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- Model and policy driven application controller with intrinsic VNF management capabilities.
- Support of multi vendor system of VNFs with interdependence between them.
- Provide uploading capabilities of standard data model which describe the management, configuration and inter-dependencies of the VNF.
- APPC model will be based on ONAP TOSCA and Yang containing a dependency model, LCM recipes, configuration templates, policies etc.
- APPC provides multi-protocol southbound plugins, including support for NETCONF, Chef via a Chef Server, and Ansible and ability to operate through vendor specific VNFM/EMS via adaptation through a plugin.
- APPC provides a VNF configuration repository with the latest working configuration for each managed VNF instance it is responsible for.
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