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27 Feb 2018 | Mobile World Congress

Andy Tiller | EVP Collaboration & Innovation | TM Forum

Network Automation - from 4G to 5G

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Accelerating Industry Transformation Through Collaboration

TM Forum members generate US$2 trillion in revenue & serve 5 billion customers across 180 countries

• 850+ member companies

• 90,000+ professionals

• 28 years old

TM Forum is a global industry associationdriving transformation of the communications industry through collaboration

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AutomationRhymes With

Collaboration

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AutomatizaciónRhymes With

Colaboración

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自动化需要

合作

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Reimagining MANO, OSS & BSS

Operations(processes & people)

BSS

OSS

Network (physical)

Communications Provider Domain Digital Service Provider Domain Partner domains

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fere

nti

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n

AI Enabled Operations

Open Digital Architecture

Network Infrastructure (virtual / hybrid)

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CSPEco-

systems

CIO & IT

CTO &Network

NEPs

OSS / BSS Suppliers

Open Source

Cloud / IaaS Providers

ETSI

TM Forum

etc.

MEF

New Collaboration

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Closed Loop Assurance of 5G Network Slices for an IoT Connected Factory

• Composing repeatable services

• Zero friction integration

• Dynamic and autonomous fulfilment & assurance

TM Forum Catalyst Project

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Some Relevant TM Forum Collaborations

ONAP or OSM

Open Digital Architecture

Open APIs

AIReport: AI - The Time is Now | Explore AI Project

ZOOMZero-touch Orchestration, Operations & Management

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Automation vs. Intelligence: the Knowledge Defined Network

IF [network is not optimized] THEN [please just make it so!]

Traditional Programming

ComputerData

ProgramOutput

After David Clark et al., A Knowledge Plane for the Internet

ComputerOutput

DataProgram

Machine Learning

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AutomationRhymes With

Collaboration