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3. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
SoftCOM:
Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and
Services in the New Digital Age
Sanqi Li
CTO, Carrier Network BG
Huawei

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• Every business is becoming a Digital Business
• Business model: Transaction → Engagement
• Market : Constantly Changing & Unpredictable
• Business Operation: Stability → Anti-fragility
M2M
e-Government
e-Health
Smart city
Digital logistics
e-Education
Accelerated Transformation to the Digital World

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Challenges Faced by the Telecom Industry
New Revenue Growth
TCO Reduction
New Value proposition in Digital Age
Future Service Model
Social
Networks
Content
Networks
Enterprise
Networks
Home
Networks
M2M
Networks
Virtual
Networks
Telco
Networks
19%
94%
?
Saturated and Declining
Today’s Service Model
($100B)
Inefficient and Unsustainable
Today’s TCO Structure
TCO
2002 2012
Future TCO Structure
Optimized, Open, Automated & Agile
DevOps
Network
Management
Customer
Services
Cloud IT
Service
Innovation
Capex

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SoftCOM: Transforming Telco Network to Cloud
Eth
Switch
WDM WDMBackbone
Router Router
Eth
Switch
Hardware
RRU
RRU
RRU
Hardware
CPRI
Hardware
Service Cloud
WDM WDMMetro
Operation Cloud
Control Cloud
Cloud Edge
Cloud BB
MxU
ONT
ONT
DSL
Hardware
PON
Cloud
DSL/OLT
Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open

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SoftCOM-MBB: Minimizing Network Transformation Costs
Eth
Switch
WDM WDMBackbone
Router Router
Eth
Switch
Hardware
Hardware
RRU
RRU
RRU
Hardware
CPRI
Hardware
Service Cloud
WDM WDMMetro
Operation Cloud
Control Cloud
Cloud EdgeCloud BB
Software-Defined RF:
• Multi-Band
• Multi-Mode
• Multi-Gen
• All-in-One Blade
Software Defined Baseband:
• 2G, 3G, LTE Combined
• Centralized Control
• Clustered (CloudBB)
• Distributed (Easy Macro)
Software Defined Edge:
• Single Radio Controller (SRC)
• vEPC
• Gi-LAN Chaining
• vCDN
• IP-RAN Controller
• vSBC
Software Defined Core & DC:
• NFV MANO
• CSB
• DC-SDN Controller
• DCI-SDN Controller
• vIMS
• Video

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SoftCOM-MBB: Overview of Customer Engagement
• Blade RRU: Shipment of
~100K modules
• ngRRU: Ongoing
planning with a number of
JIC,
Soft defined RF
• Asia Tier 1 Operator:
Commercial BBU
Stacking BBU for 2G/3G
• China Tier 1 Operator:
Stacking commercial
BBU for CDMA
• China Tier 1 Operator:
Trial conducted CloudBB
Cloud BB
• Europe Tier 1 Operator:
Planned for commercial
deployment in 2014
Software Defined
Edge-SRC
• Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013:
vEPC/vIMS/Gi-LAN chaining
demos
• vEPC/vIMS PoC selected
• Europe Tier 1 Operator in 2013:
• vEPC/Gi-LAN chaining demos
• VoLTE on Cloud POC
• vIMS shortlisted
Software Defined Edge- Cloud

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SoftCOM-FBB: Intelligent Edge and Optimized DC Interconnect
Software Defined Edge:
• vSTB
• vCPE
• vCDN
• vAR (enterprise)
• VDI
• Opt+IP SDN Controller
• Service Chaining (vFW, vLB, vDPI…)
Software-Defined Access:
• OLT OAM automation
Eth
Switch
WDM WDMBackbone
Router Router
Eth
Switch
MxU
ONT
ONT
DSL
Hardware
PON
Hardware
Hardware
Hardware
Service Cloud
WDM WDMMetro
Operation Cloud
Control Cloud
Cloud Edge
Cloud
DSL/OLT
Software Defined Core & DC:
• IP Policy SDN Controller
• DC Interconnect SDN Controller

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SoftCOM-FBB: Overview of Customer Engagement
• OLT OAM automation
- in planning stage
with a China Tier 1
operator
Access
• vSTB
- demos at three
Europe Tier 1
operators in 2012-
2014
- Field trial planned
for 2014 by a Europe
Tier 1 operator.
• vCPE
Field trial in planning
for 2014 by a Europe
Tier 1 Operator
Edge
(Residential)
• vAR
- demos at a Europe
Tier 1 operator in
2013
- Early planning by
China Tier 1 operator.
Edge
(Enterprise)
• IP+Optical SDN
controller
- demo at a Europe
Tier 1 Operator in
2013
• Cloud BNG
- demo at a Europe
Tier 1 Operator in
2013
• IP RAN
- field trial at a China
Tier 1 Operator
Edge
(Controller)
• DC interconnect
controller
-Europe: POC in 2013,
trial planned for 2014
-Japan: POC 2013, trial
planning for 2014
-China: trial planning for
2014
• TE Policy controller
-China #1 OTT: deploy
planning for 2014
-China Operator: field
trial planning
Core & DC

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FusionSphere: Distributed Cloud OS across DC & WAN
with Carrier Enhancement towards ICT Convergence
• Carrier Enhancement centered on distributed environment, HA, low latency and migration
• 50+ commercial deployments & 200k VMs installed in carrier, enterprise and government
• Support of SDN/NFV Initiatives, public/private cloud services and DC consolidation
FusionSphere
Virtualized Distributed AutomatedParallel
DMTF, AWS OpenStack API Telecom API Enterprise API
Computing NetworkStorage
ERP, CRM, OA, Email, …IMS, UC, EPC, BSS, SDP, …EC2, S3, SDB, LB, CDN, …

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Cloud Edge: Transform Network Edge to Cloud
for Simplicity, Scalability, Agility and Differentiations
Hardware
Distributed Cloud OS
vEPC
Cloud Edge
MANO
Cloud Edge - Migration across Mobile Edge, IP Edge & Service Edge
vMS
• Gi-LAN
• vPCEF
vHome
• vSTB
• vCPE
WAN
cntrl
• IP-RAN
• IP+Opt
• NFVO
• VNFM
• VIM
• MME
• PGW
• SGW
• Designed for distributed cloud deployment for feature migration w/o service disruption
• Ensure carrier grade service availability w/o sacrificing performance
• 20+ PoCs in place with trial availability, commercial deployment planned in 3Q14
Network OS

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SoftCOM Execution Strategy:
Be Pragmatic, Structural and Business-driven
HybridOverlay
InterworkInterwork
Underlay Hybrid
ExistingIT
ExistingCT
Existing Core Capabilities
Existing DC Existing Networks
Cloud OS SDN
NFV CEM
Service Enabling
Enabling New Services
Simplifying Operation
Cloud OS Network OS
 Huawei is actively engaged with leading carriers through business partnership
 Co-develop executable entry strategies to bridge legacy world with cloud world
 Early adoption: NFV rich and SDN light with minimum infrastructure transformation cost

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• Co-Chair of WG “Architecture of the Virtualization
Infrastructure”
• Three editor positions in other WGs
• NFV overall Program Manager
• Most active contributor in the following areas: E2E
Architecture, Use Cases, Service Chaining
NFV ISG
• Visible driver for Network Service Chain BoF and “Reliable
Virtualized Network Function (VNF) Pool”
• Active contributor to IETF protocol transition towards SDN
• Joined as silver member
• SIMR WG 1 co-chair
• Several editorships in SIMR WG1, E2EA WG1, Marketing
• Initiated and leads Carrier SDN E2E solution (SD-313) and
Flexible Service Chaining (SD-326)
• Leads WP2/11 (SDN and
resource control) in study period
2013-2016
• Appointed as WP chair and
rapporteurs, editors, set up Sup-
SDN，Q.CSO and Q.SBNG
• JCA-SDN
• Main contributor in Carrier SDN, POF, and evolution
to SDN
• Chair of Migration WG
• Vice Chair of Optical Transport WG
• Became as golden member
SoftCOM: Continually Build and Leverage Ecosystem Foundations

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Summary
SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s infrastructure, operation and
services in the new digital age
Eth
Switch
WDM WDMBackbone
Router Router
Eth
Switch
Hardware
Hardware
RRU
RRU
RRU
Hardware
CPRI
Hardware
Service Cloud
WDM WDMMetro
Operation Cloud
Control Cloud
Cloud EdgeCloud BB
MxU
ONT
ONT
DSL
Hardware
PON
Cloud
DSL/OLT
Dynamic Efficient Scalable Automated Open

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