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- e.g., MEC APIs - Location info, Radio control info etc.
- e.g., Cloud APIs - IaaS/PaaS + Context Awareness (time, places, activity, weather etc.)
Edge Infrastructure Profiles
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- "5G CU-UP VNF location to be proximal to a specific physical DC based on 5G DU, bounded by a max wire latency from physical DC"
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Landscape for addressing aforementioned Challenges
- Cloud Providers
- Public Clouds such as Azure, Amazon, GCP do not support dynamic network function closed-loop fault management/placement optimization across multiple edge sites with single/multiple Cloud control planes
- Akraino Open Source
- Defines Blueprints for Edge Cloud using OpenStacks (VMs) and K8S (Containers)
- Plans to use ONAP for VNF/Service Orchestration for addressing aforementioned challenges
Hierarchical (ONAP Central, Edge) Architecture
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- Cloud Provider Business Unit:
- Provides hosting of Workloads, ie., IaaS/PaaS
- SP installs and manages ONAP in separate 'Management Cloud' instances
- SP installs and manages Network Services + 3rd Party Apps in separate 'Services/Apps Cloud' instances
- Provides hosting of Workloads, ie., IaaS/PaaS
- Cloud Provider Business Unit:
- Provides SaaS, eg., Analytics/Closed Loop as a Service, LCM of Apps, etc.
- ONAP Edge may not be needed
- Cloud Provider Business Unit:
- Types of virtualized cloud resource tenant and their characteristics
- Virtualized Network Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Network Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Virtualized Application Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Application Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Physical Network Function and their characteristics
- Part of Edge Cloud Orchestrator
- Types of virtualized cloud resource tenant and their characteristics
- Immediate interest to ONAP for Network Function use cases
- Virtualized Network Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Guaranteed
- Burstable (with minimum guarantee)
- Best Effort
- Network Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category
- Burstable (with minimum guarantee)
- Virtualized Network Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
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| Inventory | yes | A&AI | |
| IP Address Management (IPAM) | yes | SDN-C | |
| Multi-Cloud Support | no | Multi-VIM | |
| Initial Placement | no | OOF | |
| Closed Loop Controller | no | APP-C | |
| Closed Loop Policy | no | Policy | |
| Infra Closed Loop Analytics | no | Multi-VIM, DCAE | |
| App Closed Loop Analytics | no | DCAE | |
| Logging | no | ||
| Infra/App Monitoring events, statistics | no |
Single Provider - Sequence Diagram
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