2. ECI Proprietary 2
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
Customer Wants:
● L3VPN with specific E2E speed, QoS, and
security
● E.g. 2GB symmetrical guaranteed BW
● Ten minutes from order time to turn-up
● For a two hour design review
● Doesn’t want to pay very much
CGI design studio
in Sapporo
Manufacturer in
Manchester
8. ECI Proprietary
BUT TO SEE HOW
WE ARRIVED AT
THE CURRENT
SITUATION WE
FIRST NEED TO
GO BACK IN TIME
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9. ECI Proprietary 9
CIRCA 1966
• Single service: Voice
• Global automated connectivity in minutes
• Based on carrier cooperation
10. ECI Proprietary
THEN AGENTS OF
CHANGE HAPPENED
Computer communications
(data)
Deregulation
Terminal equipment
Breakup of PTT monopolies
Multiplay services
The Internet
Technology
VLSI
Fiber optics
Radio
10
11. ECI Proprietary 11
WHICH CREATED AMONG OTHER THINGS …
Multiple overlapping
global networks to
serve multi-national
enterprises
12. ECI Proprietary 12
SITUATION UNTIL
RECENTLY
No unified service definitions
Each provider adopted his own
definitions of services
Created international walled
gardens and made huge profits for
OSS/BSS providers
High speed service take ages
to fulfil
Eons if crosses several providers
As long as there was money
rolling in, nobody cared
13. ECI Proprietary
AND THEN EVEN
MORE CHANGE
HAPPENED
High Speed Internet
Cloud Service
Providers
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14. ECI Proprietary
RESULTING IN …
Global service providers
competing with themselves:
International “closed
garden” networks
versus
“Good enough”
Internet-based solutions
14
15. ECI Proprietary 15
THE ALTERNATIVE
Customer Wants:
● L3VPN with specific E2E speed, QoS,
and security
● 2GB Service
● Ten minutes from order time to turn-up
● For a two hour design review
● Doesn’t want to pay very much
CGI design studio
in Sapporo
Manufacturer in
Manchester
16. ECI Proprietary
YOU CAN’T ALWAYS
GET WHAT YOU
WANT
16
Economics dictates that
customers will figure out a
way to make an inexpensive,
“good enough” service work
17. ECI Proprietary
BUT WHAT IF THERE
WAS ANOTHER WAY?
17
Full Speed/QoS/Security
expectations
Value-added private
network services
WITH:
Fast turn-up limited time
services
Price competitive with an
Internet solution
18. ECI Proprietary
IT’S THE
INTEROPERABILITY
STUPID
SDN and NFV moved the
industry forward in terms of
creating unification and vendor
agnostic networking
However the elephant in the
room is the lack of carrier
agnostic services
For carriers to provide a
dynamic network they need
unified automated carrier-to-
carrier connectivity
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19. ECI Proprietary
WHAT IS REQUIRED
19
Mindset change:
Service Provider cooperating
instead of self-cannibalizing
Technically:
Network slice service
definitions
LSO for fast E2E network
slice implementations
20. ECI Proprietary 20
L3VPN NETWORK SLICE EXAMPLE
CE
PE PE
P
P
CE
PE PE
P
P
PE PE
P
P
Need to define and coordinate:
● VRF sync
● PLS Labels sync
● Resource allocation
● Service context (FW, encryption etc.)
● Signaling, information exchange and automation
PE PE
P
P
21. ECI Proprietary 21
IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEM?
Business
Operations
Manufacturer CGI Designer
Business
Operations
Business
OperationsOperations
Customer Care
Business
Months
NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller
Manchester Sapporo
MANO MANO MANO MANO
22. ECI Proprietary 22
WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?
Manufacturer CGI Designer
NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller NMScontroller
MANO MANO MANO MANO
Manchester Sapporo
Business BusinessBusinessBusiness
Operations OperationsOperationsOperations
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Customer Care
VPN portal
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Minutes