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networks and customer bases. Unfortunately,
the complexity involved with such proprietary implementations starts to negatively a ect
the cost vs. bene t ratio for service providers whose networks are smaller and whose levels of in-house expertise with these next generation technologies o en range from limited to non- existent. At the same time, as the new breed of agile, dynamic services being rolled out by the larger operators becomes more widespread, the customer bases that these operators share with their smaller competitors will, in turn, grow increasingly more sophisticated. ese customers will inevitably start demanding similar types
of services from the smaller operators as well.
It may not happen overnight, but the trend has already started and over the next year and a half or so, the demand will only keep growing.
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is brings up an obvious set of challenges
for the smaller service provider market: How
to integrate the new technologies into their networks and begin delivering the new breed
of dynamic services to their customers, while at the same time remaining competitive with their larger counterparts and keeping their companies solvent in the process. ese challenges are precisely why the concept of uni ed, standards- based orchestration of the service lifecycle, or Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) as MEF de nes it, is becoming increasingly exciting.
It was not until the concept of LSO started emerging over the past couple of years that the bene ts of SDN and NFV-enabled networking and associated next generation, dynamic,
“ ird Network” style services that utilize these technologies truly started becoming appealing to service providers across the telecommunications spectrum.
e promise of open interfaces utilizing industry-standard Yang models for interactions between components responsible for the orchestration of services in a provider’s network, and eventually between multiple operators as well, means that as these interfaces are de ned, vendors and open source communities alike
will be able to start o ering new solutions based on those interfaces. In fact, we are already starting to see early implementations become available. ese solutions will, in turn, enable implementation of next generation networks
and services in a fashion that is considerably more streamlined, cost-e ective, and not nearly as reliant on in-house expertise and resources
as the early proprietary implementations were. Such service lifecycle automation enabled by LSO technologies will not only allow more operators to evolve their product o erings and remain competitive in the market, but at the same time will help them take advantage of the additional operational savings, signi cantly faster times to revenue that dynamic Carrier Ethernet services enable, and last but not least, improved quality
of end-user experience and higher customer satisfaction.
is next paradigm shi has already started. e rapid pace of expansion of next generation services being o ered by the larger carriers is already showing itself to be unprecedented in
our industry. More and more vendors, such as MRV with their Pro-Vision service orchestration platform, as well as numerous others, are
starting to develop and o er solutions that are based on the LSO framework being de ned by the MEF. As LSO continues to mature and the standards-based building blocks become more commonplace, the investment required for smaller operators to start o ering next generation dynamic services, both in terms of expertise and resources, will be reduced signi cantly, enabling them to join the fray. And just like OAM technologies that enabled carrier-grade Ethernet services to nally become commonplace, LSO will help drive the next generation of these services to true mainstream adoption over the coming few years. ■
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