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Following can be potential candidates for Third Party Domains which can be managed by ONAP:
- National Broadband Network (NBN) [Ref: https://www.nbnco.com.au/] Fixed Broadband Service,
- Managed Network Service from Service Providers
- Telco peers
- Multiple Cloud Service Providers to support a hybrid cloud ecosystem of private and public clouds
- Etc.
ONAP provides Operations Domain Management (ODM) and other complementary capabilities to ensure full automation of the E2E life-cycle management of the service
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Consistent way of consuming 3rd party services from the Service providerprovider and orchestration being conducted by the 3rd party within its domain
LCM and assurance events are triggered by the 3rd party service, and remediation response are executed.
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Third Party Domain manger will play a significant role in on-boarding partner domainsdomains in a uniform manner.
The Service Catalog of the Partner Domain will be made available to the Service Provider in few hours., consumable via an abstraction layer (NaaS in Telstra context)
Once catalog is on-boarded ONAP can publish the Service details to BSS and it can be used for ordering Partner Domain services by the Service Provider..
This use case is also relevant to Single Operator environment (e.g. If an operator wants to move its catalog from test to production, it can use this import catalog capability to on board the catalog, without manually recreating it in the production ONAP instance.
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Sub Use Case 2 (planned for F release)
Automated VNF Life Cycle Management – to cater for change management, incident management and version/configuration management
Service Assurance enablement for Third Party DomainsDomains’ exposed services
Control Automation:
Following items for VNF LCM and Service Assurance for Third Party Domain are being considered for the next phase of the use case for F release
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Telstra team will work on SDC and Ext API changes. We welcome partner contributions into this usecase.
The details of changes are being discussed with the PTLs
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