Maximizing Profitability with NFV Orchestration

This Catalyst illustrates how service providers can harness real-time financial and quality of service analytics to optimize the business value of NFV orchestration. The previous phase developed a closed-loop control system composed of data collection, analytics, optimization, dynamic policies and NFV orchestration. This phase improves the intelligence of the control system by factoring in the financial aspects of service operation in real time. This may involve new metrics, policy model extensions and optimization algorithms.

Champions: NTT, Tata Communications
Participants: Ericsson, Viavi, Aria Networks

Big Data and Open OSS

This Catalyst shows how open source big data technologies can be applied to aggregate and publish multiple data sources, enabling OSS analytics applications to leverage the full value of the OSS dataset. It demonstrates how service assurance can be implemented as a big data pipeline.

Champions: KDDI
Participants: Cisco

Zero Touch Network-as-a-Service: Agile, Assured and Orchestrated with NFV

From self-care ordering to service configuration and management, demonstrates the full zero-touch lifecycle of how to orchestrate and assure NaaS across a hybrid network with vCPE functions. Inspired by the MEF’s Third Network vision, it provides an end-to-end design blueprint for offering agile, assured and orchestrated NaaS over an SDN/NFV enabled infrastructure.

Champions:
Participants: MEF, PCW Global, Axtel

Smart Business Process Enabling Digital Enterprise Transformation

This Catalyst will demonstrate how to accelerate digital enterprise transformation through business process mining and the instrumentation of intelligent discovery, orchestration and choreography of these business processes.

Champions: AT&T, Orange, KDDI R&D Labs
Participants: TechMahindra, Trisotech

Customer Premises Equipment Virtualization

The first phase of this Catalyst developed procedural guidelines for the self-installation of virtualized residential gateways with zero-touch ordering, provisioning and enhanced troubleshooting. It also demonstrated the agility of offering value-added services like sophisticated parental controls. The next phase expands the scope by introducing an automated closed-loop system that enables proactive service assurance via monitoring, testing and analytics to optimize customer experience and reduce operational costs. This phase also evaluates the migration paths and operational metrics that a service provider needs to consider when moving to a virtualized CPE platform.

Champions: AT&T, Orange, Telecom Italia
Participants: Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, InfoSys, Viavi

Model-Driven Hybrid Service Orchestration via a FMO Architecture

This Catalyst looks to build a model-driven service orchestration for hybrid networks, leveraging concepts of metadata in ZOOM’s Future Mode of Operations architectures.

Champions: China Mobile
Participants: Huawei, IBM, Inspur

Multi-Cloud SDN-NFV Service Orchestration

This Catalyst demonstrates how to reduce the time and cost of delivering complex multi-cloud services and handle lifecycle management for underlying virtualized infrastructures.

Champions: AT&T, China Unicom
Participants: Microsoft

Service Network Transformation based on NFV

This project transforms the traditional closed service networks (e.g. IN, AS, SMS, MMS……) to an open and efficient service network… based on NFV architecture, will allow CSP to quickly build added service on NFV and OpenStack based cloud infrastructure and move legacy systems to the cloud infrastructure while offering the multi-vendor managed service.

Champions: China Mobile
Participants: Huawei

Dynamic API’s for Connected Carrier Agile Markets

This project shows how dynamic APIs mediate connections between diverse systems – for a seamless experience for the complete service lifecycle. The Catalyst proves that horizontally integrated solutions can support hybrid environments (virtual and physical network functions, legacy and new technologies) to promote competitive markets and innovation, and enable Carrier transformation.

Champions: AT&T, Verizon, Orange, BT, Vodafone, NTT
Participants: Dgit, Enterprise Web, Comverse , Qosmos

Operations Transformation and Simplifications enabled by vCPE

This project demonstrates automated setup, configuration and management of white-box customer premise equipment to support residential IP services without the need for manual intervention or specialized equipment. It also provides insights on how to massively roll out this type of NFV capability enabling process and operations simplifications for service providers.

Champions: AT&T, Orange, Telecom Italia
Participants: Ericsson

Recover First, Resolve Next- Towards Closed Loop Control for Managing Hybrid Networks

This project demonstrates the move towards closed loop control of hybrid networks (traditional and virtualized). It brings out challenges and demonstrates potential solutions relevant for CSPs operating hybrid mobile networks– like automated fault recovery and SLA driven closed loop control to remediate Service Performance issues.

Champions: AT&T, Orange, KDDI
Participants:

Security Functions in NFV

This project demonstrates the impact and value of dynamic security orchestration in an NFV environment (e.g. packet inspection, browsing protection and source reputation checking). It also examines how to better understand the requirements of managing and offering security across virtualized services using real-world use cases and subscriber profiles from global service providers.

Champions: AT&T, Orange, BT
Participants: Symantec Corporation

Closing the Loop – Next Phase

This project demonstrates a practical implementation of closed loop functionality used to heal and optimize converged networks running on both traditional and virtualized infrastructures. It uses a variety of network and service KPIs to detect inefficiencies and churn/revenue risk conditions to automate core & RAN optimization. It uses service level information and customer experience data to analyze the direct impact of scaling, healing and optimization on services and customers. This is demonstrated at two levels, either through direct management commands or through a higher level policy modification.

Champions: Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera
Participants: Teoco

2014: Preparing NFV for Primetime

This project builds on a previous project which showcased a dynamic, data-driven Management and Operations Platform, using network state to semantically drive orchestration. This latest iteration shows how a platform based on a rich information fabric supports policy-based management. This counts as a big step forward to leveraging this technology in your organization.

2014: Closing the Loop: Scaling, Healing, and Optimizing a Virtualized Network

This project demonstrates how to increase operational efficiency and reduce operating cost by automating optimization processes. Network and service inputs will be used to demonstrate closed loop functionality to heal and optimize a converged network running on both traditional and virtualized infrastructure. Several network and service centric use cases handling NFV orchestration, automated core and RAN optimization will be demonstrated, leveraging TM Forum’s Performance Management interface, as well as ETSI NFV ISG proposed architecture.

2014: Lifecycle Management for Multi-Cloud Networks

This project advances lifecycle management for multi-cloud systems connected by virtual networks and virtualized network functions. The architecture encompasses holistically managing SLAs involving VNFs and MPLS WAN gateways. This management stack addresses the major aspects of dynamically and comprehensively interconnecting real world private and public clouds.