Convergence Vision

1

• Convergence Vision
• Phil Edholm
• CTO and VP Network Architecture
• Enterprise Solutions

2
CIO Priorities
Traffic

• Do more with less
• Drive employee productivity with IT
• Use IT to enhance education experience
• Use IT to anticipate customer requirements

Applications
Dollars Spent or Required
The CIOs dilemma
Budget
Time
3
The True Cost of IT
ITUserCosts
ComputingSystemsCosts
LAN Campus Costs
MAN/WAN Costs
4
The 5-10 Year View

• Explosion of Devices
• Wide Variety of Devices
• Dramatic Increases in Edge Intelligence

• Dissolution of Distance and Location
• Third Generation Wireless
• 802.11 Futures
• Terrestrial for High Resolution
• Transformation from Complexity to Simplicity

• Personal Agents
• Reachability
• Control
• Information Sieve

• Hyper-interactivity
• Multi-media
• Always available
• Adaptive
• Explosion in Interaction Events

5
Convergence(s)
Convergence is not a singular event, it operates
on multiple simultaneous planes, each with its
own drivers, impacts, risks and rewards

• Protocol Convergence
• Infrastructure Convergence
• Application Convergence

6
Optical/Ethernet/IP Convergence Simplification
IP
IPX
Decnet
OSI
Enet
Copper
Fiber
7
Simplification with End to End Ethernet is
Profound
Hop-by-hop routing
LAN
LAN
WAN
End to end Ethernet
No more protocol and speed bumps at the edge
8
Infrastructure Convergence
Characteristics
M-H M M H

• Multiple separate networks
• Disparate services
• Different Characteristics

H L L L
L-M L-M M-H H

• Single Infrastructure
• Highest Common Characteristics
• Common Services

H L L H
9
Infrastructure Convergence

• Requirements
• Reliability
• Bandwidth
• Application Separation and Security
• Latency and Loss Management
• Management of traffic types and end to end
  Failure Analysis
• Ethernet End to End
• Optical
• DSL
• Cable Solutions
• IP Services
• Internet Access
• WAN Transport
• Wireless
• LAN
• Wide Area 3G

10
Availability Requirements
99 99.9 99.99
98
200 Hrs
99.95 99.85 4-8 Hrs Per Year
99.8
Application
20 Hrs
99.98
2 Hrs
99.999 99.99 99.9 99
5 Mins 50 Mins 9 hours 88 Hrs
Transport
11
Availability Requirements
99 99.9 99.99
Nortel Solutions 99.995 99.993 25-40 min per
year
Application
99.999 99.99 99.9 99
5 Mins 50 Mins 9 hours 88 Hrs
Transport
12
Platform Security throughout the Network

• Platforms
• Secure Core
• Designed for Threats
• Security Services
• AAA Integration
• Traffic Segregation
• Encryption
• Firewalls
• Intrusion Detection
• Virus Scanning
• Content Filtering
• Web Services Security
• ..

Secure Data Center
13
The New RealityAccess is Wireless
14
Nortel Networks Vision for Mobility
Always connected, no matter where you are or
where you are going
Secure
Wired/Wireless
In the Office
Privilege-based access
Adapts as you move from one place to another
At Home
On the Road

Multi-Service
Public/Private
In Public Areas
Scalable for Carriers and Enterprise Networks
Applications, including Voice with QoS
Only Nortel Networks can eliminate the boundaries
15
The Law of Bandwidth
1G 100M 10M 1M 100K 10K 1K
Wireline
Economic Bandwidth (Exponential Scale)
Nomadic
Wireless
1995 2000 2005 2010
Time
Bandwidth is increasing in all areas in a
relatively proportional exponential growth
16
The Law of Bandwidth
1G 100M 10M 1M 100K 10K 1K
Wireline
Economic Bandwidth (Exponential Scale)
Nomadic
Wireless
1995 2000 2005 2010
Time
When a specific requirement becomes available
economically on a transport technology, adoption
explodes from specialization to general use
17
All Devices Connected. Wirelessly

• Mobility / WWAN
• A Million nodes _at_ 50k
• Nomadic / Mesh / WLAN
• Nodal Building WLAN
• Millions of Nodes _at_ 100
• Sensor / Ad-hoc / WPAN
• Billions of Nodes _at_ 1

Wireless is now the Mainstream for Access
18
Content Management Challenges

• Devices
• Which One
• Capabilities
• Networks
• Capabilities
• Transitions
• Pre-determination
• SIP Integration
• Billing
• Varied environments
• Changing networks/carriers

Email
Web Content
Streaming Content
IP Telephony
Collaborative Tools

• Reachability/Presence
• Preferences
• Caching

19
New technology introduction curve...
Crossing the chasm
20
The analysts agree
Source Gartner 2004
21
Evaluate the ROI
900
2.50
750
2.00
600
1.50
450
Average payback (years)
Price (per user)
1.00
300
150
0.50
0
0.00
MAC
Teleworker
Remote Office
Web Agent
Consolidate b/w
IT Convergence
Unified Messaging
Desk Convergence
Business Case Tool online at
www.nortelnetworks.com/voip_tool
22
A decision methodology
Application or productivity benefit

Decision
(Cost) (Risk)
Only a good decision if the result is greater
than 1, and the higher the better the decision
For example
1
Bad decision

.75
(.75) (2)
23
Emerging Inter-human Transformation
Web services
Collaboration applications
Converged communications
Improved productivity and efficiency, while
lowering cost
24
Applications Convergence The Transformational
Event

• New Control Functions (MCS 5100)
• SIP
• Multimedia Control Integration
• Browser Integration
• Application Convergence
• Packetized Voice Functions
• Always On Calling
• Constant Conferencing
• Every Call includes a conference call
• Audio Virtual Space
• Integrated Personal Agent technology

25
SIP Structure
Device 2
Device 1
Applications
SIP UI
SIP UI
SIP UI
SIP UI
SIP UI
SIP UI
SIP Server
SIP Server
SIP Stack
SIP Stack
SIP Protocol
IP Network
26
Application Convergence

• SIP Driven
• SIP integrated into applications
• Seamless transitions from visual to
  communications

Visual Computing
Inter-Human Comm
Today Human integration
Visual Computing
Converged
Tomorrow Boundary Blurring
Inter-Human Comm
27
Multimedia Services
Voice, Video, and Data integrated into one
seamless communication session
MCS 5100 / 5200

• All-in-One Tool
• Voice Video calls
• Collaborate Share Files
• Instant Message
• Contact Call Management
• Find personal work contacts
• Track incoming/outgoing calls
• Availability Control
• Screen route calls according to predefined
  rules
• Redirect priority callers to where you can be
  reached
• Service Bundles Include
• Broadband Multimedia Services
• Personal Communication Services
• Multimedia Business Services

28
Creating the Inter-Human Web
Clients
Applications Services
Service Provider
Enterprise

• People are names calls are URLs
• Services available anytime, anywhere
• Much simplified user interfaces
• Complementary engaging technologies
• XML/VXML for data representation and service
  formulation
• J2EE for mission critical apps and application
  integration

29
Web Services Integration
SV
30
The Convergence Future