the edge in automation

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The Edge in AutomationExposing and managing Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) services to enhance carrier operations, adoption and customer experience

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The Edge in Automation

Our Champions Our Participants External Advisers

Our Digital Showcase Presenters

Johanne MayerNaaS Consultant, Blue PlanetTMF Distinguished Fellow

Paul ChapmanSolution Architect, Monitoring & ReportingBT

Lester ThomasChief IT Systems Architect, VodafoneTMF Distinguished Fellow

Valère RobinInnovation Strategy Architectures and Security, Orange Labs Services

Chris Thornton Edge Business Development Red Hat

Rob TomkinsSenior Director, Innovations Blue Planet

Brian CoombsTitleCerillion

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• CSPs partnerships with Cloud Providers

• Varied agreements (e.g. IoT Apps, OSS/BSS cloudification, Edge computing, etc)

• Tenant & Actualization platform (Infra)

• Cloud infrastructure belongs to the CSP’s network (not public)

• Can be a secured gateway to access apps on the partner’s public cloud

Network as a Service (NaaS)Principles:

• OSS/BSS decoupled from network domains using Open APIs (vs custom APIs)

• OSS/BSS unaware of resources & “How” services are made

• Network domains expose reusable set of capabilities

• Can be complex (Internet Security) or simple & reusable (Firewall_aaS)

Benefits:

Decreases Time to Market >50%

Enhances customer experience

Key Concepts Demonstrated in Our Catalyst

Telco Cloud Edge Compute

• Architecture for delivering cloud-based Telco and Apps (e.g. IoT) services at the edge of the network

• Catalyst assumes Edge part of the CSP domain even if infrastructure is from cloud partner(s)

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Our Use Case – Automated, Zero-Touch ECaaS in Action Design Time

CustomerService

RepresentativePartner’s Products & Services(icons) Drone_aaS

image recognitionSensor_aaSCamera_aaSEmergency app

Network Services(icons) Edge Compute_aaS

VPN_aaSFirewall_aaSMPLSWavelength

Product Catalog

Platinum PackageDedicated capacity & low latencyVideo streaming Surveillance Emergency servicesVideo analyticsTraffic flow

Enhanced Experiencefor Live Events

Gold PackageDedicated capacity & low latencySurveillance Emergency servicesTraffic flow

Silver PackageBest effort connectivity Emergency services

Create offers

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Our Use Case – Automated, Zero-Touch ECaaS in Action Run Time

Metro/Aggregation Venue5G Tower

Edge

Telco Cloud

Live EventDepict the run time scenario w

icons and animation: • Instantiate and show the

application running on the edge (as game starts).

• Show the drone (icon from previous slide) a picture of a fire

• Demonstrate how this

identification of public safety issue triggers the automated edge reconfiguration to activate and deliver emergency services (icon from previous slide).

• Real-life demo scenario will turn on a set of smart lights (representing IoT solution) to represent new reconfigured capability

Intelligent Orchestration

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• BT is exploring the possibilities afforded by Edge Compute

– Flexibility of Edge Compute supports short duration demand

– E.G. country fair (farmers market), a music festival, or a conference.

• Examining lifecycle of service consumption

– User Story for a short duration event exercises full lifecycle

– NaaS implication for Edge Compute

• Leading to insights for building Edge Compute

– Which standards and artefacts are available

Edge Compute Challenges – Service Flexibility

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• Range of services technically possible far exceeds the

ability of any one of our organizations to deliver in isolation

• Vodafone’s goal is to provide a range of Telco enabling

services following an open platform approach

• Component services enable Developers to rapidly

innovate and deliver many use-cases

• NaaS API component suite provides a set of consistent

APIs enabling exposure and LCM* of Telco’s services

• This Catalyst targets the definition of a standard payload

for Edge services into NaaS service catalog

Edge Compute Challenges – Service Development

*Lifecycle Management

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Challenges - Implementing edge computing ecosystems

Rich stack at the edge & beyond

- Bare metal hardware

- Virtualisation/containers stacks

- Generic enablers

- …

Edge in Automation Catalyst

- API between actors derived from use cases

- Complementing the technical interfaces (ETSI MEC, Cloud CNCF CNTT, NaaS)

- Plug & play exposure of infras and services (catalogs)

- Dynamic on-demand provisioning

Diversity of players

- CSP/Telcos

- Cloud providers

- Federation initiatives

- ...

Challenging requirements

- Latency, performance

- Data management and security

- Agility for applications

- ...

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There are three core requirements that we are seeing being important to

facilitate Edge solution adoption:

Cloud Provider Considerations

Hybrid & Multi-cloudManaging workload at the edge and within the cloud where it makes sense.

OpenProviding choice and flexibilityEncouraging a wide developer ecosystem.

ScaleAccommodating edge nodes that are both resource constrained and vertically scalable.Able manage thousands of edge endpoints, securely and with minimal intervention.

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• TM Forum– TMF909 NaaS API Component Suite

– IG1141 Procurement & Onboarding of Virtualization

– GB999 ODA Production – NaaS focused

– IG1157 ODA Ecosystem Enablement (DPRA)

– 2019 Becoming Edgy catalyst

– API Domain Context Specific Contract Rule

• GSMA

– Operator Platform

• ETSI

– MEC APIs

– ZSM architecture

• MEF

– Cloud Services Architecture

Standards Assets Used in Our Catalyst

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Deployment Architecture

Portal-CPQ COM/SOM

TMF API Gatew ay

Netw ork

Automation

ChargingEdge (container)

Management

Developer

Environment

Customer

Netw ork

Cloud

CopenhagenIoT lights

Edge

ApplicationVNF

VNF Deployment

VNF DeploymentDeploy Container

IoT Service

(image

recognition)

IoT App? (e.g.

image processing

& trained model)

Physical

Edge Apps* Telco Apps*

* Typical telco environment would use separate physical servers

( )

3rd party

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Use Case Scenario - Design

Service Provider Partner

ExtAPI GW

NaaS API Gateway

E2E Service Domain (enhanced event)

ProdCatalog

OrderMngt

Billing

EDGEDomain

IoT lights

ProdCatalog

OrderMngt

Billing

IoT Mgr.

Edge (container)Mngt

12 Partner exposes capabilities (image recognition, camera_aaS, emergency, surveillance, etc) via Prod Catalog (contract agreement done prior) using TMF622 (possibly through cloud broker)

CSP downloads requested applications (APIs TBD)

Ev ent

Operator

Portal

VPNDomain

SD WANDomain

…

ExtAPI GW

Provide external access

securityProvides Authentication / Authorization accessand routes API requests

to proper domain

Prod. Mgr. creates an Enhanced Exp event offer with Telco& partner’s products/ services

3

IoT Mgr.

Edge Mngt (conta iner)

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Next Steps: What to expect in Copenhagen

Service Provider Partner

NaaS API Gateway

E2E Service Domain(enhanced event)

ProdCatalog

OrderMngt

Billing

EDGEDomain

ProdCatalog

OrderMngt

Billing

IoT Mgr.

Edge (container)Mngt

Event operator orders Gold package with:- Capacity - Surveillance- Emergency- Secured access (VPN)

for their game

132 IT requests feasibility and selects edge location (TMF645?)

BP activates Telco apps on edge

Ev ent

Operator

Portal

VPNDomain

SD WANDomain

…

ExtAPI GW

ExtAPI GW

vSD-WANvCDNvVPNCapacityDrone_aaSImage_RecEmergency

IoT Mgr.

Edge Mngt (conta iner)

E2E domain sends requests to container mngr to download IoT

apps to edge server

456 Camera/drone sends pictures to image recognition app which detects a fire.

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Surveillance (or image recognition) IoT App sends alarm / event to E2E

8E2E requests Edge Mngr toterminate the original app and activate the emergency

E2E requests activation of surveillance (drone & image recognition), and download game on vCDN

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What’s in it for TMF Members

Our Contributions (Subject to Change):

• Edge_Computing as a Service (ECaaS) service definition

– includes input to TMF Service Fulfillment User Guide

– Input to API Domain Context Specific Contract Rule (for ETSI MEC)

• ECaaS json payload and contribution back to ETSI MEC

• Automated reconfiguration of Edge as Contribution to TMF Autonomous Network project

• Input to ODA Ecosystem Enablement /DPRA and cloud providers

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