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1. Bandwidth Exchange
Delivering cloud network resources profitably
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2. Business Problem
 Service Providers are losing revenue to Over-The-
Top delivery
 Cloud Computing distributes resources to discrete
parts of the network
 Bandwidth becomes a commodity
 Can resources of Network, Compute & Storage be
linked?
 Current Carriers Operational Support Systems are
designed for internal use and lack the automation
needed for third party on-demand provisioning.
 To trade network resources standards for “Tradable
Units” and “Network Delivery” need to be defined.
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3. Solution
 Data Centres aggregate lots of demand to the same location – the
“unshared” part of the network becomes very small (non existent for
DCs employing virtualisation).
 Data Centres have introduced on-demand services which creates a
compelling use case for “on-demand” bandwidth.
 Enterprise Cloud Services need reliable network connectivity to data
centers, carriers are best positioned to offer this through simple on-
demand provisioning APIs
 Intune technology makes the optical transponder & switching very
flexible – location on an Intune ring is virtually irrelevant.
 Amartus platform enables fully automated service management & rapid
integration across operator networks
 Use financial instruments to trade bandwidth contracts:
 Futures Contracts for Calendar Based Events
 Spot Networks to meet immediate demand
 Infrastructure providers can use income from futures contract to
fund investment
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4. Bandwidth Exchange – Description of the Service
OPERATOR RESOURCES
1 1
FIRST DERIVATIVES
CLOUDSTREET
TRADING ENGINE
2
Work flow 3
1. Operator publishes capacity on
CloudStreet. Trading engine uses part of
inventory to create predefined trading SERVICE COMMANDER
products.
2. CloudStreet updates Service Inventory
4
on Amartus Service Commander
3. Trading engine picks-up connections and
capacity from Service Inventory and NETWORK LAYER
splits it easy tradable securities.
4. Service Commander provisions the
network
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5. The Components – High Level View
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6. NSN
CloudStreet
CloudStreet MarketPlace Portal Portal
Demand/supply OSS Module BSS Module
CloudStreet
CloudStreet
Module • service Inventory • Data Charging OTC
• publishing • order initiation Generation
MarketPlace
• offer/route finding • SLA processing • Iface to Billing
Solution
LBL Synchronization Ordering Process Automation Automation
&
Mediation, Transformation, Adaptation Mediation
FM PM SLA Mgt. Ordering Billing Clearing
OSS / BSS
Connectivity
products
CPE. ACCESS TRANSIT EXCHANGE Network
Infrastructure
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7. CloudStreet
Publish Capacity
Request Capacity
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8. First Derivatives Trading Exchange
Pricing Engine
Standardisation
Price Creation
of Contracts
Liquidity Aggregation
Order Submission
Liquidity
Providers/ Contract
Position Management Customers
Network Activation
Providers
Order Matching
Order Management
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9. First Derivatives Trading Exchange GUI
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10. Cashflow Forecasting
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11. Amartus Service Commander
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12. Optical Packet Switch & Transport
• Single switch deployed as a distributed ring
architecture.
• Virtualise optical capacity for shared
utilisation.
• Packet level granularity.
• Transponders are shared for all destinations.
• Don’t need a new transponder for a new destination.
• Deterministic service performance.
• Through advanced scheduling of packets.
• Standards based interfaces
 Data Plane - 10GE Client I/F
 Management Plane
 Web services/XML/http
• Applications include
 Metro Distribution & Aggregation
 Content Distribution Networks
 Data Centre Virtualisation
• Benefits
 Efficient optical network utilisation (full & constant reuse).
 Very flexible optical connectivity & bandwidth.
 Enabler for new business models e.g. Bandwidth
Exchange/Trading.
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13. Benefits
 Network can be traded as a financial instrument
 Bandwidth on demand is delivered via trades for
calendar based events
 Bandwidth on demand can be spot priced via
the market (Where price is more important than
time)
 Network can we aligned with other virtualised cloud
resources to define an end-to-end service.
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14. Outputs
 “Proof of Concept that Bandwidth can be traded as
a Commodity
 Over the Counter Trading compared to:
 Futures and Spot Trading
 Demo utilises “ RESTful Web Services” but MTOSI
Service Catalog and Activation interfaces are also
supported.
 Unit of trade should also be standardised.
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15. Bandwidth Exchange
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