ATIS

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ATIS Service Oriented Networks (SON) Activity
DOCUMENT GSC15-PLEN-81r1
FOR Presentation
SOURCE ATIS
AGENDA ITEM PLEN 6.13
CONTACT(S) Andrew White (andrew.white_at_nsn.com)

• Andrew White,Nokia Siemens Networks

Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15
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SON Value Proposition

• It is about people!
• It is not about devices.
• People are mobile, and they use services not
  technologies.
• SON is about services and services are
  everywhere.
• It is about Globalization!
• Service supply chains are distributed and real
  time.
• Best of breed capabilities come from many
  industries.
• It is about Technology!
• Great technology melts into the background.
• Reusable infrastructure reduces cost of new
  services.
• Software and integration skills are keys to
  success.

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Service Oriented Network
Service Oriented Networking abstracts resources
(applications, hardware, and networks) into
defined and reusable service enablers to
facilitate cross-domain blending.
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Factorial Value of SON

• Traditional networks increase in value by power
  law with the number of connections. (Metcalfs
  Law)
• ½ n (n 1), n connections
• Service inventories generate factorial value
  through permutations of service enablers.
  (Whites Law)
• n! / (r! (n r)!), n enabler inventory, r
  enablers per service

Service Inventory 1 Service Enabler (SE) 25 Service Enablers (SEs) 50 Service Enablers (SEs)
Silos 1 25 50
Combined in threes 1 2,300 19,600
Order not important (only one order makes
sense). Repetition not allowed.
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SON Forum Current Highlights

• A Service Enabler Characterization Technical
  Report has been published.
• Service Enabler Characterization provides key
  information such as lifecycle details,
  chargeability, and capacity.
• These are details not contained in the functional
  definition of a service enabler.
• A goal is to provide maximum flexibility in where
  service enablers can be deployed or consumed.
  This document does not address how Service
  Enablers get published or discovered.
• SON solicited industry comments in November 2009.
• Two additional work items are progressing towards
  completion
• Common Namespace Requirements.
• 3rd Party Service Provider Interface Profile .

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Strategic Direction

• SON Forum is focused on data aspects of service
  architecture.
• Documents in the SON Forum support that view
• Service Enabler Characterization.
• Common Namespace Requirements.
• 3rd Party Service Provider Interface Profile.

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Challenges

• Service Oriented Networks is a new standards area
  and substantial work remains to be done to
  achieve a comprehensive view.
• There are multiple PSOs working in SON-related
  areas. Harmonizing this work into a cohesive
  service inventory is a significant task.
• Horizontal frameworks such as SONs that optimize
  long term reusability continue to compete with
  integrated silo solutions that optimize first
  service delivery.

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Next Steps/Actions

• Progress other priority areas to completion by
  end of 2010.
• SON Forum technical program.
• Next face to face meeting18 October
  2010Washington, DC

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Proposed Resolution

• ATIS proposes a new Resolution on Service
  Oriented Networks contained in GSC15-PLEN-86.

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Service Oriented Networks (ATIS) Summary

• Presentations
• 2 SON contributions from CCSA (60) and ATIS (81).
• Summary
• Frameworks facilitate integration and adaptation
  of service enablers
• A minimum set of common functions is required in
  the framework
• These frameworks allow interworking across
  technologies IMS, SOA, Web 2.0, Cloud, etc.
• Service Providers use the framework to integrate
  service inventories into multiple products
• Support for flexible reuse of service enablers
  allows the same functions to be used for multiple
  retail and wholesale products
• Service Oriented Networks are structured cloud
  implementations
• Resolution
• Proposed new Resolution from ATIS (GSC15-PLEN-86)

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Supplementary Slides
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Service Enabler Packaging
User
End Users
End users interact with the business application
oblivious of the component parts.
Subscriber
Service
Applications
Service Interaction Management is used to blend
service enablers into a business application.
Service Interaction
Reuse
Service Enablers
Service
Resource
Applications Storage and Computing Networks
App
App
App
Data
Data
Data
The Service Enablers expose resources
(applications, data, and connectivity) through a
defined, reusable interface.
Access Transport
User preferences should be separated from the
application and included with the user profile.
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Technology Centric
Services are delivered through common transport.
The customer experience is fragmented because
each service requires a separate login and is in
a distinct silo.
Data is not shared across applications so the
customer must manually input and synchronize
preferences, contacts, and other metadata.
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User Centric
PIM
Presence
Service Interaction
Services are delivered through common transport.
The user experience is unified by a common SON
service enabler, profile, and metadata.
Key data is shared across applications. The
services work together in a single user
experience.
The number of discrete service experiences
increase as a factorial function of the service
inventory.
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Common Namespace
Centralized Subscriber Database
Identity Management
Common Preferences
Service Specific Preferences
Major Functions
Schema Representation
Invariant Identity
Common Identity
Broadband Identity
eCommerce Identity
Portal Identity
IPTV Identity
User ID
User ID
User ID
User ID
User ID
Credential
Credential
Credential
Credential
Credential
Attributes
Attributes
Attributes
Attributes
Attributes
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Globalization Service Supply Chain

• The traditional supply chain integrates raw
  materials into a finished product that is
  delivered to a customer.
• Globalization facilitates multiple suppliers with
  specialized roles working together in bringing a
  product to market.
• Service supply chains operate in a similar way
  except there is real time interaction between the
  suppliers during service invocation.
• The ability to manage the service supply chain is
  a core competency of SON companies.