Title :
Towards a CAPEX-free service delivery platform
Author :
Baglietto, Pierpaolo ; Maresca, Massimo ; Stecca, Michele ; Moiso, Corrado
Author_Institution :
CIPI Univ. of Genoa & Padua, Genoa, Italy
Abstract :
The paper is aiming at analyzing the possibility for a telecommunication operator to decrease the fixed costs of service delivery, by reducing CapEx (Capital Expenditures) and transforming part of them into OpEx (Operational Expenditures). In particular, the paper analyses the advantages and the risks of moving a service platform on a cloud-based infrastructure, and investigates the impacts of adopting Open Source Software (OSS) solutions for deploying components of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and for delivering new services. The proposed approach is exemplified by means of an experimental case study, in which an OSS orchestration engine is deployed on virtual resources dynamically allocated by a cloud infrastructure.
Keywords :
cloud computing; costing; public domain software; resource allocation; CAPEX-free service delivery platform; OSS orchestration engine; OSS solutions; OpEx; SDP; capital expenditures; cloud infrastructure; cloud-based infrastructure; open source software solution; operational expenditures; telecommunication operator; virtual resources; Cloud computing; Hardware; Logic gates; Open source software; Servers; Telecommunications; Cloud infrastructure; Open Source Software; SDP;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), 2012 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1527-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1525-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIN.2012.6376040
