{"id":33560,"date":"2018-10-24T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33560"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:19:15","slug":"network-nirvana-its-all-about-openness-says-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/10\/24\/network-nirvana-its-all-about-openness-says-nokia\/","title":{"rendered":"Network nirvana? It\u2019s all about openness, says Nokia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In tomorrow\u2019s ultra-connected world everyone and everything will require their own gigabit\u00a0to support\u00a0both\u00a0new ultra-broadband services, Nokia\u2019s president of Fixed Networks said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking\u00a0during a keynote conference session at Broadband World Forum and building on\u00a0his\u00a0\u2018Power of And\u2019 message,\u00a0FedericoGuill\u00e9n\u00a0told the auditorium\u00a0that\u00a0openness\u00a0will be\u00a0a key\u00a0piece of the\u00a0foundation to\u00a0making this happen, with open\u00a0solutions, open architectures and open data\u00a0being\u00a0critical to\u00a0achieve the lowest cost per-home connectivity\u00a0and\u00a0accelerate\u00a0time-to-market\u00a0for gigabit services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke last year about the \u2018power of and\u2019 and this absolutely still applies \u2013 operators need to combine fixed\u00a0and\u00a0wireless technologies to deliver a gig to every home; they need to leverage meshed Wi-Fi to bring that gig service into the home; and they need to combine the\u00a0network\u00a0and\u00a0the cloud to\u00a0manage the complexity,\u201d said\u00a0Guill\u00e9n. \u201cWhat they also need is openness across all these pillars. Openness is\u00a0not only about\u00a0doing things differently by using\u00a0analytics and automation or\u00a0embracing DevOps and co-development;\u00a0but it is also about doing\u00a0new and different\u00a0things:\u00a0enabling new business cases, diversifying strategies and creating\u00a0new\u00a0customer\u00a0engagement\u00a0and business\u00a0models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Guill\u00e9n\u00a0warned,\u00a0the risk\u00a0of\u00a0openness\u00a0is that it\u00a0remains very abstract. Acknowledging this,\u00a0Guill\u00e9n\u00a0went on to\u00a0offer\u00a0twospecific use cases\u00a0where openness either unlocks new business cases for operators or allows them to move faster and save costs.<\/p>\n<p>The first example\u00a0given was\u00a0network slicing, which\u00a0Guill\u00e9n\u00a0said\u00a0unlocks a range of new scenarios and benefits. Operators can partition their network in different slices, with each\u00a0slice\u00a0allowing full control over the resources in that slice. Slices can be assigned to different divisions within\u00a0an operator or even to different operators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy converging different services and divisions that would traditionally build different networks\u00a0\u2013\u00a0for example residential broadband, business services, and mobile transport\u00a0\u2013\u00a0on a single infrastructure, operators can not only reduce TCO but also enter new markets and expand their business, for example,\u00a0by addressing enterprises or other verticals,\u201d continued\u00a0Guill\u00e9n. \u201cNetwork slicing also has a key role to play in accelerating 5G, transforming your\u00a0fiber\u00a0access network into ready-made mobile transport.\u00a0In addition,\u00a0multiple operators can reduce risk and cost by co-investing in a single network roll-out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second example\u00a0Guill\u00e9n\u00a0offered is the age-old interop challenge for GPON \u2013 which\u00a0he said\u00a0can be solved simply and elegantly with a driver-like approach based on openness and virtualization. With this \u201cdriver\u201d approach \u2013 inspired by PC peripherals\u00a0\u2013\u00a0operators can introduce new\u00a0Optical Network Terminals (ONTs)\u00a0in their network in days or weeks, rather than months.<\/p>\n<p>Guill\u00e9n\u00a0concluded that\u00a0openness\u00a0can help address\u00a0network and industry challenges\u00a0as complexity increases, and average industry expertise decreases, as\u00a0baby-boomer experts\u00a0retire,\u00a0and the industry turns to\u00a0new players\u00a0to build networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut simply, we have to build smarter networks based on automation and\u00a0artificial intelligence,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to get to\u00a0network nirvana \u2013\u00a0a frictionless, modular and\u00a0programmable\u00a0network, where everything is simple\u00a0and happens\u00a0\u2018automagically\u2019 at the touch of a button.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tomorrow\u2019s ultra-connected world everyone and everything will require their own gigabit\u00a0to support\u00a0both\u00a0new ultra-broadband services, Nokia\u2019s president of Fixed Networks said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[6435,462,6437,6438,6436,96],"class_list":["post-33560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-opinions","tag-gpon","tag-nokia","tag-open-architectures","tag-open-data","tag-open-solutions","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}