5G Performance Monitoring: Using the

Network Edge for Competitive Advantage

December 4, 2018

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Today’s Presenters

Gabriel Brown Richard Piasentin

Principal Analyst, Chief Strategy and Marketing
Heavy Reading Officer, Accedian
Agenda

• Welcome & Intros

• 5G Market Update

• Performance Monitoring & the 5G Edge

• Audience Q&A
Timeline to 5G @ Scale
New use-cases
Evolved use-cases
Existing use-cases

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

5G PoCs & 5G Trials End-to- City-level 5G Commercial

Field Trials end (w/ 5G core) (selected markets) @Scale
Densification & National
Coverage
 Global 5G Activity (selected examples)
Better to
5xFWA markets in 2019 initial do it right, Berlin trial 4.5-4.9GHz
2018 @ 28GHz Mid-band 5G launch (UK) than early 24 sites nationwide 2020 Summer
2.5GHz, 2018 cluster live deployment plan Olympics Flagship

NAM EMEA ASIA

C-Band; Large scale trials

5G network in 2019
2019 share in Japan
28GHz Trials C-Band leader
120MHZ of Pre- Also considering
600MHZ 5G 12 markets in 2018 130MHZ National commercial 2.6 & 4.5 TDD
3.5GHz commercial
1st sites now live Mobile mmWave of C-Band launch launch (3 operators
@ 3.5GHz)
Progress on 5G Devices (UEs)
2015 2018
Networks Progress… (London, November 2018)

London Drive Test (EE Network)

• 64T64R base station; 4T8R UE
• 40 MHz of 3.5GHz TDD spectrum
• Gigabit peak rates w/ handover
Business First, Technology Second

Source: Swisscom

Move from cost based pricing models to value based pricing models. Customers are willing to pay for real value!
Network Slicing is Fundamental to the 5G Platform
What is your company's timetable for deploying network slicing in its 5G
core network at the following stages?(n=127)

“In 5G we finally
Extensive deployment of network slicing 21% 40% 39% have the
framework to
define service level
Deployment of network slicing for important
38% 41% 21%
monitoring as
customers and industry verticals opposed to
network health
monitoring.”
Limited deployment of network slicing 56% 24% 21% Claude Robitaille,
CTO, Accedian
Within 2 years of initial commercial deployment
2 to 4 years from initial commercial deployment
Not yet determined
5G PERFORMANCE
MONITORING: USING THE
NETWORK EDGE FOR
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

. RICHARD PIASENTIN
. Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Accedian
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5G BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
.Because we haven’t all seen this before…

. Create new revenue streams

▪ New services
Network – V2V, Industrial, IoT, Fixed Broadband
Application – Telemedicine, A/R, Gaming
Internet to the Edge – MEC, Local Breakout
▪ Personalize services
▪ Network slices
$$$
. Reduce cost
▪ Automated deployments and provisioning
▪ Faster problem resolution
▪ Reduce capital cost by load sharing

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TODAY’S CHALLENGE
YESTERDAY’S – MANAGEMENT
CHALLENGE PER APPLICATION
WAS MANAGING
+NETWORK
SERVICE PERFORMANCE
CONNECTIVITY

VoIP/VoLTE
IPTV
Internet access, WiFi,
fixed mobile
Transport mobile
CORE OPERATOR backhaul
IoT SERVICES

IP VPN, SD-WAN,
Enterprise low
hybrid VPNs
latency services –
e.g. financial
networks

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THE SOC IS HERE

.Relies on high quality service performance data for QOE insight into customer experience

▪ Real-time insight on how customers are actually

experiencing services
▪ Correlate with metadata to detect and prevent customer
issues
▪ Multi-layer view of:
CUSTOMER QOE + SERVICE + NETWORK
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AUTOMATING SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IS A MUST
WITH 5G
PACKET LOSS RESULT
5% Unwatchable– video and audio break-ups
1% In 2023, video
Unwatchable will
– constant large blockiness
Gaming is also on the
Today, Netflix is account for around steady rise,This
withwon’t
over fly with
0.5% Borderline watchable with blockiness

15 73 14
the gamers…
0.25% % %
Watchable – but with frequent small blocky glitches %
0.1% Watchable – but with less frequent small blocky glitches
0.05% Watchable – but with occasional small blocky glitches
of the total downstream of mobile data traffic2 of global gaming traffic share
traffic across the entire coming from Richard’s
Internet1 favorite, Fortnite3
YET, WITH JUST 0.05% PACKET LOSS,
STREAMING VIDEO EXPERIENCE IS IMPACTED SIGNIFICANTLY
1Sandvine 2018 Global Internet Phenomena Report
2Ericssonmobile network survey 2017
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5G NETWORK SLICING ASSURANCE

.It will be up to the operators to monetize and guarantee network slices

*
SUM OF THE ASSURANCE CHALLENGE
=
USER EXPERIENCE IN THE SLICE
+
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VNFS THAT MAKE UP THE SLICE

*It’s actually much more complicated than this even,

but adding that complexity would be stretching us a bit
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WILL THE MOBILE EDGE CLOUD ASSETS DELIVER A COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE OR NOT?
Over 70% of operators believe
ownership of access and edge
cloud assets gives them an
advantage over the public cloud
16
Q. Does ownership of access networks and edge
cloud infrastructure enable mobile operators to
offer superior end-to-end performance guarantees
for 5G compared with public cloud providers?
27% 22%
1Heavy Reading 5G Performance Monitoring Survey, Q3 2018

providers1

The challenge is to use 11%

performance monitoring to assure
40%
access and edge cloud and sell
that
Yes, if the service provider hosts the application in their central data center
Sounds great. Can I get an Yes, if the service provider hosts the application in their edge data center
Yes, even if the application is in the public cloud
SLA to go with that? Possibly, but it's not clear to what extent

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THE HIGH STAKES MOBILE CLOUD PLATFORM

THIS IS THE KEY!

…5G WILL DO TO MOBILE

on on
WHAT AWS DID TO COMPUTE…

THE
DIFFERENCE SLA-ready
Network QoS
APP
Slicing QoE
IS THE
OPPORTUNITY
QoS
3 vEPC
25%
+
APP
QoS
2
SLA APP
NEW DIGITAL SERVICES
ANCHOR GROWTH
QoS
1 AND ROI1
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PERFORMANCE TO THE EDGE... WHAT IS THE EDGE?

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5G MEANS BIG PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DATA

▪ Network topology is changing
▪ Network is broken down into
microservices components
▪ Massive increase in PM data

“AI WRANGLER”

Analytics, machine learning and

automation are essential to make
sense of the noise
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1 SPEEDS & FEEDS MONETIZING 5G 2

Necessary but not suf f icient Real opport unit y
Tradit ional service assurance Real-t ime service QoE

Lat ency → Zero Net work Slicing

Dramat ic Throughput +
(Layers 2, 3, 4) Net work as a Plat f orm
…
Mesh Backhaul
New Apps Emerge
Always On

DIGITAL SERVICE
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Q&A