 Yeah, all right. Well, thank you everyone for for attending our session. I know it's during lunch time, but hopefully it'll be worth your time Let me just do a quick poll. So first, let me introduce myself. I'm mizba. Mamoudi Head of product marketing at VMWare Responsible for NFV infrastructure platform also presenting with me today is Ken Lee Who's also head of product marketing on the Dell EMC side for for the carriers? So I just want to understand who here is a telco operator. Okay, you guys okay the rest of you guys are just spying on us Anyway, so what I want to do today is essentially Talk a little bit about the digital transformation around What telcos really require and how opens that can help them as well, especially with VMware and Dell EMC? and what I'll do is I'll kind of go through kind of the market trends and Some things around IOT and 5g and then how you can actually deploy NFV infrastructure Along with Dell EMC to actually provide a complete comprehensive NFV solution for your different services So everyone here is very much familiar with the trends around the connected ecosystem everything from wearables from your smart home with all the thermostats Being able to stream audio video the different business models that are coming in place with a smart pay Being able to pay everything online or with your mobile device and then there's also the networks in the clouds and That really is you know moving from your private Clouds to you know telco NFV clouds and then also into the public clouds and All of that is actually transforming the way that as an operator You really need to focus in on in terms of how you're actually going to implement new infrastructure new technologies to be able to support a lot of this transformation and then there's a trend around 5g networks and Traditionally, you know everyone's talked about you know moving from 2g to 3g to 4g and now 5g and and it's really been around High-speed networks right you want to be able to have faster to broadband speeds And that's why people have been you know migrating from 3g to 4g to 5g networks And then there's also the high-performance networks where you have low latency high availability But then really 5g is more than just high-speed broadband. It's really around supporting The internet of things and I'll show you in the next couple of slides what I mean by that But 5g with deploying 5g you're able to take advantage of this massive trend of Billions of different connected devices going through the network and how are you actually going to be able to support that and That's actually is done through network slicing and my next slide. I'll show you what I mean by network slicing But then also to move to 5g you really need to do this Virtually everything in your network has to be virtualized and you you know looking at trends around you know Software-defined networking and obviously NFV. This is what's actually going to enable you not just To be able to take advantage of the high broadband speeds But then to be able to offer new innovative services for your customers And NFV is really going to help you deploy The type of network infrastructure which allows you then to take advantage of all of these different services So how many of you are familiar with network slicing? That's something that you guys are understand a few people okay So the thing wouldn't 5g and and the the standards are coming out right now but what that allows you to do is actually carve out components of your network and Address them for specific verticals So for example, you know you look at the internet of things and you have devices you have your thermostat that actually requires a low bandwidth type of Environment where you're not necessarily looking at you know these these home devices are not taking up a lot of bandwidth on your network But then you have things around virtual reality High bandwidth high latency or low latency type of environments and you need to again carve out part of your network to be able to support that And then you go to the bottom You've got your connected car ecosystem and if you want to offer a connected car type of service You really require a low latency highly available network That really needs to respond right away and the only way to do that is actually to carve out parts of your network and slice them up and Then for each network slice you are to then assign different network resources for those And so what I mean by that is for a low latency highly available network You actually require then the compute storage networking resources and you want to make sure that that part of the network is rock solid Whereas if it's a another device or if it's you know Connecting to your home network and low bandwidth. You don't necessarily need to apply a lot of different resources Onto that part of the network slice so network slicing is a huge advantage for 5g networks and With VMware with our vCloud NFV platform As well as with Dell EMC. We're able to then carve out those networks and then you can then Define them and actually customize them for each of the different Applications that you have here So when you think about network infrastructure, there's five main areas that you have to take into consideration When you're deploying an FBI The first thing is really around service automation So this is really around how do I actually deploy the different vnfs in my network? And how am I actually going to automate that provisioning of those different vnfs? Right Think about 5g networks think about all the different services. You're going to be deploying there They're actually going to be different vnfs and you want to be able to deploy those very quickly very efficiently And you actually want to have policies based on you know, what to do for the deployment of those different vnfs Now when you look at the networking and security you're looking at a Multitenant environment where you have multiple applications Serving multiple customers and you want to make sure that each tenant that you actually deployed is secure Not only from the outside from DDoS attacks, but then also inside as well You know you want to make sure that your network is secure from any rogue vnfs for example, right? And it's contained within that network slice of yours Now that you have your network deployed you have to have to look at two operations management This is kind of the day two Operations which is you know once you have your vnfs deployed What do you do now? How do you actually monitor your nfv infrastructure? How do you monitor the different vnfs in your in your environment and can support that full life cycle management including? Upgrades downgrades patches and and other things You need to have a carrier grade platform Same type of environment that you require for on your physical inside of the network has to be required on the network side as well And then there's the broad partner ecosystem So vm where actually has this nfv ecosystem Certification program for the different vnfs and we have over 35 different vnfs certified on our program and I'll get into a little bit about that in terms of what value that actually brings to you and your customers so you take a look at The blue and that is essentially what vmware is providing today, which is the compute storage networking for your nfvi Now on the VIM the virtual infrastructure manager. We actually provide two versions We have vCloud director and then we also have a fully def core compliant open stack version as well And what that is is we actually take the the latest release of open stack and we've actually pre-integrated pre-tested it with our nfvi infrastructure platform So that ensures that it gives you the flexibility to use open stack But then gives you the rock-solid capabilities that vmware provides on the compute storage and networking and Then we also have the analytics the operations management with our V realized operations V realized log insight and network insight that gives you some of that day two capabilities From our orchestration, you know very VMware is very much open to different open standards bodies So we support Tosca OSM open O Amongst other open organizations. So that allows our customers to choose You know what they want to be able to deploy for their management and orchestration and ensure that it works fully with VMware infrastructure and just some of the solutions that we're deploying today With our customers include virtual IMS CPE virtual evolve packet core SD when Virtual CDN as well as connected car and IOT are some of the examples for our customers so what I want to do now is actually step through a process of You know, you want to deploy a service What does it actually mean from an NFV infrastructure platform? And what do you actually need to think about when you're deploying the NFV infrastructure? So you have different services that you can deploy, you know in your data center or in the edge And you want to deploy for example video service for a connected car What you need to be able to ensure is that you can actually onboard the different vnf's You can actually create the different services based on your customer requirements And you want to be able to make sure that you deploy it very quickly The results of that obviously is you know speeding out your and accelerating Faster time to market ease of deployment and you want to be able to automate the scale of your infrastructure So when it comes down to what do you actually need then from an NFV infrastructure? You actually need to have the infrastructure in place where you can actually define the different policies To allocate the resources for your service creation, you know, we talked about the network slices and Each one was going to require different resources based on what those network characteristics are going to be So you actually want to have those predefined policies in place so that for example you want to deploy connected car which it has Highly available low latency network you want to be able to apply the compute storage networking resources appropriately for that service Once you have that deployed you actually want to be able to track The NFVI resource consumption and what I mean by that is you want to be able to constantly Monitor how the NFVI resources are doing, you know, you might have an uptick in Adoption of that different service and so from that perspective you actually want to be able to then on demand increase your compute storage and networking resources based on the capacity Provide real-time analytics and get some real-time performance input in terms of how your actual infrastructure is actually being deployed Automating the capacity optimization again You want to be able to upgrade downgrade based on real-time capacity demand and you actually want to have that all automated right because once it's all automated then you can just let the network be you can actually let the network track how the Consumption is going and then you worry about your core business, which is adding new value added services for your customers Then of course vmware is very much open to Using open standards, so we actually leverage Tosca blueprints for onboarding we use yang net comp all of those You know easy to use blueprints where we can actually deploy new service creation very easily using our NFVI infrastructure So because this is an open stack Conference we have to show you a couple of slides that show exactly how vmware uses open stack and leverages open stack to actually deploy Different services actually in our booth. We've got a couple of Demos which actually goes through the whole process of onboarding different services for a virtual IMS connected car Leveraging open stack and you can see here on the right-hand side is the network topology of a full deployment And in this case, it's actually a virtual IMS deployment where you have your PS PCs SCFs your SBCs Your HSS devices being configured Leveraging our NFVI infrastructure platform Okay, so now that you have your service deployed now you actually want to look at what can it do in terms of expanding the services And doing things around network slicing And so I've got this example here where on the bottom you actually have your video services deployed And now you actually want to deploy navigation and emergency services for a connected car for example, you know Your customers as an operator could be like a Tesla. It could be a Chevrolet BMW and you want to deploy these services for those customers Now each Service here your video service your navigation service your emergency service as I mentioned all of them have different network characteristics And they all have to be treated separately and so with a secure multi-tenant environment you are able to separate those services into verticals and then Apply different network characteristics. So for example emergency calling you need to ensure that it's highly available highly reliable It's on all the time Whereas if it's a video service Sure, it has to be available most of the time But if there are as any jitters or if there's any delay latency you can afford that right people will be More forgiving if their video doesn't download in the car versus if they actually pressed an emergency service button from their car so you need to be able to customize the different services and Actually deploy your network resources Based on the different service that you have So what does that mean from an NFV infrastructure platform? First of all, you need to be able to segment the different virtual resource pools into isolated network slices You need to define those different security policies based on the different service deployments that you have Providing the predefined SLAs so again for your emergency calling service You actually want to have different SLAs are required and you want to be able to customize that Based on, you know the different compute storage networking resources that are required Then of course security is paramount especially when you're looking at things around the internet of things where security is still not a hundred percent and With this our platform we actually provide security In both directions both, you know north south between the infrastructure the VNF and the management orchestration system and then we also provide Security across east-west traffic as well between the different virtual machines and the different shared resources And this is paramounted as well because for example, you may actually actually have security secure from outside DDoS attacks But then you need to also make sure that within that slice itself as it actually contains so for example if a VNF Does become impacted by a security attack you want to make sure that that's security You know that attack and that breach is contained within that slice and does not propagate, you know east-west and Without solutions with you know NSX that actually provides you that capability to provide that secure multi-tenant environment And here we actually show a couple of screenshots the actual demos are in our booth, but we actually show what right here How the configuration is done using? vCenter which is our VMware environment to actually go ahead and define the different security policies for each of you different virtual machines and Here on the right-hand side We're actually showing where we're actually securing the different services at the perimeter as well as at the edge itself of the network So now we've talked about service deployments. We've talked about adding services and network slicing So you have all that in place The third biggest thing is really around operations management and this I think is key and fundamental to your network deployments and What I mean by operations management is you really once you have your network deployed You have to have real-time analytics feedback in terms of what's the performance and capacity of my network like? What's the health of my network? Are there any VNF's down that are service impacting and I should be alerted of with VMware and our suite of Operations management products we're able to give you that complete dashboard which gives you the health efficiency and risks of your entire network Proactive analytics so this again learns What's going on in your network and is actually able to then predict? You know if there is going to be an uptick in the specific service or that you're starting to gain a lot of subscribers That's going to actually tell you then to add more compute storage network and resources So that your infrastructure can actually handle the additional subscribers in your network We provide Realized log insight that actually provides you pinpoint information around what exactly is Wrong if there is a fault, you know, you can actually provide that information about where exactly that fault is through logs And then we also have realised network insight which actually provides Overlay an underlay network information around the actual networks itself through NSX and gives you again detailed information around the network connectivity of your network and It's important that you have this operations management across multiple tiers so it's not just again on the Infrastructure which is the hypervisor and operating system, but we are actually then looking at it from a networking perspective As well as on the services side as well. So, you know getting the health of your different bnf's and Then you know some of our operators they've actually deployed and it's something that's very interesting and it's kind of you know Where the market is heading which is a lot of Operators have essentially three different clouds, right? You know, you've got your telco it cloud and you want to virtualize that You then also have your NFV cloud and you've got all your vnf's and you want to virtualize that Now a lot of operators are then looking into what can I do around management manage cloud or a public cloud? And how do I actually deploy? VMs across all of those clouds But then also provide the operations management across all of those and that's where VM Where it's cross-cloud architecture comes into place, which is essentially we give you the ability to provide the the management the automation security any of the policies Across multiple clouds that you're deploying For example, we actually have a customer In the Middle East is doing exactly this which is they have their their IT environment and they virtualize that They actually have their telco or their NFV environment and the deploying virtual IMS services And they want to use the same VM where infrastructure the NFV infrastructure to actually then move that into the cloud as well and be able to manage across all three clouds and This becomes very important for you to be able to scale out into the different clouds and have a consistent management user experience Across all of those different clouds in a multi-tenant environment So I touched upon the partner ecosystem So VM where has a NFV certification program and what that certification program does is We actually bring on different VNF vendors into our lab and we have a full comprehensive certification testing program in place and As an operator why this is important for you is because you can then be you can rest assured that any of these different VNFs that we have here And we're updating this on a daily basis But all of these are going to be certified on NFV infrastructure and that gives you then the peace of mind that everything works as is We've actually had it where operators are demanding these VNFs the the vendors to actually have them certified Before they even go to RFP And then obviously we have the management and orchestration vendors on our right-hand side For example cladify M docs that all work with our NFV infrastructure platform as well as some of the system integrators here So that gives you a broad overview of the NFV infrastructure platform So now I'm going to have Ken Lee come up and talk a little bit about the Dell EMC platform and how that actually integrates Thanks, miss well all right, so let me spend the next 15 minutes or so and Talking about how Dell EMC works with VMware to provide service providers and unify cloud infrastructure platform Optimize validated and preconfigured for NFV workloads So what we look at is how can we help service providers modernize the infrastructure that you already have to service multiple types of workloads, right? I think it's obvious that NFV is one type of workload that operators have But you have other lines of business with other types of workloads And so what we look at is if you're a communication service provider or a cloud provider Managed hosting a web tech or all the above There are some key attributes that you need to manage and automate and and deliver those workloads to different customers whether they're enterprises or Consumers right and so the key attributes that a modern what we call a modern service provider is the ability to offer NFV Obviously, but also have a cloud native infrastructure Containerizing some of these workloads Managing multiple clouds on behalf of enterprises miss Balued to this right In enterprise are looking at not just the vendor lock in just to AWS or one Azure But they're managing increasingly multiple public clouds and workloads across them hybrid cloud management workloads on-premise As well as off-premise and then of course the DevOps model of app dev So the way we work with VMware is obviously Dell EMC provides a core hardware infrastructure platform across compute stores and networking But what makes it a cloud infrastructure platform is a software layer, right? so a lot of Obviously in the enterprise IT virtualization is something that a lot of customers already have But increasing the service provider market virtualizing network functions is a key attribute that they need to have orchestrating that automating that right Providing real-time analytics into the workloads that you've automated and orchestrating and then securing that and of course the ability to Offer that increasingly in a cloud native environment containerizing the workloads that you have And so if you're a managed hosting provider the ability to host workloads that are just not running on VMs What are containers is increasingly a need that they have right and also ability to have analytics across increasingly if you're bringing IOT Devices into your network and miss but talked about how 5g's gonna be Facilitating that as Dell EMC and VM where we want to provide the underlying hardware and the software to service multiple workloads Regardless of the type of service provider that that you may be or looking to work with right? specific to NFV and again, I think that CSPs on the are on a journey To virtualize their core infrastructure and their network functions, right? And so we work with multiple vnf partners that VMware has certified and the use cases are at the top right vpc vims vcps The man these are so common set of network functions that are being virtualized and for you know compute Virtualization storage virtualization and network virtualization We work very closely with VMware to provide those assets to service fighters, right? And then in terms of orchestrating that virtual infrastructure is clearly Vio and vCloud director and I think that this is very important because service providers want choice and Working with VMware. We're able to provide that choice right not only at the Vim layer But also at specifically at the vnf layer, right? And then when it comes to operations management, I think this is a point that mizba made is that Operationalizing NFV is what's happening today as Dell EMC We want to focus on helping service providers operationalize and start to turn and monetize The NFV deployments that they're having right and so we want to focus on is real, you know working with VMware's vrealized suite as well as Dell EMC assets to help operationalize the vnf workloads that are going into production and There's a you know the way Dell EMC delivers these solutions working with VMware is sort of these three go-to-market models There's a lot of service providers who have the R&D Resources to do it yourself. That's the open ecosystem approach, right? You pick Dell EMC hardware you pick the workloads at the top and you pick the infrastructure platform of your choice And obviously that could be vio or or vCloud director And you could pick whatever workloads that you want to put on top of that an engineer that yourself So that's sort of the open ecosystem approach Certain service providers are like well, you know what? I don't want to do all of that integration myself Why don't you come to the table with the infrastructure software and the hardware pre bundled pre validated pre certified? Optimized for certain workloads and it could be a whole slew of vnfs that necessarily it's up to you right the vnfs that certain Asian operators want are very different than say certain Latin American operators want versus say in the Americas so we want to make sure that the operators have choice in terms of what vnfs they choose but we can supply the Core infrastructure platform software and hardware pre bundled out of the box from Dell EMC and VMware That's sort of the validated systems approach The third approach is that let's say that you want the actual set of vnfs Pre-certified together with the infrastructure hardware and the software right out of the gate out of the box And that's the reference architecture approach that we have we work with currently three sets of vnfs suppliers But again because VMware has a broad ecosystem of NFV partners We actually can work with those as well to provide reference architectures if that is the Vnfs supplier of your choice right so again three approaches and it's about choice It's about sort of an open ecosystem approach to how you want to operationalize NFV depending on where you are in the journey towards NFV All right. Well, thank you very much. That's all the slides. I have for Dell EMC If you have any questions for miss Bob or myself Okay, great Is that you have any last Comments nope All right. Thanks very much guys for taking time in your lunch hour. Thank you. I appreciate it