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Autonomous networks– the network of the future being designed and built today!

Director of Global Operations Transformation, OrangeChristian Maitre

Chief Business Strategist, Digital Transformation, Futurewei TechnologiesDong Sun

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Opportunities to ICT Industry --- “Zero X” Experience - Autonomous Networks/ICT Services for Intelligent Society

AutonomousNetwork

All-inclusiveServices

AgileOperations

Zero Wait Zero Trouble

Swift• Launch• Delivery• Care

Simplified• Operating• Development• Maintenance

Self-healing

• Business• Services• Infrastructure

Zero Touch

Smart government Smart xxx…

“Zero X” 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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Enabling cross industries’ digital transformation through autonomous networks/ICT services & infrastructure

As-is

Hard-to-use, Lack of key capabilities

Predefined, static, silo, commodity

Complicated, Fragmented, Manual, Inefficient

To-be

Easy-to-use, Meets all business needs

Flexible, dynamic, collaborative, customized

Simplified, Integrated, Automated, Intelligent

Network/ICT services: Fully automated, intelligent

Production & commercialization:Flexible, Collaborative

Architecture & Operations:Simplified, Automated

Objectives

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Autonomous networks definition

• Networks having the freedom to act independently, to govern themselves or control their behaviour through previosly defined policies. In other terms self-governing, no external humans or machine are acting upon it

• The Autonomous Networks comprise of simplified network architecture, virtualized components, automating agents, intelligent decision engines and self dynamic capabilities to create intelligent business/network operations for the closed-loop of new digital business, which,

– offer disruptive services for innovative user experience, critical services based on fully automated lifecycle operations and self organizing, dynamic optimized resource.

– aim to provide fully automated zero wait, zero touch, zero trouble innovative, critical network/ICT services for vertical industries users and consumers, and

– support self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimizing and self-evolving telecom network infrastructures for telecom business such as planning, marketing, operations and management

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Autonomous networks levels

P: Personnel S: Systems

Simple Static Automation

Complicated Dynamic Autonomous

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Framework of Autonomous Networks

The revolution is happening now!• We will develop the framework/blueprint/architecture for the

management of tomorrows network, which will define a complete network and business architecture for new innovative and disruptive ICT/network services.

• It requires:– Technical network propositions, frameworks and standards – Virtualization of the network functions, Implementation of the network

functions as software components– Fragmentation of the networks into domains, encapsulation of the

network complexity within the relevant domains– Technical and business flexible Capabilites on demand– Exposure of the networks & services from the domains using industry

standard Open APIs• It uses

– Automated closed loop control of the network across all domains of the architecture

– Data driven models, AI (DL, ML) analytics and decision models – Big data lakes and engines– Cloudified and virtualized infrastructures

• It will deliver :– Simplified network architectures for optimal innovative or critical services– Autonomous levels of agile, flexible delivery of network services and

capabilities– Ease of operate infrastructure and services– Self-optimizing networks, Self organising, Self-healing ICT/networks– Intent based operations , data driven – An ecosystem that goes beyond the boundary of Telco and enables digital

transformation across many industries

Layers and closed-loops of Autonomous Networks

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Key Components

Definition of autonomous domain that represent the closed loop of various network domains, which supports the ability to combine a set of network elements to decouple, build or deliver a higher-level network capability/service at domain level via Open APIs to upper layer or other domains

Autonomous Domain Definition

Develop the ability to deliver E2E full lifecycle of business service/capability using a combination of flexible IT&networkservices and resources that can be automatically orchestrated, configured, monitored and repaired Business operations Ability

Definition of business intent to enable the interaction between network operations layer & various autonomous domains. The intent interfaces or open API will instruct/control a set of standard resource services operations at the domain level instead of element or function level

Intent driven interaction

Model the exposure of a set of network capabilities at domain level to enable higher level business services to utilize network services Network Capability Model

Develop the ability to deliver E2E full lifecycle of network service/capability using a combination of flexible network services and resources that can be automatically orchestrated, configured, monitored and repaired Network operations Ability

Enable the ability to specify a set of rules at the business level that can be automatically monitored and effected across all domains of the architectureBusiness Rule Specification

Definition of simplified network architecture that can provide the ability to enable automated, easy & less complicated planning, design, integration, operations & maintenance of network infrastructure and services

Simplified network architecture

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Ongoing activities: fragmented, point solution

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Approach: Start with User stories

User story 3User story 2

-Start with user stories (describe what the end users need for AN services)

-Generalize as AN services (describe full lifecycle of common AN services)

-Compose of multiple AN cases (describe key steps/capabilities of full lifecycle of common AN services)

User story 1

AN Case i

AN Case ii

AN Case n

…

…

… …

* AN Cases describes components of lifecycle of services

AN service 1 AN service 2

… …AN service 5

Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario N

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Use Stories to “Drive AN”

# Use stories

1 Smart city

2 Smart manufacturing

3 Autonomous Vehicles

4 Media/entertainment(sports event, gaming, remote production)

5 Public safety(information casting, disaster recovery)

6 Efficiency 1: automated O&M

7 Efficiency 2: innovative operations services

The following use stories were nominated to be the ones that would be used to drive the AN services

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Identify key customer business needs of autonomous networks services and capabilities• Business growth: meet the needs of digital transformation for various customers (focusing on typical verticals e.g. smart city,

smart manufacture, self driving car) • Operations efficiency: meet the needs of digital transformation for telecom providers (including both traditional operations

automation and innovative agile operations)

AN services can enable new business and improve efficiency

AN ServicesCategory

Business Growth(Vertical industries)

Operations Efficiency(Telecom industry)

Existing“Legacy” Services

1. Automated network services e.g. VPN, SD-WAN, 5G slicing

4. Pipeline operations automation e.g.predefined services and operations

Innovative“New” Services

2. Automated ICT services e.g. network + cloud + edge3. Automated digital enabling services e.g. ICT services + platforms (operations, collaboration)

5. Flexible agile operations e.g. platformbased, dynamic process, flexible production

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Network & Infrastructure

Technology

Operations & IT

Devices, Things & Verticals

IndustryTransformation

& Growth

We are collaborating with many of the SDO’s to deliver Autonomous Networks

GSMA

5GAA

3GPP

ETSI

MEF

TM Forum

FiWareNGNM

ONAPetc.

IIC

etc.

OPRC

OpenStack

Network and infrastructure standards

{

Open Sourceprojects {

Device & IoT standards}

Industry specificbodies}

WEFMIT

Business & markettransformation}

OneM2M

Operating model and IT transformation to drive growth}

Oasis

IETF

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Driving the industry collaboration of autonomous networks

User stories:- Enabling verticals, e.g. Smart city, smart manufacture, self driving …- Improving Telecom, e.g. network operations, production & services, customerexperience…

User stories

Business requirement &

Architecture

Business requirements & architectures:1) AN services: requirements and key metrics- Revenue growth:

1. Automated network services e.g. VPN, SD-WAN, 5G slicing2. Automated ICT services e.g. network + cloud + edge3. Automated digital enabling services e.g. ICT services + platforms (operations, collaboration)

-Operations efficiency.:

4. Pipeline operations automation e.g. predefined services and operations5. Flexible agile operations e.g. platform based, dynamic process, flexible production

2) Business architecture & operations models Business/network operations models, simplified network architecture, autonomous domains, and autonomous levels of closed loops:- Cross layer user closed loop- Business operations closed loop- Network operations closed loop- Network resource closed loop

Technical Architecture(Operations)

Technical architectures:1) High level architecture

-Key functions (Operations)-Interfaces & APIs

2) Autonomous levels of key functions3) Solution scenarios PoCs

(Catalyst)PoCs/Catalyst projects:- One complete or partial AN services per user stories

Business requirements

Technical Architecture(Networks)

ODA

Open APIs

Implementation(e.g. ONAP)

Testing & VerificationTesting and verification:（ TBD（- Measurement and certification of autonomous levels

DMM, AI MM

Digital ecosystem,

Insight& intelligence, Experience

…

Vision & ecosystemVision & ecosystem:- Cross Industry digital transformation (business growth and operation efficiency)- Cross industry Collaboration (CSPs, IDOs/SDOs, verticals, suppliers etc.)

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Current status

May 2019: Published 1st industry whitepaper July 2019: Established official project August 2019: Completed vision doc Ongoing works:

User stories/use cases (DTNA, definition on 7 structing use stories) Business requirements/business architecture (Rel 1.0, December 2019) Technical architecture/specifications (Rel 1.0, February 2020) Aimed to have Catalyst showcase (June 2020)

References:• TMF whitepaper (Release 1.0): Autonomous Networks: Empowering Digital Transformation For The

Telecoms Industry.• TMF workshop in May, 2019 Nice: TM Forum Spotlight: Autonomous networks – building the network of the

future. • Vision doc: https://projects.tmforum.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=121700417

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Conclusion

• Launched in May 2019 (BT, China Mobile, Orange, Telstra, Ericsson, Huawei)

• Start from user stories and business architecture

• Collaborate with vertical and industry organizations

• Plan catalyst projects

• Recruit more members and partners

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Thank you