 Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening team. Thank you for joining. We are delighted to be here and thanks to the Hyperledger Global Forum for making this happen. Today, Team IBM will be talking about building transformative platforms for scaling 5G ecosystems using the technology of Hyperledger and I will be joined with my colleagues Matthews Thomas and Aman Deep Singh. Matthews is a distinguished engineer in IBM and is responsible for leading and building a lot of our Hyperledger solutions in partnership with me and Aman Deep is a senior Hyperledger technical specialist infusing AI and cognitive, bringing 5G ecosystems to life. Moving on to the next slide. Let me first start by talking about the addressable market for 5G. The demand and the potential is huge. I will not go into the numbers but it's suffice to say that if you look at any analyst report, if you look at any indicators in the market and if you look at any disruptive industry data points, the market for 5G in terms of data, quantifiable data as well as growth and the potential to transform and disrupt industries is humongous. Moving on to the next slide. There is always a question as we start on what's 5G, what's edge, what are the differences between them and do we need 5G or edge to happen? And I consciously put this slide in the beginning so that it's easily understandable to everybody. 5G is obviously the transformation from 4G to 5G networks. It's about creation of networks to allow data and information to be processed at a much faster scale and speed. So 5G is the natural evolution from 3G, 4G but at much rapid space than the 4G and that's 5G. What edge is, it brings compute functionality to the edge in the network. 5G edge is basically at a much higher speed and at a much reduced latency. The other feature that 5G brings is network slicing which enables you to do new and different functionalities which were not possible but just sticking to the edge. It basically is low latency giving you the speed to do computing much faster, much quickly at the edge of the network. With that, I will hand over to Matt News and go to the next slide. Thanks Apal. So what I will be doing is just giving you an overview of the 5G landscape and then I'll take you through some specific use cases. Now it's very difficult in a 30-minute session to give you an overview of the 5G landscape and some of the key use cases. So everything that will be presented here is going to be extremely high level but if you start off with the left hand side, what you have are different sensors moving off to the right, there are different devices, cameras and these would all then be connected to the 5G network. The 5G network could be connected to what we call an edge cluster. Within telco terms it will be known as a mech, a multi-edge compute node that could say run in a stadium that could run close to the premise where the specific operation needs to happen so that we get quick responses. Then we have the core 5G network that you see with that cloud and that also has some edge components and that will in turn be connected to public and private clouds. The reason for bringing this up is to illustrate to everyone that there's a huge opportunity for blockchain here because you have multiple parties each bringing their specific services to this ecosystem and each of them or especially some of the key individuals here need to know what exactly is happening where, when and why in order to ensure that the system operates properly, billing and everything else is successfully executed. Next page please. Let's go ahead and talk about some of the use cases. There are multiple use cases here that you see. We are in the process of working and implementing several of these with multiple CSP partners and customers because a lot of these use cases are focused on other industries but what I will do is just give a very high level overview of just a few and then take a bit of a deeper dive into some of the remaining ones. The basic idea behind spectrum management is the ability to manage your spectrum and the ability to lease it out and once others have the ability to temporarily use the spectrum, what happens is you use the key functions of blockchain such as decentralization, transparency, immutability, take your pick. All these are very important from a spectrum management perspective because once you've been allocated that spectrum, everybody gets to know about it. It cannot be changed until the next transaction occurs and so on and so forth. I'll get into a bit of a deeper dive into infrastructure network and security but there are also specific ones around smarter healthcare and smarter cities. I'll just pick a couple of these smarter cities is one that we're working in quite a bit and that's primarily around routing traffic, making sure the traffic is being routed to the appropriate locations and we're able to respond quickly and provide the appropriate services to ensure that the city runs smoothly and this becomes even more important when first responders have to respond to a specific issue. Worker safety is where you'd like to ensure that a worker is safe and if they ever say enter into a danger zone or do an activity that is dangerous within a fraction of a second you'd like to know that but blockchain needs to capture all these transactions because these are legal and other issues and that's where blockchain comes in. Let's move to the next one I'm on. So let's take a couple of these just from a very high-level perspective. Slice is a very important concept in 5G and blockchain plays an important role when it comes to slice. So hopefully all of you can see the blockchain icon that's right out there in the hybrid cloud. So from our implementation perspective is when you create a slice it will impact several of the core network components within the 5G network and so you'll see things such as VDU, VCU, core, etc. For those who are network specific they'll recognize all of these but for those of you don't just consider these as some key components within the 5G network. So when a slice is created using an orchestration engine it has to go through these multiple vendors create the slice at multiple locations and then on the MEC they will also be a network components running as well as the actual application running. So in the example of that worker safety use case that I gave that application would actually be running on the MEC and would be deployed there but as you can see there are multiple thing parties here. As we deployed you know everybody would like to understand what was deployed everybody would like to understand if there was a failure where it happened why did it happen and then as we're running am I meeting certain SLAs and if I'm not meeting them you know how close was I to meeting them if their issues running on my MEC and this MEC could be distributed in multiple locations and this is where and Aman will show you in the solution where we keep track of all these different transactions and ensure that the appropriate relevant ones are there so that the billing and everything else happens correctly. The next one that we're going to look at Aman if you could just go to the next slide that's just one example of one use case within 5G it would be security. Security is a big one here so there are multiple aspects from a security perspective so you know there could be let's say there's a security violation on one of your components okay you would like to know immediately about it and multiple parties could again be involved in this you need to detect investigate and respond and blockchain would be the transactional that keeps a track of all these are all the different parties who are involved in this can find out exactly what happened where and why and what was remediation and what could be done to rectify it in the future. Let's go to the next one the last one that I'm going to cover briefly is so far we've just taken some network specific use cases looked at the 5G network and illustrated how blockchain plays a role but the other thing to keep in mind is the 5G infrastructure is a complex infrastructure it requires a large amount of capital investments and for example 5G requires approximately five times the number of base stations that 4G required so what needs to happen is this when we go out and when the CSP start going out and doing this with the multiple parties there's the investments you know the whole resource tendering aspect of this finding out who isn't involved who would like to broker there's the matching between the resources and then lease agreements have to be created which go through an evaluation process there has to be a final settlement process where everybody agrees on this is what we should do then there's an execution in terms of the actual deployment of the 5G network whether it be laying out the radio heads or everything else putting out the mech and or everything else that happens in between so as you can see multiple parties involved here multiple products multiple difference of services and agreements that need to happen and blockchain this is one of the areas also that we're working on where blockchain plays an important role now what I'll do is pass it off to Aman we will actually look at one of these cases and get into some more details all yours Aman. Thanks Matthew so in today's session we're going to cover an example of how we are using Hyperledger to track the supply chain of our network services as it is being deployed on the network cloud and network edge and also on the applications that we're deploying to the edge and how we are bringing it all together giving a one single view to different parties involved in this process and how we are managing the transactions related to each and every assets it could be virtual or physical network functions and also virtual and physical application and IoT devices that are deployed on the edge on a single Hyperledger platform distributed across different clouds so this is an example of an architecture that we used in the and the demonstration that you're going to see after this so you can see how we have divided this amongst three different clouds one is the CSP cloud where we are hosting the BSS and the OSS platform which includes our service design orchestration and operations for network cloud also our edge application management which is responsible for deploying application IoT devices in the same layer we have also embedded our Hyperledger fabric and the smart contract that is running on the Hyperledger fabric which holds the details of all the agreements and the rules and policies that the supply chain should follow then we are also hosting blockchain peer node on this cloud which and in our case it's all running on a Kubernetes environment which we are using OpenShift for then similar blockchain peers and Hyperledger layer can also be deployed on the vendor side which can also be hosted on the CSP environment and thus there's a blockchain network created between these peers and the peers that are running on the network cloud as well so on the network cloud you can see that we have a networking layer on OpenShift which is running some of the core network functions like 5G core our IMS and VCU from the Vran and then we also have our edge analytics and blockchain peer node running on the network cloud then finally on the network edge is where we are deploying the edge network functions like VDU and there could be also a user plane function for the 5G that can be deployed close to the edge which sits close to the IoT and the application layer which we are deploying using our edge management so we can have a local database that metrics and components and that can be optionally passed via integration using REST APIs with the blockchain peer running on the network cloud and CSP cloud or if we want to further reduce down the latency we can also deploy a blockchain peer close to the edge as an optional example so before I go to an example of a video of this live demonstration I now want to give another perspective or another view of this use case this was a more detailed architecture example I quickly go here just want to highlight that but will but a flow of this use case will look like so in this case now let's say we have all the network functions and applications onboarded ready to be deployed so we can now have our integration done with the BSS OSS layer which is hosting an auto management or a service catalog management software or a platform which can take request for new services to be deployed now the service can be as complex as this one that will see that will have many different network components to be deployed and different applications to be deployed in different network clouds now how to manage the lifecycle of each and every component that will be deployed as part of the service so as our orchestrator is deploying let's say in this example it will be deploying a 5G code with the network slice on it it will be deploying IMS it will be deploying RSTN controller to manage the transport layer it will be deploying the VCU and VDU for VLAN and then it will also trigger our edge application manager to deploy I to deploy to smart IoT devices or applications at the edge how we are managing all the transaction related to licenses inventory of these different components is where hyper ledger is playing a very key role and also not just to manage the lifecycle of this assets but also to share insight into this life cycle across different parties involved in this supply chain that could be vendors for these different network functions and application devices it can also be any other service agents that are involved during the installation and provision process so with that I'll move to the demo video to show an example of this use case so this is our friendship he's actually acting as a let's say a worker who's in a network edge environment or we can say industry example and we need to now deploy a particular application and a network layer onto that edge to make sure that we are applying policies to monitor this worker that he's wearing a proper hard hat or he's wearing mask at the center for his safety so in this case now we go to a particular portal which can which which has the list of services that we can select from and we can enable on this particular network edge so here we are going into the 5G service category and then we are selecting a particular network slice example which is being suggested here this service basically will then trigger our order management tool that order management tool is going to break in the service into subsequent smaller service orders and then those service orders will be fulfilled by the CSP working with let's say different parties and this example let me start back a minute on this page so the service worker can be working with a equipment provider or field agent network function providers to provide those different assets to fulfill this service order for this network service so in this case there could be different licenses involved there could also be any other inventory check to be followed so if you can see here and I'll go back to this towards the end that all these blocks are basically just transactions being recorded in the process of this supply chain or fulfilling disorder we jumped ahead a little bit to the last step for today's session since we don't have enough time so basically once all the licenses are fulfilled it will then send a request to our network orchestration tool to provision that network slice and in this example and we're just going to go to the service design of that network slice will include the following different components and in this case we'll have a 5G code which is a containerized function that will be deployed on one network cloud and then we'll also have the edge management layer which will deploy the actual worker safety application on the industry edge so this that was just an example to show how complex these services can be in the 5G and Edge environment and how we can use hyperledger to track the details of all these different components so I'll jump a little forward so here we can see as the orchestrator is deploying all these different components and we can see that they are being the pods or the containers are being deployed onto different cloud and edge environments all in the back end will be tracked as different individual transactions with the API integration tool all these orchestration platform onto the hyperledger here and will be visible to different parties as required on their own dashboards so moving forward a bit so here in addition to the network service orchestration we also have our assurance platform where we may be monitoring different network events as the services are being deployed any alarms any other security threats to be monitored and any other topology events to be monitored in this case we can see that now the services have been running we can also see any status of a particular network component at a particular time and this is just from the perspective of the orchestration and operation platform but later on we'll see that how this can be also shared from the transactional information from hyperledger onto the dashboard of CSP the enterprise customer and the vendors were responsible for maintaining these service and operation so just to continue what happened next in this service orchestration is that the edge management also went ahead deployed the policy for object detection on that worker safety environment and in this case as that is getting deployed using our edge application management we will be able to now see that it's able that person on the edge now let's say we want to update this policy to make it more unable to detect a particular hard head or a particular mask in this scenario in this case we are saying that it's not ready yet so we are basically going to go back to our orchestration platform do an upgrade on the service to add a new object detection model for the worker safety in this case we are changing this to a hard hat model now and as we go ahead and deploy this then we'll be able to see that now the edge application is upgraded to detect that particular worker with hard head or a mask on for its own safety so in this case I'm just going to move further yeah so now that the application edge is updated now we can see that the model is able to detect the hard hat and also be able to detect any mask or any other requirements for worker safety so this was just an example of how we are orchestrating end-to-end service on our 5g and our edge cloud and now going back to the transactional view so I'm just going to go to go here on this page so this is actually a this is not a product dashboard this is actually a demo dashboard that we created for this use case so here you can you can see as the CSP was working on deploying that particular application on our network and the application edge it was working with different parties in this supply chain equipment provider field agents to go in and configure those devices at the edge and maybe with vnf providers to provide the network functions and any other elements required to be configured so in this case as basically this was being processed all the transactions were getting recorded on our blockchain platform so let's say in this case if I quickly run through a few steps let's say there's a equipment provider who needs to provide that equipment and is accepting the order so we are also managing any SLAs that are involved in the in the supply chain of this service asset so in this case let's say that the physical equipment was delivered but it was delivered with a delay so so we can automatically apply these SLA agreements between the the operation between a CSP and equipment provider said so that in this case let's say if there was a delay the SLA can say that the completion SLA was not met so it may reflect into any billing or policy between the CSP and this equipment provider in this in this example when the SLA was met the billing was 2000 and if it's not met it's came down to 1500 just as a very small example of how these SLAs can be managed further down let's say that in our example of that video we saw that once the services are getting deployed those IoT devices are getting activated and those models are getting deployed we are also managing the configuration of those devices so what we are doing is we are actually calculating a device hash that maps to the existing configuration of those devices as the edge and we are storing that mapping it to every asset identity on our blockchain platform or a hyper ledger platform so in case let's say someone goes in and tampers with this device at the edge and I'm just going to go past a few steps we can also show that if someone like currently the status is authorized if someone goes in and messes up with the devices at the edge or someone is trying to add a security threat to the functions running on the cloud it can be tracked onto the hyper ledger platform as a threat and this status can change to unauthorized and will be easily visible to the equipment providers and other parties responsible for remediating that action so again we're running short on time but I just want to quickly go and show a quick view of the transactional view as well and how these transactions can be made visible to different participants in this ecosystem with that I'll conclude the live demonstration part and I'll give it back to Uthpal for the conclusion and also the parent version. Thank you very much Aman. So team we typically get a lot of questions on how to start the journey on 5g and edge how to make sure that it's smooth how to mitigate potential challenges when you get into that journey and so what we have done here is classified it into four buckets if you will the most important thing as you get onto the transformative journey is talent talent having the right people the right skills and also having a transformative mindset so that's the first bucket that you see over there and it requires organizations to have the right skills the right set of talents because the skills for 5g and edge are different than your traditional it skills. The second is applying the right technologies to enable the 5g on the edge and what I mean by that is technologies like AI blockchain IoT all of those are getting prevalent and in fact in many cases and in a lot of the cases all of those combined with the native cloud the hybrid cloud becomes critical core components from a technology standpoint for success. The third is the new ways of working the traditional days of the waterfall models are changing it's about try fast and fail fast it's about cooperating and co-opting with potential competitors and working collaboratively with them in an ecosystem and then the last but not the most important is obviously this can be done anywhere in the world as long as it's 5g enabled so the location becomes a non-issue all of these can be handled globally depending on the CSP that we're working with or the geography that we're working with as long as it has the 5g enablement and obviously the technology the skills can all be provided remotely and virtually with that team I closed the session hopefully it was helpful productive if there are any questions please put it on the right side on the chat as well as please feel free to reach out to the moderator after the session is over if you have any questions and we'll be more than happy to respond to that later on thank you and bye for now