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Autonomous networks empowering

digital transformation of Telecom

Industry

Haiping Che, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President,

Chief Digital Transformation Officer

26 March, 2019

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Outline

✓ Why network architecture innovation is a necessity for the future of telecom industry

✓ Incorporating AI to empower digital transformation for business, operations and

networks of telecom industry

✓ Enabling new business models with the autonomous network: rethinking

partnerships, collaboration & ecosystem

✓ Defining the future of operations transformation and network evolution with the

autonomous network

✓ Cooperation & collaboration to achieve industry consensus for the autonomous

network

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Challenges of Telecom Industry

Architectural innovation to solve the structural problems

TCO ＞RevenueLast 5 years

OTT Vs Telco to maintain

Cost & Growth

3Isolation

vs

1.9%

300+

Autonomous

Networks

Efficiency

Infrastructure & Operations

Complexity75B devices by 2025

Lack of global

business

collaboration

Manual, error-prone

Simplification

Automation

Intelligence

Collaboration

OpEx ratio: 50%->67%, Silo, Fragmented

OpEx Vs CapEx: 3:1

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Opportunities to Telecom Industry --- “Zero” Experience

Autonomous Networks/ICT Services for Intelligent Society

Autonomous

Network

All-inclusive

Services

Agile

Operations

Zero Wait Zero Trouble

Swift• Launch

• Delivery

• Care

Simplified• Operations

• Development

• Maintenance

Self-

healing

• Business

• Services

• Infrastructure

Zero Touch

Smart government Smart xxx…

“Zero” Experience

Smart city Smart industry

ICT✓ Make the

simplicity to the

users

✓ Leave the

complexity with

the providers

✓ One stop, real-time, on demand,

automated，E2E full lifecycle

network/ICT services

✓ Enablement of business collaboration &

ecosystem between verticals and

network/ICT service providers

As a Service As a Platform

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Digital Transformation of Telecom Industry Autonomous networks enhance Telco Industry’s upgrading

NE NECloud

NECloud

NE

Network, Customer Facing Services

operations

RFS operationsRFS operations

Network automation

Autonomous domain

x

Autonomous domain

y

Customer, ecosystem, partner

operations

(Architectural) Network transformation- Extremely Simplified Architecture

- Autonomous domains collaboration

- Enablement of on-demand production

- Support for collaborative production

(Network) Operations transformation - Full lifecycle automation

- Data/Knowledge driven & Platform based

- Knowledge as a Service

✓ On-demand revenue

✓ Ecosystem revenue

+Efficiency:

Agile operations

Real time

experience

Personalized

ServicesAutomated

O&M

Revenue:

Digital enabling

Smart

Manuf

actory

Smart

City

Smart

Home

(Business) Operations transformation- Customer centric

- Ecosystem oriented

- Collaboration enabled

Pro

du

cti

on

Co

mm

erc

e

Business automation

Business transformation

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Business Transformation

Beyond connectivity

CSP V

CSP T

CSP S

Autonomous Network as a Service(ANaaS):

-One stop, real-time, on demand global

network service

-Collaborative production

-Collaborative commercialization

Autonomous Network as a Platform (ANaaP):

- Friendly for developers

- Enablement to verticals

- Cross industries CollaborationCSP D

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Network Operations Transformation

Knowledge as a service

Network Full lifecycle

Design

PlanningProvisioning

Fulfillment

Rollout Assurance✓ Aggregation of the knowledge for various

network operations

✓ Sharing of the knowledge as the operator of

the operators

✓ Monetization of the knowledge of network

operation as SaaS Cloud

Network A Network B Network C

Service Cloud

Operator IoT Business Home

Utilize the knowledge of network operations

for efficiency, experience, performance and

service management

Service Full lifecycle

Optimization

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Business Operations

Domain operations Domain operations

3rd-party controller

Domain operations

EMS

Cross domain Operations

Network Architecture Transformation

Simplified architecture, autonomous domain

AS-IS TO-BE

Infra

structu

re

Mobile

Simplified network

architecture

SiloController

EMSSilo

Controller

Data / Service

Tickets

… …CRM

OSS BSS

ConsumerPortal

EnterprisePortal

Assurance

Billing

WFM

ITN

MS

Data / Service

Tightly Couple

d

Isolated Data & Process

Siloed，complicated, many CRs, many faults, reactive, long timeframe of closed-loop

E2E 100% available, flex scale out, proactive, open easy integration, NOC free, No CRs, RPA

Simplified architecture

✓ Less layers

✓ Less hops

✓ High efficiency nodes

Autonomous domain

✓ Highly integrated domain:

Integrated network

autonomous domain for one

RFS closed-loop

✓ Loosely coupled domains:

collaboration at autonomous

domain level

Backbone/DCI

E2E SR/SRv6

MAN Fabric

CO Fabric

vRGvBRAS vEPCvIMSBroadband

4G/5G2B

EdgeDC Regional DC

IGW

Simplified Optical Transport

OTN pro

OTN pro

Autonomous Domain x

Autonomous Domain y

Autonomous Domain z

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Autonomous Networks: automation levels

Data & knowledge driven intelligent, simplified networks

Simplified architecture

Full lifecycle closed-loop

Knowledge as a ServiceSelf-configured, self-healing, self-optimized

Best user experience, full lifecycle automation, maximum utilization

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Autonomous Networks: explanation and examples ✓ Simple

✓ Static

✓ Automation

✓ Complicated

✓ Dynamic

✓ Autonomous

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Collaboration on Industry Consensus of Autonomous Networks

• Initiate the program and

activities

• Publish whitepaper etc

• Develop standards specs

• Marketing and events

• Collaborate among ETSI,

GSMA and TMF

• Collaborate between

CSPs and suppliers

• Collaborate with vertical

industries

• Pioneer projects in

industry

organizations

• PoC with CSPs and

partners

• Testing and

verification

Autonomous networksArchitecture

Automation levels

Specifications

Industry Organizations Industry collaboration Pilot projects

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