1. ATIS’ Cloud Services Activity
Document No:
GSC17-PLEN-64
Source:
ATIS
Contact:
Andrew White,
GSC Session:
PLEN
Agenda Item:
6.11
ATIS’ Cloud Services Activity
Andrew White
Principal Consultant
Nokia Siemens Networks

2. Highlight of Current Activities
To achieve wide distribution of service assets, the Cloud Services Forum (CSF) is building a common framework to include an:
Inventory of reusable software functions; and
End-to-end service management.
CSF is focused on promoting cloud value through creation of:
Advanced solutions for unified visual communications; and
CDN-I deployment models and federation.
CSF outreach to GSC SDOs for the purpose of establishing globally compatible cloud assets. 2

3. Highlight of Current Activities
Cloud Lifecycle Checklist
Tools and Automation
Information Model
Service Inventory
Reference Architecture
Business Process
Service Specifications
Unified Visual Communications
Content Delivery
Virtual Desktop
CSF is integrating functions into aggregated service experiences
to develop unique and useful functions for inclusion in multiple service experiences
ATIS Reference Architecture
Service Enabler Characterization
Enabler Specific Specifications
CSF builds cloud value through reusable service inventory
and reduced integration cost.

4. Highlight of Current Activities
Access Control
Network
Service Mgmt
IT Systems
User Profile
Trust & Identity
IMS Session Control
Communications
APIs for WebRTC
Unified Visual Solutions
Video
over LTE
Progressing Inter-provider unified visual communications in the cloud:
Interconnection between AT&T and Verizon with Cisco, Microsoft, and Polycom.
14 attributes verified per endpoint pair resulting in 500 total tests.
Developer communities accelerate the process by building third party apps that use the same building blocks.

5. Highlight of Current Activities
Evaluation of broker and federated Content Delivery Network-Interconnection (CDN-I) models is ongoing
Mapping and specification of use cases and requirements for multicast-based content delivery to mobile end-user devices is underway
CSF efforts to progress solutions have resulted in use cases/requirements to support the lifecycle of SP/CDN interactions.
Ongoing work with IETF regarding cached and multicast delivery of CDN-I

6. Challenges
Horizontal integration and compatibility of work across SDOs enabling globally interoperable communications and cloud infrastructure solutions
Supporting the openness required for mass adoption while respecting the intellectual property of innovation
Match the fast pace of web providers with an agile standards model that tightly couples service definition with software development in incremental cycles
Encouraging developers to use multi-vendor, standards-based software over single supplier verticals

7. Next Steps/Actions CSF continues on a fast-track in 2013:
Meets face-to-face on a quarterly basis to drive CSF and joint committee efforts; and
Convenes weekly virtual meetings to progress work.
CSF key priorities for 2013:
Progress industry solutions for unified visual communications including IMS and WebRTC;
Define CDN-I deployment models; and
Produce use cases and requirements for multicast delivery to mobile end-user handsets.

8. Proposed Resolution
ATIS supports the reaffirmation of GSC-16/31: Service Oriented Networks
ATIS supports the reaffirmation of GSC-16/32: Cloud Computing

9. Supplementary Slides

10. ATIS CSF Projects Issue #007: Common Name Space Requirements
#014: Charging for Cloud Services
#015: Cloud Service Logging and Auditing
#016: Cloud Services Control Plane
#024: Federation of Cloud Services and Networks for Service Delivery
#025: Service provider requirements for VPN-Oriented Data Center Services (VDCS)
#026: Cloud Services Inter-Service Provider Billing Requirements
#027: Cloud-Based Telepresence: Interconnect, Interoperability and Architecture
#030: CDN Interconnect deployment models
#031: Architecture and Design for Trusted Information Exchange
#032: Multicast-based content delivery to mobile end-user devices
#033: Cloud-Based Telepresence: Interoperability and Prototype Phase 2

11. Available via http://www.atis.org/docstore
ATIS CSF Deliverables
CDN Interconnection Use Cases and Requirements for Multicast-Based Content Distribution, ATIS
Cloud Framework for Telepresence Service, ATIS
Virtual Desktop Requirements, ATIS
Trusted Information Exchange (TIE), ATIS
Cloud Services Lifecycle Checklist , ATIS
CDN Interconnection Use Cases and Requirements in a Multi-Party Federation Environment, ATIS
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