Cloud Metro- One Converged Metro for the 5G Era

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0:06 i'm sterling parent with heavy reading

0:08 and i'm here today talking with brandon

0:10 gibbs brendan is the vp of product

0:12 management with juniper networks

0:14 and today we're going to be talking a

0:15 little bit about the metro cloud hi

0:17 brandon welcome good to talk to you

0:19 hey sterling thanks for having me here

0:21 yeah sure exciting times

0:23 um 5g you know every every all talk is

0:26 about 5g

0:27 these days certainly in our our surveys

0:29 5g is the

0:30 top priority among operators globally

0:32 over and over again how do you see 5g

0:35 transforming the metro

0:38 you know i think 5g is really going to

0:40 drive a sea change in

0:41 requirements as well as network

0:42 architectures i think it's doing a few

0:45 things first of all one of the original

0:46 premises of 5g

0:48 was to dramatically increase the

0:50 bandwidth

0:51 so just having numerous new 5g

0:54 devices attached to the network is going

0:56 to drive a dramatic

0:58 increase in bandwidth requirements

1:00 another key requirement

1:01 was latency as in reduced latency and so

1:04 having reduced latency is going to force

1:06 service providers to push

1:08 more and more applications ever closer

1:10 to the edge of the network and that's

1:12 going to include

1:13 super high bandwidth applications such

1:15 as video

1:16 but also security and one of the things

1:18 5g also is going to do is dramatically

1:20 increase the number of devices on the

1:22 network so

1:23 increased capacity and lower latency and

1:25 increased number of devices

1:28 and so we're going to start seeing more

1:29 and more video caching get pushed closer

1:31 to the end user

1:32 we're going to see security

1:33 authentication and security applications

1:36 pushed ever closer

1:37 and also 5g user planes pushed ever

1:39 closer

1:40 so it creates a dramatic you know uh

1:43 huge sea change of dynamics in the metro

1:47 right so a lot of change we're certainly

1:49 hearing this as well

1:50 in our interviews and surveys what um

1:53 given that what do you see as the main

1:55 opportunities then for for network

1:56 operators

1:58 well i think um service writers have a

2:00 huge opportunity to differentiate

2:02 themselves in this time you know they've

2:05 got a huge opportunity with

2:07 so-called beachfront property service

2:09 writers

2:10 own compelling central office space

2:12 close to end users it gives them the

2:14 opportunity to really exploit that low

2:16 latency capability

2:17 that their competitors even some public

2:19 cloud operators really can't match

2:22 so being able to exploit that capability

2:24 for business benefit is a key

2:26 advantage for them by being able to

2:28 monetize those applications

2:30 on top of the network where previously

2:32 they were really focused more on

2:34 basic network connectivity and i think

2:36 it's going to drive an extra level of

2:38 stickiness as well because with more and

2:40 more applications distributed it's going

2:42 to drive more focus on

2:44 customer experience and that's another

2:46 area where

2:47 operators can really differentiate

2:48 themselves and we at juniper start

2:51 uh calling this the idea of an

2:52 experienced first network and i think

2:54 service boarders are really a prime

2:56 opportunity to leverage that capability

2:58 right so moving from connectivity

3:01 or you know what gets uh talked about

3:04 for years the the bit pipe provider

3:07 up to differentiated services which is

3:10 you know absolutely critical as you look

3:12 at the um the revenue

3:14 trajectory for operators even in

3:16 mobility it's

3:17 um been a fairly flat line so they need

3:19 to boost that up

3:20 um you know so the metro architecture of

3:22 course is part of that

3:24 um but the um you know from juniper's

3:27 view from what i see and hear from you

3:28 guys

3:28 the current architectures are kind of

3:30 falling down in the face of that

3:32 that change what do you see as the

3:34 biggest challenges then for the current

3:35 metro architectures

3:37 given the shift yeah i mean given

3:39 everything i just said

3:40 um nothing that's really deployed today

3:42 for 3g and 4g services is really going

3:45 to be suitable for 5g

3:46 there's new protocols that are required

3:49 new

3:49 phase and frequency timing that aren't

3:52 not generally

3:53 available in prior gen metro platforms

3:55 there's just not enough capacity in the

3:57 the prior generation of platforms either

4:00 so for that reason alone you're going to

4:02 need a completely

4:04 new refresh of metro access and

4:06 aggregation platforms

4:08 but also think about the the the shift i

4:10 talked about with

4:11 service distribution into the metro

4:13 that's going to change in

4:14 the entire traffic pattern flow because

4:16 it used to be

4:17 where traffic would come in from the

4:19 access and they would just go out

4:20 linearly kind of east to west

4:22 uh to uh you know in one area

4:25 and out the other from from the router

4:27 from access to aggregation to edge to

4:29 core kind of a linear traffic pattern

4:31 but with traffic moving into the metro

4:34 and with the advent

4:35 to host these applications uh such as

4:37 edge compute or mobile edge compute

4:39 now you're going to start seeing a

4:41 dramatic pattern shift

4:42 a network traffic pattern shift where

4:45 you're going to have east and west

4:46 north south all the same architecture

4:49 all the same

4:49 point within the network so that drives

4:52 new architectures that

4:54 drives new traffic patterns that further

4:56 increases the bandwidth requirements of

4:58 the platforms themselves

4:59 also so i think there's just going to be

5:02 a massive

5:03 new shift in architectures and platforms

5:06 that providers are going to need to

5:07 react to

5:08 and nothing to deploy today for 4g is

5:10 really capable

5:12 great yeah so obviously juniper's

5:14 getting ready for that

5:15 i know there's a new strategy instead of

5:17 products around cloud metro maybe

5:19 in the few minutes we have left here can

5:21 you just give a brief overview of what

5:22 the cloud metro

5:24 is and really with a focus on you know

5:26 how this strategy and product set would

5:28 would help

5:28 network operators well you know

5:31 juniper is has some of the most

5:33 extensive expertise building large-scale

5:36 networks in the world from a lot of our

5:37 experience with cloud scale operators

5:40 with public cloud what we're doing is

5:42 we're taking those

5:43 same automated high capacity high scale

5:46 operations

5:47 and bringing that uniquely to the

5:48 service provider network

5:50 and we've coined a phrase for this which

5:52 is the cloud metro

5:53 this is everything i've discussed with

5:55 the new capacity new protocols

5:57 for timing as well as segment routing

5:59 evpn

6:00 uh srv6 with flexalgo etc

6:03 all of that new changes but we've done a

6:06 few things

6:07 we've introduced new platforms that are

6:09 designed for this high

6:10 capacity scale with our acx platform

6:12 specifically the acx

6:14 7100 platforms we've paired that with a

6:18 massive degree of service intelligence

6:20 and awareness built into the platforms

6:22 so the platforms themselves are timing

6:24 aware

6:26 slicing aware for you know new network

6:28 uh transport slicing capabilities

6:30 um and also with the embedded ip

6:34 intelligence to offer that type of any

6:36 to any

6:36 service steering within the metro

6:39 finally though

6:40 we've paired that with our best-in-class

6:42 new paragon

6:43 automation suite so we can offer

6:45 compelling new

6:46 outcomes for operators such as lower

6:49 total cost of operation to manage such

6:51 huge scale operations and also

6:55 dramatic lowering of trouble tickets and

6:58 other sort of

6:59 capabilities that are required for

7:01 management of such large scale networks

7:03 we can offer things such as transport

7:05 network slicing end to end across an

7:07 entire metro

7:08 and we can also help providers realize

7:10 that experience

7:11 first network with the ability to

7:14 actually monitor end-to-end service

7:16 streams

7:17 and this came from our acquisition of

7:18 net rounds late last year

7:20 where we can monitor services at the you

7:22 know application layer whether it's

7:24 video

7:24 whether it's 3g 3gpp mobile service

7:27 traffic

7:28 whether it's voice traffic etc and this

7:30 helps operators themselves

7:32 uh answer the key question of how do you

7:34 know how do you know your network is up

7:36 how do you know your network is having

7:37 great quality for your end customers end

7:39 to end

7:40 so as they move into this new 5g enabled

7:43 network

7:44 and service capabilities they can rest

7:47 confident in the knowledge that their

7:48 network is

7:49 superbly available and with superb

7:52 quality end-to-end

7:53 with juniper solutions all right a lot

7:56 of innovations

7:57 coming in converging all around the

7:58 metro and specifically to to address 5g

8:02 which i think is um

8:04 exactly exactly true it's been uh and

8:06 i'm sure a lot more to come

8:07 so look forward to catching up with you

8:09 and thanks though for sharing your

8:10 insights today brendan look forward

8:12 to following the progress thanks thank

8:24 you

8:27 you