3. AT&T’s View
CU-CP
CU-UP UPF UPF
CCF
DU
RU
IoT
AR/VR
Connected
Car
NFV MANO (Mgmt. & Orchestration)
Internet
Disaggregated RAN Disaggregated Core
Edge Cloud
Centralized
Cloud
5G
Base Stations
Macro Radio &
Small Cell
Antennas
‣ RU: Radio Unit
‣ DU: digital Unit
‣ CU: Centralized Unit
‣ CPL Control Plane
‣ UP: User Plane
‣ UPF: User Plane Function
‣ CCF: Core Control Function
4. Building Block
APIs
Applications & VNFs
Intelligence
Operation Tools
Access /Methods
NFV & Domain Speci
fi
c
Orchestration
Infra Orchestration
Network
Operating System
Edge Hardware
Edge APIs Edge Cloud Integration APIs
Any Edge Applications
Acumos
Logging Monitoring Alerting Security
5G LTE Wireline WiFi
ONAP
OpenStack
App Speci
fi
c
Ceph Docker Kubernetes
SR-IOV OVS-DPDK
Linux Flavor
Simple SDN CNI White box Switch
Thin Linux
Open Compute Small Form Factor OEM Servers uCPE Acceleration (GPU, FPGA)
OSS or Vendor
Preparatory
OSS in LF
OSS outside LF
Mentioned
16. ONAP (open networking automation platform)
The goal of the project is to develop a widely used platform
for orchestrating and automating physical and virtual network
elements, with full lifecycle management.
17. Acumos (AI) - High Level View
Policies
Data Infrastructure
Hive, etc
Execution/Training Infrastructure
AIC, AWS, Azure, Google.ai, etc
Runtime Platforms
Docker, ONAP, Openstack, K8S etc
CI/CD Platform
jenkins, CloudDeploy, etc.
ML Platform
Private Data Shared Data
Company Data Powered APP
Community Marketplace & Catalog
Public Marketplace & Catalog
Private models Shared models
18. Actions we can take
‣ Monitor ONAP and OpenDaylight projects for Network Virtualization
‣ Monitor Intel NEV SDK (for vSwitch)
‣ Study Open Source MANO project
‣ Study ONF’s CORD project
‣ Monitor Akraino’s OpenStack & Ceph Patches
‣ Monitor Acumos project