OCP Adoption in Telco Ecosystem Abdellah Tazi Director

OCP Adoption in Telco Ecosystem Abdellah Tazi, Director, AT&T Christopher Winslow, SVP, Flex Cloud Solutions Saurav Das, VP of Engineering, ONF

Abdellah Tazi Director Member of Technical Staff, Converged Access and Device Technology, AT&T

Open Access of Tomorrow DISAGGREGATE Software/Hardware Control /Data Plane Network Functions OPEN Open Hardware Open Access Software Open Interfaces/APIs Technology Standards ITU-T, 3 GPP, IEEE, BBF, FSAN Access Technology x. PON, G. fast, x. Haul AUTOMATION Zero Touch, SON, CI/CD Analytics – AI, ML Open Standards Community AKRAINO, OCP, ONF, ORAN, ONAP-Linux Foundation

What’s Driving AT&T’s Whitebox Strategy? Access Aggregation LTE / 5 G Macro Regional DC MTSO Central Office/HUB 5 G mm. W Micro Fronthaul Wireline Access Transport e. CPRI Central DC Midhaul/Backhau l Core Backhaul LTE / 5 G mm. W Pico CPRI and e. CPRI x. PON OCP Volume $ CAPEX / OPEX Closer to Edge OCP White Box NEW CAS Cell Site Gateway Router Fiber Distribution Hub G. Fast DPU GPON OLT XGS-PON OLT Universal CPE

AT&T Transformation Journey Software DISAGGREGATE Closed Solution Rigid Model

Open Solution - Broadband Service • Disaggregated PON OLT Solution • OCP based PON OLT, To. R, Compute • Open Source Software - SEBA from SEBA ODM • ONF Orchestration and Management • Community Collaboration Operators SI JOIN THE COMMUNITY !

Saurav Das Vice President of Engineering, Open Networking Foundation

ONAP SEBA SDN Enabled Broadband Access Op X OSS/BSS SEBA POD Abstract OLT Network Edge Mediator (NEM) AAA vlans dhcp mcast bridging routing SDN Controller - ONOS ACLs Docke r. K 8 s Helm VOLTHA OLT ONU Edge. Core ASFv. OLT 16 SWITCH SERVER Edge. Core 7712 External BNG Quanta. Grid D 51 B-1 U

SEBA: Open. Together. AT&T

White-Box XGS-PON OLT VOLTHA core White-Box = Open-Hardware Specs (OCP) + Open-Source Software (ONF & OCP) Open. OLT Adaptor Open. OLT Driver ONL ONIE Chip Driver SDK(s) Whitebox OLT 11 Edgecore ASFv. OLT 16 Whitebox OLT

White-Box To. R Switching Fabric Control SDN Controller White-Box = Open-Hardware Specs (OCP) + Open-Source Software (ONF & OCP) Indigo OF Agent BRCM OF-DPA ONL ONIE SDK BRCM ASIC OCP Bare Metal Switch Edgecore 5712, 6712, 7712

Trellis IPv 4/v 6 unicast/multicast, vlans, MPLS SR, v. Router … Open-Source Leaf-Spine Fabric Spine Field Office ONOS Spine Leaf Spine Metro/Core Routers Central Office Leaf Base station R-PHY R-OLT Internet Leaf

Trellis: Open. Together.

The ONF Ecosystem Vibrant Operator Led Consortium Operator Partners 160+ Members Strong www. opennetworking. org Vendor Partners Innovator Operators 70+ Innovator Vendors Collaborators CORD SEBA Trellis VOLTHA ONOS XOS Stratum OMEC COMAC ODTN P 4

[Rack & Power] Chris Winslow Senior Vice President & General Manager, Global Cloud & Data Center Business Unit, Flex

Across the Entire Network Edge Data Center and Central Office Open Standard Mechanical Racks Open 19 Compute & Networking Modules CRAN Optical Systems Edge Router Modules Cellular Microwave & RF 4 G/4. 5 G Radio Modules PTP Backhaul Units Cloud Data Center Custom Compute Motherboards Open Standard Mechanical Racks OCP Storage Systems Storage Appliances Edge Compute Io. T Edge Computing Platforms Automotive Network Switch Modules SOHO Enterprise Data Center Systems, Storage and Networking

Open Ecosystem Initiatives Build Open Hardware Participate in open hardware foundations by contributing designs and providing spec feedback. Validate Open Software Platforms Collaborate with software consortium partnerships to test SDDC solutions driven by customer requirements. Deliver Integrated Solutions Combine HW / SW design experience with automated validation framework to deliver robust platform solutions.

Open Standards Engagement Lab Customers Community Integration Requirements • • Multiple technology Partners Established worldwide supply chain Sketch-to-Scale technology enablement Distribution, service, repair, and reverse logistics Users Partners Validation Requirements • • • Stack Validation Performance Testing Latency reduction No Vendor Lock-In New applications https: //flexcloudlabs. com POD 5 POD 2 POD 4 AUTO POD 1 POD 3 POD 6 POD n

ONF Reference Designs Validation on OCP Platforms • Flex currently deploying multiple integrated stacks for telco use cases • Running on multi-vendor OCP hardware • Validating with partner tools & Flex FAST Flex Engagement Lab For more details: Friday @ 2 pm in 212 CD Telco & open. Edge Validation of SEBA CORD - Siddharth Gogar Trellis open SDN platform CORD SEBA POD on OCP

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