Sellable use cases (direct business impact):
- Transport network as a service for internal or external customers (e.g. OTT providers)
- Bandwidth on demand (BWoD), bandwidth calendar
- Private optical networks; optical virtual private networks (O-VPNs)
- Service / path optimization on the basis of application requirements
- Topology as a service
Supporting use cases and functionality (indirect business impact):
- Automated service provisioning and decommissioning: initial, change, migration
- Proactive service assurance
- (Close to) real time network state awareness (including inventory, utilization, quality, etc.)
- IP-Optical integration
- Intelligent automated network optimization, including real-time
- Unified and transparent multi-vendor-capable APIs and protocols between sub-systems and to external systems
Building blocks:
- Network resource and service discovery and visualization capabilities
- Information about the network (logs, events, inventory, etc.) is stored and available for “big data ready” applications
- Coordinated “big data capable” analytics
- Coordinated multi-layer path computation
- Coordinated maintenance, maintenance window
- Path diversity (link, node, shared risk link groups)
- Intent-based networking