Monetization and service management over software defined network A System Integrator's Perspective

To make the promises of SDN technology come true, there is a need for exploring the potential avenues for management and monetization of the services realized over SDN along with the core SDN architecture. Typical SDN, being a concept, when concretized for realization, the focus is more on the south bound integrations between the segregated control and data plane along with cloud based deployment philosophy. However the traditional aspects of Fulfillment, Assurance and Billing (FAB) related business process flows, which are critical to commercial deployment and success of SDN in a Telco environment, are mostly kept untouched in core SDN concept.

This paper focuses on the important aspect of monetization and service management which are complementary to the overall SDN realization drive as far as business processes are concerned.