The Radisys webinar on September 6, 2018, focused on the evolution of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and its role in enhancing NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) capabilities for service providers. Key topics included the importance of orchestrating media server services, challenges in telco cloud transformation, and the need for a cloud-native ecosystem to accelerate service delivery. The discussion emphasized real-world use cases, onap's integration with various operational components, and its potential to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.

1. Radisys Makes ONAP Real for High
Performance Services
Webinar: September 6, 2018

2. 2
Q&A
Real World
Use Cases
Tier 1 Operator
View
ONAP and
Media Server
‘readiness’
Market
Overview: NFV
and ONAP
Agenda
Sue Rudd
Director Networks &
Service Platforms
Al Balasco
VP, MediaEngine
Morgan Richomme
Senior Network Architect
Adnan Saleem
CTO - Software and
Cloud Solutions

3. NFV and ONAP Market Overview
Sue Rudd
Director Networks and Service
Platforms

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State of NFV - Is NFV Stalled? Or about to Take Off?
• NFV Technology & Stds. Issues:
• Lack of Interoperable VNFs &
E2E VNF solutions, demands
VNF ecosystem
• Missing ETSI standards:
• OSS - Service Onboarding,
Instantiation, Enablement and
Assurance
• BSS - Customer Activation and
Experience Management
• Process Issues:
• Tools to drive new Operations
Processes
• Orchestration is Key
• VNF Interoperability Testing
Process
NFV technology adoption lifecycle and ONAP hype-cycle
Source: AMDOCS ‘NFV powered by ONAP’Source: AMDOCS ‘NFV powered by ONAP’

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ONAP Evolution from ECOMP & Open-O - ‘Bringing Best of Both Worlds
together’
Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) charter intends it to become a
“comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration and
automation of physical and virtual network functions ….(with an) Execution
Time framework to instantiate and manage, networks, services and
applications over their entire lifecycle”.
Source:
AT&T,
ONAP Mini
Summit
Keynote,
October
2017
Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and
Policy (ECOMP) specified an infrastructure delivery
platform to support automated service delivery,
service assurance, performance management, fault
management, and many SDN tasks alongside
service design, creation and lifecycle management
of scalable, network cloud services.

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ONAP Evolution: Orchestration but Few Services
• Evolution from ECOMP
• Focus shifted to Rationalizing Infrastructure rather than new Service Creation
• Influence of Open-O
• Increased focus on Orchestration & Automation than Services
• ONAP Evolution to:
• Production ready environment
• Orchestration and Service Enablement for new Services
• Environment for 3rd. Party developers
• A few core Services in ONAP Amsterdam:
• ‘Blueprints’ for:
• VoLTE (incl. IMS)
• vEPC
• vCPE
• ONAP Update
• Latest Beijing Release [Aligned with MEF]
• Forthcoming Casablanca Release [Aligned with TMForum]
Amsterdam Release focused on
harmonization of ECOMP with Open-O ,
modularity and model driven design

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Recent ONAP Update: Latest Beijing Release
Source: ONAP Platform Architecture (Beijing Release)
Beijing Release focused on harmonized architecture, stability and deployability of the platform.

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Recent ONAP Update (cont.) Functional view of the ONAP architecture
Source: ONAP Functional view of the ONAP architecture
Forthcoming Casablanca Release to be Aligned with TMForum
Northbound APIs for OSS/BSS
Four Key New Functional Components
1. Beijing release standardized and improved
northbound interoperability for the ONAP
Platform using the External API component.
2. ONAP Operations Manager (OOM) provides
the ability to manage cloud-native installation
and deployments to Kubernetes managed
cloud environments.
3. ONAP Common Services now manage more
complex and optimized topologies. MUSIC
allows ONAP to scale to multi-site
environments to support global scale
infrastructure requirements. The ONAP
Optimization Framework (OOF) provides a
declarative, policy-driven approach for
creating and running optimization applications
like Homing/Placement, and Change
Management Scheduling Optimization.
4. Information model and framework utilities
evolved to harmonize the topology, workflow,
and policy models from a number of SDOs
including ETSI NFV MANO, TM Forum SID, ONF
Core, OASIS TOSCA, IETF and MEF.

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Recent ONAP Update (cont.) Service Orchestration:
MEF17 ONAP-based intercarrier service orchestration proof of concept
Source: ONAP MEF17 ONAP-based intercarrier service orchestration proof of concept
MEF17 Life Cycle Service Orchestration (LSO)

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To Make it ‘Real’ Service Providers Need: ‘Cloud Native’ Ecosystem, ONAP
Orchestration as ‘Service Enabler’, Broad Service Vision and Business Case
• Software Independent ‘Cloud Native’ Ecosystem to:
• Automate their network operations
• Accelerate time to market for services that will outstrip OTT player capabilities.
• Acquire open source technologies that have:
• Carrier class performance
• Services and Ecosystems from Platform Partners like Radisys
• Ability to onboard commercial VNFs that deliver High Performance New Service Functions
• ONAP Orchestration as Service Enabler
• Broad Service Vision – Return to ECOMP vision:
• Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP)
“…an infrastructure delivery platform designed to a support automated service delivery, service assurance, performance
management, fault management, and many SDN tasks” alongside “design, creation and lifecycle management of services
for scalable, network cloud services.”
• Real use cases/business cases with service platforms for deployment

11. ONAP and Media Server ‘readiness’
Al Balasco
Vice President, MediaEngine

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The Trends and Evolving Needs of Media Processing in IP Networks
Cost Efficient Multi-Service
Enablement
(Ex: Multi-Vendor Interworking, Transcoding, Shared
Media Resources)
Ensure High Performance in a
Cloud Environment
(Ex: Right mix of technologies and architecture
such as hardware acceleration)
1
3
Optimize Media Quality of
Experience & Cost at the Edge
(Ex: High Performance Media Analytics, Speech
Recognition, Multi-Access Edge Computing)
2
Expanded Domain of Contextual
IP Communications
(Ex: Video Collaboration, Voice & Video over LTE and Wi-
Fi, UCaaS, WebRTC, Messaging, Co-Browsing,
Conferencing, Value Added Services)
Increasing User Generated
Content
(Ex: IoT Devices, Videos, Pictures, Speech enabled
applications, group chats, social)
Rising Open Architecture &
Cloud Economy
(Ex: NFV, ONAP, ONF, MEC)

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“Open MediaEngine” –Media Processing from the Core to the Edge
Nokia CBAM / NetAct
ZTE vManager / EMS
Mavenir VNFM / CMS
AT&T Integrated Cloud (AIC)
Nokia Cloud Infrastructure
Nokia CBIS
ZTE Cloud Platform
HPE OpenNFV Platform
Rackspace public cloud
Integration with VNFM / EMS
Broad Ecosystem of Supported VIM/ NFVI
• Accelerated Media Processing on Gen-9 GPUs
using Intel Media SDKs
• High Performance Media Analytics using Intel’s
OpenVINO SDK
• Integration with Intel’s Network Edge Virtualization
(NEV) MEC Platform SDK
Hardware Accelerated Performance

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Telco Cloud Transformation Challenges
Cloud transformation poses
immense challenges to CSPs
• Cost ,Technology
• Legacy vs new applications
• Big investment
• Business process.
CSPs will achieve transformation
fully over the course of many
years
Transformation will be in a phased
manner
• Virtualization
• Orchestration
• Cloud NativeSource: Analysys Mason

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Three Phases of the Telco Cloud Journey

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The Journey is Not a Straight Path
Cloud Mandate
1 vendor can’t
support latest
upgrade
Funding rejected ROI
insufficient
End to End Solution
not NFV ready
Staff training not scheduled
NFV acceleration reduces
cloud footprint
Supplier collaboration
Schedule and
migration flexibility

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• Lead the Telco Cloud transformation via standards+ with
close cooperation with infrastructure and solution partners.
• Leverage our heritage in performance optimization for
the lowest TCO in migration to SW – NFV acceleration
• Augment the resilience and stability of the cloud
infrastructure with internal features for high availability and
agility.
• Collaborate with service providers based on their
specific project dynamics – there’s no one size fits all
• Provide a media platform that is future proof – service
ready today with a migration path at the service provider’s
pace for NFV / Cloud
Radisys Approach
Open Source Communities
Customers NFV Solution /Contribution
Orange ONAP
AT&T ECOMP and Domain 2.0
Nokia CBAM/CBIS
DTAG Magellan Project
Mavenir Mavenir VNFM
PGi AWS
Standards Bodies Actions
OpenStack Initiatives Release focused to Telco Cloud
NFV ETSI Base Standards
ONAP, OPNFV Open source NFV
Operators/Vendors Solution
VZW Vz Cloud Platform
SingTel NFV Initiatives
HP OpenNFV
Other Collaborations / Certifications
Partner with leaders in NFV/OPNFV implementations

18. Tier-1 Operator View on ONAP
Morgan Richomme
Senior Network Engineer

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Orange

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ONAP: a Key Component for Telco 2.0
“At Orange, we are using open source to speed up the industrialisation (hardening)
of technology and ensuring open APIs — to help us partner and create new
opportunities to deliver a better customer experience. LFN projects help solve
some of the challenges that come with SDN/NFV by reducing the time and effort
required for network transformation, specifically in the areas of simplified and
automated operations, NFV Infrastructure/VNF validation and onboarding, network
service design/onboarding and interoperability.” – Jehanne Savi, Executive
Leader of the All-IP and On-demand Networks Programmes. May 2018
“ONAP is the best foundation to build the Future OSS for SDN/NFV”

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ONAP: a Key Component for Telco 2.0
Orange: an active actor in ONAP
● Orange Top 3 Telco contributors to ONAP
(last 90 days), ranked #13 overall
● Involved in External API/North Bound
Interface (PTL), Doc, Integration,
Certification, VNFSDK,..
Orange Openlab
● Supports community tests
● Open since February 2018
● Used to host several PoCs, tests
● Used also for OPNFV and ACUMOS project
src stats: https://onap.biterg.io
orange openlab: http://richomme.org/onap/

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• PoC done with Radisys 1-2/2018 for MWC 2018
• Goal explore ONAP Amsterdam using vMRF VNF
• Check VNF packaging (VVP)
• Onboarding (SDC)
• Instantiation (SO, AAI)
• Configuration change (APPC)
• Generate traffic to generate realistic events (VES, DCAE)
• Create a closed loop (DCAE, Policy, Clamp)
• Automate (at least life cycle)
Radisys MediaEngine vMRF Integration

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Demo at MWC
• Onboarding/instantiation/life cycle OK
• Only half loop
• in Amsterdam, not easy to create your own loop (except the default samples which were partly hardcoded on DCAE side )
Radisys vMRF was interesting for different reasons
• Already ONAP ready (VES, Netconf,..) - work was already done with AT&T
• Easy to stimulate it through SIP traffic to generate scaling conditions
• Good to have a sample - not hardcoded in the different ONAP components - to see what is really missing..
• Simple to integrate in automation CI/CD chains (https://gitlab.com/Orange-OpenSource/onap-tests )- good case
study for proprietary VNF
Radisys MediaEngine vMRF Integration

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Next steps with the vMRF
• Close the loop with Casablanca
Next steps with ONAP
• 2018 - 2019: Time for evangelization, PoCs and first field Trials
• More than a technical challenge, an organization revolution
• ONAP community still young: work needed to be really production really
• Support LFN verification program including ONAP VNF certification
Radisys MediaEngine vMRF Integration

25. Technical Use Case
Adnan Saleem
CTO – Software and Cloud Solutions

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Life Cycle Management, Scaling & Closed Loop Automation
• ONAP Integration & Hosting
• vMRF VNF Lifecycle Management
• Closed Loop Automation
• Auto Scaled Optimizations
• KPIs & Analytics
(Fault Mgmt, Performance Mgmt)
• Reduced Operational Expenditures
• Industry Conforming VNFs
• Rapid Innovation & Deployments
• Maximum Efficiencies of Underlying
Resources
Key Functionalities
Key Benefits
Policy Engine
MSO
A&AI
DCAE
CCAE Collector (VES)
Events
Closed Loop
Infrastructure
Controller
Network
Controller
Application
Controller
Instantiate
Terminate
vMRF
VMx
vMRF
VM2
vMRF
VM1
scale in/out
VES (REST / JSON)
Measurement for
VF Scale
PM data
FM data
KPI / KCI / KRI
vTAS
NETCONF
SIP
vMRF
VNFs
1
2
3

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Edge Media Processing Use Cases
Edge
Media
Applications
Edge
Media
Server
Core NetworkMOBILE BACKHAUL INTERNETEdge Compute Platform
Public /
Enterprise
Content Store
Operator
Content Store
unicast
media
streams
UGC
Core
Network
Media
ONAP – Core + Edge Deployed Applications
• RAN Aware Bandwidth Optimization
• Edge Video Conferencing
• Media Transcoding & Adaptation
• Video Analytics / ML / Computer Vision
• User Generated Content Upload Optimization
• GPU Acceleration (4K, 8K) & AI / ML Analytics
• Integrated or Partner Content Streaming
AR VR
IoT
CAT M1
VoLTE Video
Local Content
Cache
Pre-recorded or
Live Content
HD / Mobile
Conferencing
Subscribers

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Edge Media Processing Use Cases
Triggered Content
Recording
Audio + Video
Feeds
ML + AI
Video Analytics
Meta Data
Core
Network
Low Bandwidth Event
Notifications
And Alarm
Triggers for Core
Network
Policy driven
•Time
•Location
•Service
RAN
Slice 1
RAN
Slice 2
RAN
Slice 3
Media
Analytics
MEC Host
Server Platform
Lower backhaul cost due to
reduced amount of traffic sent to
the core network
Service Opportunities: AR Overlay &
Event-based Triggers of Audio &
Video Feeds (Ex: Safety/Surveillance)
Potential Verticals: Smart
Cities, Retail, Healthcare,
Industrial IoT
Increase Revenue Reduce Cost
Cheaper edge devices and
deployment costs (ex: Cameras,
sensors, etc.)
High Bandwidth Media Content
Edge Cameras & Video Feeds
Slicing Optional
Facial recognition on trained images
People Detection & Counting

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VNFs with HW Accelerated Work Loads – OpenStack + ONAP
Media Server
VNF + HW
Acceleration
Resources
Offload
compute
intensive media
processing
tasks to GPU
Video RTP
IP Surveillance cameras
encode and send data to
the Media Server
Media Server
Performs video analytics and
only key events are encoded
and archived
Surveillance Monitor
• Machine Learning (ML)
• AI & Computer Vision
• Video Analytics
Video RTP
ONAP
Edge & Central
Orchestration
Detect Camera Tampering
Vehicle Detection & Counting
OpenStack HW
Acceleration
(Cyborg Project)
VF + HW Accelerators

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ONAP: Centralized + Edge Automation + Multi Access
Source: “Edge Scoping” https://wiki.onap.org/pages/editpage.action?pageId=28381325
Core
Edge
Internal
External
Partner
Multi Access
Mobile + Wireline

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Akraino – End to End Automation

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• ONAP has created the Service Enablement environment with open OSS/BSS
integration (TMForum) and Interfaces for multi-service integration across multiple
service providers (MEF)
• Radisys has created REAL ONAP Carrier Class platform for Media services
• Orange is evolving from Field Trials to Commercial services
• Radisys ONAP based Service Platform ready to take media use cases to market
and for pre-5G Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) :
q Optimized Media Content Delivery
q Media Applications at the Edge
q Media Processing at the Edge
q End to End Automation
q Interworking
q Multi-Service Management
• ONAP Service Platform ready to grow Operator Service Revenues in 2019
Key Take Aways

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Q&A
Sue Rudd
Director Network Services
Al Balasco
VP, MediaEngine
Morgan Richomme
Senior Network Architect
Adnan Saleem
CTO - Software and Cloud Solutions
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