torsdag 23 oktober 2008

Myths About Network Intelligence

Today ICIN 2008 started with revealing some myths about network intelligence. Roberto Minerva from Telecom Italia has been working with network intelligence for quite some years and collected eperience from what to avoid when dealing with network intelligence.

The topic itself is very interesting and especially the angle taken by Roberto where he uses the Anti-Pattern pattern. Looking at solutions from the other angle than usually gives you new views to an area and opens up for new thoughts. This is what I experienced during the talk.

Roberto had identified the following Myths:
  • Network Transparancy
    • Network abstraction hides information. In worst case the hidden information prevents further development of services using other features not exposed by the abstraction framework.
    • Solution to Network abstraction is to introduce a flat architecture with a gradually increasing level of abstraction. Thus a service can use the highest abstraction level interface possible still meeting the feature needs. If a more finer grained interface is needed that is available by other interfaces in the flat architecture. You could view this as a stair of abstracted interfaces.
  • Open API
    • Today Open APIs are focused on call control or messaging type of interfaces
    • Look at the importance of data and data representation. Google's main business is profiling and collection of data in order to provide targeted advertisements.
  • Network with Quality
    • The QoS issue impossible in network of networks
    • Look at P2P where the intelligence is in the edge.
    • Data Networks and Services it is hard if not impossible to keep the network quality promise (or SLA).
    • Cloud computing and WebOS was brought up by Roberto. WebOS could very well be sticky service many operators are looking for.
  • The Need for Centralization
    • IMS and SDP is traditionally seen as a winning proposition. These are centralized solutions.
    • Google and Amazon are reinventing the service platform concept and are exploiting the Client-Server paradigm much beyond what an operator could do.
    • Operators can use WebOS and P2P much more to create a decentralized network providing sticky services.

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