Transforming Operations by Commercializing NFV and Leveraging Smart

Quick Company Facts – NTT DOCOMO Other group companies Regional communications business Revenue: Operational Income: Employees: Long distance & international communications business Other business Mobile communications business Systems Integration real estate, finance, construction and power business 303. 7 billion USD 195. 5 billion USD 421. 1 billion USD 157. 9 billion USD 117. 7 billion USD 33. 0 billion USD 3. 5 billion USD 87. 4 billion USD 9. 9 billion USD 7. 1 billion USD 68, 250 43, 850 26, 750 111, 650 24, 350 51 381 118 301 93 Subsidiaries: the year ended March 31, 2017 © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 2

NTT Docomo Goal: Become “+d Co-creation Company” Agriculture Healthcare Telecommunications business Integrated Services Provider Value Creation Company Education Joint Value Creation Retail Transportation Tourism 3 © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 3

Agenda 1. NFV commercial Experience 2. Smart. OPS 3. Future plan © 2018 NTT

NFV Commercialization (v. EPC) DOCOMO commercialized the world's first multi-vendor v. EPC on 9 th March 2016 The v. EPCs installed in existing EPCs pool and handling any kind of LTE/LTE-A/Vo. LTE traffic Legacy EPC pool add v. EPC IP NW Base station Radio area 6 © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 6

v. EPC Deployment Architecture We succeeded in building a multi-vendor NFV system with VNFM centric architecture: NFVO v. EPC Storage © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. VNFM VIM (Open. Stack) Hypervisor (KVM) Switch VNFM Server © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. Plugin SDN-C 7

Reality of NFV Next Steps: To reduce OPEX through improvement of business processes and OSS Total EPC roll-out time can be reduced more with automation for design and configuration phase. EPC Rollout time (Legacy VS v. EPC) OPEX Legacy Design Deploy Config -uration Rollout dow n NFV VNF NFV © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. NFV + OSS Design © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. Deploy Legacy NFV + OSS Design Deploy NFVI Config Rollout -uration Config -uration Rollout short t 8

Big picture of Smart. OPS One-touch operation with service provisioning Zero-touch operation with data analytics Smart. OPS Data Analytics Service Provisioning Existing OSS SDN Analyze NFVO VNFM VIM Rapid maintenance, Optimization Traffic data 1分間 Alarms トラヒック logs データ Collect closed loop control Firewall RAN © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. Transport NW Internet Core NW/DC © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. Gi-LAN 10

Smart. OPS follow TMF ZOOM Same as TMForum ZOOM project concept, our Smart. OPS adds business value on ETSI NFV MANO. Scope of ETSI MANO service provisioning Data Analytics © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 11

ZSM : Zero touch network and Service Management © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All

One-touch operation "Service Provisioning " allows faster service delivery and cost reduction through automation Service Provisioning Auto Planning Auto-designing Auto-Deployment Existing OSS Core node EMS SDN MANO VIM DNS e. Node. B VNF Core node © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. VNF Legacy Corporation/MVN O Internet NFV 13

Functional Architecture Overview Service Provisioning 　　System Design (Auto Designing) ＋ Provisioning(Auto Deployment). aim : Construct ＆ operate NFV efficiently , lessen the possibility of making mistakes. Fulfillment Net. Work Order Handling Design　Inventory Service Configuration & Activation Resource Provisioning NW NFVI　Provisioning VNF - Provisioning DNS tool SDN © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. Servers Node DNS OPS NE © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. MANO VNF NFVI 14

Benefit from NSO We succeeded in reduction of over 90% operating cost with NSO. design construction configuration NFV today Before NFV ・・・・・・・・・・ design VNF instantiation configuration ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ A lot of manual tasks Only NFV Smart. OPS design deploy configure Service Provisioning © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. total operation efficiency cut down © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. Click! Automatic Provisioning 15

Why we succeeded in reduction of operational cost ? Docomo operator configured several tens of thousands of parameters into ACI by manual. NSO has loaded the spreadsheets and then has configured these parameters into ACI. Before spreadsheets configuration ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Each parameter by manual (GUI) SDNC (ACI) Take a few weeks After spreadsheets ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ configuration NSO All parameter by a few command SDNC (ACI) Take less than one hour © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 16

Data Analytics Service Provisioning Plan Design Build Auto Planning Analytics Traffic data Predict failure • Intelligent decision support • AI-driven demand forecasting • Calculate equipment expansion plan © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. Mainten ance Detect “Unusual” © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. Alarm/Logs • Real Time Analysis • Predict future failure • Detect silent failure 17

TMForum DTW 2018 CASE STUDY: Utilizing AI & Big Data in Next-Gen OSS to Drive Operations Transformation • Sharing the vision on how to enhance operational efficiency amid the increasing complexity of networks associated with 5 G introduction • Elaborating how AI and Big Data technologies can enhance qualitative and quantitative analysis capabilities for more sophisticated network operations • Explaining trial results that incorporated actual commercial data and its significance for future development © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 18

Agenda 1. NFV commercial Experience 2. Smart OPS 3. Future plan* * not yet

Beyond Smart. OPS We are investigating to expand our Smart. OPS to social platform in 5 G/Io. T era with end-to-end business and service orchestration for a B 2 B 2 X model. E 2 EO Technology Area Automation by A. I. One-touch Operation Virtualization OSS Smart OPS Future Step Integration with BSS B 2 B 2 X Advancing Operation Optimize Improve efficiency Cost Reduction Construction Monitoring & Maintenance Operation Area © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 20

Expand from Core to E 2 E (including RAN and Transport) Smart. OPS mainly aims at advance of operation for Core NW. We are planning to expand to RAN and Transport network. Realization of E 2 EO Smart. OPS Expand Access OSS Business support using AI One-touch operation Transport DNS SDN Controller OSS Management /OSS e. Node. B ERP-SW Transmission NTT network ERP-SW Access Ｃ BTS FTM-D © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. ER AR FTM-D L 2 SW IP-RNC VNFM VIM DNS ERP-SW NTT NFVO Core OSS CR CR IP NW IP網 D-BGW © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. CR ER AR v. EPC Core node x. GSN MAPS Internet SIN 21

Support of B 2 B 2 X model We assume that in the future CSPs will provide NW slices optimized for each business partner, we think Smart. OPS should support a B 2 B 2 X business model to create new service rapidly. Environment energy Car Logistics Medical / health care Agriculture BSS BSS BSS Allocate Dedicated NW +d Slice for sensor B 2 B 2 X NW design optimized for each usage Slice for car Service monitoring and Analysis for each slice Slice for Logistics E 2 EO Expand Slice for Other Services Smart OPS Physical resources © 2018 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2008 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All rights reserved. 22