 Today, two of the Open Networking and Edge Summit, what a fantastic start to the summit. Thank you all for the positive feedback we have received. In fact, we had participants from 72 countries and growing, I mean, some of, as you know, most of half of the world is sleeping at any given time, but still they made it an effort to join. Very excited today. We have an amazing lineup of sessions and keynotes and a lot of things that have really been the top of the conversation today. What I want to call out before we jump into our first keynote is the session that we have hosted specifically as an evening event, again, relatively speaking evening. This is the mingle with the LF Networking and LF Edge boards. Everybody is free to attend, ask questions. No question is off limit. Please join through the normal channels and let's see where that goes. So with that said, and again, by the way, that's at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard, so just about four hours from now. Anyway, let me just briefly introduce our first keynote speaker today, well-known industry thought leader. He's the senior vice president of strategy and technology at Deutsche Telekom. As we all know, Deutsche Telekom is one of the top carriers globally. They and their associated partners work on everything from orchestration to automation to Edge to RAN and provide a great deal of community support and leadership. What he's going to talk about today is how 5G, 5G orchestration, and then how Edge, specifically the Edge cloud comes in with the theme of how collaboration and co-operation are the name of the game as we move to the Edge. So without any further ado, please welcome Alex Choi. This computing potential for operators is really huge. We see great potential when it comes to consumer or business applications because the devices that we're using, be it phones or be it glasses in the future, the cars or drones, they need to have a kind of offload compute capabilities. And here the closest part to the devices are the operators and that's why we have great capabilities, be it managed latency, a very good throughput or be it a low jitter. But very important is that we act as a community. We have to act fast as a community to make these capabilities available to product partners in the enterprise segment and in the consumer business. The GMA, Telco Edge Cloud Tech is a global platform solution to expose, manage, and market Edge computing resources and capabilities across different networks and national vulnerabilities, based on a combination of open technologies and telco standards. Tech is the only Edge initiative targeting a global open and federated solution. Trials involving MNOs, customers and ecosystem partners are essential to explore, validate and further evolve the Telco Edge Cloud Service. This was the driver behind Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom coming together with Movalechecks to demonstrate Telco Edge Cloud Service. In this case, the service was a latency-sensitive example. Spontaneously said, okay, my son is a good gamer. And I said, okay, my son is a good gamer as well. Why don't we play at our homes, family versus family? In this multi-operator Mac deployment, we were both connected to Edge nodes, cloudlets in Germany and Spain, respectively, where the Movalechecks platform was running. DT and Telefonica provided the public network connectivity between the user devices and the respective Edge locations. And as well as having fun with XR, we were able to validate the value of Edge computing for a differentiated XR gaming experience. We're sitting across Europe in different locations and the latency was so stable as if you were in a local desktop environment. The Telco Edge Cloud will be open and inclusive and will support existing platforms like Movalechecks to accelerate the development. We will continue our collaboration with further trials as we build the Telco Edge Cloud in 2020. So to me, this is really a highlight and low latency compute capabilities from carriers are available right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on your location. My name is Alex Choi of Deutsche Telekom. Today, I would like to present to you about Deutsche Telekom's approach to build an open and global Telco Edge Cloud in the age of 5G. The Telco industry is changing rapidly from traditional conventional structures as we are facing significant changes on all fronts. Market-wise, NT and IT used to be very completely separate world with a little to no overlap. Now, hyperscalers have a global scale fiber connection and data centers beyond the capabilities of any single Telco in the world. Therefore, we are facing tight competitions. As a result, many IT technologies have been introduced into the anti-domain to enhance and optimize the existing processes. Ten years ago, we cannot imagine these kind of changes. We are also experiencing changes in the customer demand. Consumers and enterprise customers are now expecting digital experiences, individualized services, which are instantly provided and usable and changeable. Faced with such accelerated dynamics, the NT world has struggled to keep pace. After a series of consolidations, we are left with only a handful of net offenders that stay in the comfort zone and resist rapid innovations. We want to transform our infrastructure to a new open distributed cloud-based architecture to become a software and data-driven telco. Doing so will bring NT and IT closer together with a holistic view on hardware and software. Our final goal is to implement more agile, flexible, cost-efficient productions. We believe that such change will enable us to have a network optimized for time-to-market. How should we do this? It will be based on cloud, desegregation, orchestration, and open APIs. The end picture is to transform our network towards a simpler and automated production model, enabling the quality of service delivery of 5G enterprise services to real customer problems. We would like to disaggregate the excess space with the virtualizations. We are committed to it through ORAN, OpenRAN, as we introduce new smaller vendors to accelerate the roadmap of the entire ecosystem, including existing vendors. Orchestration is critical since we have to deal with more complex domains after combination of NT and IT. Given the needs of the end-to-end based managed quality of service requirements in 5G, the importance of automation and orchestration will only increase as multiple entities have to be managed. We believe that open source will play a critical role here. So at Doge Telecom, we are utilizing ONEP, the open source-based network automation platform, to develop a 5G and 10 orchestrator for our network automations. Open API enabling is an important in two ways. One, in a sense that we can import the innovation from outside to optimize our TCO and enhance our service. And the other, in a sense that we can publish innovations built within Telco to the outside. For example, what used to be a telco-specific network capabilities can now be opened up to the third parties and packaged together with their services. This will create a new business model for telcos that was not available before. Now that I shared with you the vision of network differentiations, let's record my all-year comments about new competitions from hyperscalers and the new better grounds. Here is a SWAT analysis, which helps in order to observe and understand what control points the hyperscalers currently occupy and what they are targeting to occupy in the future. And likewise for the telcos. So, what are their control points today for OTTs or hyperscalers? As you can see in this slide, they dominate the device platform for virtual connectivity in IP and above-layer protocols, the global-scale public cloud, and most notably the developer community. It was the hyperscalers who created apps stores that have become the lifeblood for the developer community to deliver their apps and services. These are the key strengths of the hyperscalers, whereas looking at the strengths of the telco community, we have the SIM card, which continues to be an important customer touch point, and of course we dominate the access network, core network, and purine. Last but not least, the physical layer, the underlay, I call it IP minus layer here, including MPLS. So, what's the new better ground where the new opportunities exist? hyperscalers movements, as worn out by Microsoft, Amazon, Google's recent strategic play is to look left in this picture in the direction of on-premise edge, telco edge, and network core focusing specifically on investment on improve the end user's customer experience. Whereas, looking at the lower part in this diagram, telco's movement is to look right, focusing on building the telco edge and cultivating partnership with developers. Obviously, the biggest control point for telcos are 5G, network APIs, network slicing provided in a cloud-native style telco edge cloud. Having said, let's deep dive into telco edge cloud in the following slide. Cloud used to sit at the data center far away from customers, but edge cloud moves it very near to customers, which brings multiple benefits like reduced latency, location awareness, security enhancement, and TCO optimizations. We believe that edge cloud is a key control point for telcos to create a new greenfield marketplace. Business models for telcos used to be connectivity and IS, but edge enables new services and new business models, for example, around SLA-based real-time mission critical application and services for verticals. Other players can also provide similar services, but we believe telcos are the best positions due to the proximity to the customer. Edge is a game of scale, however. So, to stay in the game, operators must maximize scale with the multi-operator and multi-cloud approach. The reason why operators lost the cloud market to hyperscalers is that we were divided. Developers wanted to have a single interface, preferably standardized API-based across all markets, so they went to hyperscalers that can provide scalability. In the telco edge case, scale is defined by two criteria as shown in this slide that mutually reinforce each other. First, geographical or operator reach. Developers need a market at global scale and like to build on same programming environment they already know. The more operators provide the same APIs to the developers, the more customers can be reached by developers via this platform. Secondly, a rich application and device offering. Consumers and enterprise customers expect a rich and wide offering of applications and devices for Edge. The operator community can influence and push both effects by collaborating to broaden geographical and operator reach and provide access to a larger customer base and support the needs of multinational enterprise customers. In other words, we need to create an open and global telco edge cloud which federates across operators and cloud stacks, meaning it should be multi-operator and multi-cloud. If we can create this, then eventually Edge applications and devices will work universally. But the Edge train is not waiting at the station. As Edge becomes a commercial reality and more players compete in the space, the operators community needs to act fast to stake a claim in the Edge value chain by capitalizing on its monetizable assets, like a managed quality of connectivity, network APIs, and proximity to customers. At Dois Telecom, we are building the telco Edge with multiple telcos through the GSMA as well as hyperscalers to deliver standard-based partnership on Edge computing. Mobile Edge X, a new startup, DT founded two years ago in Bay Area for the development of the multi-cloud Edge Pass software is our first approach toward such delivery, with multiple parties joining as shareholders to make it work. As presented to you in my opening video, we recently completed the first telco Edge cloud trial involving Telefonica and Dois Telecom with mobile Edge X around a latency-sensitive AR game with impressive results. And we are now preparing a further trial with partners in the B2B space. To conclude, I sincerely urge the telco community to act fast and all together through industry firm like O&M, to capture the new opportunities and create new revenue streams while innovating consumer experience. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, Alex. That was very insightful and I appreciate the introductory video. That was pretty cool. I also want to sort of emphasize that we just in terms of API, we did release from an LF Edge perspective an Acreno API white paper that kind of goes into details of what work has been done so far on the public cloud interface, public cloud telco Edge interface, whether it's the PAS API or resource management or things like that. So all good work and again from a terminology perspective, Edge cloud service provider cloud sort of is what is shared and offered as a service. So really exciting work going on at Dois Telecom beyond the orchestration and open source support. So with that said, continuing with the theme of Edge, our next keynote is one of very prominent supporters of open source. I know it's a little late in China, but we have Bill Ren from Huawei, who's the chief open source liaison officer. He has been a very active contributor to the open source community to open networking and Edge Summit historically, great visionary, moving China and pretty much their entire ecosystem forward. So today he will be obviously talking about 5G and Mac, specifically continuing with our Edge team today. So without any further ado, please welcome Bill Ren. This is Bill from Huawei. I'm in charge of the ICT infrastructure open source business and I'm very glad to hear to share my thoughts about the open source. My presentation is unleashing the powerful 5G MEC through open source collaboration. So here I will talk in three parts. First, I will talk why we need this new relation for production. Second is what exactly what we means this new relation for production for Edge computing and how finally to achieve this. Okay, so let's say this is unleashing the power of industry from different times. First, in the farming, 8,000 years ago the cattle was domesticated and but only until 2,000 years ago humans started to utilize cattle to plow the fields. And until at that time the efficiency of human production was improved a dozen of times. And also similar in the 1916-79, the first steam engine mode was invented already but it's only until 1769 when Watt improved the steam engine and put it to use in the factory. Then it's also it's also the productivity force of steam engine was unleashed and the human society is from in-house workshop transformed to the factory and industry times. So today the 5G area is coming the 5G network was constructed and deployed all over the world. So we have reason to believe if we need to unleash the power of 5G we also need some new relation for production which could make those industry chain from network ecosystem. Here is a transforming diagram to illustrate how our tech industry is transforming from the traditional communication times to the digital times and as well as to the next intelligent times. We can see the different stack of the business from vertical integration from telecom based to the middle internet based network and services decoupled and we support diversity service based on this PEP and network. We can see this structural value transform is awarded and the value of this PEP is shared this industry value is is keep on reducing but how can we cultivate this new growth of a telco pipeline and grab this growth opportunities on the network side we believe the edge computing gave us a possible and feasible way to do it. But look at back in the past several years in our telco industry we also built so many developer activities such as developer contest and developer campaign training campaign and we also do a lot of joint innovations but the industry approach to this is not so effective based on the opinions from different staff like marketing person or technical person some of them are very optimistic they think we have enough budget we should do more innovation since and some of our pessimistic they think we lack of talent to do this paradigm shift it's very difficult just like what we're doing in the since is because we we didn't have a unified platform so this innovation achievement in our industry is is not very high effective just like we build this standard castle in the sea beach and we didn't have a closed local also to business so the project we built is difficult to replicate there is no job for this innovation the industry started for the innovation when when we talk about innovation some someone got frustrated so how can we solve these things some people think the difficult thing is for innovations from zero to one or from one to ten but for us based on the experience in the past decade there is no lack of innovation in our industry the most difficult thing for us is to how to replicate those innovations from ten to hundreds or even to tens of thousands so this is a difficult start to do here i'd like to show another talk from from the famous business leaders like the jake man who is a chairman of alibaba who gave a talk in 2017 10th of september in the world internet of seeing exhibition summit in wuxi he thinks the internet is nothing but a chance of a relation for production he talked if you don't see the internet as a production more and more problems will arise as the internet should not exist only in internet companies instead the internet calls all society similarly we believe for edge computing is also in power the society is not only the for the carriers it's for every industry so how to find the best way to utilize and maximize the value of 5g and use the capability of edge computing is needed a productive force for new relational production because here we have a basic underlying logic is the combination for vendors and carriers and the industry partners they should ask themselves what's our value proposition in the industry in the society and what kind of value we could create for this society so that's the thing we we wanted to see they need to build a new relational production together so here is is my definition of this new relational production based on open source we want to call building this platform and share the ecosystem together it's four things for this new first is a new collaboration we need to jointly define this community in the community and verify this thinking and explore all the innovations together based on open source code with cross domain with full life cycle streaming learning and from protocols to interaction interface alive and second is for new development we should not only let the sec industry have developers to do the things we also need to enable those different industries for their users developers to develop 5g applications as quick as possible as cost effective as possible we need the laws of barriers for entrance we need to provide the capability for online development and verification we need to provide this build their habit and make them to reuse atomic capabilities easily the third one is a new ecosystem we need a a shared industry application ecosystem together with a unified market and the shared those applications and do the integration verification together the last one is a new transaction we should also build a community-based application repository to enable this transaction from single transaction to multi later on multi times from single supply to mutual supply here I will talk one by one first new collaboration you can see as we used to put effort in different direction with different stakeholders like application developers OSS vendors carriers device vendors so based on this joint platform and joint open source together we could withdraw since we based on consensus from business level and to the operation level and as well as this platform even with a technical stack we should unify it and finally the deployment we all need the consensus because this mutual trust and cost is very high second for the new development you can see the development in in gt is three million and it's even 10 times the bigger in jthub and also the open source software it was used in 99 percent of our commercial software so there is no developers could could not far away from open source so it's so diversified second quickly how can we quickly let the other industry developers get familiar with this the different industries and how to easily get started with 5g capabilities and how can we make those rich atomic capabilities could be easily transform abstract convert to industry know-how into industry solutions and the third one how can we help to leverage those cross organization sharing we based on the best scenario best architecture and the best practice and of course finally this open source platform couldn't help these developers to save their time and coding and the device investment make the development more cost effective and the new ecosystem so we can say this new ecosystem we need to build this industry application ecosystem with a new unified market and a shared application we use to have ecosystem in our industry but it it is small scale it's just like pets it's difficult to replicate these scenarios because it's a fragmented market so and the efficiency also is also is very low it's manually integrated and focus on few scenarios and the number is hundreds but we do need something like the the red side diagram shows this weld beast it's more healthy more self-growth more diversified and it's should be easily evolve to millions of applications with this unified integration unified verification unified market and this new transaction is also easy to understand used we have this long chain with very limited and a single time transaction and it's upstream and downstream relationship point to point one way supply but we need based on this community application repository to fit different device vendors carriers vertical industries altogether build this new transaction mode with unlimited short chain and multi-time transaction many too many new mutual supply and mutual enhancement relationship and this community-based pre-integration and the shared application ecosystem will will help the business grows more fast so that's the new relation for production what we talk so that's also why this edge gallery open source community exists our wish is to build a collaborative and the win-win relation for production on this edge computing industry so our position is to build this defective standard based on edge computing architecture and enable openings in the telco field and the lower the threshold and the barrier for bring enterprise application on board and form a large-scale and build business-to-business ecosystem more easily and basically our value proposition is 5G native connection capability edge native architecture and the diversified and open access team just like this page shows this is our value proposition and the first 5G native connection we will make this 5G capabilities accessible everywhere easily we will make sure this communication community provide this interconnected with latest live 5G network elements as easy as possible and it will be compliant to the latest ETSS standards and make use of the high performance data plan and the value-added network capabilities of course based on cloud native capabilities we do think there's a need for the edge native architecture because in the edge the resources are more limited we should have this lightweight resource management capabilities we should have this four stack security mechanism we also showed how this reliable management and operation capability be available and the third one is we need this diversified and open access team make the application developers more easily to develop and make make sure the application unbound more easily and replicate more easily so that simplify the development and convenient this verification and the unified application portals as well as this share with this ecosystem with this marketplace and here is our architecture basically it which has this application edge platform is a key in the right hand side based on this api gateway based on this local openness capabilities for network as well as this data plan of course in the middle there's a management plan for oxidation and application and distribution report repository capability as well in the left side and finally this for developers we need a very user friendly developer environment and the bottom is a basic technical stack and in the past several months in this edge gallery community we have almost more than 30 applications covered different scenarios like smart camps, industry manufacturer, transportation, logistics and community gaming and another interesting thing for the edge gallery open source community is besides this community of source code of a wiki of document we also provide this very comprehensive laboratory infrastructure for the partners for the developers to to verify to develop their applications because 5G infrastructure and network is quite costly for the normal developers for the small business developers to to afford so the value to communities is we provide this live 5G end to end verification environment we provide this automatic integration and platform and the test results can be easily applied for any time and we expect the value for this laboratory in the future we could publish more wet paper more test report more test industry index for for guiding this industry to move forward to the business to enable the business more prosperous okay so for edge gallery collaboration with the industry organization is of course it's very very needed so we we have a very good relationship with Linux foundation edge community and one of the blueprint in the acronym release three which is provided by channel mobile by Tencent and Huawei together of course we also comply with the ETS standards we also we link to a corporate with the GSMA open platform and some others like a 5G DNA association edge computing association and the industry interconnection association as well so for edge gallery expectation I think this year is of course we need more diversified developers more diversified governance structures more active developers more applications more library infrastructures to enabling more it plus 80 value added service and in the future we think the communication partners we need this platform to more help for our developers to do more research for the edge computing area for so it's a right time to build this industry platform together let's embrace and for this closer growth for the 5G MEC market you can see here I provide this for for you to access for our website for our community for our uh wiki under chat group so I wish all us can can work together to make sure we have a better future okay thank you that's my point thank you bill and I really appreciate you staying past midnight for this again you know the advantage of this is your jet lag but not after a 20-hour flight so thank you I also love the concepts of kind of bringing out the relationship between sort of the industries and the various organizations within an end user or a telecom provider so love the concept and you know great example of a vendor stepping up utilizing open source technologies but more importantly building on tap to drive innovation forward so really excited thank you very much our next keynote is is on the other side of the world obviously one of the top leaders in telecom IT networking you name it but it's from IBM and now Marisa needs no introduction but she's the vice president of strategy and offerings at IBM they have the telecom media and entertainment group she's spearheading a lot of the 5G a lot of edge and a lot of ecosystem development and she's going to pull it all together in terms of an end-to-end telecom network what's needed what's the challenges and you are starting to see a theme here on on how vendors are stepping up beyond the classic you know I contributed a spec in a code or something like that so without any further ado please welcome Marisa from IBM Howard Telco is delivering on the promise of speed and reliability when it matters most service providers are leveraging new open cloud-based solutions the same solutions that will enable edge computing and pave the way for 5G they're answering a global need for connection to essential resources from first responders and field hospitals to customer care and remote capabilities for work and education as industries continue to reshape the working infrastructure telecom companies are moving to operate as a platform business expanding their role as both digital service providers and digital service enablers by tapping into the combined capability of IBM and red hats hybrid cloud telcos can more rapidly develop new services and deploy them wherever they need to run telecommunication companies are making the technology decisions and investments to be the platform provider or innovation catalysts at the extent to which they can innovate with the ecosystem to provide applications and services that businesses and individuals can consume that is where the magic happened within the industry hello my name is Marisa Viveros I lead strategy and solutions for telecommunications and media industry within IBM in the next 20 minutes I would like to share with you how IBM red hat and a number of other partners are innovating with clients to modernize the networks I will share with you some guiding principles technologies and ecosystem as well as recent implementations which are already in production at the core of this development open source is playing a key role let's begin now with understanding of what IBM brings to operators today our goal is to improve business outcomes and we do that by focusing on three key imperatives digital engagement networking platforms and enterprise transformation in digital engagement we're very focused on bringing IBM Watson to help in all roti interactions that our clients have with their subscribers whether it is customer care agent assist or interactions in marketing demand generation ordering processes and others using data architectures and AI and machine learning to those processes in order to make them most efficient and most contemporary in networking platform we are very focused on and we have a history of applying operations in the network with our network technology and other algorithms that we have applied throughout time with many of our clients operating the network as well as bringing our services capabilities and experience that allow clients to really modernize the network operations centers we're very focused on network modernization and that will be at the core of what I'll be sharing with you today modernizing those networks leveraging the hat and leveraging a number of other partners in that endeavor in enterprise transformation focus on modernizing HR processes and supply management in many other processes that are at the core of how companies can perform in a much better and effective manner so let's now dive into some guiding principles that will be are essential in order to modernize and to realize a modern network we start with open architectures open architectures that will allow us to move from an appliance based systems into a more software integration architecture we believe that here we need to leverage the open source community the upstream scale and provide the single virtual infrastructure manager that of course for us will be based on open stack and red hat open stack or red hat open shift as we move into containerized network functions of course within this domain there will be new skills that we need to bring to bear see ICD practices and the most practices agile methodologies all of those methodologies develop in the IT world that now are transferring into the telco domain in a much simpler ways given the experience that we have in the IT area in the two standards in the two standards where we're leveraging etsy and the five plus years that are in etsy working in defining the network function virtualization specs along with probably many of you participating in that three gpp that has been at the core of developing 5g and the new networks that we will see in the future along with edge computing adopting industry standards we believe that that will guarantee the interoperability the apis and the open interfaces that our clients need in order to move into a more modernized and reliable network infrastructure the third area is extreme automation insecurity extreme automation from the point of view of lifecycle management of orchestration and assurance that all of these in the collective manner will now play a key role when it comes to day zero day one or day two of an operation allow to guarantee the real time optimization and bringing the ecosystem within that and making that much more of a reality lastly deliver total cost of ownership with agility creating and realizing new value by having these common infrastructures but also by allowing to have new enterprise services that our clients can use in order to create a new revenue stream so at the core is modernizing the network for consumers for new services video and others but also creating new services out for enterprises such that telecommunication companies are more relevant to the enterprise can bring higher value as enterprises move into industry 4.0 technology oriented solutions creating a modern telecom network we believe that requires the same platform at the core of the network and VRN and at the edge to ease management of the infrastructure and the applications in addition the growing number of smart devices the need for faster processing and increased pressure on the networks is driving the adoption of a more comprehensive architecture that supports devices and extends the cloud to the edge providing decentralized processing power distribute the cloud and offline reliability early this year IBM announced IBM cloud satellite as the beta program IBM cloud satellite allows us to do some of those areas that I mentioned before enable users to manage applications across public and private environments with the single pane of glass allowing for flexibility of the infrastructure as a service operations secure connectivity and application lifecycle management with IBM satellite users can get the IBM cloud catalog including managed open shift data and DevOps and much more all in the user's own data center with full SRE operations in this case users do not need to be experts in running cloud environments or cloud services automation is also an important piece of this puzzle automating and operating services at the scale at the lower cross and with full predictability onboarding vnfs onboarding cnfs in the future as we does become available and automating with the single CICD lifecycle design and test zero-touch provisioning and network slicing becomes critical to deliver zero one services and when it comes to now the ongoing operations change management closed loop operations anomaly detections in an automated remediation is key to have the single automation across the design the implementation as well as the operation of the network so we have been very focused on aligning with on app and other key developments in the industry in adopting automation and creating software as well support the software as well as services that allow us to implement that now the ecosystem it is critical and fundamental to the telecom industry and by the way to many other industries pre-integrated pre-tested solutions are the desire of every company that that's the only way that we can accelerate tanto market therefore IBM has been building an ecosystem at all layers of the stack and so we are inviting companies uh to that are not currently present uh in in this slide to join us in certifying their software on open shift certifying their software on IBM cloud and becoming part of the catalog that we offer to benefit clients in the catalog that we use in order to build new services for our clients lastly open source for decades IBM has been partnering with linus foundation to advance open source software and the whole industry in general the network domain is not different and in fact we have joined opnfe in in 2014 we continue with on app which translated then the umbrella linus foundation networking key members of that leading some of the activities there and most recently recognized the interest of our clients on deep which is primarily an operator operators led activity joining some of the working group there and doing some of the experimentation in our labs and obviously also recently joined the all-rain alliance recognizing that the last part of the network that will be virtualized is the radio is the access layers of the radio access networks will be virtualized and in fact many of our partners are in in the in the path already of implementing that and making that a reality we will now go into some of the examples that we are seeing and delivering in production within the industry the open universal hybrid cloud is a hybrid cloud platform that is based on open technology and open standards from IBM and from red hat along with 14 other partners it enables Vodafone idea to better serve nearly 300 million subscribers by simplifying and transforming its IT in telecom network operation the new platform is deployed across many distributed Vodafone idea cloud microsite across India as well as the central IT operations which today are also run by IBM some of the benefits that vision forum the CTO of Vodafone idea is getting is he claims 85% reductions in cap cap x 50% reduction in optics and 90% reduced cost of production of the goods you know this is just one example that is is getting you know more and more visibility within the market with over 400 million subscribers and increased market pressure Barthier del has the vision of building a common infrastructure with carrier grade them with carving automation and a partner ecosystem functions like virtual IMS, virtual APC and many other of the componentry that needs to be to build the network is getting implemented here now in production IBM role within this particular scenario it has been as a system integrator IBM innovation in building automation and methodologies that allow us to increase that automation reduce our costs and in time to introduce time to deploy we are very proud of these two examples because it represents something that it has been work and setting the industry and now is being implemented and deploy in production so very proud to serve more than over 700 million subscribers with these solutions what takes me to the next example technologies like 5G and Edge are posed to play a huge role in building the future of virtually every single industry enhanced by artificial intelligence these technologies promise to deliver low latency high performance computing and the service and the security requirements that many in the interest need in order to stay competitive the Italian government sponsor operators in a number of cities across the country to deploy 5G and it's also partnering with more than a hundred companies in order to build services and applications that the citizens can use in this case we have worked with Vodafone Italy our role has been in building specific use cases and services that citizens can use among those are safety and surveillance in a train station looking for bad actors and bad agents in a train station education working with universities in order to deliver education where the students needed healthcare for simple services and agriculture and if in a few others so now we're making 5G edge computing real not only for operators but also for citizens of a government by the way many governments across the world have similar intent of supporting and adopting 5G and sponsoring programs that will promote 5G within the countries even in lower risk settings such as retail shops 5G and edge can help stores analyze supply chain data detect spoilage or monitor metrics like crowd density that will otherwise overwhelm the networks without edge computing we are really proud of these examples that are about building the network but also building now solutions and services that citizens and every one of us can use and most important increasing the revenue streams of our clients as they make investments to modernize and progress not their infrastructure finally I would like to thank you for attending this session I encourage you to visit the IBM virtual booth where we will have some 5G implementations for demonstration and I enjoy the rest of the conference most important stay safe and healthy thanks again thank you Marisa that was great and by the way I don't know you know how many attendees picked up a glimpse of the book that was sitting behind your your desk it said making the world better how relevant in the recent times but anyway let's talk about open let's talk about open source really like the fact that you focused on industry verticals food hospitality manufacturing and I think we as an industry networking and edge industry now need to look beyond the 1.3 and the MPLS headers and the protocols that you know made us all geeks and look beyond what we can do as an industry so thank you very much to wrap things up for today is is one of you know Google's own senior product manager in Google cloud she heads up the portfolio including telco modernization edge computing content delivery modern apps etc you heard from Amol yesterday during my keynote and you will hear a lot more details about you know Google and Google cloud in general today and and and Projecta is going to talk about how cloud native telco and 5G and Edge come together so please welcome Projecta Joshi hello everyone thank you for joining me today I'm really excited to be here talking about accelerating the journey to cloud native telco and effortless edge now synergies between telco cloud and enterprise are growing exponentially in fact if you think of the last one year it's been exciting to see telcos and public cloud providers beginning to come together in ways we would not even have imagined four or five years ago as an industry we have three pick opportunities to tap into first is working with telcos to transform their IT network and services now this is going to be fueled by leveraging the best of technologies experience and talent that telcos public cloud providers like google cloud isps and others have with all of us becoming better in the process the second major opportunity is around delivering value to enterprises with 5G 4G edge computing solutions and 5G as a business services platform now this will create new revenue streams for the broader ecosystem the third is as much an opportunity as a necessity to enable the first two opportunities it's about breaking down the silos that have existed between the network and services platforms paradigms service orchestration automation and more used by telcos and public cloud providers it's also about jointly building pieces that don't exist yet that's how we can unlock seamless delivery of services across a global distributed edge and cloud what does it really mean to help telcos transform to a telco cloud first it's about helping telcos build their IT cloud by bringing telco IT workloads like OSS PSS and data analytics to cloud this is a sweet spot for public cloud providers like google cloud because these workloads are very enterprise like for the telco network cloud we need to take cloud to telco locations where the network cloud is typically deployed the goal here is to bring cloud and cloud native technologies to help telcos build a capex and op-axe efficient network including for 5G the third is about helping telcos build new revenue streams with an enterprise services cloud offering 5G 4G and edge computing solutions for enterprises telco IT network and enterprise services clouds represent a multi-billion dollar opportunity for telcos public cloud providers and partners over the next two to three years more broadly telcos will increasingly become public cloud first where they will operate new workloads projects processes and public cloud first and of course the telco cloud will increasingly use the global infrastructure edges and regions of public cloud providers like google for optimizing economics now at a very high level generally enabling telco IT means bringing IT to cloud generally enabling telco network means bringing cloud to wherever the network is and enabling enterprise services is about running solutions where it is optimal and bringing connectivity and cloud to these solutions to do this we need open scalable resilient network and services platforms that can work across telco cloud and edge a few additional observations viens containers heterogeneous northbound and southbound multi provider multi cloud and increasingly multi edge are a fact of life in most telcos clouds and enterprises orchestration network and service management needs to be able to support this heterogeneity there is no one edge platforms need to work across a global distributed edge and cloud continuum for running network functions and edge computing for solutions we need integrated stacks not closed boxes these integrated stacks should bundle hardware os accelerators cpus gpus platforms that provide container services management or services orchestration and of obviously the network functions or say a iml models and provide these instead of close proprietary boxes with this we get the ease of a box but without the lock in observability analytics and automation at table stakes we need them at every layer and also at an aggregated level as well as end to end across the entire deployment coupled with close loop automation we really need to start focusing more on abstracting out complexity so let me give you two simple examples we need an effortless edge which delivers automated placement of work workloads based on desired outcomes and it's continuously optimizing the placement if that's desired effortless specs now while i'm half joking here i think there's a huge value to doing this the idea is inspired by tools in google cloud called explainable ai explainable ai tools tell you why a machine learning model generated a certain recommendation similarly we need explainable ai for hc 3gpp and many of our own specs which map our standards and specifications to real world solutions and to existing open apis or the other way round these specs are very important no doubt but there's a huge opportunity for simplification and mapping them to benefits they can deliver thereby making them easier to adopt coming back to the consistent cloud native network and services platform that we need there are three core technologies that are important containers so for example open source kubernetes which is the de facto industry standard and say the google managed gke service mesh where for example is steward's the open service mesh and traffic director asm as open google managed service mesh and then you've got serverless where you've got open source k native or see a google managed cloud run anthos from google cloud is actually a great example of a consistent cloud native platform it layers container management service management and serverless into a modular platform so you can use the layers that are important to you anthos couples these with policy and config management along with ci city observability analytics and automation it preserves the open interfaces and apis for google managed layers you can use anthos anywhere on prem google cloud in aws and more anthos continues to evolve rapidly to support new telco and edge use cases now we're all familiar with kubernetes so i'm not going to deep dive into that i do want to talk a bit more about service mesh like what really is a service mesh i'll think a few years back now you had all of these complex network appliances and then came software defined networking or sdn and it disaggregated these closed complex appliances into a control plane and a data plane the data planes were simple and forwarded traffic these data planes were controlled by a sophisticated control plane now think of a service mesh as software defined networking for services you take a complex application remove all networking code from it so you extract this out and you move it to a sidecar service proxy now you need to need a way to configure control and apply policies to these proxies and that's why you need a service mesh control plane one of the biggest benefits of service mesh is that it decouples development from operations developers no longer need to write and maintain policies and networking code inside their applications service mesh does not make any assumptions about where your services or whether it is instantiated on vm's or containers or bare metal and that's why it provides a framework that can be used consistently across multi-cloud deployments across heterogeneous vm and container environments what are the use cases for service mesh so the first one is to simplify networking architecture and deploy advanced traffic management capabilities so think canaries blue green circuit breaking mirroring very easily second is to enhance security and encrypt all data in transit by automatically using mtls on all calls within the mesh third is to ensure more uptime safer rollouts and lower time to resolution with logs telemetry and traces gathered for every service in the mesh service mesh enables you to specify traffic management security and observability policies at the service level in a compute agnostic manner one use case of service mesh is obviously then to manage a mixed environment of vm and container services there's also a related use case which is to migrate vm based services to container services using cap grow drain strategy now in the past if you think of it telcos had mpls networks that they wanted to migrate to optical they started doing this using a strategy called cap grow drain in fact this was a term i heard from atnt and onf so you cap your mpls networks you grow your optical and then you drain existing mpls to optical the same applies to transition from vm to container services you continue to support existing deployment with vm orchestration then you introduce a platform like anthos for all new containerized deployments and then slowly drain vm based services to anthos driven container services in the interim period when telcos have both vm based services and anthos based containerized services these can exist coexist very seamlessly and they can also interact with each other at the service mesh layer since service mesh is compute agnostic service mesh is a key paradigm for 5g core service based architectures spa provides a modular framework from which common applications can be deployed using components from one or more providers in 3gpp defined spa control plane functionality is delivered with a set of interconnected network functions and that's why service mesh is a very good paradigm for connecting and managing these network functions as services in the mesh we continue to evolve service mesh as a paradigm so i'll give you an example adopting a service mesh has traditionally meant running sidecar proxies in the data plane that handle networking on behalf of your applications now proxies do consume resources and those may start to add up as you scale to hundreds or thousands of proxies for high performance telco and edge applications this may make it difficult to meet the performance targets when you're sending requests through multiple sidecar proxies so for high performance use cases we built out a proxy list g rpc flavor of services with our traffic director service mesh offering and to make these proxy list services possible we what we did is we added the open xds api support which is used for envoy proxy to the most recent version of g rpc so we do need to keep evolving our paradigms as well now in addition to everything we discussed what are some of the new problems we can partner to solve as an industry if you take a broader view of where we are as an industry we're just getting started and we have many things to solve together so while we are making great headway on creating consistent cloud native network and services platforms and evolving them we need to do more to abstract out complexity and manage heterogeneity better we need to get to the point where our network services and slices automatically scale and optimize are proactively secure and effortless to administer and use uh let's take the effortless edge problem now basically the edge is distributed to harness the power of this distributed edge i as a telco or as a public cloud provider or as an enterprise should be able to leverage any of these edges in addition to my own based on my own business and technical requirements i should be able to move my services from an edge it is deployed at to another edge so to bring it closer to the end user or lower cost i should be able to deploy a service that spans multiple edges so for example take the case of machine learning where for my services i may do small amounts of processing on the user's device which then connects up to a telco central office for scrubbing which then connects up to google cloud machine learning models at google's edge i should also be able to chain services which are deployed across a variety of edges so i can leverage best of great services from a variety of providers for my end customer or maybe i want to create a slice across this continuum and i should be able to do all of this as easily as possible without having to know where the edges are and without needing deep technical knowledge let's talk about another interesting problem that we could solve together this is to partner on effortless network slicing at scale yes network slicing is happening in experimental set setups and at small limited scale but to fully unleash the monetization of network slicing we are missing a few abstraction layers i will describe one such layer it is the ability to treat everything as a service today it's possible to treat for example entities in a service mesh easily as a service but what about third party opaque services or legacy services that sit outside the mesh we've started the work on extending the service abstraction across all of these as well and adding also a few other capabilities and we are doing this with telcos isv's and other partners and we look forward to collaborating with all of you on this as well now coming to the most important part monetization of these cloud native networks and new and new revenue streams for the entire ecosystem will be driven by delivering 5g 4g edge computing solutions and 5g is a business services platform for enterprises when google entered the mobile market with android in 2007 it reshaped the industry in a fundamental way at the end of 2010 android os became the world's largest smartphone platform android became successful because it offered three key elements android is the common platform its ability to run on a variety of devices and form factors they ranging from cell phones to laptops to tv's and most importantly monetization for the entire android ecosystem through apps built on android and run on a variety of devices we believe the android strategy is also key for for the entire ecosystem to tap into monetization and we call this strategy global mobile edge cloud or gmax strategy so it's not a product it's a strategy there are three key elements to it first there's a portfolio of 5g edge solutions that we are all going to build together second is a common platform now these solutions need to be built on a common cloud native platform so for example we are providing anthos an open cloud native platform to help you build deploy and securely manage these new network centric 5g 4g edge solutions anywhere third is the edge infrastructure we envision deploying these solutions and the open platform on a global distributed edge one with spans telco edge google edge customer edge and more we also aim to amplify the telco edge footprint with google's global edge including google's edge in telcos we can bring a multitude of benefits to the enterprise and industry verticals we can enable infrastructure take out from enterprise locations without impacting the user experience in a pandemic stricken world with slash budgets we can enable enterprises to avoid capex heavy investments for their premises by leveraging edge and cloud for a different set of use cases we can bring reliable dedicated private 5g 4g network to enterprise with local control local access to data and local decisions for real-time ops as network slicing at scale becomes available many of these use cases can also be served by vertical specific slices from telcos and other providers we can help deliver low latency or high bandwidth for real-time apps like gaming and media we can also bring compute analytics a iml to the edge of the network which is close to the user or the workload and we can deliver solutions that are tailored to the specific needs say of an industry vertical for example here's an initial set of areas that we think all of us can productize and monetize in the next one to two years first is the dedicated private 5g enterprise solutions we call them connected solutions there's also lte here then the telco network edge solutions we call them smartech solutions there is media and gaming and then there's effortless edge now private 5g 4g brings the 5g 4g stack and edge computing to the customer's premises to help build out a dedicated network this category delivers solutions like connected warehouse connected manufacturing connected mining connected venue and connected learning google is active in cbrs and has tools like sass and network planner which are useful for the industry as network slicing its scale becomes a reality many of these solutions can be delivered using these slices second category of solutions is smartechs which is smart retail smart airport smart transportation this is about bringing cloud and cloud capabilities to the telco network edge and implementing it with google edge and regions solutions like smart cities are often smart connected which means they leverage both private 5g 4g and customer edge and edge computing at the telco or the google network edge our third category is media and gaming which includes cloud cdn stadia solutions and stadia solutions in fact stadia our low latency born in the cloud gaming solution is a perfect use case for 5g and edge effortless edge which i mentioned multiple times before is about abstracting all of the edges and services from enterprise telco partner and google developers and presenting simple outcomes based interface and controls to them imagine saying run my workload not in the specific set of edges but saying for example here is the latency i need or here are the geos that i want to serve my content in and then have your workload automatically get deployed across one or more of these edges to ensure that 5g 4g solutions that we co-develop actually solve real business problems and deliver the three ease experience economics and ease of use we need to define and build these in a triad that includes the end customer along with layering in isv's content providers msp's sis and device providers as needed the time is right to transform together there's a strong win-win for telcos and public cloud providers like google cloud driven by synergies and transformation to telco cloud and monetization via enterprise let's build on this momentum partner so your isv's, geos and others are critical to transformation and monetization let's also enable their transformation let's demand open it's really about ease economics and choice contributing back to open sources key preserving open interfaces for managed commercial products is key we need to get to everything is a service it will enable many things including network slicing at scale to do this we need to push and expand paradigms like service mesh and also ensure that whatever we build is built for heterogeneity as an industry we're actually not known for abstracting out complexity let's fix this effortless specs effortless networks effortless edge effortless services these are all very critical features that we as an industry need to invest in and with all of this we also need to bring transformation around diversity equity and inclusion in our industry yesterday google cloud joined linux foundation networking at the platinum level we look forward to not only bringing the best of google to the industry but continuing to collaborate with and learn from telcos partners open source organizations and the broader industry to transform together thank you everyone very cool very cool and very insightful so thank you projector for your insightful keynote i'll probably have to go and read some of these things again very very good and the community is looking forward to google's participation specifically on on projects that are on the top of anthos like onap and others so really looking forward to that so with that our keynote sessions are done for today two things i want to highlight first is breakout sessions start at 145 and then a second call out for those of you who missed it in my initial talk was we have a very interesting mingle with the lf networking and lf edge board session that will towns and from moose insightful host anybody can join so it's it's exactly at 4 p.m eastern uh do join i know some of the folks from from asia will wake up very early for that but we're looking forward to that and we're looking for the final day of keynotes tomorrow so with that thank you take a break enjoy the rest of the conference and don't forget to visit all the technical showcases boots and demos thank you