Paradigm Shift! The Path to Brutal Automation

Lothar Reith ()

A chapter in Future Telco, 2019, pp 111-129 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague in Oct. 2017 celebrated with 1700 delegates the fifth anniversary of the launch of the NFV whitepaper at the 2012 SDN World Congress in Darmstadt. Important new sessions included the Zero Touch and Carrier Automation Summit, TIP Telecom Infra Project Focus, and numerous Workshops organized by ETSI, MEF, OSM, ONAP and ONF. SDN and NFV now touches all parts of the network: Business services, SD-WAN, 5G Core, Access and Transport, Cloud-Optical, Broadband Access, and Security—all covered in depth through multiple Forums. This article covers some of the highlights and trends and insights gained at the conference, such as the fact that SDN and NFV are means to a goal, and that goal is automation. The term “Brutal Automation” has been coined in the opening keynote and turned out to stick in the memory of many participants as a key takeaway of the congress. This article tries to examine the meaning of Brutal Automation and where the industry stands on the path to reach that goal. One insight is that the telco industry has to expect and handle even more paradigm shifts along that path, such as the emergence of P4 runtime, SD-WAN, ONAP and the shift to cloud native—resulting in the need for cultural change to help overcoming the skill gap.

Keywords: Brutal automation; Paradigm shift; SDN; NFV; Cloud native; P4 runtime; SD-WAN; ONAP; Zero touch automation; Skill gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77724-5_10

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