A New Approach to building Networks using PODS Ayush Sharma Head - Networking & Intelligence Business 15th – 16th Oct 2019 2nd Tech Deep Dive Conference@IMC 2019

The Universal Impact Of Open Specifications & Source © 2019-2020 Sterlite Technologies Limited The Universal Impact Of Open Specifications & Source Across industries, Societies and Governments 30 million plus coders 41 billion lines of code 64 millions of reposts in Github Huge Industry on its own Creates hockey stick of innovation © 2019-2020 Sterlite Technologies Limited Copyright © 2018 Sterlite Tech 2 2

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Good Enough Open Specifications, Reference Designs and Code Reference Designs are providing guidelines with Reference Designs & showing the path forward of implementation through Exemplar Platforms Open source communities are helping the ecosystem to develop interoperable, standards-based Solutions products/services Source: ONF 20-Sep-2017 3rd oneM2M Industry Day hosted by TSDSI

Disaggregation and Open Source and Challenges It Poses To be able to deploy: Operators Require Integrated Solutions Leveraging Open Source Disaggregated Components To enable innovation, we need: Disaggregation and Open Source Components Too many Open Source Components Open Specifications Open Exemplar Platforms 1000 plus Open Source projects Who is responsible for Code Fuzzing? Integrated & Certified Solutions Commercial Grade Support Models Alternate business & delivery models Collaboration between Tech, operations and Supply Chain Its an opportunity for the New Players to develop and deliver Integrated Solutions leveraging open source Disaggregated Components

PODS is one such outcome of Open Innovation Software Defined with Virtualized 5G & Fixed Networks Network Functions Programmable Open Disaggregated Solutions © 2019-2020 Sterlite Technologies Limited

2nd Tech Deep Dive Conference@IMC 2019 Source: SDXCentral and online resources 15th – 16th Oct 2019 2nd Tech Deep Dive Conference@IMC 2019

2nd Tech Deep Dive Conference@IMC 2019 TSDSI, Academia & Corporations should collaborate to solve affordable access through open innovation. TSDSI and ecosystem players should develop reference designs, Exemplar platforms for Telecom, Citizen, Rural, Defence and Public Networks. Both Standards and open specifications should serve India specific exemplar platforms and should be used in reference test beds. TSDSI should play an important role in policies by working with other planning and regulatory bodies. India being the software capital of the world should leverage the movement to build software and AI based networking infrastructure and TSDSI should play an important role. 15th – 16th Oct 2019 2nd Tech Deep Dive Conference@IMC 2019

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