Agile Service Provider Transformation - Kiran Inampudi

As service providers(Telco's) begin to transform their business to embrace Virtualization & Cloud ( ie SDN & NFV) their network operations/service delivery teams needs to evolve. While Virtualization & Cloud make it easy to rapidly expand the size of infrastructure, but the habits and practices they used in the past with hardware-based infrastructure don't keep up.
The Network operations teams need to adopt IT’s DevOps practices to maximize the potential benefits of the evolving software-defined infrastructure.
This includes adopting new tools that enhance agility, implementing agile operational and organizational models and procedures, and in some cases adopting a new culture. The benefits of such an approach are compelling: lower costs and increased agility, including the ability to implement new services in days rather than weeks or months

In this session, we will look at how to take advantage of technologies like cloud, virtualization, and configuration automation to manage IT infrastructure using patterns, practices, and ideas that have been adopted from software development, especially Agile concepts, and brought into the Network Operations world as part of the DevOps movement. Also, we will also go through the challenges and problems created by all these new tools, and the principles and mindset changes that a team needs to make to use them effectively

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1. Kiran Inampudi, Cisco Agile SP Transformation
2. 2 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Who am I ? Network Data Center Cloud NFV/SDN/Cloud Solutions
3. 3 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential
4. 4 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential OTT Competition Traffic Growth Time to Market Cost & Complexity SP Industry Challenges
5. 5 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Voice Video Voice Video Data Frame Relay, ATM networks IP Networks NFV,SDN,Cloud XaaS SP Network Evolution- NFV,SDN,Cloud 1990s 2000 Now time OSI Stack Software Defined NFV (Network Function Virtualization) SDN (Software Defined Network) Cloud Layer 2 Layer 3 Layer 7
6. 6 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential DevOps is a Natural companion for SDN/NFV Key Drivers: Service Agility, Operations Flexibility Source: AT&T Domain 2.0
7. 7 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential CPE Cust-A CPE Cust-A CPE Cust-B vFW IP Network Internet vR vFW VR vR vFW CPE Cust-C CPE Cust-C GWY Orchestration vIPS FULL MEDIUM vR BASIC CPE Cust-B VR- Virtual Router vFW- Virtual Firewall vIPS- Virtual Intrusion Prevention CPE- Customer Premise Equipment Use case- Business VPN Services SP Cloud Cloud IPVPN SP Offers §  Cloud VPN Foundation(Basic) §  Cloud VPN Advanced (Medium) §  Cloud VPN Advanced w/Web Security (Full)
8. 8 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential DevOps for SP Network Operations vFW vR Analytics vFW vR Dev Test Pre- Production Production New Service offer Updates, Changes Automated Workflow- Remediation Etc Source / Specification Build Artifact Repo Deploy Operate
9. 9 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Challenges Ø  Agility-Stability Paradox Ø  Hybrid Environments Ø  Network Programmer Bottleneck Ø  OSS/BSS integrations Ø  Skills : IP Networks, Data center, Programming & Operations Ø  Processes: DevOps Culture, Small teams- End to end responsibility Ø  Complete toolset- deployment, testing, Troubleshooting Ø  Standards: Yang, ETSI Operationalizing SDN/NFV Environments What’s Needed ?
10. 10 © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Where do I start? Improve DevOps education & awareness Evaluate Service Delivery Process Identify Service Delivery Improvements Try it in a small part of Organization