Network transformationâenabling physical and virtual network functionsâinfuses network planning ... service provider
Network transformation — enabling innovation and speed with infrastructure agility Transforming both fixed and wireless network infrastructure can reduce costs and improve the user experience, while boosting innovation. Network transformation—enabling physical and virtual network functions—infuses network planning and operations with the nimbleness required by communications service providers (CSP) in a dynamic and cost-sensitive business environment.
There has been dramatic growth in devices, data and complexity on network infrastructure: Device growth
50%
CAGR for tablets from 2011 – 2016.
During the same period, smartphones will grow 24% annually, and M2M modules will increase an astounding 42%.
Data growth
70%
of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2016, an increase of 25x.
Global mobile data grew 2.3x in 2011, more than doubling for the fourth year in a row.
Cell site growth
640,000
active cell sites in China.
While India has 232,000 cell sites, the U.S. has 260,000.
The unprecedented growth has caused significant challenges: • Enormous capital investment and operational cost to keep pace • Unpredictable customer experience • Challenging management of new and legacy networks • The need to drive network innovation to enable new sources of revenue
Facing these challenges, CSPs are transforming network infrastructure to deliver cost effective service with agility. IBM brings the ability to drive network transformation to reduce costs, improve experience, and increase innovation across fixed and mobile, whether physical or virtual. 1
Network upgrades, optimization and consolidation
2
Networking within and between clouds
3
Cloud based networking
4
Mobile edge networking
5
Video infrastructure
6
Policy: management, control, and networking
Innovation in action: IBM delivered a new converged core for a large ASEAN service provider to reduce OPEX and support exploding mobile bandwidth demands.
20%
reduction in OPEX
by converging multiple transport technologies and networks into a single network and single technology Business problem: The client wanted to reduce high operational costs driven by the requirement to managing multiple networks for mobile, business and residential services. Additionally, existing networks could not scale to bandwidth demands of customers which resulted in higher customer churn due to poor service quality.
Solution: IBM proposed a converged core network to consolidate multiple networks. IBM delivered services to facilitate the integration of the Juniper T4000 IP and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) based core network infrastructure with multiple vendors including Cisco, ALU and Huawei, among others.
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