 FirstNet is one of those opportunities to make a fundamental difference in every public safety responders approach to managing emergencies. You've got agencies converging on to one central geographic location. Communication and getting resources where they need to be is a challenge. By no fault whatsoever of the individuals that are there responding to the scene, it's the technology that they had available to them. They're trying to coordinate a disastrous mass chaos. This is when the network gets bogged down. And they can't communicate with one another because the system was not set up to do so. The technology that they've used at this point really pales in comparison to what we're going to provide them on FirstNet. This individual is missing. This is their potential location. And then we can call for a helicopter to have live infrared searching for an individual. Communications between agencies and among agencies. Always talking, always up on the network, always using the data. Live in real time. So we can search quicker, we can find people quicker, and then as soon as we find a victim, we can get them extricated, triaged, treated, transported to the hospital. We're putting tools in their hands that they can see what's happening around them and react to it in a way that saves lives. I'm really proud to be part of something that's going to revolutionize public safety. We're going to take really good care of them. Thank you. Please welcome Andre. Thank you, Arpit. Hey, good morning, everyone. It's really great to be here back at ONS. And I really want to just thank everyone that's participating, especially those out on the web. And a lot of changes going on over the last year. And ONS actually is my favorite conference to come to, because I believe this is really where all the real big change is going to happen. And it's happening with many of you. And I'm really excited that we actually got ONS back to the Bay Area from Los Angeles last year, because I think this is really where a lot of this software-defined networking revolution started. But certainly it's now a global phenomenon, and you being here and the companies and the communities you represent is a testament to that. So really great to be back here. And also just wanted to say just thank you for everyone that's, you know, all the demo booths and things going on, really exciting things going on. And your participation is so important, because as you saw in that video, this technology is having an impact everywhere. Not just, you know, the normal mass market consumer, but all the way to, you know, first responders, and the technology you're going to see, and I'll talk a little bit about it, is actually at the heart of those services you saw in that video. So really great stuff going on. So let me talk a little bit about AT&T and by the numbers here, and the clicker is not working. Okay, there we go. AT&T, you know, we talk a lot about what we're doing here in the United States, but I want to remind folks here, we're a global company. In fact, we connect the world, we connect to over 214 countries and territories. A lot of what we do isn't just wireless technology, we do a lot of wired technology as well, and you can see there we actually have well over 1.1 million fiber route miles around the world, and the traffic across this network is growing at an unprecedented clip. So right now the traffic that we haul every day has now eclipsed over 250 petabytes a day. You put that in perspective. You know, think about the entire Library of Congress, that actually fits into about a quarter of a petabyte, so every day we are actually hauling back and forth a thousand libraries of Congress across the network. Pretty impressive. When you look at that traffic, the majority of that traffic, a little over 50% of it is actually video-based traffic. So if you didn't believe that video is really taking off and growing, I can tell you it already is here and it's just going to continue to grow. In fact, over the next several years, we predict video will be well over 70% of the traffic we haul. Now on the wireless side of this, we've been talking a lot about 5G and we're really excited to have launched our first mobile 5G cities late last year. Those were 12 cities. We also have nine that we announced for this year that will be coming online here soon and I'm proud to say San Francisco and San Jose are on that list, so you'll be excited about that. And again, data demand is just booming. So I mentioned that 250 plus petabytes a day. If you go all the way back to when the first smart phone started to emerge back in 2007, that represents over a 470,000% increase in traffic demand. So it's a pretty significant hockey stick that we're seeing here. Now going out into the future here, the tsunami of demand is not abetting at all. In fact, if you look at some analyst reports out there, specifically the Cisco Virtual Networking Index report just released about a month ago, they predict another 3X increase in the global IP traffic. And when you look at the effects of the mobile side of that, they predict a 7X increase in mobile IP traffic and there's a prediction that over 70% of that traffic in five years will actually be coming from wireless devices. So if you don't believe 5G is going to drive this, well I'm here to tell you it's really going to open up the doors here and I think you can see why. 5G is a technology that's really going to drive hyper-connectivity. So it's not just connecting smart phones and tablets, it's going to be connecting everything. The capabilities of the network are going to give us the capability to more cost efficiently connect millions of devices within a square mile, whereas today we can probably only do thousands. And so that's why 5G is so important and really the heart of 5G, the foundations of 5G are really based on the fundamentals of software defined networking and virtualization. So a lot going on there. So let me talk a little bit about the journey we've been on over the last five years or so and it really started with John Donovan and this great vision to really embrace software defined networking and bringing this transformation from a hardware-centric network to a software-centric network. And we're really pleased that John is actually now our CEO. So if you're ever questioning the commitment we have it all the way to the top. And that's really important because as you can see AT&T we like to feel that we are not just major contributors but major leaders in this whole revolution that's going on. So if you go back to 2014, we announced our SDN vision actually right here at ONS. It was actually a lot smaller crowd. And then quickly in 2015 with some great work with ONF and many others we started virtualizing our GPON-OLT architecture to take advantage of AT&T's fiber footprint and we expanded that by actually working with the open compute project to put a lot of that technology the hardware into the open so that we could start developing open source software on top of it. Then in 2016 we put into the open our ECOMP platform which became later named ONAP. Everything you saw in that video, that first net video is actually automated and orchestrated with ONAP, that first net network. Everything we're doing in terms of our 5G deployment is taking advantage of ONAP and many other software open source projects that are going on. And I really want to give a shout out to Chris Rice and Igalo Bez and their leadership teams and many of which are here in this room today because they really have taken this vision and made it a reality and really, really great work there. Then in 2017 we announced our first live trial on a white box switch. This was really an industry first in the carrier space for us. And then in 2018 last year we announced a white box router for our cell sites where we'll be deploying over the next few years here over 65,000 of these. In fact we have these in production now and you can actually see some of that implementation in one of the booths back there so really encourage you to go check it out. So a lot going on there. Okay, so all these great things happening. So what are they happening on? Well, it's really on a foundation of some amazing open source projects out there. And this isn't a journey we've done by ourselves. We've really done it with some great partnerships and really great developer communities out there and all of you. And when you look at a lot of these logos out here there's ones that certainly stand out more. Some have been out there a little longer than others but I would tell you all of these are equally important because they're all part of this great vision and solution, this puzzle if you will that we're putting together here. And we're learning a tremendous amount and we're learning it at a velocity that we've never had before and we're learning it with a much greater community and this is allowing these capabilities to lower the entry barrier for more innovative solutions and players to come into the mix. And so this is what this whole open source initiative is really all about. So let me get into a little more specifics on a few of these that are going on. So just to highlight a couple and relate it to some of the announcements we just made. So in the last year here we talked a lot about our data centers using white box switches. A lot of those we have now in place that are carrying live 5G traffic. As I mentioned a lot of this is powered by ONAP and this is part of our big push to virtualize and SDN control our network. If you recall back five years ago almost five years, four years ago we set out a very audacious goal to SDN control and virtualize 75% of our network and I'm proud to say end of last year we hit the 65% mark. So we're almost there. And this year our goal is to get to 70%. A lot of folks have asked me, hey wait a minute Andre, some years you've done 20%, why now only five? Well we kind of left all the hard stuff for last. So we're well on a path here to get to our goal of 75% by the end of 2020 and again really due to the really great hard work by many in this room. Also we're really excited about how open source is now going to unlock and open a part of the network where we've seen a tremendous amount of technology and vendor lock in and that's the radio access network. So just yesterday in partnership with ORAN that's the Open Radio Access Network Alliance in collaboration with Nokia. AT&T and Nokia contributed and introduced the first piece of open source software for what we call the RAN Intelligent Controller and we're really excited about this because this is just the beginning here to start opening up the capabilities of the radio access network to not only give us more visibility of what's going on but give us more control. So this is going to allow us to better utilize our RAN assets and resources but also to allow us to create more value add services and experiences for our end customers. In fact we've got a really cool demo that I encourage all of you to go check out that actually shows this RAN Intelligent Controller we call it the RIC actually in use and it's a really great testament and shows how a near real time controller can work and we think this is just the beginning here in the RAN space. Also we just recently made some great advances here in the transport layer and this is with our open Rotom initiative and we expect AT&T to be first to 400 gig. Of course with the tsunami of demand that's going to come with 5G we've got to have a backbone, a transport network that can handle that tsunami and really we've got to upgrade from 100 to 400 and a lot going on there and also what's helping us drive this is this open Rotom initiative that's bringing in more interoperability. Again, traditionally a space of the network where there's a lot of lock in in terms of the technology and only a few players. Now we've gotten to sort of break that open so that we can get a lot more competition and intermix and match and again lower the entry barrier to get more innovation into that space. So very exciting work going on there and this partnership here was really we recently formed this with Sienna, Fujitsu, Orange and others and we did this and demonstrated this and just recently where we showed how this actually can work together quite effectively and I think you're going to see some really exciting advances here in the near future as we begin to upgrade our network to these new speeds. And then also I want to mention what's been going on with another partner open source organization, ONF and some really great work going on in terms of opening up access specifically I wanted to call out the SEBA program the SDN enabled broadband access program and this is again bringing much more commoditized hardware solutions open solutions but also open source software to bring higher speeds, better services across our wire line infrastructure as well. And so a lot of great work going on there and then also we've also announced this week a lot of work in the white box space we actually have a deployment now in Toronto and London that are now live where we deployed a white box solution with a routing stack that's part that will be part of Danos and that's something that we will introduce into the community here soon and our expectation is to take that white box implementation into that software stack to 76 countries by end of this year. So really really great work going on by the teams. So I want to show so why open source and I get this a lot and it really is about making the network much more relevant and making the network and when you think about 5G something that's more accessible to developers to use to create all these amazing new use cases that are going to come down the pike here shortly. And the fundamental tenets of making that a reality making that network more relevant making it more programmable is about openness and this is really important here and this is obviously by the name itself particularly open sources to draw in greater communities to solve these and build these solutions much faster much more effectively. And then also there's a lot of myth out there that says hey is open source really safe? Is it really secure? And I'm here to tell you actually open source is more secure is the most secure approach to take when you look at a proprietary implementation a closed implementation which is really only controlled by just a few there's a much much more power with a much greater community and if you think about the more eyeballs you can have looking at the code testing it using it finding vulnerabilities fixing them immediately that's really how you get the most robust most secure code out there and if you want a testament to that just look at the most ubiquitous project open source project out there and that's Linux in fact Linux most people don't realize Linux is probably more part of your lives your connected lives than we realize but that project in itself with just the global reach and the global eyeballs looking at that base of code is constantly being upgraded and checked and made better in fact the Linux kernel is actually patched nine times every hour so whenever there's some little improvement or some little issue found it's immediately identified and it's corrected and nowhere can you get velocity like that other than having a large community aligned on making it better and so that's why security is so important and why we believe open source is more secure and then finally but not least we believe open source is going to open up a whole new level of interoperability so again these traditional areas of the network that have been very controlled by a few we're now opening up to the power of many and this is where we're going to lower that entry barrier for innovation so we can get more speed get more interesting more disruptive solutions in that can really propel and take networking to the next level so I think and I hope you agree with me open source has a tremendous future in everything we do and I'm just really pleased to see so many people jumping on this bandwagon and being a part of it so that's my talk and I just want to thank you again for your contributions your participation and support of this incredible journey we're on together and thank you for all that you do