CDN’s and Distributed Cloud Research

Per KarlssonManager CDN and Cloud Computing @Research Area Packet Technologies

per.p.karlsson@ericsson.com

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Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services

to mobile and fixed network operators globally.

This is Ericsson

Founded in 1876 in Stockholm, Sweden

Present in 175 countries.

~108 000 employees (June 2012)

Number of patents: 30,000

New patents sought each day: 16

R&D employees: 22 000 (March 2012)

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Did

you know

that...

…more than 40% of all mobile traffic and

50% of all WCDMA traffic

goes through Ericsson’s

networks

…Ericsson supports networks that together serve more than one billion subscribers

…

over 1,000 networks in more than 175 countries utilize our network equipment

…Ericsson delivers a new radio base station every 90 seconds

…Ericsson has one of the industry’s strongest patents portfolios with 30,000+ patents

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World standards

99.999% incl

sw

upgrade

Req

planned down time 0 min /year

Investments10.000’s of manyears

”re-utilization”

100%

Shake out

Long product life cycle

Cost pressure

Characteristics for Telecom

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› Highly distributed

› Large-scale

› Event-driven

› Concurrent

› Embedded

› Technically challenging

› Significantly different challenges than development of IT systems

Characteristics of Ericsson systems

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What is this?

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Curiosity rover @ Mars

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Communication to Earth

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Content Distribution

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By 2015 90% OF ALL NETWORK TRAFFIC WILL BE

VIDEO

A simplified

view

of our

world Network Traffic

Development

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A simplified

view

of our

world QoE and Latency and importance to E-trade

Between 37 to 49% of users who experience performance issues when completing a transaction online will either abandon the site or switch to a competitor. Of these, 77% will share their experiences with others [AT&T]

(5Mbps, 320KB, 50 objs.)

Page load time decreases as the bandwidth increases. Note the diminishing returns

Reducing RTT, always helps reduce page load time

0

limit for flow of thought to stay uninterrupted

user’s visual attention shifts away

limit for keeping users’ attentionstart of negative service perception

limit to delay tolerance

1 s 5-6 s 8 s 10-13 s 20 sE/// Consumer lab study

Goo

gle

Goo

gle

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Content

Delivery

Network Basics

Content Provider

Key Drivers:

• Quality of Experience

• Network load reduction

Role played by operator or OTT player

CDN could be Internet Wide or Operator Wide

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Telco Cloud and CDN

Mobility, Smart Pipe, IoT

Packet transport & Routing

Packet NW management

System Technologies

Topics In our research Area Packet Technology –

90+ Researchers

Internet

Operator network

PE

PEPE

PE

Capabilities

PaaSSaaSApplications

DatabasesIntegrationRuntime

NetworkingStorage

Server HWVirtualizationServer SW

IaaSe2e MgmtEncryptionSecurity

PaymentAPICDN

Transcod.

Authentic.

functions

Transport

Wireless•Mobility

•DPI, Security

•IPv4v6 transl

•etc

Services

WirelineMulti Access

EdgeMulti AccEdge

UNI NNI

50BTraf

fic NW

ex

posu

re

Optical

Optical

Packet

Packet

Control / Management, Split Architecture

Unkn

own

DPI

Cross-Layer Optim.

Control blades

Service bladesManagement blades

Forwarding blades

I/O blades I/O

SW modelsHWSystem architecture

IP-Opto

Observability

Multi-domain SON

Analysis diagnosis

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Where we work 90+ Collegues

in Packet Technology

2

Budapest

Sweden Helsinki Montreal

Beijing Silicon Valley

=> Meeting in odd hours!

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Who we are CDN and Cloud Research @ Research Ar

ea Packet technology

technology

› Ayodele Damola› Azimeh Sefidcon› Bob Melander› Börje Ohlman› Christofer Flinta› Enrique Fernández› Hareesh Puthalath› Jan-Erik Mångs› Joacim Halén› Karl-Åke Persson› Lars Westberg› Per Karlsson› Stefan Hellkvist› Victor Souza

AzimehSefidcon

AyodeleDamola

BobMelander

ChristoferFlinta

BörjeOhlman

HareeshPuthalath

EnriqueFernández

Jan-ErikMångs

Karl-ÅkePersson

JoacimHalén

PerKarlsson

LarsWestberg

StefanHellkvist

VictorSouza

CDN and Cloud Research (14)

Research Area Packet Technology (90+)

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Our Way of Working ☺

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Thesis Works At Ericsson