Cloud Metro - The New Edge for Sustainable Business Growth

0:00 all right up next we have a presentation

0:02 about the cloud Metro speaking of edge

0:05 is the new Edge for sustainable business

0:08 growth and joining me is cheetah ranjan

0:11 Rao who is director of product

0:13 management for Automation and when

0:15 solutions from Juniper Networks

0:24 hello everyone

0:25 good afternoon and I am a director in

0:28 product management in Juniper India and

0:30 I'm excited to stand here in front of

0:32 you to talk about Cloud Metro and how it

0:35 can enable sustainable business growth

0:40 let's look at the trends which we have

0:42 been seeing in the past two to three

0:44 years and many of them are obvious and I

0:48 have categorized them into three simple

0:50 buckets

0:51 newer applications right a lot of this

0:54 has already been spoken about and we

0:56 know that new applications are pretty

0:59 insisting on the requirements for

1:02 latency or on their closer proximity

1:04 which is same or similar but not

1:07 identical with low latency and there are

1:10 a lot of applications which consume a

1:12 lot of data take it up into the cloud

1:14 for processing and provide results or

1:17 responses back in real time or near real

1:19 time

1:21 and we also see change in the traffic

1:23 patterns there's a rise in east west

1:26 traffic not the traditional North South

1:28 traffic where the Metro was generally a

1:31 dump pipe aggregating lower speeds into

1:34 higher speeds and sending the data over

1:35 to the Core

1:37 the new traffic patterns are also much

1:40 thicker in the sense that carrying a lot

1:42 more traffic thanks to devices which are

1:45 capable of generating far more data like

1:48 a 48 megapixel camera right content is

1:52 created and consumed within the Metro

1:54 itself you're more likely to make a

1:57 video call within the same city than

2:00 across cities or across continents

2:03 and supporting all this is the newer

2:05 Trend which is generally an evolution

2:07 and a revolution of standards and

2:10 protocols and Frameworks and

2:11 Technologies which are enabling all this

2:14 the cable standards for delivering

2:17 internet the packet Optical Network

2:20 standards which have evolved from Pawn

2:22 to gigabit Pawn to xgs pawn then the

2:25 evolution or the revolution from 4G to

2:28 5G and device evolvement or Evolution

2:32 where now devices are connected to

2:34 multiple networks and multiple types of

2:37 networks at the same time are all on

2:40 growing Trends which we are seeing

2:42 and what is the kind of opportunity

2:45 these changes or Trends are pointing to

2:47 some of these have already been repeated

2:50 again and again which makes my job

2:51 easier right because we are resonating

2:53 the same message

2:55 a 500 billion dollar opportunity in age

2:58 Computing Time by 2030 growing at an

3:01 impressive rate of 49 per annum if 5x

3:06 growth by 2027 in the amount of traffic

3:09 carried in the Metro

3:11 and 50 percent of Enterprise data will

3:14 be distributed in Edge clouds or hybrid

3:18 clouds by 2025 but the key message here

3:23 is there is a rise in a customer base

3:26 who are willing to pay a premium

3:29 for differentiated and

3:33 excellent service experience which can

3:37 be monetized

3:39 so what are the requirements for the

3:41 metro in order to meet the business

3:43 opportunities in order to exploit or

3:46 take advantage of them

3:48 we did a survey with heavy reading and

3:50 the list here should not be a surprise

3:53 to the folks in the room right right at

3:55 the top is network security which is a

3:58 must or a given because the envelope or

4:01 the attack surface with 5x growth is

4:05 naturally much bigger we also have seen

4:09 Echoes of the same sentiment here

4:11 automation is the next in demand and for

4:14 the right reasons do it yourself

4:15 projects or homegrown management tools

4:19 will no longer cut it when the number of

4:21 devices number of links number of

4:23 subscribers number of connections number

4:26 of whatever it is is going to grow by

4:29 five times

4:30 there is also a requirement for

4:32 aggregating higher speeds towards the

4:35 core so we migrate from 100 Gig uplinks

4:38 to 400 gig uplinks and then 800 gig

4:41 uplinks Once Upon a Time the higher

4:44 speeds used to first appear in the core

4:46 and then in the edge Network and now we

4:48 are seeing that there is a need for

4:50 bringing the higher speeds first into

4:53 the Metro itself

4:54 service Assurance no surprises here the

4:58 panelists before me and many of the

5:01 other participants here are all talking

5:03 about the same thing how customer is

5:06 demanding an assured service experience

5:09 and it's on top of the mind of the Telco

5:11 operators

5:13 combining the integration of practical

5:16 packet and Optical convergence along

5:19 with the Metro Pawn integration there is

5:22 a need for Network slicing as well the

5:25 same unified Metro has to behave

5:27 differently for different applications

5:29 for different use cases for different

5:32 preferential treatments so these are the

5:36 next few concerns and they have to be

5:39 supported by the Next Generation

5:41 protocols which reduce the overhead

5:43 between the packet header and the

5:46 payload as well as bringing newer

5:48 capabilities and simplicities within the

5:51 next Generation Metro

5:53 the Next Generation Metro primarily

5:56 driven by 5G will also bring about

5:59 stringent timing and synchronization

6:02 requirement Class C at a minimum is a

6:05 must and class D will come in sooner or

6:07 later

6:09 so the matter of the past which we are

6:11 labeling as retro Metro is very

6:14 different from the matter of the present

6:16 evolving into the future over the next

6:18 decade we at Juniper believe that the

6:22 changes are so significant that we want

6:24 a new category itself and that's why we

6:28 are calling it as the cloud Metro and

6:30 the cloud Metro is what will bring

6:32 sustainable business growth for service

6:35 providers and operators

6:38 categorizing the key differences into

6:40 three buckets we can look at it from an

6:43 architecture as systems and an

6:45 operations perspective let me start with

6:48 architecture right at the bottom the

6:50 Retro Metro was basically a scale-up

6:54 model where you replace an existing box

6:56 with a bigger box or a box with bigger

6:59 throughput

7:00 it would have Network silos which meant

7:03 a slightly different network for

7:05 residential one for business and one for

7:08 mobile

7:09 and the Retro Metro would be over

7:12 provisioned providing a way for Passive

7:15 Assurance in the sense I have more than

7:17 enough capacity for what I need

7:19 therefore my customers should be getting

7:22 the slas they are asking or demanding

7:24 for and security was an afterthought

7:27 just like you see in the old buildings

7:29 the webcams are attached outside with

7:31 wiring running through it's a bolt-on

7:34 method of security no more the cloud

7:38 Metro of today and tomorrow should have

7:40 built-in security it will have embedded

7:43 active Assurance where the network

7:45 points or the platforms themselves can

7:48 provide a way to measure and assure

7:51 consistent service experience

7:54 and there will be a single unified Metro

7:58 with network slicing capable of serving

8:02 the different applications and the

8:04 different use cases and it has to

8:06 support scale up as well as scale out

8:09 architectures moving on the systems

8:12 systems are essentially the platforms

8:14 which make up the different elements in

8:17 the cloud Metro solution they used to

8:20 basically work as aggregators you know

8:23 combine several low speed links into a

8:25 single high speed link and send it

8:27 towards the core

8:28 they used to be monolithic with respect

8:31 to power so you need to add a bulk of

8:35 power at the beginning and that would

8:37 how the box or the platform of the

8:39 system would perform

8:40 and they would have a shorter life span

8:42 due to the evolution of Technology

8:45 the cloud Metro systems will need to be

8:48 smarter and not just dumb aggregators

8:51 the protocols and Technologies like

8:54 Network slicing will reach out into the

8:56 network which means that in the Metro

8:58 decisions have to be made feature

9:01 richness has to be brought into these

9:03 platforms and systems these boxes need

9:06 to be energy efficient and in the next

9:09 slide I will describe why this is very

9:11 important and these assets need to sweat

9:15 for a longer period of time not just two

9:17 to three years but lasting as long as

9:20 seven years in other words they should

9:22 be ready for up to 2x generation change

9:25 in technology and finally operations

9:28 this is an easy part because everyone

9:32 has already heard from the previous

9:33 speakers and the panelists how we need

9:36 to move away from manual do-it-yourself

9:39 operations we need complete automation

9:42 for managing devices we need to shift

9:44 from managing boxes to managing customer

9:46 experience and we need to move away from

9:50 Heroes working in the knock to AI

9:53 enabled collective intelligence which

9:55 brings about predictive results and it

9:58 can even prevent incidents from

10:00 occurring

10:01 but how can you know service providers

10:04 get sustainable business growth with the

10:07 existing or the past retro Metro

10:10 there are three challenges here again

10:13 the category of three which makes it

10:15 easy

10:16 let me start with profit right

10:19 as the number of devices increase

10:21 subscribers increase links increase

10:23 notes increase everything increases the

10:27 cost of operations must be kept if the

10:30 cost of managing the network also

10:33 increases in direct correlation to your

10:36 growth in the Metro that's not

10:38 sustainable business

10:40 people problem the data point here is

10:43 very significant 86 percent of the

10:46 executives in telecom have named skilled

10:49 staff as their number one shortage

10:51 sure with difficulty you can add more

10:54 people to managing the network but they

10:57 need a work-life balance too

11:01 unhappy staff make for more mistakes and

11:05 unhappy customers

11:07 manual operations are definitely not

11:10 sustainable human error will tend to

11:12 creep in and I have more of this in the

11:15 upcoming slides and the third one is

11:17 very interesting

11:19 Juniper Networks many of our customers

11:22 and service providers as a whole have

11:24 made many different commitments related

11:27 to carbon neutrality net zero emissions

11:30 and so on the time window may be

11:33 different for each company or each

11:35 country or each location but eventually

11:38 over the next decade we will see

11:41 everybody marching towards a more

11:43 efficient Greener net carbon neutral

11:46 kind of an operation model if the Metro

11:49 is growing at 5x then the Retro Metro

11:53 solution will not be able to meet or

11:56 help the customers and service providers

11:59 meet this requirement

12:02 therefore the solution is cloud Metro in

12:07 2021 we introduced Cloud Metro with a

12:10 couple of platforms and now we have

12:12 expanded the solution to provide a more

12:15 holistic view of the entire offering in

12:18 the Metro space

12:20 let me start with sustainable

12:21 architecture the key architecture for

12:25 the cloud Metro will be based on IP

12:27 Services fabric

12:29 this will also have a converged Network

12:33 meaning one single unified Metro for

12:36 residential business and mobile networks

12:39 it will have Network slicing augmented

12:42 with the newer protocols like evpn

12:45 segment routing srv6 Etc in order to

12:49 help with the network slicing

12:51 implementation it has to support scale

12:54 up and scale out architectures in

12:57 addition to this we need to have

12:59 embedded active assurance

13:02 embedded in the platforms themselves so

13:05 that it's easier to deploy easier to

13:07 test easier to roll out and easier to

13:11 prove and debug an existing SLA

13:15 security the number one concern for the

13:19 Next Generation Metro also has to be

13:21 built in and not bolt on and we are

13:25 planning to do this with a zero trust

13:27 security model more on this later on

13:30 the next layer sustainable platforms or

13:33 sustainable systems these not to include

13:36 the so-called boxes but also the Optics

13:41 which together provide the hardware in

13:44 order to implement a cloud Metro

13:46 solution and finally at the top

13:48 sustainable operations

13:51 I think everybody here agrees with the

13:54 message that we need to have Automation

13:57 in place so this part is pretty easy we

14:01 have a paragon automation solution which

14:05 is based on Driving Experience rather

14:08 than platform oriented view of

14:11 management it is outcome driven rather

14:15 than operation driven and it is gives

14:18 the easy button so

14:21 onboarding a new device is a matter of

14:23 minutes and not months with an AI

14:26 enabled and Cloud delivered as a service

14:29 Paragon automation Suite

14:33 being a little deeper into the ACX 7000

14:36 family of the cloud Metro these systems

14:40 were built ground up with no Legacy no

14:44 backward compatibility no retro Metro

14:48 baggage and therefore they have been

14:51 highly optimized to meet the challenges

14:54 of the cloud Metro era

14:56 a good view is is captured at the bottom

15:00 table where sustainable business

15:02 outcomes are clearly seen as against the

15:06 Retro Metro based on ACG research study

15:09 53 to 71 percent lower total cost of

15:13 ownership primarily driven by a lower

15:16 power consumption due to more efficient

15:19 power modules and power technology as

15:22 well as better space efficiency through

15:25 Innovative and intelligent design of the

15:27 platforms themselves

15:29 resulting in four to seven years of

15:32 longer system life which means these

15:34 boxes are not ready just for the 400

15:37 gigs through ports and speeds but also

15:40 for 800 gig and

15:42 0.6 dbps era coming in the future

15:46 a quick mention about the Juniper custom

15:49 ZR and ZR plus Optics in the 400 gig

15:52 throughput speed they will provide

15:54 leading power consumption when the same

15:57 optic is at put at both ends of the

15:59 network link we can enable proprietary

16:02 effect modes which will result in 5 to

16:05 10 percent lower power consumption than

16:08 compared to the main competition another

16:10 key important aspect is that these

16:13 Optics are integrated into the Paragon

16:15 automation which means an incident or an

16:19 event in the optical domain or the dwdm

16:23 domain can result in events being

16:25 triggered in the IP domain which can

16:28 result in preventing a incident in the

16:32 customer experience by either re-routing

16:34 traffic or changing a parameter or

16:38 whatever action it is necessary thank to

16:40 the AIML and the intelligent error and

16:43 the intelligent algorithms up in the

16:45 cloud

16:46 these objects are fully standards based

16:50 and can interface with any other optic

16:53 who are implementing the standards-based

16:56 solutions

16:58 automation is critical and I think this

17:01 point has been made again and again by

17:03 everybody in this room so I can directly

17:06 jump to the key message human error is

17:09 the prime source of issues and we can no

17:12 longer have do it yourself kind of

17:16 homegrown or company grown Tools in

17:20 order to manage the cloud Metro at scale

17:25 Paragon automation as a service is cloud

17:28 delivered and AI enabled the best place

17:32 for running AI which consumes a

17:34 humongous amount of data to produce

17:36 intelligent outcomes and inferences is

17:39 in the cloud and therefore the

17:42 automation Suite is delivered from the

17:44 cloud as a service

17:45 a comparison by analysis Mason shows

17:49 that there's up to 40 percent cost

17:51 reduction as 70 percent faster

17:55 deployment of newer use cases and a 50

17:59 reduction in deployment time as compared

18:02 to the traditional do-it-yourself method

18:05 of man network manageability

18:08 this also includes embedded active

18:12 Assurance where basically the test

18:15 agents which are used in order to

18:17 measure parameters like latency

18:19 throughput ping tests Etc are embedded

18:23 in the platform and they provide

18:25 sustainable business outcomes as

18:28 compared to a non-active Assurance based

18:31 system

18:32 50 reduction in incident resolution time

18:35 simplified deployment 30 percent

18:38 increase in customer satisfaction

18:42 finally the built-in zero trust security

18:45 all the ACX 7000 platform modules

18:49 incorporate the trusted platform module

18:52 TPM 2.0 which gives a unique Dev ID

18:56 giving cryptographic

18:59 intelligence into each of the platform

19:02 or capabilities into each platform which

19:04 is used for hardware and software

19:07 attestation and validation leading to

19:10 securing data both data at rest which

19:13 means the files and the image

19:16 as well as data in motion with Max SEC

19:19 and other secure protocols

19:22 all in all

19:24 if I summarize the whole Cloud Metro

19:28 there is a tremendous opportunity based

19:31 on the trends and based on the evolution

19:34 and Revolution happening in the

19:36 technology space we believe this

19:38 requires a new category by itself and we

19:41 are calling that as Cloud Metro

19:44 the three challenges for the current

19:47 technology or the Retro Metro

19:49 is along the lines of profit people and

19:52 planet and these are directly addressed

19:55 by Cloud Metro which has sustainable

19:58 operations sustainable systems and

20:00 sustainable architecture which together

20:03 enable sustainable business growth

20:07 thank you for your patience and for your

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