Webinar Infrastructure & Software 101Infrastructure for Core, Edge & RAN/Access with 5G Open Software

Arpit Joshipura GM, Networking, Edge & IOT

The Linux Foundation

Agenda & Topics

› Recap & Updates post Webinar 1: 5G 101

› Open Source Stacks and Global Foundations/SDO overview

› Key Open Source Projects

› Overview (Core, Edge, Access, AI)

› Spotlight Projects: Deployment and Blueprint Examples

› Networking (ONAP, ORAN SC)

› AI (Acumos)

› Edge (Akraino),

› Where do I start?

› Q&A

Recap & Updates 5G 101 (from Webinar 1)

January 2019 4

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Technology Disruption and Rise of Open Source

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Technology building blocks for Open Source Software

Edge & Intent Based

Kubernetes& CNFs

Putting E2E OSS to use in vertical markets

AI, IOT, Open Collaboration across Cloud, Telecom &

Enterprise

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Service Provider EdgeUser Edge

End to End Open Source Software Collaboration

CarrierAccess

Enterprise & IIOT

Carrier Core

Apps/Internet / Web

Public Cloud

Enterprise Core & Cloud

Private Cloud

eg Google, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent..

NETWORK FUNCTIONS & APPS

MANAGEMENTORCHESTRATION & ANALYTICS

NETWORK CONTROL

INFRASTRUCTURE

VNFs CNFs Cloud Nati Core

* Sample projects only

Leading Open Interop & complianceLF Networking’s Anuket (OPNFV + CNTT)

LF Edge’s Akraino Blueprints

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Open Compliance & Verification

Open Interop & Testing

Open Training & Certification

LFN & LF Edge POC (RAN+Edge+Core)

› 2019 vCO Demo

› 2020 Cloud Native 5G Call (NFVI/ONAP)

› 2021 End to End 5G Super Blueprint (Adding RAN, Edge, Open Core)

BUILT ON END TO END OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

Vertical Market Adoption of End to End Open Source Software

GOVERNMENTNA, APAC, EU

1. Built on end to end open source 5G

2. Training developing countries on 5G and edge

3. Drive global connectivity

ENTERPRISE NETWORKING

1. Private 5G/LTE

2. Workloads across clouds

3. End to end visibility and monitoring

BROADCAST INDUSTRY

1. Built on spectrum sharing

2. ONAP + ORAN SC

EDGE AND IOT MARKET ADOPTION

Industrial

Manufacturing

Energy (Oil,

Gas Utilities)

Commerce &

Retail

Home Automotive Fleet &

Transportation

Logistics Cities &

Government

HealthcareBuilding

Automation

Dedicated, Operated Shared, XaaS

Regional Data CentersDistributed Devices and Systems

Research and Reports

Buildings / Factories / Smart HomesAccess

Networks

User Edge Service Provider Edge

MCU-based devices

Smartphones, PCs, ruggedized IoT gateways and servers

in accessible to semi-secure areas

Server-based compute at TelcoNetwork and Edge Exchange Sites

Servers in secure on-prem data centers, MDCs

Embedded compute

Server-based compute at Regional Telco and Direct

Peering Sites

Servers in traditional cloud data centers

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Aggregation Hubs/COs

Centralized Data Centers

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At Large ProjectsBaetyl, Secure Device

Onboard

Stage 2:

Growth ProjectsEVE, Fledge, Home Edge, Open Horizon, State of the

Edge

Stage 3:

Impact ProjectsAkraino,

EdgeX Foundry

LF Edge Projects

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LF Edge’s State of the Edge 2021 Report Predicts Global Edge Computing Infrastructure Market to be Worth Up to $800 Billion by 2028

Observations

1. Network is even more important in the new world! End Users (Enterprises, Governments, Countries) have a vast array of open options using “infra/software” right near their premises

2. Open Source Collaboration (beyond code) is the way to go. Driven by faster innovation, security and time to revenue & deployment Use Cases

3. Edge is new Cloud and is enabled with technologies like 5G+Cloud+AI+IOT

Open Source Stacks and Global Foundations/SDO Overview

Foundations & Standards

Open Source Software Foundations

› Linux Foundation & its sub-foundations (LFN, LFE, CNCF…)

› Open Infrastructure Foundation (Openstack, Airship..)

› Open Networking Foundation (CORD, Aether..)

› Eclipse Foundation (IOT)

› Apache Foundation (mostly around Big Data and Licensing)

› Others (Single Vendor/Open)

Standards/Specs/Ref Arch/API

› GSMA

› ETSI

› 3GPP

› ORAN Alliance

› TMForum

› MEF

› NGMN

› IETF

› TIP (Open hardware)

› OCP (Open hardware)

Open Alliances & Consortiums

› AECC

› IIC

› Several Vertical specific

* Not an exhaustive list, however listed the ones that are collaborating in Open Networking & Edge

Open Source Networking / SDO Landscape

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Standards and Open Source Implementation HarmonizedIn the ONAP Dublin release, both SO and VF-C are aligned with ETSI SOL003 (NFVO to VNFM) through collaboration with the ETSI NFV Industry Standard Group (ISG). The community is also aligning with SOL001 (Network Service Descriptor), SOL004 (VNF Package), and SOL005 (NB APIs). The ONAP community has also started working with the ETSI Zero Touch Network & Service Management (ZSM) ISG. ONAP represented at ETSI NFV plugtests (June 2019, France)

LF Networking (LFN) and the GSMA today announced a partnership to create a common industry framework for Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVi). Thhe Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) will operate as an open committee responsible for creating and documenting a Common NFVi Framework. A

The new TM Forum Catalyst proof of concept that is developing a common Business Operating System (BOS) described how ONAP will be used in its reference implementation. In addition, the ONAP community continues harmonization of northbound APIs with TMForum APIs.

The ONAP community continues harmonization of northbound APIs with MEF LSO.

The 5G blueprint team actively supports 3GPP standards in areas such as performance management data collection and others. 3GPP shared with the ONAP community where they are introducing the option of using ONAP VNF interfaces in the 3GPP standards.

Foundations & Standards

Open Source Software Foundations

› Linux Foundation & its sub-foundations

› LFN (data plane FDIO, control plane – ODL, TF, Mgmt & Orchestration – ONAP, Integration & Compliance – Anuket)

› LF Edge (Blueprints – Akraino, IOT Frameworks - EdgeX, Fledge, Others)

› CNCF (Kubernetes) & Telecom user group

› LF AI (Acumos)

› Hyperledger (Block Chain for Telecom SIG)

› ORAN Software Community

› Open Infrastructure Foundation

› Openstack, Airship

› Open Networking Foundation

› CORD, Aether

› Eclipse Foundation (mostly on IOT)

› Others (Single Vendor/Open) * Not an exhaustive list, however listed the ones that are collaborating in Open Networking & Edge

Open Source Data Plane and NOS ProjectsRapid feature iteration independent of hardware lifecycle

WhatInnovative features that may

not exist in commercial offerings.

WhyNFV options enable near-

instant delivery of new network services.

How ConsumeMay be OEM’d in commercial offerings, or implemented in

white box environments

SONiC

Open Source Control Plane ProjectsThe backbone of modern network management

WhatExecute the detailed network

requirements of larger orchestration and automation

frameworks (ONAP, OpenStack, CORD).

WhyAssume multi-vendor, mixed

P/V environments.

How ConsumeRange of open source and/or packaged distribution options.

Management Plane, Monitoring and Analytics ProjectsTranslate business layer intent to network - ensure healthy operations

WhatCapture large amounts of real-time data, cut down weeks/months of big data stack integration effort for network analytics to just 1

hour.

WhyCloud & carrier focus on network automation =

doubling of investment in orchestration layer in the

next 5 years.

How ConsumeMulti-team design,

implementation efforts

Open source platforms + custom development +

integration services.

AnuketBrief Description

Delivers a common model, standardized reference infrastructure specifications, and conformance and performance frameworks for virtualized and cloud native network functions. The project is a merger of Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) and the Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce and was officially launched on January 27, 2021.

Key Contacts

Al Morton - TSC Co-chair, AT&T

Walter Kozlowski - TSC Co-chair, Telstra

Key Links

Website: anuket.io

Wiki: wiki.anuket.io

Documentation: docs.anuket.io

Bug Tracking / Reporting: jira.anuket.io

List of Current Projects: wiki.anuket.io/display/PROJ/Projects

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Getting Started

Key LFN Contacts: Jim Baker - Technical Program Manager -jbaker@linuxfoundation.org

Brandon Wick - Sr. Marketing Manager -bwick@linuxfoundation.org

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Anuket: enabling faster deployment of use casesCNTT/OPV/OPNFV - NFVi, VNF/CNF onboarding

5G deployments - ALL FULLY Automated END TO END (Zero touch)

FD.ioBrief Description

Open Source high-performance IO services framework for dynamic computing environments.

Contributed by

Cisco in 2016

Key Contacts

Edward Warnicke - TSC Chair, Cisco

Key Links

Website: fd.io

Wiki: wiki.fd.io

Code: github.com/FDio

Documentation: Can be found on the wiki

Bug Tracking / Reporting: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/

List of Current Projects: Approved Projects

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Calendar

Mailing Lists: https://lists.fd.io/g/main

Key LFN Contacts

Trishan de Lanerolle - Technical Program Manager -tdelanerolle@linuxfoundation.org

Jill Lovato - Sr. PR Manager - jlovato@linuxfoundation.org

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Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)

Brief DescriptionDesign, creation, orchestration, monitoring, and life cycle management of open source and commercial VNFs and CNFs and legacy networks.

Contributed byAT&T in February 2017, now adopted by majority of mobile operators

Key ContactsCatherine Lefevre, TSC Chair, AT&T Davide Cherubini, Vodafone (Marketing)

Key LFN STaff ContactsKenny Paul - Technical Program Manager -kpaul@linuxfoundation.orgDavid McBride - Senior Technical Release Manager -dmcbride@linuxfoundation.orgBrandon Wick - Sr. Marketing Manager -bwick@linuxfoundation.org

Key Links

Website: https://www.onap.org

Wiki: wiki.onap.org - Questions option on the wiki.

Gerrit: https://gerrit.onap.org/

Documentation: docs.onap.org

Bug Tracking / Reporting: jira.onap.org

List of Current Projects: Approved Projects

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Community Meetings & Calendar

Mailing Lists: onap-discuss@lists.onap.org or onap-users@lists.onap.org. Directly mail the PTL

Technical Steering Committee (TSC): https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4719160

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OpenDaylightBrief Description

Open source SDN Controller with largest ecosystem and deployment footprint.

Contributed by

Cisco in 2013

Key Contacts

TSC Chair: Guillaume Lambert, Orange

Key LFN ContactsCasey Cain - Technical Program Manager -ccain@linuxfoundation.org

Brandon Wick - Sr. Marketing Manager -bwick@linuxfoundation.org

Key Links

Website: www.opendaylight.org

Wiki: wiki.opendaylight.org

Gerrit: git.opendaylight.org/gerrit

Documentation: docs.opendaylight.org

Bug Tracking / Reporting: Jira.opendaylight.org

List of Current Projects: Projects

Code: git.opendaylight.org

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Meetings List

Mail Lists: discuss@lists.opendaylight.orgTag with #help in the subject line

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Tungsten FabricBrief Description

A software-defined network & security fabric built for rapid deployment at scale.

Contributed by

Juniper Networks in April 2018

Key Contacts

TSC Chair,

Key Links

Website: www.tungsten.io

Wiki: wiki.tungsten.io

Gerrit: gerrit.tungsten.io

Bug Tracking / Reporting: jira.tungsten.io

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Meetings List

Mail Lists: Mailing List; discuss@lists.tungsten.io

Key LFN Contacts: Casey Cain - Technical Program Manager ccain@linuxfoundation.org

Brandon Wick - Sr. Marketing Manager bwick@linuxfoundation.org

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XGVelaBrief DescriptionAn open source cloud native PaaS for applications and telco network functions to enable new services.

Contributed by

Key Contacts

Key LFN Contacts

Louis Illuzi - Technical Program Manager -lilluzzi@contractor.linuxfoundation.org

Brandon Wick - Sr. Marketing Manager -bwick@linuxfoundation.org

Key Links

Website: https://xgvela.org/

Wiki: https://github.com/XGVela/XGVela/wiki

Gerrit:

Documentation:

Bug Tracking / Reporting:

List of Current Projects:

Code:

List of all Technical Meetings and how to participate: Meetings List

Mail Lists: Tag with #help in the subject line

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Project Spotlight: ONAP

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Frankfurt Modular Architecture, no major changes since inception

ONAP Frankfurt Blueprints

Successful Open Source Development depends on the complete life cycle of projects, products that market will adopt and deploy ONAP Blueprints augment open source projects to address and accelerate Interoperability, Packaging, and Testing under open and neutral governance.

• ENHANCED 5G – Slicing support- End-to-end network slicing- Modeling and orchestration that includes 5G RAN, core, and

transport

• NEW Multi-Domain Optical Network Service (MDONS)- Automated orchestration and management of optical network

services- Focus is on L0/L1 layers that were largely manually set-up and

managed

• ENHANCED CCVPN – New features - E-Line service support- Blueprints from previous 5 releases (Broadband service (BBS),

vIMS, vCPE, VoLTE…)

5G technologies will generate $17 trillion in economic growth in the period to 2035, with the initial stimulus coming from smart-city applications piggybacking on urban 5G rollouts. Source: ABI Research, 2019

ONAP Cloud Native Evolution

VNFs PNFs

CNFsVNFs PNFs

CNFs

ONAP is established as the VNF-PNF solution

MultiCloud – Picturing Hybrid approach, Showcased deploying CNFs & VNFs (firewall use case) in Dublin

ONAP CNCF – Native to K8s:• Re-Use K8S Infra : logging, scaling, resiliency

• Identify and Focus on ONAP Value proposition : NF control loops, NF common inventory, NF common data collection and analytics, etc.

• ONAP-CNCF « Complementary » in the CNCF Landscape and aligned with CNF standards

Multi Cloud Project

2018

2019CNCF+LFN communitiescollaborating

2020+ONAP CN is underway+OVP Ph2 is underway

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ONAP Deployment updates June 2020UPDATED

1.NFVO Pilot TestAdopt customized ONAP components for

CMCC own orchestrator NFVO, which has

completed pilot tests in multiple provinces.

2.NFV Testing Automation TrialsEnd-to-End automated test management

system prototype for NFV product certification

and procurement testing, conducting internal

trials.

3. Community Contribution Focus● E2E 5G slicing management in

Frankfurt, with KPI monitoring and

exposure API.

● SDO alignment support in SO, VF-C and

catalog.

● OVP extensions to support automated

VNF certification

1. Broad Production DeploymentNew AT&T business service on top of

ONAP (Consumer Mobility services on

5G, 1st Responder Network Authority)

2. Community Partnerships FocusController Design Studio, Policy

Handler Enhancement to support new

Policy Lifecycle API’s; TOSCA

Compliant Policies; Control Loop Self

Serve.

3. Proof of Concepts & deploymentNew Control Loop use cases for

Mobility RAN operations; ONAP/O-RAN

Interworking, Cloud Native First.

4. Security by Design & DeployabilityEmbracing CII Badging as Security Best

Practice; Shared databases

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ONAP Deployment updates

1. Amsterdam Release in production since Q42017, now on track for Dublin upgrade• Continued feature development for

NFVi automation• Automated uCPE onboarding and

VNF deployment

1. Expanding use cases acrossCarrier and Internal IT Data Center automation. (OOM, CDS leadership & success deploying + CI/CD pipeline)

1. Bell launched a new VNS SD-WAN service using automation building blocks. ONAP

1. ONAP is the basis of internal Multi-tenant/Self Service Automation platform (NSO)

June 2020UPDATED

1. Focusing on E2E service orchestration with the composition of real-world complex VNF’s through vendor partnership.

2. Drive ETSI MANO Compliant interfaces among ONAP Components (SO/RO/VNFM) to enable inter-vendor operability.

3. Focusing on operational features and stability to integrate & operationalize ONAP in Verizon Ecosystem.

4. Drive E2E orchestration scenarios in the community through code contributions to SDC, SO & VF-C, Design & develop new use cases around orchestration. Focused participation towards 5G, RAN & Edge Computing use-cases.

1. China Telecom Global Company is

launching a new OSS system based on ONAP

2. Expanding CCVPN use case with SFC scenario and will launch a trial of SD-

WAN service3. ONAP and MEF Module and lateral

interface coordination

4. ONAP and 5G network management framework integration

5. China Telecom has adopted modules (e.g. SO, SDN-C, etc. ) from ONAP and

applied it to our new OSS system.

6. China Telecom is testing ONAP for 5G use case in the testbed.

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ONAP Deployment updates

1. OVP Ph1 & Ph2: Leading the CVC working group in alignment with GSMA/CNTT and OPNFV. Lab: Focus on SDC, A&AI, SO,DCAE & External API. Vodafone sees ONAP as a crucial platform for standardization across various areas for Telco Cloud adoption

1. On-Boarding: Focus on SDC, Compliance & Verification(On-Boarding) of Resources and Services - an industry standard for On-Boarding with OVP

1. Production of ONAP for SD-WAN started with the Casablanca release early in 2K19.

2. The current labs upgraded to Casablanca. Selected use case testing and POCs performed by using Casablanca and looking at newer releases

1. Gi.LAN, Datacenter and Voltha use cases move into POC

June 2020UPDATED

1. Lab: 10+ ONAP El-Alto Release instances installed and working in DT’s lab.

2. Pre-Production: Prepare all relevant steps to make DT’s ONAP Release pre-production grade.

3. Functional evaluation: Together with partners conducted several tests for vEPC, 5G Core and multi-vendor end-to-end Network Slicing. Concentrating on modelling integration and closed loop.

4. Trial Use Case: Planned trial use case for Access disaggregation with internal and various external partners to adopt O-RAN interfaces.

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ONAP Deployment updates

1. Open source software is in the core of most of Swisscom's products and internal systems and platforms.

1. BBS (Broadband Service) use case has been very helpful to progress in a pragmatic, applied and targeted manner

2. ONAP automatically detects the CPE move and reconfigures the customer facing service according to the policies and models defined by the service provider, increasing customer satisfaction, while reducing operational costs and complexity in IT procedures.

3. BBS is a great example of open collaboration, with Swisscom as service provider, two major telecom equipment vendors, open standards bodies like BBF and TMF, and the open source community working together.”

1. Production deployment of ONAP for SD-WAN connectivity orchestration. While delivering end-to-end service involving 3rd party networks. Tentative release is Casablanca. Q4 2019.

1. ONAP is to orchestrate SD-WAN cloud connectivity services. To deliver instant cloud connects for cloud applications and services. Tentative release is Casablanca. Q4 2019.

1. Appropriate POCs are in progress.

June 2020UPDATED

1. ONAP AdoptionONAP plays an important role in our network automation and transformation.

1. Use Cases and VNF/CNF OnboardingJio is exploring ONAP as a strategic fit for cloud native CNF transformation. Incorporating use cases and onboarding VNFs/CNFs as trials progress.

1. Test AutomationCreating a common framework for test automation across ONAP.

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ONAP Deployment updates

Frankfurt

• PoC for End-to-End Application Automation (demonstrated at MEF18)

• Intelligent Edge, Low Power IoT telemetry, Video Recognition with High Performance Edge Processing

• TMF API between ONAP and Blue Planet LSO Stacks

• Automated Deployment - Complex Network and Application Functions

• ONAP Service Design - Multi-Component IoT Application Function

• ONAP Service Instance - VNF and VF Module Creation (INTERLUDE)

• TMF633, 638 - ONAP Service Catalog & Service Inventory (LEGATO)

• API-driven Global Interconnection Orchestration• Automated Creation of Virtual Connections

• Between SP, Edge and Cloud Domains -Production Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric

• Unified Automation of Network & Cloud IoT Resources

• Automated Provisioning and Deployment• Cloud IoT Resources and AWS Greengrass

IoT Edge Application Function

In partnership with

June 2020UPDATED

1. Lab: Verified El Alto. Based on vDNS automatic scaling out use case. Followed by verification of Run-time of Dublin release, moved forward to Design-time. Points to focus are as follows;

• Automatic scaling out by Closed-Loop• On-boarding• Creation, testing and service design• Control loop design and execution

1. Plan for 2020;• Evaluation of Frankfurt E2E slice

management using RAN/Core simulators

• Application of use case of E2E slice management in 5G blue-print

• Evaluation of ONAP Frankfurt or Guilin with KDDI 5GC testbed

Frankfurt

• ONAP El Alto as a Telco/MNO orchestrator for enabling network slice extension into multi-cloud, multi-MEC environment for enterprise services.

• LF Edge and LF Networking Collaboration: ONAP and Edge Use case for Public Cloud Edge Interface Blueprint (PCEI)

• ONAP can be used to represent the MNO Orchestration Functions for Mobile Edge.

• Deploying El Alto with Partners for POC

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ONAP Deployment updates - New June 2020

NEWFrankfurt

ONAP adoption as a key platform in Automation of various Commercial Services

Production deployment of select ONAP components, SDC, AAI integrated with vendor supplied orchestration for SDWAN Services

Proof of Concept VNF onboarding and VNF orchestration in areas of Security on CPE and Cloud

1. Based on ONAP component, such as VF-C/SDC-C/SO, China Unicom form across-network carrying solution onmulti-service. In the solution, IPRANand carrier A Network share one MANOwhich downwardly connects todifferent controllers and upwardlyconnects to service platform.

2. Built platform and interconnected thepublic network and the edge networkby onap, realized the cloud-edgecooperation of the services.

3. Based on ONAP component, built 3-tiers Communication Cloud structure.

NEWFrankfurt

Under embargo June 18 2020 9 AM PST,

1. Telecom Strategy now an integralpart of Public Cloud, 2 Acquisitions(Affirmed and Metaswitch) leadingto an overall strategy to enable 5G,IOT and Edge

2. ONAP running on Azure -announced at MWC 2019. Strongvendor ecosystem support

3. Affirmed network one of the first toreceive LFN OVP batch forCNTT/OPNFV compliance.

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ONAP Deployment updates

Frankfurt

June 2020UPDATEDNEW

El Alto

• ONAP Use Case on Partner Domain Management Proposed for Frankfurt release and is focused on building a capability for service provider to support orchestration of services from Partner / Third Party.

• ONAP as “VNF” Operational Domain Manager and as Cross Domain Operational Domain ManagerOngoing analysis for these use cases.

• Production Deployment of a Domain Orchestration using ONAP for Broadcast Media Deployed a domain orchestrator to govern the Broadcast itinerant services booking process, leveraging several ONAP components. Currently exploring the PNF capabilities introduced and enhanced in the Dublin release, and identifying change management functions to manage planned change impacts on customers.

• ONAP lab setup for R&D Telstra ONAP lab setup on Casablanca being used for POCs for the proposed use cases. Plan to upgrade to Dublin after the release.

• General Quality improvements ONAP defect fixes from Casablanca release.

ONAP lab for R&D • A dedicated lab since first release for in-depth

functional and not-functional ONAP maturity evaluation and for performing PoCs demonstrations.

Proof of Concepts• Setting up ONAP orchestration for 5G Core• Integration of TM Forum API for service

catalog, service inventory and service instance LCM

• ONAP orchestration of O-RAN preliminary features

Focus• ONAP and Kubernetes/CNF ecosystem

integration for seamless orchestration• Cross-collaboration with relevant standards

(e.g. O-RAN specifications, ETSI, TM Forum)

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ONAP lab • Testing in progress, focus on services and e2e

service orchestration as part of digital transformation.

Use Cases• VPN, VNF/CNF onboarding• CNF in bare metal• Security• SD-WAN

Focus• OVP, OSS integration• Intent Based Workflows, API and Data

Driven, Network and Apps controllers, Enable Faster TTM to New Services, facilitates the operation with a close loop vision, enable Data Analytics for operational and BI feedback

• Avoiding vendor lock

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem June 2020UPDATED

• Amdocs Service & Network Automation Platform announced in Jan 2020

(https://bit.ly/3eoe5CP). Cloud-native, modular microservices platform enables end-to-end service design, orchestration & inventory management spanning NFV and

hybrid networks, and is based on several ONAP components (A&AI, SDC). Multiple production implementations underway.

• Amdocs 5G Slice Manager announced in Feb 2020 (https://bit.ly/2yhtrsl). End-to-end 5G

network slice lifecycle management and monetization solution, integrated with ordering and charging. Leverages ONAP components and uses TOSCA modeling for

network slice building blocks as well as GSMA Generic Network Slice Templates (GST) to ensure commonality, flexibility and reusability. Multiple PoCs/trials underway.

• Open Source ONAP software company focusing on 5G/edge

• Successfully completed 12 ONAP engagements

• Aarna Networks ONAP

Distribution 4.0 (El Alto) available• New OVP-in-a-box offering for

VNF vendors to perform interop testing

• New ONAP integration with

Cloud Native 5G Demo, Akraino Private LTE/5G Blueprint

• Recently joined PAWR, 5G Open Innovation Lab to drive 5G use cases with ONAP

• Number#1 Instructor led ONAP training provider

• Accenture has developed a hybrid cloud

orchestration capability for ONAP, delivering a multi-cloud plug-in for orchestrating VNFs on

the AWS public cloud. Our plug-in supports existing infrastructure workload APIs from SO,

enabling the seamless orchestration of workloads across hybrid cloud including

OpenStack and AWS

• Accenture has implemented a new proof of concept (PoC) for 5G and Edge Compute Hybrid

Orchestration. Spanning virtualized 5G RAN running in OpenStack, edge applications

running in AWS Outpost as the edge compute

infrastructure, and 5G core components in the AWS public cloud, we continue to advance our

PoC through the ongoing simulation and execution of new workloads.

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

• Commscope and the recently acquired ARRIS Software Solution Services leverages best of breed and leading edge technologies and platforms for Orchestration and Automation including ONAP.

• ARRIS is committed to collaboration using open source and open standards to provide a highly performant and stable platform.

• Providing multi-domain orchestration for the following key domains: B2B services, Wireless including 5G slice orchestration, Broadband Access networks including Hybrid access and last but not the least, Media Delivery include contribution and distribution networks.

• Ampere eMAG powered production ready platforms available NOW! High performance per watt servers in a variety of form factors enabling efficient and scalable uCPE, MEC,EPC and Data Center deployments

• Software stacks that just run!Turnkey experience with platforms that are software ready - Akraino Edge Stack, ONAP, DPDK, Open Stack, Telco grade hypervisors, etc.

• Improved Quality of Service for VNFsHigh performance cores delivering best-in-class workload QoS and reliability

aarch64ONAP components validated on aarch64

● As part of CIA project: https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/CIA+Dublin+Release+Planning

○ A&AI○ DMAAP○ Portal○ Robot○ SDC○ SDNC○ VID○ AAF○ SO○ APPC○ CLAMP○ CCSDK

● As part of Integration project:○ vFW use case necessary

components

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

• BOCO Orchestrator and Data Collect Platform both incorporate ONAP components.

• BOCO contribute to the development of ONAP,such as VF-C ems driver,etc.

• BOCO Focus on SDN and NFV developments & integrations for Operators worldwide, including work on ONAP.

June 2020UPDATED

ONAP for ARM and AkrainoEnea has contributed to ONAP and Akraino in collaboration with ARM, and are now part of the open source community around ONAP,targeting multi-architecture hardware support in project communities and in CI/CD infrastructure in particular.

• Ericsson is aligning its functional architecture and key interfaces with the ONAP architecture and integrating several components from ONAP in our OSS portfolio.

• Ericsson provides ONAP services including integrations, enhancements, deployments on various virtualization platforms across multi-vendor environments.

• As part of 5G network transformation, Ericsson is working with several global operators to increase the automation capabilities by leveraging ONAP paradigms.

• Ericsson is driving the industry alignment between standards and opensource, such as the convergence of ETSI MANO and ONAP.

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

1. ONAP on IBM Cloud PrivateIBM Cloud Private is fully Kubernetes-based deployment for on-premise, bundled with capabilities from open source & IBM for core operational services1

2. IBM Services for ONAPFocus on SDN and NFV deployments & integrations worldwide, including work on ONAP for Operators. Services are augmented with IBM cloud and cognitive software and services

June 2020UPDATED

1. MDONS (Multi-Domain Optical Network Services) use-case proposed & contributed to the ONAP Frankfurt rel.

2. Enabled ONAP alignment with open optical standards – OpenROADM, ONF T-API & MEF, for optical transport services & lifecycle management

3. Fujitsu’s OpenDaylight based Virtuora SDN controller integrated with ONAP supporting E2E automation

4. Supporting 5G Transport Slicing implementation as part of E2E Network Slicing blueprint in ONAP

5. Fujitsu’s Bandwidth-on-Demand MicroApp enables closed-loop functionality within ONAP environment

Fujitsu is committed to open source and continues to leverage & contribute to ONAP and LFN projects with commercial solutions & services offerings.

1.ONAP CCVPN and BBS use case demonstrates interoperability with Huawei SDN controllers.2. CCVPN extension provided support of E-LINE creation and management across multiple OTN transport domains through open standards and interfaces.3. ONAP based NSMF in 5G Network Slicing use case demonstrates interoperability with Huawei CN NSSMF.

Community Contribution FocusPNF software upgrade using an external Element Management System5G Network Resource Model (NRM) configuration management with RESTful protocolContributing to the NSMF in ONAP for 5G slicingProvide OTN model extensions to SDN-CContributing towards improving some of the key non-functional aspects like multi tenant mgmt, reduction of ONAP footprint

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

• Lumina SDN Controller, based on OpenDaylight, plugs into ONAP to support service automation in multi-domain and multi-layer environments.

• Pure play open source solution enables network slicing, network optimization, end-to-end service automation.

• Resource: ONAP White Paper

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Frankfurt

1. Intel ONAP Lab Equipment: Intel & partners hosts community lab for deployment, VNF onboarding, integration testing.

2. Driving intelligent scheduling of workloads on edges based on platform capabilities (HPA)

3. Driving security of ONAP secrets, private keys w/ hardware root of trust. e.g. Trusted Platform Modules (TPM).

4. Update “K8s-based Cloud region support” to deploy CNFs & CNAs on edge clouds, adding single-click deploy of geo-distributed CNFs & CNAs across regions.

5. Driving AI based Distributed network analytics platform to allow dynamic deployments of AI analytics apps.

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• 5G NFs ContainersContainers enable Operators to automate the roll out of 5G NF Service Slices. ONAP Dublin release enhances its customer offering with Kubernetes support

• 5G PCF and CHF NFsOpenet has deployed in PCF and CHF in Operators Labs for 5G Control Plane trials using Containers

• Observability & CI/CDOperators look to Automation and Observability as key lifecycle management tools found in the ONAP toolset

Frankfurt Frankfurt

• 5G support for ONAPMulti-domain product support in core networks, 5G radio, edge cloud and fixed BB services building PNF/VNF readiness with support of ONAP interfaces and API’s.

• Nokia services for ONAP

Services for ONAP integration into multi-vendor customer environments and use case implementation

• Customer use-casesUse-case customer pilot implementations and use-case development (e.g. fixed BB or edge cloud)

• Netsia's 5G Center-of-Excellence lab has been upgraded to Frankfurt RC0.

• Netsia will continue to integrate and test SEBA, vRAN & GiLAN use cases with the latest ONAP releas(es).

• Netsia is working in the LF Edge Akraino community to develop the SEBA blueprint which includes ONAP.

• 5G CoE Lab will be a regional excellence center where Aether + SEBA and vRIC solutions will have been co-located in Netsia’s multi access edge cloud and will be integrated with ONAP.

• Netsia will contribute to RAN Slicing: O-RAN <-> ONAP alignment activities.

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

• Open-Source: development & support of custom solutions

• ONAP: tailor-made for service providers / integration and app development

• Linux Foundation Networking Projects: customization and upstream, open-source project development in DPDK, FD.io, Mininet, ONAP, OpenDaylight, lighty.io & OvS

June 2020UPDATED

• ONAP AlignmentRibbon is in full support and architecturally aligned with ONAP

• ONAP AdoptionRibbon is closely following the evolution of ONAP and particularly how it provides support for MANO compliant interfaces, so that we can provide our VNFs into the widest possible range of orchestration environments

• RIFT Inc.’s Orchestration & Automation platform, RIFT.ware, delivers an open-sourced, standards-based product for multi-domain service orchestration, real-time service inventory, service assurance integration for real-time scaling and closed loop control

• RIFT.ware automates the onboarding, VNF/NS validation and VNF/NS launch across any cloud. We automate LCM functions with closed loop control.

• RIFT participates in all NFV MANO related open source and standards activities. RIFT is dedicated to contributing know-how and code via ETSI, ONAP, and other open-source communities

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

1. Proof of ConceptsSamsung RAN Central Unit with Closed Loop on

ONAP. Integration of Samsung MANO with ONAP:

LCM, FCAPS, TOSCA/VNFD model.

2. VNF/CNF enhancements MultiVIM/Cloud Native Function deployment

enhance (vFW use case). Driving ETSI alignment to

bridge VNFM and ONAP for VNF LCM. SDC UX for

VNF On-Boarding and LCM.

3. Security and QualitySecurity best practices (hardening), automated

penetration tests. Enhance quality assurance

process by providing automated Integration and

E2E (vCPE) tests. Introduce K8S Ingress Controller

for improved ONAP manageability and operations.

4. Platform ReleaseONAP offline installer for CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu.

June 2020UPDATED

Frankfurt

• Multi-VIM project Wind

River is a contributor to the MultiCloud /

VIM project, helping insure federated

orchestration between heterogeneous

infrastructure platforms

• ONAP Test and Validation Lab Wind River contributes and maintains

Wind River Cloud Platform for the ONAP

test and validation lab; this enables

members of the community to validate

and test their ONAP-based solutions

• Validated with ONAP Frankfurt Wind River Cloud Platform is a private-

cloud platform validated with ONAP

Frankfurt release and works seamlessly

with ONAP via the Multi-VIM project.

Frankfurt

Our commitment to ONAP is to enable Telco operators to adopt ONAP and operationalize deployments in their production environment. At the same time contribute actively to ONAP Platform. Our ONAP Platform contributions•Standards based BSS integration specifically for 5G and slicing including E2E service order automation enhancements•Enable ONAP for cloud native workloads, container orchestration•Create a model based configuration design•Enable centralized logging and monitoring•Validate distributed ONAP deployment across multiple locations –edge and central – for vRAN architectureOur joint Telco operator initiatives•BSS integration for 5G slice ordering scenarios•Orchestration, instantiation, configuration of 5G Core containerized WL•Operations ready ONAP complemented by other open source / operator specific tools•Analysis and Design of ONAP deployments in a High Available and geo-redundant set-up•Customization of automated test framework for operator needs•Design and Analysis of ORAN integration with ONAP for operator specific deployment scenarios•Design, development and deployment of operator specific Service Assurance micro-services in ONAP with closed control loop operations

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem

• ZTE CloudStudio product and OES platform based on ONAP components, such as VF-C, MSB, HOLMES, etc.

• ZTE contributes key technology to enable ETSI MANO in ONAP and drives ONAP aligned with industry standards, such as ETSI, 3GPP, and TMF, etc.

• CCVPN use case demonstrates interop with ZENIC ONE, which is SDN Controller for SOTN and SDWAN

June 2020UPDATED

Frankfurt Dublin

• Wipro Services using ONAP platform- Customer deployments and multi-vendor

solutions involving SDN domain controllers, orchestrators, VIMs and xNFs

- Integration Services for 3rd party OSS / BSS and SON Solutions

- Extensions to ONAP Network Slicing, and interfacing with vendor NSSMFs

- Extensions to cover RAN orchestration• Customer specific use cases

- Use-case specific enhancements, work-flow design, enhancements to ONAP, interface adaptations

• Carrier-grade ONAP R&D services- Offer enterprise-grade version of ONAP

components such as Policy and SDC- Customer-specific implementation and

verification services to make ONAP open source ready for commercial deployment

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem, New in Frankfurt

Orion 5G Security Suite• Provides comprehensive control plane and data-plane

security to 5G networks through high performance, cloud native network functions (NFs). These network functions cover NAT, firewall, traffic steering, roaming and signaling security for GTP and DNS functions and scalable mitigation against multi-layered DDoS attacks.

• Enables modularized services as a service layer with a set of connected technologies that employ automated intelligence, machine learning and centralized visibility and control.

Ecosystem Integration• Actively participates in community and eco-system.• Participated in Linux Foundation’s end-to-end 5G cloud-

native network proof of concept (POC) in Nov 2019.• Proven integration with major MANO systems through

PoCs and interoperability testing with ETSI, ONAP.Operator Engagements • A10’s NF’s are deployed at multiple tier 1 mobile

operator for 5G and 5G-Ready launches, including SK Telecom.

• In production VM’s at various Telco’s and is in early Interoperable with vEPC in MEC topology.

• Cloud Native functions are in numerous on-going PoCs with tier 1 operators as they plan and deploy cloud-native and telco-cloud technology.

NEW

• Digital Commerce Platform (DCP)Our CNFs (Cloud Native Network

Functions) allow service providers to

harness elasticity, resilience, and cost

efficient scaling of their 5G CCS.

ONAP’s support for Kubernetes further

enables the industry evolution toward

CNFs.

• MATRIXX DCP – 5G CCSMATRIXX is beginning to deploy our

cloud native 5G CCS in service

provider labs where ONAP components

supporting Kubernetes can be utilized

in trials.

1. Robin is an automation platform for

the deployment, scaling and life cycle

management of any data- and

network-intensive application for 5G

service delivery across core, edge

and RAN.

2. Robin Platform, powered by

application- and infrastructure-

topology aware technology on

Kubernetes, supports policy-driven

orchestration and automation of

VNF’s and CNF’s.

3. Robin supports end-to-end, virtualized

cloud-native infrastructure for 5G at

scale at Rakuten Mobile.

4. Robin supports open standards and

open source communities like

OpenNESS and has planned

contributions to ONAP.

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem, New in Frankfurt

1. SES teams with Amdocs to operationalise the first ONAP orchestration platform for scalable, automated delivery of satellite-enabled network services on Microsoft Azure

2. SES is a founding member of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN), which hosts the ONAP project, an initiative with widespread adoption as the preferred platform for open network automation and orchestration. By standardising on the same orchestration platform as leading telcos and mobile network operators, SES will make it easier and faster for its customers to deliver services over its high-performance satellite-based network.

3. Our vision is to make satellite-based networks a seamless and wholly integrated part of a global, cloud-scale network ecosystem

1. NFV MANO: We work with NFV providers and help them make their VNFs compatible with ONAP. We also investigate how to manage CNFs and how ONAP can support them in the future.

2. Ecosystem: Thanks to our experience with Tungsten Fabric we can identify potential gaps in the ONAP support for TF and find the way to fill them.

1. The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory hosts the LFN Lab as a Service (LaaS)community resources, providing developers with access to bare-metal resource where ONAP and other LFN projects can be deployed and tested.

1. The UNH-IOL is also working with LFN members to assist with testing their NFVI and VNF products for the OVP Badging Programs.

1. In May and September, the UNH-IOLparticipate in a number of demos, showing real usage of ONAP in a Cloud Native 5G environment and zero-touch broadband deployment.

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ONAP Commercial Ecosystem, New in Frankfurt

• CommScope, which recently acquired

ARRIS and its Software Defined Services

group, leverages best of breed and leading

edge technologies and platforms, including

ONAP, for Orchestration and Automation.

• CommScope is committed to collaboration

using open source and open standards to

provide a high performing and stable

platform for service providers.

• CommScope provides multi-domain

orchestration for the following key service

provider domains: B2B services, Wireless

(including 5G slice orchestration),

Broadband Access Networks (including

hybrid access) and Media Delivery include

contribution and distribution networks.

June 2020

1. PoC for End-to-end Service Orchestration

Customized modeling design

and ONAP alignment with

ETSI MANO for cross-domain

and automated provisioning

and deployment of resources

and services.

1. Prototype DevelopmentIntegrated ONAP with

CertusNet's SDN controller

for a carrier's centralized,

unified control prototype

system across multi-

manufacture.

1. API Fabric PoC : Netcracker developed an API

Fabric and integrated with ONAP Ext-API, SO,

SDC and A&AI to expose customized

application/use-case specific/standard specific

secure APIs to external applications. Showcased

the API Management and Marketplace

capabilities in ONS and ONAP events.

2. ONAP SDC Interoperability with Netcracker: Interoperability of SDC with Netcracker MANO to

support ONAP VNF models in the MANO runtime

environment. Built interoperability plugins to

transform ONAP VNF data models to standard

data models compatible with Netcracker’s

solution.

3. Policy Engine Deployment and Analysis: Deployed and evaluated ONAP Policy Engine for

reusability in a standalone mode.

4. SDN-C: Deployed ONAP-SDNC for YANG data

model-driven management for 5G network slicing

and multi-site NFV-PoPs, where ONAP-SDNC

with external SDN controllers manages VPN

services and traffic engineering.

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1. Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform Integrating and testing ONAP for Kubernetes run by KubeOne and Kubermatic.

1. R&D servicesLoodse is the top 5 corporate contributor to the Kubernetes project. Supporting the deployment of VNFs and CNFs.

1. Linux Foundation Networking ProjectsHeavily involved in CNTT to ensure smooth MANO of VNFs and CNFs on Kubernetes run by KubeOne and Kubermatic. Key contributor to OVP 2.0 workstream.

1. 5GIC is developing ONAP Plugins: rich and advance plugin for ETSI OSM and Ryu SDN Controller.

2. GSMA template descriptors: adaptation of GSMA template development.

3. AI-enabled Research: zero touch orchestrating for 3GPP network, non-3GPP network and NTN communication.

4. CAPIF functionality: Implementing east west communication for ONAP.

3. Business Platform Research: Secure service chaining support for different businesses and applications through intelligent network slicing and open APIs

ONAP adoption• Utilize ONAP as the automation

and orchestration tool for ULAK 5G Core and New Radio products.

5G Core VNF onboarding• Core Network VNFs successfully

deployed by utilizing comprehensive automation with Dublin (2019Q4)

• Participated OPNFV VNF verification challenge and awarded the first VNF badges (2020Q1)

Testing & PoC• DCAE, FCAPS, Policy executions,

Auto-scaling, Closed-loop operations

• 5G network slicing

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Under embargo June 18 2020 9 AM PST,

June 2020UPDATED

Project Spotlight: ORAN

Agenda & Topics

› Introduction to Open RAN (O-RAN)

› Open RAN (Generic)

› O-RAN or ORAN Refers to Alliance

› O-RAN Consortia and Communities

› O-RAN Usecases & Architecture

› Outlook for O-RANOpen Interfaces

RAN Intelligence

Whitebox SpecsFunctional Specs

Disaggregation, White Boxes, Open Hardware

Equipment- Core Telecom- Switches- Routers- Servers- Storage - Data Center IT- SDDC- RADIO ACCESS

NETWORK (RAN to ORAN)

Open RAN Overview

CN: Core NetworkCU: Central UnitDU: Distributed UnitRU: Remote/Radio UnitFH: Front HaulRIC: RAN Intelligent ControllerRRC: Radio Resource ControlPDCP: Packet Data Convergence ProtocolSDAP: Service Data Adaption ProtocolRFE: Radio Front EndUP: User or Data PlaneCP: Control PlaneUPF: User Plane Function

Open RAN

› The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) represents the final frontier for open transport and core networks.

› By disaggregating the hardware and software used in base stations, open RAN promises lower capital expenditures by using general purpose platforms and introducing new areas of competition.

› Interoperability, standards, and licensing are key which is why we see the industry increasing participation in open source initiatives.

Open RAN Concept

› RAN disaggregated into:› The Radio Unit (RU)

› The Distributed Unit (DU)

› The Centralized Unit (CU)

› Interface(s)› Fronthaul between the

RU and the DU

› Midhaul between the DU and the CU

› Backhaul connecting the RAN to the core

ORAN Consortia & Communities

› 3GPP Interface specifications

› The ORAN Alliance & ORAN Software Community

› Multi-vendor Open ecosystem & Specification in RAN

› Implementing ORAN & 3GPP Specifications in OSS code

› TIP (Telecom Infra Project) Forum’s OpenRAN 5G NR Project Group & RAN Intelligence & Automation(RIA): AI/ML applications for a RAN use cases.

› Open Network Foundation’s SD RAN: Building xApps leveraging O-RAN Alliance & ORAN-SC specifications/implementations

› The Open RAN Policy Coalition: promote policies that will advance the adoption of open and interoperable solutions

› Other Industry lead efforts:

› NEC Open RAN laboratory in India

› Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” ( Feb’21)

› DISH, Vodafone, Rakuten have spun up Open RAN based deployments

ORAN Software

Community

O-RAN Alliance & LF : O-RAN Software Community(De-facto Largest Community based Project)Key Goals· Drive an Open and Intelligent RAN· Align with O-RAN Alliance working groups and the

Minimum Viable Plan· Drive open interfaces and software interoperability

through intelligent applications (rApps, xApps)· Enable model and data driven operation and

automation for the RAN· Support collaboration and partnership through

software collaboration ( ONF, TIP, ONAP) · Demonstrate capabilities through plug-fests and

demonstrations (MWC)

Projects

O-RAN Architecture

ORAN Example Use Cases

› Traffic Steering (RAN automation) › QoE Prediction and Network Optimization (higher bandwidth/ lower

latency applications) › QoS Resource Optimization (increased throughput/congestion) › Performance & Security (eg. Signal Storm Protection)› Failure Detection and Recovery› Service Management & Orchestration › Massive MIMO Optimization (cell-centric networks) › RAN Slice SLA Assurance ( traffic densities, service availability and

very low latency)

ML enabled xAppTraffic Steering is a suite of interacting xApps:

• TS xApp• Finds UEs of interest (based on

A1-P)• Receives predictions from QP

xApp• Issues control instructions to

steer traffic

• QP driver xApp• Fetches metric data for use by

QP xApp for UEs of interest

• QP xApp• Predicts future throughput for

UEs and makes these available to TS xApp

• KPIMON xApp populates cell and UE metrics into the Redis databases

KPIMON

E2 Simulator

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UE metrics

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O-RAN Outlook

› Objective for the O-RAN vendor ecosystem: concept proven to work reliably, at scale, while delivering performance on a par with traditional RAN equipment and provide quantifiable operational cost benefits to CSPs.

› 2021-2023: Industry analysts expect the vendor community will incrementally harden the ecosystem of O-RAN solutions while delivering architecture frameworks that can be deployed at scale.

› By 2025: The industry is anticipated to reach a critical mass as more CSPs upgrade their network infrastructure.

› Brownfield: With the majority of CSPs worldwide already deploying 5G, O-RAN is likely to be deployed as an overlay on top of the existing infrastructure, rather than a replacement.

› Greenfield: Based on success with 5G, O-RAN would be adopted as the baseline architectural approach for 6G.

www.o-ran-sc.org

Architecture● Near-real-time(RT) RIC: enables near-real-time control and

optimization of O-RAN elements and resources via fine-grained data collection and actions over E2 interface.

● non-RT RIC: enables non-real-time control and optimization of RAN elements and resources, AI/ML workflow including model training and updates, and policy-based guidance of applications/features in near-RT RIC.

● NMS: A Network Management System● O-Central Unit(CU): a logical node hosting RRC, SDAP and PDCP

protocols● O-Central Unit (CU)-Control Plane : The RRC and the control plane

part of the PDCP protocol● O-CU-User Plane: The user plane part of the PDCP protocol and the

SDAP protocol● O-Distributed Unit (DU): RLC/MAC/High-PHY layers based on a lower

layer functional split.● O-Radio Unit (RU) : Low-PHY layer and RF processing based on a lower

layer functional split. This is similar to 3GPP’s “TRP” or “RRH” but more specific in including the Low-PHY layer (FFT/iFFT, PRACH extraction).

● O1: Interface between management entities in Service Management and Orchestration Framework and O-RAN managed elements, for operation and management, by which FCAPS management, Software management, File management shall be achieved.

● O1*: Interface between Service Management and Orchestration Framework and Infrastructure Management Framework supporting O-RAN virtual network functions.

● xAPP: Independent software plug-in to the Near-RT RIC platform to provide functional extensibility to the RAN by third parties.

Project Spotlight: Acumos AI

What is Acumos AI?

Open Source Platform to Harmonize AI Solutions

Distributed AI Marketplace

Interoperable Microservices

LFAI Ecosystem to Expedite Collaboration & Innovation

Use Cases

Video Analytics for Real Time Streaming Data

Build using Acumos AI open source platform

Uses AT&T Research Labs Acumos AI instance which provides various video analytics machine

learning models.

Streaming Video Analytics powered with following Acumos AI Models :

• Object – to classify the images in the video for ad insertion

• Sentiment – to detect the mood of the scene for ad insertion

• Face Detection – to detect human face

• Face Recognition – to recognize well known celebrities

• Privacy – to pixelate and provide privacy of the detected faces.

• Logo Recognition – to detect various company logos for advertising purposes

• Frame Ranking - compute the best frame in the video

Fast, Easy, Drag and Drop building of complex AI Applications using Acumos AI Design Studio by

chaining multiple ML models

Video Analytics System Powered by Acumos AI

Video Analytics Models Chaining in AccuCompose

Video Analytics System Flow

Acumos CollaborationAcumos Marketplace facilitates iterative ML model development, training and improvement among collaborators

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• Vendor Develops Model• Trains On Ideal Data• Federates Via Acumos• Model Retrained On

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Licensing

Procurement

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Acumos AI for 5G/O-RAN/Intelligent Controller (RIC)

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Application Layer

Data Distribution Bus API

DU: RLC/MAC/PHY-high

3rd Party Apps at the edge

AECCell Sites AIC/NTC

RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) near-RT (CU-CP-H)

A1

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STEMPlug-in/

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eNB

Loop 1: per TTI/ msec resource scheduling

Loop 3: > 0.5 sec (policies, orchestration, SON)

NFVI Platform: Virtualization Layer and COTS Platform

Design Inventory Policy Configuration RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) non-RT

NGFI-I

3rd Party App Radio Connection Mgt. Mobility Mgt.QoS Mgt. Interference Mgt. Trained Model

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Standard / Open HW Design

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O-RAN / xRAN Defined Interfaces**To be standardized by SDO

3GPP Defined Interfaces

F1

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CatalogPublish models to

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Machine Learning Analytic Model Design, Offline Training, Continuous Refinement Environment

Co-creation Candidate

Trained model

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Analytic Models

O-RAN/ONAP platform supports both static policies and more sophisticated dynamic ML/AI models with per-UE control.

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Open Source Networking & Edge Summary

› Open Source Networking & Edge Projects now in deployment enabled by Use cases, Solutions, Blueprints

› Markets Intersection - enabled by 5G, Automation, & Edge Computing: Telecom Markets include Access (O-RAN) + Unified Edge + Core, Cloud and Enterprise

› Cross Domain/Tech collaboration: New Collateral including White Papers on deployment, Consumption, CNTT Whitepaper, Introductory Guides for Cloud Native and 5G

› Cloud Native Telecom Focus: Integrated cloud native initiatives launch across LFN & LF Edge to improve interoperability & agility, reduce operational costs

Edge & IOT Software Projects

Project Spotlight: LF Edge Akraino