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

fYear

2012

fDate

8-11 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

14

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIN.2012.6376040

Filename

6376040