Update on Telenor Digital's experiences in building a Programmable Telco Core Network, Werner Erikson, Telenor Digital. Presented in the Carnival of the Creators session at TADSummit 2016 15-16 Nov Lisbon

1. Our Software Telco
is soon ready for business
A status update from the kitchen…
werner.eriksen@telenor.com

2. MSC
BSC/
RNC
GMSC
BSS HLR
Radio Access
Network
Mobile Network Operator
(MNO)
SGSN
GGSN
A desire to innovate in the core mobile telco stack...

3. A desire to innovate in the core mobile telco stack...

4. MSC
BSC/
RNC
GMSC
BSS HLR
Radio Access
Network
Mobile Network Operator
(MNO)
SGSN
GGSN
A desire to innovate in the core mobile telco stack...
Customer
Care
Billing
System
Mobile Virtual Network Operator
(MVNO)
Full Infrastructure
MVNO
MSC
HLR/
Auc
GGSN
VAS

5. MNO
MNO
Private Cloud
GTP
VPN
Diameter
VPN
SIGTRAN
VPN
SIP VPN
RTP VPN
MNO
HLR
USSD
GMSC
INTERNET
GGSN
HSS
HOST MNO IP VPN Managed Built
PSTN
App
Server
Public or private cloud
SMSC
MMSC webRTCgw
Policy

6. So, you expect someone to pay for this…
$ 9’s+ =

7. Number of new features correlated to 9’s
0
3
6
9
12
One Two Three Four Five

8. Samples of our experiments
in-browser mobile phone
IFTTT
(if this then that)
Speech to text

9. Our story…
• 2014 What if we could apply some open (source)
software engineering principles to the mobile core
network?
• 2015 Wow - we can do it … even in the clouds!
• 2016 Then bring on some 9’s (while still daring to
innovate) and customers
• 2017 Scale both innovation and size of a (paying)
customer base