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Moving Beyond Connectivity
Based Competition Through
Signaling Enhancement and
Orchestration
LTE North America Signaling Day
November 2014
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What We Do Know Mobile Telecommunications Impacts The Economy
$1 Trillion+ in CAPEX investment over the last six years
5.1% of global GDP by 2020
10% more penetration gets you 15 basis points
5.9 Billion mobile broadband connections by 2020
83% of the global population!
50 Billion connected devices by the end of the decade
Sources: Cisco, GSMA
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What We Do Know With Context, the Internet Will Come to You
“Instead of the consumers going to the internet, the internet will come to them…”
-Gerhard Fettweis, Siavash Alamouti
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What We Do Know There’s Considerable Intelligence in Signaling Messages
Diameter is a next-generation signaling protocol
Highly extensible
Attribute Value Pairs (AVPs) support a wide range of network specific data
Used on over 80 interfaces
Originally designed for a peer-to-peer architecture
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What We Do Know Competition Won’t Wait for Improved User Experience
Ambient Awareness
Discovery Proximate
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What Do We Know LTE Investment Up – Mobile Revenue Down
European ARPU
European mobile revenue
CAPEX per sub
6% per year
2.1% per year
8.4% CAGR (2009-13)
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What We Do Know Wi-Fi Will Play a Critical Role in Extending Coverage
I am a Wi-Fi Hotspot
By 2018, more traffic will be offloaded to Wi-Fi than what remains on cellular
71% of all communications currently flow over Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi can reduce per-bit RAN costs by up to 18%
Sources: Cisco VNI, Wi-Fi Alliance, Wireless Broadband Alliance, Maravedis
ByBorre
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What We Do Know Competition is Fierce
Competition comes in all shapes and sizes
Need to roll out networks faster
Need to roll out services faster
Take a portfolio approach
Differentiate on quality
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Getting Ready For the Next Generation DSC
Phase 1: Diameter relay message routing for scalability and survivability
Phase 3: Virtualization and orchestration of signaling controller capabilities
Phase 2: Orchestration framework: Ability to translate Diameter with non-Diameter protocols, actionable message flow inspection, and intelligence integration from external data repositories
• Diameter routing
• PCRF binding
• Border Security (Diameter Edge Agent)
• 4G-to-4G roaming
• 3G-to-4G roaming
• Multi-protocol, multi-network interworking
• Signaling orchestration and enhancement
• IT protocol integration
• Centralized hub for agility and service velocity
– Personalized connectivity
– Monetize investments
• Virtualized environments
• Decoupled functionality
– IWF VNF, DEA VNF, dynamic routing VNF
• Alternative deployment models
– Multiple instances, multi-tenanted
Diameter STP Signaling Orchestration Orchestration & Virtualization
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Leveraging the Next Wave of Signaling Controllers Today
Nick Selway and CJ Kale
Signaling Plane Orchestration
Accelerate service velocity
Reduce costs
Differentiate services
Examples
Accelerating vendor interoperability
Advanced Roaming
Service enhancement
“In a short period of time the role of the DSC has been extended from simply control plane management to enable control plane orchestration.”
Control Plane
Orchestration: The
Evolution of Service
Innovation Attributes
http://bit.ly/dsc-wp
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Accelerating Vendor Interoperability
Challenge: OCS cannot process Diameter Credit Control messages from different NEMs What’s at stake:
• Long lead time and high cost on development work
• Months of wait time and tens of thousands of dollars
• Impacts performance and service rollout
GGSN placing information for called-station-id in top grouped AVP Far end OCS expecting information in grouped AVP Can impact session binding between GGSN and OCS
Taking Control of Interoperability Issues
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Accelerating Vendor Interoperability
GGSN placing information for called-station-id in top
grouped AVP
Far end OCS expecting information in grouped AVP
Can impact session binding between GGSN and OCS
Diameter Signaling Controller
DSC copies AVP parameter in CCR-I and CCR-U messages in grouped AVP on inbound message from GGSN to top level AVP on outbound message to OCS
• Faster time-to-market and time-to-revenue
• Lower operational costs • Agility - rapidly interwork different vendor
equipment
Next Gen DSC
Benefits
Challenge: OCS cannot process Diameter Credit Control messages from different NEMs What’s at stake:
• Long lead time and high cost on development work
• Months of wait time and tens of thousands of dollars
• Impacts performance and service rollout
Taking Control of Interoperability Issues
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Advanced Roaming: Improving User Experience
Mobile data roaming revenues projected to be $42B by 2018
-Juniper Research
Challenge: Inconsistent mobile data experience when roaming
What’s at stake:
• Customer satisfaction – high expectation for consistent user experience
• Cost - Increasing size of interconnect pipes to handle larger volumes of data plane roaming traffic
• Churn - High value customers
Undersized data plane
interconnect
SGW
Visited Network
EPC
Internet
Home Network
Access PGW
HSS HSS
EPC Access Roaming
customers
Differentiating on UX 331 commercially launched LTE networks in 112 countries -GSA Evolution to LTE Report
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Advanced Roaming: Improving User Experience
Mobile data roaming revenues projected to be $42B by 2018
-Juniper Research
Challenge: Inconsistent mobile data experience when roaming
What’s at stake:
• Customer satisfaction – high expectation for consistent user experience
• Cost - Increasing size of interconnect pipes to handle larger volumes of data plane roaming traffic
• Churn - High value customers
Undersized data plane
interconnect
SGW
Visited Network
EPC
Internet
Home Network
Access PGW
HSS HSS
EPC Access Roaming
customers
Differentiating on UX 331 commercially launched LTE networks in 112 countries -GSA Evolution to LTE Report
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Advanced Roaming: 4G with Local Break Out
Visited Network
EPC
Home Network
HSS
Internet
OCS
SGW PCRF
MME
Access Diameter Signaling
Controller
•Mediation •Management • Security • Routing • Caching &
Enhancement
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S6a
S9
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S6a
S9
Authorization
Charging
Policy
Roaming with Local Break Out – Extend policy across network boundaries
– Provide consistent and improved user experience for roaming customers
– Establish premium service for high value accounts and address bill shock
– Reduce transport costs
Establish customized handling per • Service • Operator • Subscriber
PGW
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Advanced Roaming: 3G-to-4G (TS 29.305)
3G devices will account for 48% of the market by 2016
-Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013–2018
Challenge: Enabling 3G inbound roamers in EPC-based networks
What’s at stake:
• Monetizing investment in evolved packet core
• Mobile data roaming will account for 47% of global roaming revenue in 2018 – Juniper Research
• Users want seamless experience, operators don’t want to have to modify devices
Expand the roaming opportunity
Home 3G Network
Visited 4G Network
Diameter-based authentication
SS7/MAP-based authentication
3G inbound roamer
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Advanced Roaming: 3G-to-4G (TS 29.305)
3G to 4G Roaming enablement – Enables 3G customers to roam in 4G under multiple network deployment
scenarios
DSC supports – 3GPP TS 29.305 roaming scenarios – Normalization of security vectors between EPC and 3GPP pre-release 8
mobile core networks – EIR interworking for handset validation queries
• Automates complex multi-protocol interworking processes
• Normalizes security vectors between 3G and 4G
• Flexibility through custom logic application
• Expands roaming opportunities
Gr
• Diameter to Map • Security vector
interworking • Equipment identity
check
Gf
HSS HLR
S6a
EIR
Visited 4G EPC Mobile Core
Home 3G Mobile Core
S13 EPC Access MME Access
Next Generation DSC Benefits
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Signaling Controller for Service Enhancement and Creation
• Deployment flexibility
• Reduces lengthy and costly development cycles
• Lowers CAPEX
• Accelerates time-to-revenue
Signaling orchestration framework Integrates routing, security, mediation, interworking, and enhancement
Next Generation DSC Benefits
Service creation and enhancement through real-time inspection and application of logic to traffic
How this is done:
• Interworking signaling protocols
• RADIUS, MAP, Diameter
• Application of logic to message content
• Inspection of subscriber, policy, and charging intelligence
• Real-time reference of black-list data to dynamically affect message flows
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Leverage What You Have Today
Shift from a traditional session setup and tear-down model
More intelligent
More extensible
The next-generation DSC Central hub for services customization, agility and innovation
Control plane signaling orchestration
Opportunities beyond current standards
Differentiation
Flexibility
Service enhancement
Service velocity
Interworking
Enables services across technologies
NFV and signaling orchestration
Systematically redefines the role of the control plane
The Next Killer App
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