Colt's presentation from Telco Cloud Forum on Visualisation, Cloud and Connectivity

1. The Future of Telco
Cloud
Virtualisation, Cloud and Connectivity
Malcolm Orr
Senior Platform Architect
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2. Who we are
29 Data
centres
Worldwide
Global Provider
of Network
Voice
Data centre
Managed Cloud
28 Countries
200 Cities
47 MAN’s
5000+
Colt Staff
2014 Revenues

3. Software is eating the world
Enterprise
V
Greenfield,
New Product
& Platform
Legacy
Systems
V
Start-up
most People don’t care about the platform

4. DIY
Provider
Continuing the DIY
approach, some
enterprises build on
virtualisation by
choosing to deliver
their own private cloud
or consume public or
managed private cloud
Most enterprises
have been virtualising
their IT estate, up to
90% in some cases.
However some
organisation have
chosen to outsource
their infrastructure
Ultimately being able
to consume any
infrastructure,
platform or software
services in a more
flexible commercial
manner will drive
business agility.
Reducing Operational BurdenCost Optimisation Agility
Eating the iceberg
Server Virtualisation
Out-sourcing/
Co-location
Private Cloud
Public/ Managed Cloud
• Software defined x
• Hybrid Cloud

5. Enterprise
Best
efforts
The future of telco cloud?
End-usercompute
Private IaaSData that
Can not move
Data that
Can move
Managed Service/
Contract Flexibility
Managed
Connectivity
Telco SDDC
DIY DIY
Public Cloud
Managed IaaS
Cloud Broker
Legacy

6. Target
The journey to software defined data centre
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Server
Virtualisation
Network
Virtualisation
Storage
Virtualisation
Software
Defined
Data centre
Current
2-5 Year
Traditional 3
Tier Routing
& Switching
CLOS
architecture
with DC SDN
Commercial Hypervisor
Open
Source
Hypervisor
Containers
Integrated
WAN & DC
SDN/NFV
Traditional
Block and
File
Object
Based
Block, File and Object Software on
Commodity Hardware
Network Function
Virtualisation

7. DC SDN
Controller
End-to-end orchestration/automation
Customer L2/L3 Packet
DWDM Optical
DC Fabric
INTERNET
L2
VM
VM
Virtual L3
CPE
Existing
EMS
Cyan Blueplanet
(device manager)
Public Cloud
Public Cloud
Controller
X-Fabric
NFV
Orchestrator
WAN SDN
Controller
VMware
OpenStack
Colt OSS
Colt Data CentreColt Node
New
Current

8. Telco as a cloud consumer
• Quicker to market
• More cost efficient
• Meet customer project timelines
• Staff BYOD program underpinned by VDI solution hosted on Colt Cloud
• New SAP Financial system will be hosted on our hosted SAP offering
• NFV phase 1
1 Deliver more
virtualised
functions e.g. NFV
2 Reduce CAPEX
& bespoke
solutions
3 Bring to market
new vendors &
products
Allowing us to be:
Example

9. Telco’s service offerings in the future
MANAGED
Managed
Hybrid
Cloud
Zero
Infrastructure
Flexible
Contracts
Reducing Operational BurdenCost Optimisation Agility
Public
Cloud
Connectivity
Managed
Private Cloud
Cloud Broker
OPEX/PAYG
Service
Models
Resources
on-demand
Service in
business
locations

10. Some interesting research
13 May 2015 Presentation title 10

11. Thankyou
For your time