ONAP – From the inside looking outThe journey, status and Dublin Release expectations

Catherine Lefevre, AT&T, ONAP TSC Chair

Stephen Terrill, Ericsson, ONAP Architecture Chair

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Introducing ONAP

ONAP Design Time

ONAP Run Time

Managed Environment

Open/Closed Control Loop

Instantiate/Modify

Exposed APIs

Designers

Onboard

Design

Operations

ONAP provides an automation platform for managing services and resources throughout their entire life cycle.

It provides a reference functional architecture

It provides a reference Component Definition

& Interfaces

It provides reference source code

It provides requirements on the

managed V/P NFs

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The ONAP Journey

ECOMP OPEN-O

• Successful merge to ONAP

• Established structure

• Established way of working

• Validated with vCPE, vFW/vDNS, vVoLTE blueprints

• Introduced S3P

• Adopt CII badging

• Containerized

• Introduced End-User Authority Group

• Validated with Change Management/Scaling foundations

• Introduced Control loop sub-committee

• Increased standards alignment.

• Validated with more blue prints and use cases i.e. 5G, CCVPN

One Modular Platform

Deployment ReadyOut-of-box

Deployment

Scope under discussion

Expand

• Increase 5G Use Cases

• Footprint Optimization

• Model Driven Control loop

• …

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Industry Influences

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How We Currently Work

ONAP Technical Steering Committee

Security

Architecture

Use Case

Modelling

Control LoopCoordinators

Project

LFN GBLFN TAC

StructureSub-committees

Projects & Releases

Projects scope is defined independent of the release. The project decides to contribute to a release.

General Workflow Release Lifecycle

Kickoff

M1 Planning

M2 Functionality Freeze

M3 API Freeze M4 Code Freeze

ReleaseCandidates

RC0RC1RC2

Release

SCT

Our Community Achievements

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Diversity

Explore / Innovate

End User Adoption

Commercial Ecosystem

DUBLIN – In Progress3,655 changesets310 Authors

CASABLANCA11,307 changesets501 Authors

BEIJING12,604 changesets473 Authors

AMSTERDAM9,819 changesets324 Authors

Dublin Release Expectations

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Broadband Services

Footprint Optimization

5G Use Cases

Model Driven Control Loop

Further Standards Alignment

PNF Upgrade

PNF Plug n play

Slicing

ETSI-NFVTMF

MEF LSO

Existing Blue Print Evolution

Change ManagementContainer VNF Orchestration

CCVPN

HW Platform Awareness

Challenges & Opportunities

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Release Cadence

Prioritization

Integration Capacity

End User Advisory Group

What’s Next ...

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Culture Shift: Maintain Innovation while Performing Continuous Improvement

Engagement Model:Evolve our Subcommittee Scope/Interaction

Vision: Build our 3 Years ONAP Roadmap

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