Presentation by Nicolas Fischbach @niCRO at MPLS/SDN/NFV World Congress 2016 - Paris 2016. The architecture behind Colt On Demand - which provides self-service capabilities for flexible, PAYG network services. Supports elastic bandwidths, elastic topology and an elastic service edge through SDN/NFV for a digital, real time on demand customer experience.

1. SDN/NFV architecture
vision
… and reality
Nicolas Fischbach
Director Strategy, Architecture and Innovation
30 March 2016 – MPLS/SDN/NFV W orld Congress 2016 1

2. … aka the architecture
behind
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3. NOVITAS / Colt On Demand Vision
Network services are self-provisioned, orchestrated and consumed in near
real time through automation, and integrated with 3rd party networks
Available
through portal
and APIs
Near real-time
Self-
provision
Interwork
with other
providers
Reduce
costs
Elastic
Bandwidth
Elastic
Topology
Elastic
Service
3rd party Networks
Customer
portal
APIs
SDN and NFV
Infrastructure
Customer sites Customer sites
Reduce vendor
dependency
Support value
added services
Cloud
Providers

4. NOVITAS / Colt On Demand Architecture
NOVITAS Choreography Engine
Colt portal APIsCustomer portal
Network
domain
orchestrator
Datacentre
domain
orchestrator
Network
functions
orchestrator
Infrastructure
Cloud
Modular
Ethernet
Access
Network
Fabric
3rd-Party Network
Infrastructure
IP Service
Edge
Packet Optical
Core
Address Book
Inventory
Billing
Order Mgmt
Customer Care
Monitoring
Analytics
IT Systems
Software Defined Networking Network Function Virtualisation
APIs
Network
domain
orchestrator
Network
domain
orchestrator
AAA

5. SDN/NFV Architecture or Choreography stack ?
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Domain
orchestrator
NOVITAS
Engine
Programmable
Network
+ + = Customer
Experience
• Orchestration engine enabled us to start to decouple
(self contained  partial integration  replace)
• Augment existing, see what customers want & use, transform
• DevOps + Agile + Waterfall “magic” / “Secret sauce”

6. SDN/NFV Architecture or Choreography stack ?
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Domain
orchestrator
NOVITAS
Engine
Programmable
Network
+ + = Customer
Experience
• SDN is very much “automation”
• Need to address more fundamental OSS changes as well as
MANO
• How to best inject & consume OpenSource/COTS/home-dev
• Industry and working groups consolidation

7. SDN/NFV Architecture or Choreography stack ?
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Domain
orchestrator
NOVITAS
Engine
Programmable
Network
+ + = Customer
Experience
• Incremental & augment: little greenfield outside the DC
• MPLS here to stay and OTT to become more common
• Teething issues: NFV (vCPE and SD-WAN/VPN), x86, WB
• New IP Agency / Reference architecture

8. SDN API/NNI Architecture Concept
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Backend
Access
Ring
3rd-party
Network
Colt
Network
Node
DC
NNI
Provider
portal
Novitas
portal
OSS/BSSOSS/BSS
SDN/NFV
Service Abstraction
Layer
3rd-party defined
API
Backend
Colt
SDN Controller
3rd-party
SDN Controller
Choreography
API

9. Conclusion
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10. Thank you
For your time
nico@colt.net
@niCRO