The Era of Telco 4.0: Embracing Digital Transformation with Data in Motion. Learn about Payment and FinServ Integration for Data in Motion with 5G and Apache Kafka. 1) The rise of Telco 4.0 and the future forward 2) Data in Motion in the Telco industry 3) Real-world Fintech and Payment examples powered by Data in Motion

1. The Era of Telco 4.0:
Embracing Digital Transformation with Data in Motion
Kai Waehner
Field CTO
contact@kai-waehner.de
linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner
@KaiWaehner
www.confluent.io
www.kai-waehner.de

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1. The rise of Telco 4.0 and the future forward
2. Data in Motion in the Telco industry
3. Real-world Fintech and Payment examples powered by
Data in Motion
Agenda

3. Apache Kafka in the Telco Industry – @KaiWaehner - www.kai-waehner.de
1. The rise of Telco 4.0 and the future forward
2. Data in Motion in the Telco Industry
3. Real-world Fintech and Payment examples powered by
Data in Motion
Agenda

4. Apache Kafka in the Telco Industry – @KaiWaehner - www.kai-waehner.de
Telco need to transform everything
“The biggest hurdle to
overcome with digital
transformation is to
understand that it isn’t just a
simple technology challenge
– it covers every part of the
telco business.”
https://www.huawei.com/en/about-huawei/publications/winwin-magazine/plus-intelligence/telco-digital-transformation

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5G enables new business models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9DDe0alvGo

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5G Network Slicing Use Cases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9DDe0alvGo

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5G Success Criteria
https://medium.com/open-5g-hypercore/open-5g-hypercore-episode-i-166a89805c08

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Dish builds a Cloud-Based 5G Network
Greenfield standalone network with pure 5G and cloud native from the start, rather than retrofitting a 4G core
Combination of Dish’ OSS and BSS with AWS Local Zones / Outposts, Kubernetes, ML and 3rd party services
Free from the security limitations of traditional 2G, 3G and 4G technologies.
“As DISH deploys its network, the company is
partnering exclusively with vendors offering
cloud-native technology, bringing them
together on AWS to provide DISH customers
greater flexibility and control of their 5G-
enabled solutions.
As a new carrier, leveraging AWS and its
extensive network of partners enables us to
differentiate ourselves by operating our 5G
network with a high degree of automation.”
https://awsinsider.net/articles/2021/04/26/dish-taps-aws-for-its-5g-network.aspx

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Real-time Data beats Slow Data.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/it/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/Next%20Gen%20Telco%20Architecture_2017_final.pdf

11. Apache Kafka in the Telco Industry – @KaiWaehner - www.kai-waehner.de
1. The rise of Telco 4.0 and the future forward
2. Data in Motion in the Telco Industry
3. Real-world Fintech and Payment examples powered by
Data in Motion
Agenda

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This is a fundamental paradigm shift...
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Infrastructure
as code
Data in motion
as continuous
streams of events
Future of the
datacenter
Future of data
Cloud
Event
Streaming

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Data in Motion in the Telco Industry
Your Business as Streams of Events, powered by Kafka
Continuous
Proactive Network
Monitoring
Incident
Management
Reporting
Data
Normalization
Middleware
Telemetry
Data
OSS
Infrastructure
Example

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Apache Kafka is the Platform for Data in Motion
MES
ERP
Sensors
Mobile
Customer 360
Real-time
Alerting System
Data
warehouse
Producers
Consumers
Streams and storage of real time events
Stream
processing
apps
Connectors
Connectors
Stream
processing
apps
Supplier
Alert
Forecast
Inventory Customer
Order
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From purpose-built hardware to generic hardware and elastic scale
From monoliths to decoupled, independent services
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/it/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/Next%20Gen%20Telco%20Architecture_2017_final.pdf
(Network Function Virtualization)

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Event Streaming for
traditional and new innovative use cases
in the telecommunications industry
Real Time Processing Digital Transformation Strategic Goals
Move data from OSS fixed,
mobile, cable into various
systems
Innovative OTT Services
Proactive network
monitoring
CDR
(Call Detail Record)
processing
Fleet management and connected
car solutions
Customer service
(e.g. chat bots) and social
Integration
Cloud-native network
simulation, planning and
deployment
Personalized
messages and
recommendations
Fraud detection
Predictive maintenance
across networks and
infrastructure
Nationwide
security
infrastructure
(SIEM / SOAR)
Augmented
reality
Spanning different
business units
(TV, analytics, video
platform, sales and
services)
OSS-BSS integration
and middleware
modernization
Regulatory
reporting
Customer churn and
cross- / up-selling
Merger after
acquisitions
Omni-channel customer
360
Converged
billing solution

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OSM - Open Source MANO
(NFV Management and Orchestration)
Addressing challenges with orchestration, interoperability and performance optimization
Based on ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute) NFV standards and Information Model
Interoperability among different service provider NFV infrastructures or OSS systems
Apache Kafka asynchronous communication between OSM components and decoupling introduction of new pluggable modules
https://osm.etsi.org/news-events/blog/30-open-source-mano-addressing-interoperability-challenge-in-nfv

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Global IP Network @ NTT Com
https://imply.io/post/kappa-architecture-at-ntt
Challenges
• Blackbox
• Not scalable
• Limited ad-hoc analysis capabilities
Real-time visibility into global traffic
• Technical: Capacity planning, traffic engineering, etc.
• Economical: Resource optimization, revenue leak detection, etc.
• Security
Traffic matrix
Representation of all traffic among all possible pairs of sources and destinations in a given
internet domain

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Cyber Intelligence Platform
leveraging Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Multi-Region Clusters (MRC), and more…
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/it-management/intel-it-best-practices/modern-scalable-cyber-intelligence-platform-kafka.html

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8x8 – Customer 360
Voice over IP (VoIP) provider
Cloud-based voice, contact center, video, mobile and
unified communications for >1 million business users
• Confluent to build a multi-tenant, scalable, elastic SaaS
contact center solution
• Strict data separation and secure, GDPR compliant data environment to
handle sensitive caller information
• Collection and processing of billions of metrics in real-time
• Replication between data centers for disaster recovery
• Real-time analytics for Dashboards and Machine
Learning
• Key customer experience metrics such as customer wait time and first-call
resolution rates
• Proactive alerts (for example, an issue with a local ISP)
• Prediction of staffing needs
• Predict contact center call volumes for the next 12 hours based on current
and historical data
https://www.confluent.io/customers/8x8/

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Hotstar – OTT for millions of cricket fans in India
https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-san-francisco-2019/scaling-for-indias-cricket-hungry-population/
https://www.confluent.io/customers/disneyhotstar/
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22. Apache Kafka in the Telco Industry – @KaiWaehner - www.kai-waehner.de
1. The rise of Telco 4.0 and the future forward
2. Data in Motion in the Telco Industry
3. Real-world Fintech and Payment examples powered by
Data in Motion
Agenda

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Telecom Fintech Innovation is Spreading
Mobile wallets for online shopping, money savings/transfer, utility billing integration, next best offer + location-based trigger,
…

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“We look at events as running our
business. Business people within
our organization want to be able to
react to events—and oftentimes it's
a combination of events.”
VP of Streaming Data Engineering

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Fraud Detection
at Scale in Real-Time for Billions of Messages
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/paypal-data-service-fraud
https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny-2018/public/schedule/detail/69459.html

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Bank Mandiri Indonesia
Full retail & corporate banking services in Indonesia
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• Improve omnichannel and personalized merchant and retail customer
communications
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities
• Greater stability and reduced risk of downtime/outages
• Reduce technical costs

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Fraud Detection @ Grab
GrabDefence SaaS service build with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Streams and ML for stateful stream processing
Billions of fraud and safety detections performed daily for millions of transactions (1.6% is lost in fraud in Southeast Asia)
Data science and engineering platform to search for anomalous and suspicious transactions and identifying
high-risk individuals
Example: An individual who pretends to be both the driver and passenger, and makes cashless payments to
get promotions

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10X Banking
Cloud-native Core Banking Platform
https://videos.confluent.io/watch/ip69LsbDX8JpERSP1soNXo

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Why Confluent?

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The Rise of Data in Motion
2010
Apache Kafka
created at LinkedIn by
Confluent founders
2014
2020
80%
Fortune 100
Companies
trust and use
Apache Kafka
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I N V E S T M E N T & T I M E
V
A
L
U
E
3
4
5
1
2
Event Streaming Maturity Model
Initial Awareness /
Pilot (1 Kafka
Cluster)
Start to Build
Pipeline / Deliver 1
New Outcome
(1 Kafka Cluster)
Mission-Critical
Deployment
(Stretched, Hybrid,
Multi-Region)
Build Contextual
Event-Driven Apps
(Stretched, Hybrid,
Multi-Region)
Central Nervous
System
(Global Kafka)
Product, Support, Training, Partners, Technical Account Management...
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Car Engine Car Self-driving Car
Confluent completes Apache Kafka. Cloud-native. Everywhere.

33. Kai Waehner
Field CTO
contact@kai-waehner.de
@KaiWaehner
www.kai-waehner.de
www.confluent.io
linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner
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