Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice

Platforms, tools and processes for digital service provider transformation

Customers want more personalized, digital services to be available anywhere at
any time a trend that is fundamentally changing how businesses operate. The
path to meeting customer demands, as well as bringing innovative services to
market faster and reducing overhead directly parallels each service providers
own digital transformation.
For many traditional network operators, becoming a digital service provider is
a top priority. Netcrackers survey held in 2016 among 120 operators revealed
that 76 percent of service providers already have a working digital strategy in
place. Enabling this massive shift in operations are software-defined networking
(SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies, which allow
for more flexible business processes. Progress toward virtualizing networks
is underway; trials for SDN/NFV are increasingly common. But there is a gap
between the optimistic vision and the pragmatic execution. Service providers
are finding it difficult to deploy these technologies, and the business processes
they require, at scale.
There are three primary reasons for the slow progress:

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Commercialization Uncertainty: Many service providers are unable to

quickly identify, build and launch new revenue-generating services across
new network environments.

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Operational Complexity: There is a real challenge in managing existing

network operations alongside new virtualized network operations.
These hybrid networks require service providers to integrate emerging
services and technologies with current BSS and OSS, while identifying
the appropriate tools and processes needed to create Agile development
environments that support IT and network requirements.

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Organizational Misalignment: Service providers lack the personnel with

the appropriate skillset to harness new capabilities brought about by
virtualization and are often caught trying to implement new solutions and
strategies across numerous disjointed and uncoordinated teams.

Netcracker Survey:

CSPs Top Internal Barriers to Becoming a DSP

58%
Network Resources &
Configuration

46%
Staffing/Skills

Benefits
Minimize Risk

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Leverage NEC and Netcrackers

deep-rooted industry expertise across
all stages of virtualization deployment.

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Open a collaborative program and

environment to support the evolution
of SDN/NFV technologies and
applications.

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Avoid vendor lock-in and partner

with the vendors you choose while
minimizing cost of complexity.

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Utilize DevOps and Agile

methodologies to incrementally
incorporate best practices or make
quick changes when necessary.

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Deliver a rich set of tools and practices

to test and validate new services.

Generate Revenue

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Build new lines of business based on

virtual services.
Incorporate a wide selection of
pre-integrated partners, applications
and VNFs into a partnership program.

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Reduce time-to-market with

business enablement applications
and integration adapters based on
microservices.

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36%
Changing Corporate
Culture & Mindset

34%
Cost

26%
Operational
Processes & System
Integration, OSS/BSS

DSP Multiclient Study Survey Results, 2016.

Numbers do not add up to 100 percent because survey respondents
were allowed to provide multiple answers.

Enable the automation of end-to-end

service lifecycle management at scale
with partners you decide are best for
your business.

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Support digital channels through

amarketplace that enables self-service
capabilities for your customers
through the entire customer journey.

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Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice

AVP Highlights

60%

40%

Initial service
setup time

Virtualization Development and Operations

Center

30%

Revenue

NEC/Netcrackers AVP simplifies service providers transition

to virtualized networks and, ultimately, their transformation
into digital service providers by supporting greater
cross-department collaboration, enabling the use of digital
front-end applications and simplifying end-to-end service
management. It comprises four primary components:

Order-to-cash
time

40%
Opex

KPIs for the Enterprise vCPE solution based on the Agile

Virtualization Platform and Practice.
[Source: Netcrackers business case calculations]

Business Enablement Applications

The Virtualization Development and Operations Center

(VDOC) is a first-of-its-kind agile collaboration environment
designed to automate end-to-end service lifecycle
management. It enables collaboration across departments
and with third-party partners, including solution vendors
or systems integrators. VDOC simplifies and accelerates
service integration, testing and deployment by leveraging
an always expanding library of reusable service
components.

Business Enablement Applications (BEA) are designed to

accelerate the commercialization of new digital services that
leverage virtual and software-define networks. BEA fills the
gaps with existing BSS by providing applications that support
on-demand services, cost-effective partner management and
the monetization of emerging business models. Delivered
through an architecture built on microservices, it enables a
plug-n-play approach to expanding existing BSS functionality
vs. todays options of carrying out expensive upgrades or
full-scale transformations.

Primary Systems Integration Practice

Agile
Virtualization
Platform and
Practice

Business Enablement Applications

Virtualization Development and
Operations Center
Hybrid Operations Management

Hybrid Operations Management

Primary Systems Integration Practice

Hybrid Operations Management (HOM) is focused on

making virtual and traditional networks simultaneously
operate at scale a reality. HOM leverages years of proven
expertise in end-to-end service management and MANO
and solves the gaps missing in todays solutions for
automating hybrid network management, including
assurance, continual optimization and security. HOM
integrates with VDOC to create a dynamic and continuous
feedback loop between product and development
environments.

The Primary Systems Integration Practice (PSIP) helps service

providers overcome the commercial, operational and
organizational challenges preventing them from leveraging
virtualization technologies in multivendor, best-of-breed
ecosystems. NEC/Netcrackers services cover all stages
of virtualization initiatives from the initial definition of the
program and its business case to the full transfer of operations.
Leveraging years of experience with Agile deployments and
software-driven services, PSIP helps service providers transform
their static, proprietary hardware-dependent environments
into dynamic, software-driven ecosystems.

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2016 NEC Corporation 7-1 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8001 JAPAN www.nec.com