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China Mobile

Presentation Materials:

Description:

Process and system/function supporting service provision&activation in current network environment

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Proposal about service activation system/function architecture

How it supports S3P

Scalability

Since service provision and activation functions are provided to end users and clerks and maintainers, there may be lots of users online to use these functions, for example, there may be tens of thousands of users online at the same time, so the subsystem must have enough scalability.

Security

Service provision and activation are revelant to the accouting and billing that may cause losses if one pretends to be others to achieve service provision and activation. So the subsystem must assure the security of itself according to the authentication and authorization  to users.

Stabilility

The subsystem of service provision and activation must assure 7*24 service to all users, so it should use some HA technologies to provide stability.

Performance

The subsystem must use distributed technologies to provide enough performance to all online users.

Platform requirements/dependencies, flows, identifying “what”

ONAP External API – legacy subsystem:

BSS send the request to ONAP through External API subsystem, External API dispatches the requests to different subsystems according to the predefined rules.

ONAP Service Orchestration – legacy subsystem:

Service Orchestration subsystem may implement service provision and activation functions, if so, there’s no need to add new subsystems below.

ONAP Service Provision  – new subsystem:

If not implemented in SO, there must be a new subsystem “service provision” whose architecture is just like “Proposal about service provision system/function architecture”

ONAP Service Activation – new subsystem:

If not implemented in SO, there must be a new subsystem “service activation” whose architecture is just like “Proposal about service activation system/function architecture”

Any dependencies on specific VNF capabilities

“Service Activation”subsystem will send the corresponding instructions to VNF according to the service request,  so this subsystem must depend on different VNF. But there should be a common platform in which there may be different plugins to adapt different VNF. And this service request requires the VNF to open its activation capability.

VNFs that we would use to test the requirement

Service provision and activation functions may be tested in vCPE usecase and VoLTE usecase and enterprise vCPE usecase, etc. Since it has short workflow and long workflow services, it is recommended that it should be tested in both service scenarions.

Commitment - People/companies willing to work on the requirement

TBD.