Motion
Billing
Social
Search
Marketing
Apps
4.4B
Total number of
app users by 2017
GestureTracking
Touch Interfaces
Augmented Reality
Voice
Recog.
Data
15.9EB
Exabytes of mobile
data traffic per
month by 2018
Transaction data
User data
Field data
Inventory data
Performance
data
Then Now
Connected world
Devices
25B
Devices expected
by 2020

3. 3
Virtual
AgentsBots
Artificial
Intelligence
Autonomic
Computing
Self-
assembling
IT
Social
Mobility
Analytics
Big Data
Cybersecurity
Open Source
PaaS
Crowdsourcing
Wearable
s
Internet
of Things
Cloud
Mega trends shaping technology

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Software
Enabled
Platforms
Operations
Services/
Solutions
The Internet of
Me
Outcome Economy
Platform (R)evolution
Intelligent Enterprise
Workforce Reimagined
Digital business era: stretch your boundaries with Network 3.0
• SD-WAN/ NaaS
• Cloud Connect
• NFV Services
• UC&C
• Security
• IoT
• Wireless Local
Loop
• SDN
• NFV
• Service Chaining
• OpenSource
• Yang/Netconf/
OpenFlow
• Customer Self-
Service
• IT/Network
Operational
Convergence
• Real-Time B/OSS
• Private Cloud/OpenStack
• DevOps
• APIs
• MANO
• SRE

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SDN & NFV as the enablers for the new digital communications
service provider
The virtualization transformation can be developed with an ‘inside out’ or
‘outside in’ approaches
Operations
Transform.
Focuses on virtualizing the core
network functions first
Companies pursuing this strategy are looking to accelerate development, deployment and
testing of service offerings to drive incremental revenue
Inside out
Each of the two approaches will involve a combination of three main
components:
• Technology transformation
• Business Services transformation
• Operations transformation
The inside out approach is focused more on technology transformation,
whereas the outside in is more driven by a business services transformation.
Both approaches require a comprehensive assessment of the transformations
required in the operations domain, as shown below
Outside in
Inside out
Business
Services
transform.
Technology
transform.
A balanced approach is recommended to take advantage of opportunities to capture market share and
accelerate revenue WHILE reducing costs
Source: Accenture analysis
Companies pursuing this strategy are primarily driving OPEX/CAPEX reductions and
operational efficiencies
Focuses on virtualizing at the
‘edge’ and innovating the customer
premise
Outside in

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Consumer
SDN & NFV as the enablers for the new digital communications
service provider
Digital Telco in the 2-sided Business Model
Over the Network Platforms
New Digital Network
Proximity
End Users: ‘Downstream’ Platform
Customers
Third Parties: ‘Upstream’ Platform
Customers
Media players
Retailers
Devices
Healthcare
Industrial
Other Telcos
...
Enterprises
Security QoE/QoS Personalization
Objective of business transformation is to leverage
Over-the-Network (OTN) platform based on assets
which are Network specific, in order to differentiate
from Over-the-Top (OTT) platforms
Operations
Transform.
Outside in
Inside out
Business
Services
transform.
Technology
transform.
Market Facing Units

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SDN & NFV as the enablers for the new digital communications
service provider
Accenture reference architecture for technology transformation
Framework key points
Openness and standard based approaches:
• multivendor blueprint in practice
• API based
Comprehensive vendor ecosystem:
• >20 HW/SW Suppliers pre-integrated and interoperable
• Plan to increase suppliers list based on technological roadmap and
clients input.
Production Ready Use cases
• Infrastructure, Enterprise/Network, DevOps oriented: >15 use cases
running Infrastructure and VNF Lifecycle
Extensibility:
• Running new streamlined processes for Infrastructure delivery and
VNF Onboarding with vendors.
DevOps enabled
• Accenture DevOps Platform (ADOP) augmenting NFV velocity
• Accenture Network Testing Automation increasing cost savings and
efficiency & reducing NFV’s configuration backlog
ADVNP
DevOps
HW Resources
Computing Storage Network
Virtual Resources
v-Computing v-Storage v-Network
Virtualization Layer
VNF Manager
Service
Orchestrator
VNF-1 VNF-2 VNF-3 VNF-4
Virtual Network Functions
…
NFV-I
MANO
EM EM EM EM …
Enterprise Service Network Services
Portal & Service Catalogue
Virtual
Infrastructure
Manager
Network Service
Management
SLA Mgmt. &
Reporting
Service
Assurance
Config. Mgmt. &
Inventory
Security
E2E Service Orchestrator
Legacy OSS
Legacy
networks
Accenture Network
Testing Automation
Accenture DevOps
Platform
Objective of Technology transformation is to build next
generation virtualized platform, in order to differentiate
on capex/opex synergies and customer experience
Operations
Transform.
Outside in
Inside out
Business
Services
transform.
Technology
transform.

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Digital telco transformation is based on 4 main streams
and new metrics
Platforms as a set of processes,
people and technologies to
provide standard and reusable
services to internal and external
clients
Digital and Liquidity Indexes
to measure new digital
organization effectiveness
Making complex systems easy to
use and with great customer
experience, for consumer,
enterprises and internal workforce
Lean Operating Model based
on Multispeed and Agile
DevOps across the
organization
A customer centric culture
and workforce at the core of
the unit
New Metrics
Customer Experience
Platforms Culture Shift
Operating Model

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