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ONAP Casablanca & LFN Ecosystem Updates: Supporting Comments from Members

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Amdocs
“We view standardization and openness as critical solution requirements for realization of the dynamic and automated service-driven network, and we are very pleased with the results that ONAP is providing in accelerating speed to market and vendor innovation for our customers”, said Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President, Entertainment, Media and Technology, Amdocs. “We now see significant positive momentum from many of our customers who are starting  to leverage ONAP to expose and orchestrate their networks-as-a-service to more rapidly and easily design, build and monitor new offerings. This approach will prove to be a pivotal element of service providers delivering a cornerstone of our connected society. As a founding member and co-creator of ONAP, Amdocs remains strongly committed to its ongoing development. We lead the ONAP use case subcommittee which is doing vital work to develop and promote future-facing use cases like 5G and edge automation. Additionally, Amdocs believes in the importance of gaining alignment across the standards bodies, and is actively contributing to align service onboarding standardization across ONAP and ETSI.”

ARRIS
“ARRIS offers communications service providers software development and integration support to streamline service activation and enhance agility,” said Jack Raynor, senior director, ARRIS Professional Services Software and Integration Practice, ARRIS.  “The pillars of Multi-Domain Service Orchestration include planning, design, implementation and operation, resulting in more accuracy and reduced cost through automation and improved customer satisfaction.  Our software solution services leverage best of breed and leading edge technologies and platforms for Orchestration and Automation including ONAP. ARRIS is currently developing and deploying an ONAP-based solution with a major Asia Pacific telco customer. We are committed to building an open solution that frees operators from the complexities of their own infrastructures.”

Bell Canada
Tamer Shenouda, director, Network Transformation and Operations Support Systems, Bell Canada: “As we continue to deploy new services and features on ONAP, we see the Casablanca release as a stepping stone towards our vision of a self-service automation platform for our operations teams. We believe this will enable faster adoption and drive benefits at a much larger scale, both on virtual and physical networks.”

China Mobile
“Congratulations to the entire ONAP community!  Carriers, Vendors, Researchers, Practitioners, LFN, etc.  together have come a long way to deliver Casablanca, a commercial ecosystem with new/enhanced technical features and supporting new use cases such as CCVPN and 5G,” said Dr. Junlan Feng, Chief, China Mobile Research. “ Special thanks to LFN and all developers!  We believe Casablanca will better enable carriers to find their own trajectory to deploy ONAP in commercial use. For future work, we hope we continuously strength ONAP in terms of solidness, flexibility and easiness of use.”

China Telecom
Sun Qiong, Director of SDN R&D Center, China Telecom Beijing Research Institute and LFN Board member: “We are so happy to see that the new Casablanca release is delivered. This release offers more useful features, more interesting use cases, and better performance and stability. We believe more and more carriers will find benefits from it.”

Ericsson
Mats Karlsson, Head of Solution Area OSS at Ericsson says, “Ericsson is driving the 5G global ecosystem that will deliver services for all industries. Both open source and standards will play a crucial role in the evolution of 5G. The advent of 5G will bring new use cases and disruptive business models for all industries. As the industry moves in to virtualization including cloud native and edge cloud, networks will become even more complex and we need automation & orchestration to manage this complexity. Automation leveraging AI/ML influenced policy – adaptive policy, is key to manage new services, resources and to achieve closed loop automation and optimization. The Casablanca release brings new and enhanced features that provide platform stability and support for existing and evolved use cases such as Residential CPE, VoLTE, cross domain VPN and 5G use cases.”

Huawei
“ONAP is the common platform for end to end automation and intelligent operation. The ONAP Casablanca release has been enhanced with respect to architecture, capabilities and maturity to allow global deployment of the platform. Huawei is one of the top contributors to ONAP community since it was formed early 2017. Huawei collaborated with Vodafone and China Mobile to build and integrate ONAP with Huawei commercial SDN controllers in CCVPN use case that is delivered with ONAP Casablanca release.  In addition Huawei is building the Digital Transformation service portfolio for Telcos around our ONAP-based AIDO (design time) and IES (runtime) platforms,” said Bill Ren, vice president, Network Industry & Ecosystem Development, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltfd. “In the future, Huawei will continue to contribute openly and extensively to the community. Huawei will also happily continue to collaborate with our customers to develop solutions for different business scenarios to enable digital transformation in the industry, and maximize business value.”

Reliance Jio
Robert Pippert, vice president, Technology Development Wireless & Common Platforms, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Ltd.: “ONAP is a key element in Reliance Jio’s MANO ecosystem.  Our transformation towards a Machine Learning-driven cognitive network continues to accelerate as we embrace the evolution towards 5G.”

Lenovo
“As a founding member of LF Networking and an early contributor to the OPNFV project, Lenovo is embracing open source initiatives that enable communications service providers to accelerate deployment time as part of their digital transformation,” said Charles Ferland, vice president and General Manager, Telco at Lenovo Data Center Group. “We are looking forward to leveraging the OVP certification program as part of the validation of our NFVi solutions and certification with our strategic independent software vendor (ISV) partners.”

Lumina Networks
“Lumina Networks is thrilled to be a contributor to the ONAP SDN-C Casablanca release, leveraging Lumina’s community leadership and ability to mature technology for operational readiness and deployment at our major service provider customers,” said Andrew Coward, CEO, Lumina Networks. “Our SDN controller Powered by OpenDaylight(TM) aligns perfectly to the ONAP charter to deliver the promise of new service innovation and better network automation without vendor lock-in.”

NEC/Netcracker
“As a platinum member, NEC/Netcracker has been actively involved in enhancing the architecture principles of ONAP with a particular focus in Casablanca on increasing the interoperability and modularity of sub systems,” said Aloke Tusnial, CTO SDN/NFV at Netcracker. “Casablanca represents the beginning of cloud native adoption in open source orchestration to support the upcoming evolution of VNFs to CNFs. NEC/Netcracker will continue our active engagement throughout the ONAP journey to cloud native  to enable new 5G use cases and edge workload orchestration.”

Nokia
“We are delighted to see the next ONAP release being launched. For managing and orchestrating networks and services end-to-end, we have been driving the support of virtualized and physical network functions running in hybrid networks, which will be the reality for a number of years to come,” said Antti Koskela, VP, Digital Operations at Nokia Software. “As a vendor providing true end-to-end solutions, we have also been expanding our cloud-wise services portfolio to allow full interoperability between ONAP, OPNFV, and Nokia or third- party network functions and management systems. We genuinely appreciate the attempt to combine ONAP and OPNFV verification.”

Orange
“Orange is fully engaged in the open source ecosystem contributing to industry alignment,” says Emmanuel Lugagne Delpon, senior vice president of Orange Labs Networks. “For the success of virtualization, we see alignment on a single automation solution as a must: ONAP is now part of our RFPs. OPNFV and the verification programme of  LFN are the bricks that will help to consolidate telco-grade infrastructure. Orange is strongly involved in those LFN projects, actively contributed to the ONAP Casablanca release and is offering an open platform to facilitate ONAP adoption by the community. Additionally, Orange is a leading contributor to OPNFV.”

Verizon
Srinivasa Kalapala, vice president, Global Technology & Supplier Strategy, Verizon: “We are pleased to see strong and growing developer ecosystem for ONAP and progress made by community in delivering Casablanca.  We anticipate that Casablanca will accelerate the adoption of ONAP with its focus on policy-driven orchestration, ETSI based NFV onboarding, stability and performance in support of real world deployments. The collaboration with ONAP underscores Verizon’s leadership in delivering market leading network services, while simplifying onboarding and operational functions.”

Vodafone
Fran Heeran, Group Head of Cloud & Automation, Vodafone: “Interoperability between service providers forms the very foundation of our industry. As we transform how we build and operate our services at a global scale, it is critical that the automation and orchestration we introduce in our own networks and services can extend securely beyond our boundaries. The capabilities we are developing with our partners and the contributions to the ONAP community will allow us to offer next generation networks services to our customers at global scale with speed and agility. Vodafone is committed to helping drive open standards as we transform service creation, deployment, orchestration and operations.”

ONAP Releases Casablanca, Enhances Deployment Capabilities Across Open Source Networking Stack

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New releases from ONAP and OPNFV advance NFV testing, orchestration & automation, as Accenture joins at the Gold level

San Francisco, December 4, 2018 LF Networking (LFN), which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open networking projects, today announced continued progress to ease deployments across the open source networking stack. New platform releases from ONAP (Casablanca) and OPNFV (Gambia) bring additional support for cross-stack deployments across new and existing use cases such as 5G and Cross-Carrier VPN (CCVPN), as well as enhancements to cloud-native VPN. Additionally, the organization’s compliance and verification program recently announced its expansion into virtual network functions (VNF) testing and is now recruiting Beta participants. VNF testing will help ease deployment pains and improve VNF quality and interoperability across real-world deployments.

“New and enhanced deployments of our platforms are popping up every day across the globe, and with tighter cross-community integration and an expanded compliance and verification program, we are well-positioned to facilitate innovative industry progress,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, networking, the Linux Foundation. “The latest releases of ONAP and OPNFV usher in a new era for LFN as the community continues to foster an expanding commercial ecosystem.”

“We are pleased with the continued growth and the diversity of contributors to ONAP, a key project within Linux Foundation Networking. The Casablanca release is a major step forward for this effort.  With wide-scale service provider and equipment supplier participation, ONAP is becoming the de facto automation platform for carrier grade service provider networks,” said Chris Rice, senior vice president of Network Cloud & Infrastructure at AT&T and Board Chair, LF Networking. “AT&T remains committed to actively contributing new code; leading technical areas; partnering on new 5G initiatives; orchestrating services across VNFs, PNFs, and soon CNFs (Container Network Functions), as well as developing leading edge, model driven platform enhancements like the Controller Design Studio.”

New Platform Releases Enhance Deployability

Together, LFN projects are crossing the open networking chasm by maturing capabilities that enhance deployability across an expanding commercial ecosystem. Supported by a growing list of top vendors, carriers, and other organizations, ONAP which brings together top global carriers and vendors with the goal of allowing end users to automate, design, orchestrate and manage services and virtual functions has expanded into a truly scalable platform with multiple, parallel threads. OPNFV a system-level integrations, deployment, testing and feature development project advances the state of NFV around cloud native and moves toward implementing continuous delivery (CD) to better support DevOps (a model that is growing importance to communication service providers) and infrastructure automation.

Key enhancements included in each release:

  • ONAP Casablanca introduces two new blueprints, sets the stage for a rich VNF ecosystem to emerge around ONAP, demonstrates community expansion, and adds new functionality making ONAP suitable for global deployment.
  • Building on a common theme of automation enhancements across LFN, OPNFV Gambia progresses the state of NFV around continuous delivery, cloud native network functions (CNFs), testing, carrier-grade NFVI features and upstream project integration. OPNFV was a pioneer with NFV continuous integration and is now taking a first step towards DevOps and continuous delivery.

Compliance and Verification Expands

Concurrently, expansion of the OPNFV Verification Program (OVP) is underway. Initially started as a program to test and verify the readiness and availability of commercial NFV NFVI/VIM products based on OPNFV functional testing capabilities, OVP is broadening its purview in 2019 to include testing and verification of VNF applications as well as third-party lab support. VNF testing will soon be in beta with active code that includes VNFSDK testing code. Vendors are encouraged to participate by submitting their VNFs for early testing to help shape the direction and future of virtualized deployments.

More details on ONAP Casablanca are available at this link and details on OPNFV Gambia can be found here. To learn about how to get involved in the compliance and verification program or to submit a VNF for testing send queries to verified@opnfv.org.  

Accenture Joins LFN

Additionally, LFN is excited to announce that Accenture has joined the project at the Gold level. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Accenture joins additional Gold members Aptira, Inocybe Technologies, Lumina Networks, Microsoft and Telstra.

“ONAP continues to make great progress to help the industry evolve toward programmable network platform architecture via groundbreaking innovation and the ability to orchestrate cross-domain services,” said Amol Phadke, a managing director at Accenture and the company’s Global Network Strategy and Portfolio lead. “We are bringing a comprehensive and customizable ‘as a Service’ solution to the ONAP community that service providers can leverage and operationalize using a vendor-agnostic open-source approach.”  

Upcoming Community Events

LFN will be onsite at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America in Seattle, December 10-13, 2018. Join us to learn how LFN projects enable cloud native network functions (CNFs) and integrate across the container landscape. More information about the event, including registration, full agenda and details on the co-located FD.io Mini Summit, are available here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/.

The next ONAP Developer Design Forum will be conducted jointly with the OPNFV Gambia Plugfest in Paris, France from January 8-11, 2019. The event  will focus on Dublin release planning and explore various synergies with OPNFV as well as provide a forum for beta testing VNF compliance. Both members and non-members are welcome to attend the co-located events. Learn more here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/onap-ddf-opnfv-plugfest/.

Supporting Comments from LFN  Members:

https://www.onap.org/announcement/2018/12/04/onap-casablanca-supporting-comments-from-members.

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Additional Resources

Download ONAP Casablanca

Get the ONAP Architectural Whitepaper

Get the ONAP 5G Blueprint Overview

Get the ONAP CCVPM Blueprint Overview

Download OPNFV Gambia

OPNFV Verified Program

Join LFN as a Member

 

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vCPE Blueprint in ONAP

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This post originally appeared on Arana Networks. Republished with permission.

This blog explains deployment details (using TOSCA/HEAT templates) of some of the important services of the vCPE blueprint in ONAP. It assumes that the reader is familiar with vCPE use case (for which there are several blogs/video available, including a free book from Aarna Networks — ONAP Demystified, or the ONAP Confluence page).

The following block diagram provides an overview of the end to end service of vCPE, and how various constituent services are linked together.

vCPE end to end use case comprises of several services (some of which are optional, and will be replaced by equivalent services already existing in CSP’s environment), each of which contains one or more VNF’s and/or VL’s.

  1. vCPE General Infra Service

  2. vG MUX Infra ServicevBNG Service

  3. vBNG MUX Service

  4. vBRG Emulation

  5. vCPE Customer Service

This blog shows details of some of these services, and their associated model templates.

vCPE General Infra

This service consists of vDHCP, vAAA and vDNS VNF’s connected by 2 virtual links (VLs) – cpe_signal and cpe_public, both of which are Openstack Neutron networks. The cpe_public link is also connected to a Web Server.

Now, let us examine the Infra Service in SDC Catalog for its constituent components and their details.

The composition of this service is as follows, which shows the virtual links (VLs) and the VF that makes up all the VNF’s:

The CSAR file for this service contains the following details:

The service is modeled (in TOSCA and HEAT templates) as follows:

Notice that the 2 networks (CPE_PUBLIC and CPE_SIGNAL) are modeled in HEAT, and so is the VF module that contains VM’s for all the VNF’s (vDHCP, vAAA and vDNS + vDHCP). The TOSCA template includes node_templates for all the HEAT templates. The TOSCA model definition file for this service can be found here.

Let us take a closer look at the Environment file (base_vcpe_infra.env) of this service.

parameters:

  cloud_env: “openstack”

  cpe_public_net_cidr: “10.2.0.0/24”

  cpe_public_net_id: “zdfw1cpe01_public”

  cpe_public_subnet_id: “zdfw1cpe01_sub_public”

  cpe_signal_net_cidr: “10.4.0.0/24”

  cpe_signal_net_id: “zdfw1cpe01_private”

  cpe_signal_subnet_id: “zdfw1cpe01_sub_private”

  dcae_collector_ip: “10.0.4.1”

  dcae_collector_port: “8081”

  demo_artifacts_version: “1.2.0”

  install_script_version: “1.2.0-SNAPSHOT”

  key_name: “vaaa_key”

  mr_ip_addr: “10.0.11.1”

  onap_private_net_cidr: “10.0.0.0/16”

  onap_private_net_id: “ext-net”

  onap_private_subnet_id: “ext-net”

  pub_key: “ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDQXYJYYi3/OUZXUiCYWdtc7K0m5C0dJKVxPG0eI8EWZrEHYdfYe6WoTSDJCww+1qlBSpA5ac/Ba4Wn9vh+lR1vtUKkyIC/nrYb90ReUd385Glkgzrfh5HdR5y5S2cL/Frh86lAn9r6b3iWTJD8wBwXFyoe1S2nMTOIuG4RPNvfmyCTYVh8XTCCE8HPvh3xv2r4egawG1P4Q4UDwk+hDBXThY2KS8M5/8EMyxHV0ImpLbpYCTBA6KYDIRtqmgS6iKyy8v2D1aSY5mc9J0T5t9S2Gv+VZQNWQDDKNFnxqYaAo1uEoq/i1q63XC5AD3ckXb2VT6dp23BQMdDfbHyUWfJN”

  public_net_id: “2da53890-5b54-4d29-81f7-3185110636ed”

  repo_url_artifacts: “https://nexus.onap.org/content/groups/staging”

  repo_url_blob: “https://nexus.onap.org/content/sites/raw”

  vaaa_name_0: “zdcpe1cpe01aaa01”

  vaaa_private_ip_0: “10.4.0.4”

  vaaa_private_ip_1: “10.0.101.2”

  vcpe_flavor_name: “onap.medium”

  vcpe_image_name: “ubuntu-16.04-daily”

  vdhcp_name_0: “zdcpe1cpe01dhcp01”

  vdhcp_private_ip_0: “10.4.0.1”

  vdhcp_private_ip_1: “10.0.101.1”

  vdns_name_0: “zdcpe1cpe01dns01”

  vdns_private_ip_0: “10.2.0.1”

  vdns_private_ip_1: “10.0.101.3”

  vf_module_id: “vCPE_Intrastructure”

  vnf_id: “vCPE_Infrastructure_demo_app”

  vweb_name_0: “zdcpe1cpe01web01”

  vweb_private_ip_0: “10.2.0.10”

  vweb_private_ip_1: “10.0.101.40”

Note the details about the constituent VNF’s (vAAA, vDHCP, vDNS and vWEB_Server), including their IP addresses, and the network addresses of the VL’s that these VNF’s are connected to (cpe_signal and cpe_public). For eg., vDHCP & vAAA are connected to cpe_signal network (10.4.x.x), and vDNS and vWebServer are connected to cpe_public network (10.2.x.x). Also, DCAE Collector service is connected at 10.0.4.x IP address.

Now, let us look at some of the interesting fields of HEAT template (base_vcpe_infra.yaml) of this service. This contains details about all the VNF’s that are part of this service, and how they will be instantiated using HEAT. Complete copy of the HEAT template can be found here.

heat_template_version: 2013-05-23

description: Heat template to deploy vCPE Infrastructure elements (vAAA, vDHCP, vDNS_DHCP, webServer)

##############

#            #

# PARAMETERS #

#            #

##############

parameters:

  vcpe_image_name:

    type: string

    label: Image name or ID

    description: Image to be used for compute instance

    …

  cpe_signal_net_id:

    type: string

    label: vAAA private network name or ID

    description: Private network that connects vAAA with vDNSs

  …

  cpe_public_net_id:

    type: string

    label: vCPE Public network (emulates internet) name or ID

    description: Private network that connects vGW to emulated internet

  …

  vaaa_private_ip_0:

    type: string

    label: vAAA private IP address towards the CPE_SIGNAL private network

    description: Private IP address that is assigned to the vAAA to communicate with the vCPE components

  …

  vdns_private_ip_0:

    type: string

    label: vDNS private IP address towards the CPE_PUBLIC private network

  …

  vdhcp_private_ip_0:

    type: string

    label: vDHCP  private IP address towards the CPE_SIGNAL private network

    description: Private IP address that is assigned to the vDHCP to communicate with the vCPE components

  …

  vweb_private_ip_0:

    type: string

    label: vWEB private IP address towards the CPE_PUBLIC private network

    description: Private IP address that is assigned to the vWEB to communicate with the vGWs

  …

    …

  dcae_collector_ip:

    type: string

    label: DCAE collector IP address

    description: IP address of the DCAE collector

 …

#############

#           #

# RESOURCES #

#           #

#############

resources:

….

  # Virtual AAA server Instantiation

  vaaa_private_0_port:

    type: OS::Neutron::Port

    properties:

      network: { get_param: cpe_signal_net_id }

      fixed_ips: [{“subnet”: { get_param: cpe_signal_subnet_id }, “ip_address”: { get_param: vaaa_private_ip_0 }}]

  …

  vaaa_0:

    type: OS::Nova::Server

    properties:

     …

          template: |

            #!/bin/bash

            # Create configuration files

            mkdir /opt/config

            echo “__dcae_collector_ip__” > /opt/config/dcae_collector_ip.txt

            …

            # Download and run install script

            curl -k __repo_url_blob__/org.onap.demo/vnfs/vcpe/__install_script_version__/v_aaa_install.sh -o /opt/v_aaa_install.sh

            cd /opt

            chmod +x v_aaa_install.sh

            ./v_aaa_install.sh

Note the details about various VNF’s (vAAA, vDHCP, vDNS and vWebServer) and the VL’s (Neutron networks – cpe_signal which connects vAAA with vDNS VNF’s and cpe_public, which connects vGW service to Emulate Internet) that are part of the Infrastructure service. Also note the vAAA instantiation, and details of DCAE Collector IP address, and the installation script (v_aaa_install.sh) in vAAA VNF. Other VNFs (vDNS, vDHCP & vWebserver) have been left out but you can refer to the link above for these details in the HEAT template file.

In the next blog, we will examine other Services and their details.

In the meantime check out our latest webinar on “What’s new in ONAP Beijing” or request ONAP training if you/your team needs to learn more.