 Welcome everybody. Hi, my name is Steve Peacock and I am the global cloud services head Today we are going to make our debut of the open-stack announcement for OP NFV certification and validation Program that Erickson has announced October 30th. We're gonna talk about the program a little bit Some of the details and some of our plans obviously not everything's all put together in regards to OP NFV But we believe this is a proactive investment that we have to make for the OP NFV which we are a Platinum member of and for our industry Customers who are expecting a higher level of Telcom grade performance, which we'll talk a little bit about as well I'm joined on stage with two colleagues, Miguel Weger and Jeff Hollingfield, good and they're gonna go over the details of the program after I give you a little Introduction about why this is important to Erickson, why it's important to our vendors I've prepared some slides. I'll go over those real quickly But I think the easiest way to understand the difference between the telco Telcom industry stack and the network demands and a normal IT environment is to Understand maybe three recent examples that I've seen in my personal life about the performance of the cloud One of the regular commutes that I have in my global role is to go from Stockholm to our suburban offerings in Zinshista and The amazing thing about that commute on the subway is that well first of all It's 20 to 30 meters underground and solid granite and the second thing is that there's fantastic Telco communications underneath that in that granite to Last week when I was traveling there I was standing at the end of the carriage with a fully loaded car and every single person on the car was Looking at their phone not talking on it, but looking at it except for one guy. He was sleeping right and As I looked around there. I realized what kind of revolution we've created in the telco space in the past few years and that how Dependent we are on these devices that everyone in that car was looking at it They were looking at spreadsheets. They were on their social media and then large number of them were watching streaming videos Watching Richard quest on CNN talked about the future of mobile environment the other Recent experience that I had was just last night when I was helping my daughter with her math homework She had recently gotten a test grade of 80 which in our Families a bad thing and over the face time. I was talking with her while at the same time. I was using Khan Academy to remember the things that I'd forgotten in high school and try to explain to her how to run through her homework And it was interesting because the Wi-Fi in the hotel was not strong enough So I switched my phone from Wi-Fi to the telco and I actually improved the FaceTime Video interface between me and my daughter because I didn't want to miss a single Syllabus a single syllable of her explanation of why she got an 80 on a recent test grade and The most recent experience was this weekend when my water heater in my house went out And I had narrowed it down to two different water heaters to replace the old one one that was Wi-Fi connected And one was that not connected well I didn't option for the Wi-Fi one because I didn't think that I wanted my heater to talk to my toaster and talk to my Fidgerator and maybe make an energy coup inside my house, but I think this is three examples of how Dependently are on the cloud performing. It's here today And if you look at the telco environment They have built a very complicated network to make that five nines of performance that high Transaction levels not to miss a single syllable of your daughter's explanation across a video work today The problem is when we introduce open stack and when you introduce this open network environment We're going to unravel all that work that we've done in the last decade when we put it back together We have to make sure that we have the same level of performance That's why Erickson believes that announcing the OP NFE certification program is critical to our customers They'll be asking Erickson to guarantee that level of performance So let's take a look at what we've built The past decade or so we built a very complicated network for those you're unfamiliar with the telco environment It's highly vertical environment lots of different programs interweaved with each other and of course it's all running at five nines It's all running with high levels of transaction and interestingly enough the applications control the infrastructure In a way to make sure that the reliability and the consistency is all there The goal that all the telco operators are working towards right now is to simplify their network so they can expand their network Uncomplicate it so they can add components and pieces to that environment at the same time We're trying to reduce their costs and then the third thing that they're trying to do Which is very interesting is to open up new marketplaces primarily provide services like we see from Terramarck and Amazon and Microsoft to Enterprises data services building commercial clouds and adding that on top of their telcom Infrastructures so they have to build a more modular Environment than what they're looking at today, which is a very complicated environment so as I mentioned telco operators are really dealing with three infrastructures that they want to simplify and manage across the board the first is their telco infrastructure that they've built a very complicated highly integrated the second is the classic IT environment that we see Most of people here at the conference and the third is a commercial cloud capability Three very very different infrastructures today that they're trying to put into a common infrastructure a common Governance model and a common security model that they can manage to reduce their costs So what Erickson is going to be doing over the next few years is this Evolution this revolution occurs is across all three of those environments We'll be using programs like OpenStack and OP NFV to build components and parts that are interchangeable to bring third-party Programs and applications and integrate them with the pieces and parts that we have today all the while keeping an eye on integrating new OpenStack and open OP NFV applications into that environment Now we were very pleased to be a platinum sponsor for the program and we're an active Program in helping set up all the reference standards We have a number of areas that we're going to need to certify because today in this environment if you look at it At a standard environment for a telco industry Companies like Erickson own most of the infrastructure in the future Many of these pieces won't be owned by Erickson, but they'll own by third-party Software companies or vendors and the question is for from our customers How do you possibly guarantee performance when you might have a change to the middleware that occurs somewhere inside these third-party packages? so we'll be using our Laboratories to test the pieces the interoperability of all these pieces to try to give use cases on performance and Guarantee levels of throughput All the time we'll be watching for the different Forays that will be out here new forums and standards Erickson is very committed to bringing in Third-party and open Environments so we'll have to manage multiple types of standards as far as laboratories What we have planned for the labs is to build case studies that will build will provide infrastructure to do those case study tests and then for Vendors in the industry or our customers that come to our laboratory will be able to set up scenarios and give them Performance feedback on those environments The other thing that we'll be watching very closely as far as the reference standard is the management The the mono for this environment because in the telco operations. It's a very complicated Web of architectures Software policies and programs that are integrated into these packages today We have to extrapolate all those things Publish them into some kind of reference standard and then reapply them to the third-party packages that are being integrated to our stack So that'll be some of the objectives of the laboratory. It's out there So as I we announced this on October 30th, we're going to be building two industry laboratories The first is targeted for Europe and the second is going to be targeted for in the States We're not sure exactly what locations we have a number of candidates By early 2015 will have established those laboratories and all the equipment for that We'll be certifying vendors towards the it's the NFE standard We'll be validating Multiple vendors that will be working with our stack or multiple vendors that our clients ask us to certify inside the laboratory We'll be producing benchmark performance based upon those case studies that I mentioned And we'll make sure that we comply with the portability of the VNFs The VNFs are the applications that stand on top of that network. Okay I'll bring up Michael Weegers to talk a little bit more about the details Okay, my name is Michael Weegers Forgive me if I'm don't let's say use all the buzzwords that are coming in cloud my background in the in the company is very much in the telco industry and In primarily I was working with multi-vendor interoperability issues of operators So if you look at the operator, I think This his main concerns when dealing let's say with upgrades It's really that there's a high risk that there are outages There are a lot of quality of services there delays in the deployment and all this kind of stuff And of course now if we introduce cloud solution There is even more in maturity at operators and service providers to bring this into the networks So there's a high degrade and there's a high risk that Operators will lose money will have additional costs that probably let's say also lose customers In case there are big outages and of course, let's say they will also lose some kind of their market position Therefore, I think it's very important that we make sure from the beginning that all the things we want to introduce into the networks Approven and this is based. Let's say both from a vertical Interoperability meaning within the cloud solution, but as well bringing the cloud solution into a legacy network So they are horizontal interoperability is also let's say a key issue that operators need to be addressed What we offer here in let's say from Ericsson point of view is that we try Let's say to to bring those new components into an into an certified platform that is based on an Etsy and OPN of the platform and by doing a Typical verification certification project. We let's say test or verify this new cloud component in this Reference platform. So we deal with all let's say typical project issues We also deal with legal frames, of course We have a debugging face of course in in in the project and at the end Those let's say vendors that come with the cloud to our to our network to our lab They get in certification report and using this certification report gives them evidence gives also a proof That the component is working in an OPN of the Etsy conform platform So how does this look in practice? I have two examples here one Let's say is onboarding and VNF so an application on an existing cloud system or cloud platform And the other one is within the cloud system. Let's say putting in and and and software component on a hardware for example and We are running let's say this verification project by running through test cases that are all based on Etsy and OPN of these Standards so we look at the standards and show the proof points in order to see that these Components that we are onboarding or that we are testing within the vertical solution are are being let's say compliant to to the standardizations This is a proven process that we are using in in the telco industry for more than two decades now It sounds a little bit That this will take time and this will let's say even Let's say increase lead time to the products But at the end it's the opposite by doing this in an early space in an early time of the product development We save time and especially the operator save time because when they get the products They are already proven to work in their environment What you see in this slide is one example from cellular networks Which is basically my home turf and so I'm a little bit more confident to talk about that one What you see is in cloud environment So that one let's say that we are producing with the open stack with the open source But we have to meet it. We have to integrate this cloud environment into a legacy network So there's a network and we cannot let's say Hide this effect the network is there and of course the operators they want to have some return of investment They have invested a lot in this network So we have to make sure that our cloud components are working with the legacy network and that's why how we call it Then horizontal verification horizontal verification to the legacy network I'm doing doing this you see a lot of interfaces here based on CGPP, which is the main standard for for telco industry and We are using let's say processes that are let's say also mature. Let's say for the as I said for the last two decades What I'm is it's a full stack verification Meaning let's say we really let's say do an end-to-end testing using a device and up let's say up to the latest note that the device is Let's say using in the chain is is Provided in this certification lab There are no simulators. Of course we use but put some load on top of it to also Have some performance measurements, but at the end I think it's very important to understand that this is really let's say an End-to-end scenario and these are operators are looking for they want to have a proof that this is not only working on simulators that this is working on some kind of Let's say Servers that are not really building their network architecture So they really want to have a proof that this is working in the networks Okay, then I Perfect. Thank you. Mika So my name is Jeff Hollingworth If if you were in the keynote with the the BMW guy you'll have seen him introduce himself And I'm going to do it very similarly. I used to be a software guy I used to be tremendously useful, but for some reason they put me in marketing So now I'm the guy that makes the PowerPoint that goes to the BMW guy I'm English. I just want to pick up on the Commentary that Steve made funnily enough where his daughter got an 80 in in the score Well in England if you get an 80 in the score you've topped it I've never met anybody that's got an 80 in the score and and I have lived for 15 years in Dallas now my daughter goes to American school and she came back one day and she said she'd got 110% And I said that wasn't possible and she said now that's completely possible. I got the bonus question correct so many differences in many different scenarios and industries so telco It's no different from any other industry on the planet. It's going through transformation And it's trying to pick up the qualities of speed and economy, but not lose its true values of reliability and trust and performance a Couple of differences with with telco, which is why it's valuable to understand that currently it's a 2.1 trillion dollar market And we believe that's going to increase And as Steve said when it increases is going to actually introduce a lot of new opportunities for a lot of new players We need to make sure that the same is happening in the future as it is today And what do I mean by that? Hands up here who has a mobile phone Okay, let's inverse that hands up here who doesn't have a mobile phone So there is only one question that you can ask at this show that's going to be universally true the question is is That anybody walking around here who is not connected and the answer will be no Now you have an expectation that that device works wherever you are and Whatever you are doing and if it doesn't Then it's tremendously frustrating to you That's why this industry has actually grown to the truth 2 trillion dollar size that it actually has Now as Mikal mentioned One of the things that we have done to make sure that has happened is made sure that those handsets before they get Distributed to 10 million 100 million people work on the infrastructure that they need to work on Anywhere on the planet and that's kind of important Because to make sure that works before they get into the hands of 10 million or a hundred million people Actually is a very cost-efficient Process to do because if you make a mistake on that It's pretty hard to get them back and you don't want to be the person that's being called Now in that process We also as I say need to pick up on the speed and efficiency that cloud offers because if we don't then it doesn't matter But that's a balance and what we want to do is bring our Experience and our ways of working actually to the cloud community to make sure that happens in process I think the other Commentary that you're going to start to hear at this show and it will carry on And I think it will grow in force that it's not really about rapid introduction of features If you can't actually manage and operate it in practice And I think we saw that commentary from a lot of the keynote speakers that says The that that's growing in importance how to do the simple operations. How do you do live migration? How do you do upgrades where there's not people who don't get the service? While that's going on What we're doing in this industry is a bit like changing the tires on a car that's going 160 miles an hour and it's not slowing down and it's not stopping. In fact, it wants to go at 200 miles an hour So this process is making sure that we can actually do that Collectively and actually understand what those issues are and take them out not as a barrier to speed But also as an accelerant so that when we do push code straight to production We have all the guarantees that that's actually going to be an improvement and not a setback so what we are going to leverage and what we're going to expose to the the external community is basically this base capability that we have of Certification Inside this new environment and we're going to transpose our process and ways of working so that we call Collaborately understand that and bring that to market a little bit better That is not a technology problem That is a technology process and people problem that's not a Walk-off-the-cliff problem again as the gentleman in BMW was saying and the time Warner Guy it's a learning process and it iterates as quickly as possible We will publicly make Two of our facilities out of many facilities actually available towards the end of this year towards 2015 One in Europe one in the US and we'll start opening up those ways of working and facilities Not with the point of view of kind like driving an answer, but to have a collaboration That actually works inside these communities so we can actually make that work together So I want to close with one common and then we'll open up for any questions if there are any but It's a very simple statement actually and it's almost naive, but it's it's so naive It's it's important not to forget it Nobody nobody who has been successful in running cloud operation has ever not managed the end-to-end performance and operation of that infrastructure It always gets handled somewhere and we need to make sure collectively that it gets handled appropriately inside The telecom industry, but we also believe that a telecom is just a large enterprise That's very demanding in terms of real-time performance and those same issues are required across any large enterprise That intends to depend their life on a strategic IT asset That's at the core of their business and actually we in our I'm gonna put my marketing hat on That's what we call the network society at the end of the day, which we're moving towards So on that note I Can open in case there are any questions in the audience? Okay, thank you very much. Have a great show