Skynet
Catalyst 2019 – Digital Transformation World 2019
A global partnership 5G Telecoms serving global Each Service Provider is unique so, to create a realistic scenario, health we worked with a group of 11 operators and 6 vendors bringing different business and technology views and we aligned them As recent history has proven, epidemic outbreaks are still so that we could reach the interoperability required. happening frequently, even in well developed countries and We built 4 full stacks for Orchestration, Charging and swift, coordinated handling is crucial: pandemic influenza, bird Charging/Billing and we built the related integration across flu, swine flu, Nipah and Ebola still have a global impact. operators, so that we could achieve true interoperability.
With Skynet, we propose to establish a global network of medical experts, eHealth solutions and advanced communication services that enables cooperation on a global scale to prevent epidemics and help doctors treat patients fast and safe.
Modern networks are ushering in a new era of edge computing, unlimited data, 5G slicing, OTT services and IoT use cases including autonomous cars, robotic surgeries, immersive content, AI-enabled smart cities, smart industries... Moving on As a matter of fact, one of the key characteristics of an epidemic from the Phase 1 Catalyst, Blade Runner, focused on industrial is that we don’t know where it will start. The preparation is key maintenance, Skynet will showcase 5G-enabled remote to respond as fast and effectively as possible when it will occur. healthcare and drone management in a multi-operator orchestrated environment, including epidemic management Global business agreements support. A possible way to implement such a global collaboration would The objective is to enable a diverse ecosystem of partners be through a matching network of relationship among the including multiple operators from different geographies which WHO, the health ministries, the hospitals and the operators that seamlessly provide a set of end-to-end hybrid services. Skynet would enable its success. will highlight the importance of business assurance, monetization and the technical maturity of next-gen 5G enabled services and will use industry standards and initiatives such as TMF Frameworx, ODA and OpenAPI, ONAP, ODA, GSMA NEST, MEF and TOSCA service modelling.
OSS and BSS are the technical enablers to unleash the Champions network power
We also showcase the critical role of OSS and BSS, as the enabler for Service Providers for true zero-touch on demand product fruition.
Orchestration We implemented the inter-carrier slice orchestration using 4 different technology stacks going from the access portal to the CRM, the network slice design and the VNF instantiation. This Vendors kind of interaction among different technologies enables the realisation of on demand network slices going across geographies, countries and continents. The common set of information (Catalogs, SLA, KPIs, etc. ) shared among operators allow the interaction. We believe this setup is the future way to manage customer dedicated Network slices, therefore not only applicable to the eHealth use case but potentially to every other business vertical (Automotive, Industry 4.0, IoT, etc.). It makes For any information you can reach out to: the solution presented extremely flexible and powerful. BT: Paul Jordan ([email protected]) Chunghwa Telecom: Tse-Han Wang 王則涵 ([email protected]) Deutsche Telekom: Georg Seul ([email protected]) Du: Devendar Jain ([email protected]) Orange France: Frédéric Desnoes ([email protected]) NTT: 中村 高之 ([email protected]) Telus: Andrei Ivanov ([email protected]) Telenet: Arthur Lian ([email protected]) TIM: Massimo Banzi ([email protected]) Assurance Verizon: Samita Chakrabarti ([email protected]) Vodafone: Emmanuel Sarris ([email protected]) In such a complex scenario the Assurance is crucial. We went a step further by using an on demand inter-carrier Service Amartus: Konrad Herba ([email protected]) Assurance model, that highlighted new set of functionalities BearingPoint: Franz Ferk ([email protected]) required for a successful cooperation. Ericsson: Marco Gatti ([email protected]) EXFO: Ihab Mahna ([email protected]) Infosys: Nishi Mathur ([email protected]) We showcase the assurance on two of the Service Providers part Rift: Rene Tio ([email protected]) of the catalyst.
Charging and Intercarrier Billing Settlement Dedicated Charging capabilities able to cope with the on- demand network slice model are mandatory to monetize this new network features.
Intercarrier Billing Settlement using Blockchain will enable reliable and trustworthy financial relations among the Service Providers that will participate.
We showcase the Charging and Intercarrier Billing Settlement on two of the Service Providers part of the catalyst.