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November 2017

SDxCentral: ONAP Rolls Out Amsterdam Release

By In The News

Less than nine months after AT&T and the Linux Foundation merged their open source projects to become the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), the group today rolled out its first code release, Amsterdam.

The highly anticipated release, which integrates AT&T’s ECOMP and the Linux Foundation’s Open-O code bases into a common open source orchestration platform, aims to automate the virtualization of network services.

Read more at SDxCentral.

Telecompaper: ONAP Delivers Amsterdam Release, Sets Standard for Network Service Automation

By In The News

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam,” which delivers a unified architecture for closed-loop network automation. The Amsterdam release provides a unified architecture which includes production-proven code from open source ECOMP and OPEN-O to provide design-time and run-time environments within a single, policy-driven service orchestration platform.

Read more at Telecompaper.

Light Reading: Ambitious Amsterdam Makes ONAP’s Case

By In The News

ONAP today rolled out its much-anticipated first software release, dubbed Amsterdam, promising a unified architecture for network automation, modules of which can — and are — being used immediately by network operators beyond AT&T. (See ONAP Issues Amsterdam, First Software .)

In the eight months since AT&T’s OpenECOMP combined with Open-Orchestration to form the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) under the Linux Foundation banner, the group has grown to 58 members. And with Amsterdam, ONAP releases a unified architecture that not only combines the contributed code of both groups, removing duplication in the process, but also adds significant new features including a new correlation engine called Holmes which has been added to the ECOMP Data Collection, Analytics and Events (DCAE) module and a new module called Control Loop Automation Management Platform (CLAMP). (See ONAP Makes Splashy ONS Debut.)

Read more at Light Reading.

FierceTelecom: ONAP Amsterdam Release Furthers Automated Virtualization Trend

By In The News

ONAP has taken another step forward as a key enabler for service providers virtualizing their networks with its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, focusing on a unified​ ​architecture​ ​for​ ​closed-loop​ ​network​ ​automation.

 Offering new service delivery lifecycle for traditional telco, cable and cloud providers, ONAP is uniting​ ​the majority​ ​of​ ​operators​ ​(end​ ​users)​ ​with​ ​the​ ​majority​ ​of​ ​vendors​ ​(integrators)​ ​in building​ ​a​ ​real​ ​service​ ​automation​ ​and​ ​orchestration​ ​platform.
Read more at FierceTelecom.

ONAP发布“阿姆斯特丹”版本,为网络服务自动化设定了标准

By Announcement

通过与全球可持续的社区合作,ONAP阿姆斯特丹版本恰好为5G解决了SDNNFVVNF问题

美国旧金山20171120日消息,开放网络自动化平台(ONAP)今天发布了它的第一个平台版本——“阿姆斯特丹”。该版本为端到端闭环网络自动化提供了统一的架构。ONAP正在改变网络、线缆和云供应商的服务交付生命周期。ONAP是第一个将大多数运营商(最终用户)与大多数供应商(集成商)联合起来构建真正的服务自动化和业务流程平台的开源项目,正为全球55%的移动用户提供服务。

Linux基金会网络和编排总经理Arpit Joshipura表示:“‘阿姆斯特丹’版本代表了ONAP社区和更广泛的开放源代码网络生态系统的重大进展。通过汇集会员资源,‘阿姆斯特丹’版是基于开放源代码和开放标准实现并实施全球共享的网络自动化架构的第一步。令人兴奋的是,通过一个健康的、迅速多样化的生态系统,一个业界协作和架构融合的新时代伴着ONAP‘阿姆斯特丹’版本的发布正在开始形成。”

“阿姆斯特丹”版本提供了一个统一的体系结构,其中包括来自OpenECOMP和Open-O的经过生产验证的代码,从而在策略驱动的单一服务编排平台中提供设计态和运行态环境。与供应商无关的通用模型允许用户使用同类最佳组件快速设计和实施新服务,即使在现有的环境中也是如此。实时库存和分析支持监控、端到端故障排除和闭环反馈,以确保SLA以及服务设计和实施的快速优化。此外,ONAP还能够管理和协调虚拟化和物理网络功能。

已明确构建整个平台,以解决目前在运营一级网络方面的现实挑战。“阿姆斯特丹”版本为两个最初用例提供了经过验证的蓝图,在将来的版本中还会开发和测试更多用例。这包括VoLTE(Voice Over LTE),该技术将语音整合到IP网络上。通过虚拟化核心网,ONAP被用于设计、部署、监控和管理复杂的端到端VoLTE业务的生命周期。第二个用例是家庭虚拟客户终端设备(Residential vCPE)。ONAP使得所有业务都在网络中提供,这意味着CSP可以快速和按需地向其家庭客户添加新业务,从而创造新的收入来源和对抗竞争对手。

ONAP技术指导委员会(TSC)主席兼AT&T实验室高级技术副总裁Mazin Gilbert表示:“在短短六个月的时间里,社区成员共同努力,通过闭环自动化产生了一个能够改变服务交付生命周期的平台。此次初始版本为服务供应商用例提供了蓝图,代表了社区的协作和创新。”

生态系统的增长催生了ONAP PoC

有超过55%的全球移动用户由ONAP成员运营商提供服务,ONAP有望成为电信运营商事实上的自动化平台。这个通用的开放式平台大大降低了VNF供应商的开发成本和时间,同时允许网络运营商优化他们对每个服务的最佳商业VNF产品的选择。标准化的模型和接口大大减少了集成时间和成本,使电信和云供应商能够快速提供新的有竞争力的产品。

代表生态系统各个方面的成员公司(包括供应商、电信供应商、有线电视和云运营商、NFV供应商以及解决方案供应商)已经在利用ONAP进行商业产品和服务提供。“阿姆斯特丹”版本的代码也被整合到概念证明中。

此外,ONAP是一个蓬勃发展的全球社区的一部分,超过450人参加了最近的开源网络日活动,一起了解ONAP和其他开源网络项目如何改变网络运营。

关于“阿姆斯特丹”版本的更多详情,包括下载信息、白皮书、解决方案简报和视频,参见XXX链接。成员的意见,包括那些技术上对“阿姆斯特丹”作出贡献的人可以在这里找到:XX链接到报价单。

ONAP 未来计划

展望未来,社区已经开始计划第二个版本发布,北京。发布时间将在2018年夏季,北京版本发布内容将包括“S3P”(规模、稳定性、安全性和性能)增强功能、支持当今服务供应商需求的更多用例、关键5G特性以及云间连接。大型企业的兴趣可能会进一步影响未来版本的平台和用例。

ONAP将继续与SDO和其他开源项目协调一致,重点是对齐API/信息模型以及OSS/BSS集成。

ONAP北京版本开发者论坛将于12月11日至13日在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉举行,通过各种会议形式,包括演讲,座谈和动手实验等,涵盖包括最终用户、VNF提供者和ONAP开发者社区相关话题。

鼓励ONAP社区成员和开发者多多提交建议,与其他社区成员分享知识和专业见解:https://www.onap.org/event/submit-a-proposal-for-the-onap-beijing-release-developer-forum-santa-clara-ca

此外,ONAP将于12月5日在得克萨斯州奥斯汀市的CloudNativeCon + KubeCon大会上举办“ONAP容器网络”研讨会。本次研讨会旨在云集网络和云应用程序开发人员来共同讨论他们的按需部署安全网络服务的需求、想法和愿望。详情和注册信息,请访问:https://www.onap.org/event/cfp-submit-a-proposal-to-onap-mini-summit-at-cloudnativecon-kubecon-north-america-tuesday-december-5-2017

ONAP 简介

开放网络自动化平台(ONAP)项目汇集了全球顶级运营商和供应商,目标是允许最终用户自动化、设计、协调和管理服务和虚拟功能。 ONAP将两个主要的开放式网络和业务流程项目,开放源代码ECOMP和开放式协调程序项目(OPEN-O),联合起来,其使命是创建统一的架构,实现并支持开源社区的协作。ONAP是Linux基金会下的一个开源项目。有关更多信息,请访问https://www.onap.org

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其他资源

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家庭vCPE解决方案简介

VoLTE解决方案简介

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ONAP Members Support Amsterdam Release

By Announcement

Amdocs

“The adoption and growth of ONAP over the last year proves communication service providers and their technology partners believe in the benefits of an open source collaborative platform to drive virtualization of network services through cost-efficient design, implementation and management,” said Anthony Goonetilleke, chief technology officer for Amdocs. “Amdocs has contributed significantly to Amsterdam through actively participating in and leading architecture, use cases and development of many ONAP modules including the Amsterdam approved residential virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) use case. Amdocs will continue to participate and help lead activities in the forthcoming Beijing release acting as a Platinum member company fully engaged in the ONAP community.”

AT&T

“AT&T is committed to continuing help lead the developer community and push ONAP forward,” said Chris Rice, SVP of AT&T Labs and ONAP chair. “Seeing the platform hit a major milestone is really gratifying because it further proves there’s a strong developer community supporting the platform. We’re building features and expanding capability with ongoing software updates. This is critical to driving global membership and we expect to hit 60% of global wireless subscribers by the end of this year.”

China Mobile Research Institute

“Network automation in both service deployment and operation is one of the biggest challenges for carrier network evolution,” said Yachen Wang, deputy director of Network Technology Department, China Mobile Research Institute, and vice chairman of ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G Workgroup, and president of ONAP Governing Board. “China Mobile is dedicated to working together with all partners to build the global ecosystem and accelerate the maturity of SDN and NFV via the ONAP open source community. That is the reason we have been working for the merger of OPEN-O and OpenECOMP, and investing in ONAP in bringing forward a merger architecture from both sides and enable its support for complicated VoLTE use case.  With the successful delivery of ONAP Amsterdam release, which supports complicated SDN/NFV hybrid use cases, we believe ONAP will accelerate the carrier network evolution with a strong impact on the industry globally. We sincerely hope that more industry partners will join us in ONAP to promote industrial prosperity.”

Cloudify

The ONAP community has made open source NFV a production reality with the Amsterdam release, and Cloudify is proud to participate as an upstream contributor through the ARIA project. ONAP adopted TOSCA as a standard modeling language, and the Amsterdam release lays the technical foundation for adoption of containers as the carrier’s preferred architecture.”

–Nati Shalom, CTO & Founder, Cloudify

Ericsson

Mats Karlsson, Head of portfolio & architecture, Digital services at Ericsson says “ Service agility, Network agility and automation are key for NFV and SDN transformation leading to 5G networks. Ericsson promotes and supports the development of many open source projects for next generation technologies, accelerating innovation and industry adoption of these new technologies as part of Ericsson’s 5G vision. Through our participation and support of ONAP project, Ericsson will continue to take the lead in areas of network automation, service management, assurance and analytics and seek industry alignment and to help our customers to succeed in their digital transformations.”

Huawei

Bill Ren, VP Network Industry and Ecosystem Development, Huawei

“Huawei is pleased to see the announcement of the first release of ONAP “Amsterdam release. We believe Amsterdam release laid the cornerstone for SDN and NFV networking automation. It was a great and pleasant journey for Huawei to work together with industry partners to build a common open networking automation platform which will bring the agility and intelligence to the infrastructure. Huawei has made important contributions to the first release including leading architecture and modelling sub-committees and  key projects such as Integration and Service Orchestrator and we look forward to working with our customers to move ONAP-based solution into real networks using business oriented approaches.”

Intel

“The ONAP Amsterdam release is an important milestone for the industry on the path to open standards and policy-driven software automation,” said Sandra Rivera, Intel Corporation senior vice president and general manager, Network Platforms Group. “Intel is a strong advocate for industry collaboration and will continue to be a key leader and contributor to the Linux Foundation community in our efforts toward harmonization. We welcome continued collaboration from ONAP and its members on the network transformation journey.”

Nokia

“Automation is key for operators, to enable new service creation and long-term success,” said uy Shemesh, vice president, CloudBand, Nokia. “As such, and as a founding platinum member, Nokia has confidence in the path outlined by ONAP, and is imparting from our extensive experience in commercial MANO solutions. Nokia is looking forward to working towards the Beijing release to increase the functionality and robustness of ONAP while also enhancing the platform’s architecture. Nokia will continue to place emphasis on ensuring the modularity and flexibility of the ONAP architecture to assure different deployment models, and to support our customers in their varying use cases and needs.”

Orange

“After our evaluation of OpenEcomp, Orange become a founding member of ONAP,” said Emmanuel Lugagne Delpon, senior vice president of Orange Labs Networks. “Orange believes that the ONAP project is a unique opportunity for our industry to make the SDN/NFV ecosystem scale while avoiding its fragmentation. This first release, Amsterdam of a ‘network operating system,’ will enable fast- growing, innovative and interoperable network and application services at a global scale. ONAP provides a set of tools that will facilitate VNF on-boarding and accelerate its integration in our networks. We are very proud to contribute to the delivery of the ONAP Amsterdam release and are very  excited by the tremendous community created in nine months. Orange will increase the contribution on the road to Beijing.”

Tech Mahindra

“Tech Mahindra is excited to be a part of Amsterdam release, which truly reflects power of the global collaboration that ONAP is bringing together,” said Peeyush Goyal, Sr. Vice President Network Services at Tech Mahindra. “As a founding member of ONAP, we are committed to this strategic open source initiative, that helps Communication Service Providers(CSP) change faster by virtualizing their networks and automate their operations.  In this ONAP release, we have contributed to enhance subsystems within ONAP for robust deployment. We continue to evangelize and build ONAP use cases for CSPs and contribute back enhancements to the open source community for its future releases.”

ZTE

“We believe the most challenging gap in 5G-oriented, cloud-based and virtualized network transformation these days is orchestration, operation and automation,” said You Yan, Vice president of ZTE, Director of Technical Planning, ZTE Corporation.The announcement of ONAP’s first release, Amsterdam, brings confidence to ecosystem via a concrete code base, which has been tested via complicated use cases. ZTE’s mission is to promote the technical maturity of networking automation, together with industry partners, via open source and open standards. ZTE developers will continue contributing to ONAP with the Beijing and subsequent code releases. ZTE is currently working with global customers to test an ONAP-based approach for future commercial enhancement and deployment.”

Announcing Amsterdam, ONAP’s First Code Release

By Blog

We are pleased to announce the launch of Amsterdam, ONAP’s first united platform. We are incredibly proud of the community for all of the hard work that has gone into this release, which launched just eight months ago. A Herculean effort from a diverse and growing community, Amsterdam not only merges two separate, existing projects (OpenECOMP and Open-O), but re-architects and optimizes the code base into a single, flexible and modular platform. Amsterdam delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation — which is becoming a mandatory requirement before 5G and IOT deployments — and by doing so, celebrates a new milestone for open source networking.

None of this could have been possible without vast support and contributions of time, resources, and passion from across the growing, global ONAP community. Since coming together, ONAP is now comprised of:

  • 58 members (Turk Telekom just joined as the newest Platinum), including major global carriers, collectively representing more than 55 % of the world’s mobile subscribers
  • All top 10 networking vendors, plus leading global services firms
  • 538 contributors from 46 different organizations (including 7 carriers)

With Amsterdam, ONAP is already delivering on its promise to accelerate the development of a vibrant ecosystem around a globally shared architecture and implementation for network automation. Additionally, ONAP is the first open source project to unite the majority of operators (end users) with the majority of vendors (integrators) in building a real service automation and orchestration platform.

Key Features of Amsterdam

So let’s get to the heart of the release–the key features.  At a high level, Amsterdam is the first vendor-agnostic, policy driven network orchestration and automation platform with closed loop automation.  

For ONAP’s first platform release, it was crucial to lay out a framework that would benefit not only the technology but also the ecosystem. As a result, the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) developed a high-level framework of initial requirements for the release, which have come to fruition with Amsterdam. The requirements include things like modularity; enhancement of model-driven design; the addition of new features/functionalities; open code; upstream collaboration; harmonization with standards bodies; and CI/CD, to name a few.

Architectural principles and and how they funnel into the stack are also critical element of the release. These include:

  • Policy- and Model-Driven: The ability to automate according to intent, without hard-coding
  • Cloud-Native: Built for the cloud and has ability to manage the cloud through native VNF
  • DevOps CI/CD: Built using CI/CD Manage VNFs using CI/CD Break/Fix → Plan/Build

Amsterdam Architecture Diagram:

Another key capability of Amsterdam is VNF automation. In current deployments, every VNF works in a different way and can start/stop at various points. Configuring a variety of VNFs is therefore a very time-consuming, manual process. Amsterdam has standardized VNF automation by creating a streamlined deployment process that  happens through the abstraction layer (through the virtual controller) and has a SDK plug-in. More details on automation and CLAMP can be found on the ONAP Developer Wiki, here.

Additionally, ONAP’s focus on automation helps move the industry forward in accelerating the development and deployment of next-gen use cases. Automation is mandatory for 5G deployments due to the scale, access, bandwidth, and latency it demands. Amsterdam provides the platform to deploy new services to enable 5G in an automated manner.

 

Real-World Support for Amsterdam

Despite ONAP’s infancy, we are proud to see early deployments, testing, and POCs using various modules of pre-release code from member carriers and vendors including Amdocs, AT&T, Bell Canada, China Mobile, China Telecom, Fujitsu, Huawei, Orange, Vodafone and many others. Members have also been testing blueprints of early use cases like VoLTE and residential vCPE. Stay tuned for more information on user stories in the near future!  (To see what members are saying in support of the Amsterdam release, please visit our Member Quotes page here. Additional videos with commentary from members can be found here.)

Interested in learning more about ONAP or getting involved with the community? Join us for the ONAP Developer Design Forum, Dec. 11-13 in Santa Clara, California! More details on the event -including how to register – are available here.  

Please join me in congratulating the ONAP community on its first release!

ONAP 阿姆斯特丹:会员引言

By Announcement

Amdocs

“去年ONAP的采纳和增长证明了通信服务供应商及其技术合作伙伴相信开源协作平台所带来的益处,通过经济高效的设计、实施和管理来推动网络服务的虚拟化。”Amdocs首席技术官Anthony Goonetilleke表示, “Amdocs为阿姆斯特丹做出了重大贡献,积极参与和引导体系架构及用例,包括阿姆斯特丹核准的家庭虚拟客户端设备(vCPE)用例在内的众多ONAP模块的开发。Amdocs将继续参与并在即将到来的北京版本发布活动中发挥积极作用,成为全面参与ONAP社区的白金会员。“

AT&T

AT&T实验室高级副总裁兼ONAP主席Chris Rice说:“AT&T致力于继续引导开发者社区,并推动ONAP向前发展。目睹平台创下了一个重要的里程碑,真是令人欣喜,它进一步证明了平台背后有一个强大的开发者社区在支撑。我们正在通过持续的软件更新来构建特性和扩展能力。这对于推动全球会员至关重要,预计到今年年底我们将服务达60%的全球无线用户。“

中国移动研究院

中国移动研究院网络技术部副主任,ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G工作组副主席王亚晨表示:“在业务部署和运营方面的网络自动化是运营商网络演进所面临的最大挑战之一。中国移动致力于与各方合作伙伴一道,共同打造全球生态系统,并通过ONAP开源社区催熟SDN和NFV技术。这就是我们一直在为OPEN-O和OpenECOMP合并而努力、投资ONAP提出双方的合并架构、并支持复杂的VoLTE用例的原因。随着支持复杂SDN/NFV混合使用案例的ONAP阿姆斯特丹版本的成功发布,我们相信ONAP将进一步加速运营商网络的演进,并对全球产业产生重大影响。我们衷心希望有更多的行业合作伙伴能够加入我们的行列,共同促进产业的繁荣。“

Intel

ONAP‘阿姆斯特丹’版本发布是业界在开放标准和策略驱动的软件自动化之路上的一个重要里程碑,”英特尔公司网络平台高级副总裁和总经理Sandra Rivera表示, “英特尔是业界合作的有力倡导者,并将继续通过协调和努力成为Linux基金会主要领导者和贡献者。我们欢迎与ONAP社区成员一起在网络转型之旅上继续合作。”

爱立信

爱立信数字业务组合与架构主管Mats Karlsson表示:“服务敏捷性、网络灵活性和自动化是NFV和SDN转型引导5G网络的关键。作为爱立信5G愿景的一部分,爱立信致力于推动和支持下一代技术的众多开源项目的开发,加速这些新技术的创新和行业采用。通过对ONAP项目的参与和支持,爱立信在网络自动化、服务管理、保证和分析领域将持续处于领先地位,帮助我们的客户成功实现数字化转型。”

华为

华为网络产业与生态系统发展副总裁任旭东表示:“华为很高兴看到ONAP第一个版本“阿姆斯特丹” 的发布。我们相信阿姆斯特丹的发布为SDN和NFV网络自动化奠定了基石。华为与行业合作伙伴共同打造一个通用开放的网络自动化平台,为基础设施带来敏捷性和智能化,这是一个非常愉快的旅程。华为在第一个版本中做出了重要贡献,包括引导架构和模型小组以及领导集成和服务编排等关键项目。我们期待与客户一起将基于ONAP的解决方案转变为采用面向业务方法的真实网络。“

Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra网络服务高级副总裁Peeyush Goyal表示:“Tech Mahindra很高兴成为阿姆斯特丹版本的一部分,这真正体现了ONAP携手全球合作的力量。作为ONAP的创始成员之一,我们致力于这一战略性的开源计划,通过虚拟化网络和自动化运营,帮助通信服务供应商(CSP)加速变革。在此次ONAP版本中,我们为确保ONAP子系统的可靠部署做出了贡献。我们将继续向CSP传播并创建ONAP使用案例,为开放源代码社区的未来版本做出贡献。“

中兴通讯

尤琰 中兴通讯副总裁,技术规划部部长

我们认为在面向5G、云化、虚拟化的网络转型过程中,自动化编排和运维是当期最具挑战的短板。ONAP第一版本Amsterdam版本的发布,用通过复杂用例测试的实际代码为业界带来了

信心。中兴通讯将与业界同行通过开源及开放标准共同推动网络自动化运维成熟作为自己的使命,我们将像支持Amsterdam版本一样继续投入资源支持ONAP Beijing及后续版本。同时我们也将与全球客户共同以商用为目标推进ONAP测试及商用版本增强。

ONAP Delivers Amsterdam Release, Sets Standard for Network Service Automation

By Announcement

Via collaboration of global, sustainable community, ONAP Amsterdam release addresses real-world SDN, NFV and VNFs just in time for 5G

San Francisco, November 20, 2017– The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project today announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam,” which delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation. ONAP is transforming the service delivery lifecycle for network, cable and cloud providers. ONAP is the first open source project to unite the majority of operators (end users) with the majority of vendors (integrators) in building a real service automation and orchestration platform, and already, 55 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers are supported by its members.

“Amsterdam represents significant progress for both the ONAP community and the greater open source networking ecosystem at large,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking and Orchestration, The Linux Foundation. “By bringing together member resources, Amsterdam is the first step toward realization of a globally shared architecture and implementation for network automation, based on open source and open standards. It’s exciting to see a new era of industry collaboration and architectural convergence – via a healthy, rapidly diversifying ecosystem – begin to take shape with the release of ONAP Amsterdam.”

The Amsterdam release provides a unified architecture which includes production-proven code from open source ECOMP and OPEN-O to provide design-time and run-time environments within a single, policy-driven service orchestration platform. Common, vendor-agnostic models allow users to quickly design and implement new services using best-of-breed components, even within existing brownfield environments. Real-time inventory and analytics support monitoring, end-to-end troubleshooting, and closed-loop feedback to ensure SLAs as well as rapid optimization of service design and implementations. Additionally, ONAP is able to manage and orchestrate both virtualized and physical network functions.

The entire platform has been explicitly architected to address current real-world challenges in operating tier-one networks. Amsterdam provides verified blueprints for two initial use cases, with more to be developed and tested in future releases. This includes VoLTE (Voice Over LTE), which allows voice to be unified onto IP networks. By virtualizing the the core network, ONAP is used to design, deploy, monitor and manage the lifecycle of a complex end-to-end VoLTE service. The second use case is Residential vCPE. With ONAP, all services are provided in-network, which means CSPs can add new services rapidly and on-demand to their residential customers to create new revenue streams and counter competitors.

“In six short months, the community has rallied together to produce a platform that transforms the service delivery lifecycle via closed-loop automation,” said Mazin Gilbert, ONAP Technical Steering Committee (TSC) chair, and vice president, Advanced Technology, AT&T Labs.This initial release provides blueprints for service provider use cases, representing the collaboration and innovation of the community.”

Ecosystem Growth Produces ONAP PoCs

With more than 55 percent of global mobile subscribers represented by member carriers, ONAP is poised to become the de facto automation platform for telecom carriers. This common, open platform greatly reduces development costs and time for VNF vendors, while allowing network operators to optimize their selection of best-of-breed commercial VNF offerings for each of their services. Standardized models and interfaces greatly simplify integration time and cost, allowing telecom and cloud providers to deliver new offerings quickly and competitively.

Member companies which represent every aspect of the ecosystem (vendors, telecommunication providers, cable and cloud operators, NFV vendors, solution providers) are already leveraging ONAP for commercial products and services. Amsterdam code is also integrated into proof of concepts.

Additionally, ONAP is part of a thriving global community; more than 450 people attended the recent Open Source Networking Days events to learn how ONAP and other open source networking projects are changing network operations.

More detailsincluding download information, white papers, solutions briefs and videoson Amsterdam are available here. Comments from members, including those who contributed technically to Amsterdam, can be found here.

What’s Next for ONAP

Looking ahead, the community is already beginning plans for the second ONAP release, “Beijing.” Scheduled for release in summer 2018, Beijing will include “S3P” (scale, stability, security and performance) enhancements, more use cases to support today’s service provider needs, key 5G features, and inter- cloud connectivity. Interest from large enterprises will likely further shape the platform and use cases in future releases.

ONAP will continue to evolve harmonization with SDOs and other other source projects, with a focus on aligning APIs/Information Models as well as OSS/BSS integration.

ONAP Beijing Release Developer Forum will take place on Dec. 11-13 in Santa Clara, California, and will include topics for end users, VNF providers, and the ONAP developer community via a variety of sessions including presentations, panels and hands-on labs.

ONAP community members and developers are encouraged to submit a proposal to share knowledge and expertise with the rest of the community: https://www.onap.org/event/submit-a-proposal-for-the-onap-beijing-release-developer-forum-santa-clara-ca

Additionally, ONAP will host a Workshop on “Container Networking with ONAP”  in conjunction with CloudNativeCon + KubeCon December 5 in Austin, Texas. The workshop is designed to bring together networking and cloud application developers to discuss their needs, ideas and aspirations for automating the deployment of secure network services on demand. Details and registration information: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america/extend-the-experience/mini-summits#ONAP.

About the Open Network Automation Platform

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project brings together top global carriers and vendors with the goal of allowing end users to automate, design, orchestrate and manage services and virtual functions. ONAP unites two major open networking and orchestration projects, open source ECOMP and the Open Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O), with the mission of creating a unified architecture and implementation and supporting collaboration across the open source community. The ONAP Project is a Linux Foundation project. For more information, visit https://www.onap.org.

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Additional Resources

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Amsterdam Architecture Overview

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RCR Wireless: International Connectivity Key to Amdocs Intercarrier Service Orchestration Solution

By In The News

Amdocs, a software and services provider to communications and media companies, rolled out a new intercarrier service orchestration solution, which enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to automate traffic scaling across multiple carrier networks.

The offering addresses issues CPS’s face associated with committing to and meeting enterprise service level agreements (SLAs) for high performance connectivity. It provides the elasticity and automated scaling associated with an open source architecture founded on open network automation platform (ONAP). It also leverages MEF’s lifecycle services orchestration (LSO) application programming interfaces (APIs) for connectivity services across various global networks.

Read more at RCR Wireless.