Brief Project Overview (brief as it should be known)
The SO provides orchestration at a very high level, with an end-to-end view of the infrastructure, network, and applications.
Functional features intended to be delivered in Service Orchestrator project in Frankfurt release and the companies involved:
- Integrate the AAF and upgrade the APIs to Https - ATT
- ETSI alignment improvements - Ericcson, Huawei, VerizonSamsung, Verizon
- SOL005 adaptation
- SOL003 adaptation
- SOL002 adaptation
- PNF orchestration Enhancements - Ericcson, Huawei, Nokia
- PNF sotware upgrade
- PNF PNP enhancement
- CCVPN Enhancement
- MDONS support - Fujitsu
- Eline support - Bell, Huawei, CMCC
- 5G Slicing - ATT, Amdocs, CMCC, Huawei, Wipro
- CDS integration enhancement - ATT, Bell, Tech Mahindra
- (SO Multi Cloud plugin improvements - Intel)
- HPA - Intel (Testing effort)
- Java 11 Upgrade - HCL, Orange (Egypt)
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These requirements require enhancements to existing SO functionality.
New or modified interfaces
SO provide the following new APIs:
- Extension to retrieve PNF workflow: SO-2540
- Support custom PNF workflow, like software upgrade (shall be generic enough to support execution of PNF-level workflow): SO-2071
- Support the LCM for the CSMF and NSMF operations
,Jira Legacy server System Jira serverId 4733707d-2057-3a0f-ae5e-4fd8aff50176 key SO-2543 Jira Legacy server System Jira serverId 4733707d-2057-3a0f-ae5e-4fd8aff50176 key SO-2544 - APIs to SOL002 adapter SO-2427
- Enhancement to the existing SOL005 interfaces SO-2437
If they are modified, are the backwards compatible?
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Interface naming (point to an example)
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- All APIs have Swagger documentation, which is referenced in readthedocs
Reference to the interfaces.
- All APIs have Swagger documentation, which is referenced in readthedocs
What are the system limits?
Involved use cases, architectural capabilities or functional requirements.
SO is used in the following use cases / Functional requriements:
- vFW
- vDNS
- vCPE
- VoLTE
- BBS
- CCVPN
- 5G
- HPA
- Change Management
Listing of new or impacted models used by the project (for information only).
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New components to be introduced in SO in F release:
- SOL002 Adapter - Extension to the ETSI alignment work. This will be a temperory stage and discussion are through to move it to generic network controller as and when available.
- NSSMF Adpater - As part of the 5G slice management requriement, this adapter would interact with the external NSSMF (CN, TN or AN) of the 5G network.
Majorly impacted modules of SO in F release:
- API Handler - All new APIs defined would be developed in this module.
- BPMN Infra - Enhancements to the existing workflows for the functional requriements mentioned in the above sections.
- SDNC adapter - CDS interaction and enhancements to the controller APIs
Lateral changes would be brought in due to the following requriements:
- Java 11 upgrade
- AAF integrtion