While the need for network automation is becoming a key part of the overall digital transformation agenda, the reality is that the success rate behind previous attempts to drive network automation (a.k.a NFV) is only at about 30%, where the statistics show that 70% of transformation projects fail!

1. Cloudify:
Why NFV and Digital Transformation
Projects Fail!

2. “Transforming
your decision
making with
technology
- utilizing new sources of
innovation and creativity to
enhance experiences and
improve financial
performance”.
Digital Transformation (DX) Defined
IDC : Designing Tomorrow

3. 55%of network ops see agile and
real time cross-business collaboration as
a key priority
"Enterprises are adopting new IT delivery
models and applications that are
imposing fundamental
network changes from device
access to core."
Networking Plays Crucial Role in DX
Source: Gartner's' 2017 "Strategic Roadmap for Networking"

4. CSP Approach to NFV and DX
With both IT and networks embracing cloud, there is
a strong case for merging IT and network
functions.
"IT transformation has proven difficult because most
CSPs can’t afford to simply rip out and replace all
their old systems. As such, they try to work with
suppliers to improve existing systems, but there is
little incentive for suppliers when their revenue
streams are at stake"
Source: TMForum Digital Transformation report, SDxCentral report

5. Key Technology Challenges

6. CSP Approach to NFV and DX
How To Fix It?

7. Agile Transformation vs Big Bang

8. Telstra SEN Project / SD-Core
• Dynamically deploy WAN and NFV components
• Enables telcos to offer consumption based VNF
value-added-services from edge compute via
metro-Ethernet networks
• Network and NFV service definitions defined in
blueprints which are instantiated via
orchestration
• NFV-I networking, SFC and TOR options relative
to specific vendors and design
Utilization Stats
Confidential

9. Open vCPE
Open vCPE Demo
Customer Case Study

10. A Pragmatic Approach to Standard
Innovation
VS
Adoption
Traditional Methods of
driving Standards are
not agile enough to
meet the new speed of
innovation <> adoption

11. TMForum: Open source and the future of OSS
Open Source Drive New Standards
The Only
Constant
Is change

12. TMForum: Open source and the future of OSS
2018-20
Cloud Native?
Standard Led ?
Open Source Led
The Future of OSS - 2018-20?

13. Intent Based
Network
provisioning and
configuration
Domain / Edge Orchestrator
VOLTHA Edge
management
Microservices
Domain / Edge Orchestrator
Central
Orchestration /
Management
Physical
Device
Physical
Device
Bare-Metal
Bare-Metal
Cloud Native Edge Controller
● Virtualization of the control plane
● Kubernetes on Bare-Metal as
Edge Platform
● ONAP as OSS/BSS
● VOLTHA management pod
packaged microservices
● Generic architecture that can fit
any access device management.
A Pragmatic Approach to Standards
Leveraging Cloud
Native Stack to
model and drive
new network
services
Source: VOLTHA, SEBA, OSAM and ONAP with Cloudify for End-to-End
Provisioning and Lifecycle Management of Access Devices

14. Top Down vs Bottom Up approach
Simple Embeddable VNFM

15. A Mix of New & Traditional Vendors

16. Which approach
gets you faster to
the point where
you see return
from DX ?
Cloud / NFV Transformation Approaches
Agility and Cost
Efficiency
(Degree of Cloud Nativeness )
Time to Value
(relative to transformation time)
Fast
Slow
Serverless
Cloud Native Platform
(Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Edge as Cloud
Weeks
Months
Years
Run on a Cloud Automate and
Run on a Cloud
MicroService
Architecture vs.
Monolithic
Serverless
Infrastructure
as Code
Automation-First Approach
Lift & Shift
Automation first approach put multiple transformation
approaches together

17. Keith Rothschild
Principal Engineer at Cox
Communications
● Do you see virtualization & automation tightly
coupled ?
● How does the move to cloud effect the current
architecture ?
● What are the culture challenges ?
● How do you see the role of standards in driving
the future of NFV?
Q&A

18. The Future of Networking: SD-WAN Vision
“it will be applications-on-
demand (user) centric and
NOT box (router) centric”
Source: How SD-WAN will make the cloud much, much bigger

19. The Future of Networking: Intent Based
Gartner:
“the next big thing on
the networking
horizon promises to
be …. wait for it …
Intent-based
Networking.”
Composite Service Blueprint

20. The Future of Networking: Serverless Edge
Reference: 5G To The Edge With AT&T: A Fully Orchestrated Open Source Stack

21. Summary: Lessons for successful NFV
Transformation
● Agile transformation (Focus on time to value) vs “Big
Bang” transformation (Focus on standard compliance)
● Pragmatic approach to standard - interoperability vs
compliance
● Top Down vs Bottom Up approach
● A Mix new vendors alongside traditional vendors - Best
of breed approach
● Smoothing the Cloud Native technology transformation

22. Thank You

23. ● Cloudify approach for supporting ETSI and other standards
● ETSI NFV MANO Components Mapping to Cloudify
● Why 70% of NFV and Digital Transformation Projects Fail?!
● Driving Open Standards in a Fragmented Networking
Landscape
● What is the best NFV Orchestration platform? A review of
OSM, Open-O, CORD, and Cloudify
● Is Networking becoming cool again
● Declarative networking
● VOLTHA, SEBA, OSAM and ONAP with Cloudify for End-to-
End Provisioning and Lifecycle Management of Access
Devices
● Telstra NFV/SDN Evolution Project
● Lumina SD-Core & NFV Service Chaining
● Linux Foundation Shifts Network Infrastructure to
Kubernetes
● Cloudify Customers Use Cases
References