Strategy (45 minutes) | ONAP takeaways |
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LFN Cross-Organization UpdatesMAC, SPC, TAC, EUAG, LFN Board | Byung-Woo Jun LJ Illuzzi | Discussions between Arpit Joshipura, Byung-Woo Jun, Jill Lovato, Louis Illuzzi and Sunny Cai: Highlight the value proposition of ONAP, including overall statistics (e.g., contributors, LOC, etc.) over its lifetime. ONAP messaging 2025 Provide deployment examples with links to DT, CMCC, China Telecom, Huawei, Ericsson, AT&T, TATA, Capegemini and others: hope we can finish our input for LFN by February 20th. Byung-woo to do internal review DT plans to deploy selected components into production environment (TNAP) this year - discussed during D&TF last year and in several TSC meetings China Mobile & GenAI, @Keguang He , please summarize how China Mobile uses ONAP China Telecom - using fork of ONAP (?) (presentation from 2024), @Dong Wang , please summarize how China Telecom uses ONAP AT&T use case; Dan Timoney, please summarize how AT&T uses ONAP What is Ericsson doing and why? Byung-Woo Jun , please summarize how Ericsson uses ONAP - got input from Ramesh Murugan Iyer for Policy (Thanks!!!), and Toine Siebelink plans to provide his input for CPS
- Ramesh's input for Policy:
Ericsson's new SMO offering is known as EIAP (Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform) where the non-Real time RIC features in that are provided by EIC (Ericsson Intelligent Controller) component. EIAP aims to provide advanced automation and orchestration capabilities for diverse RAN environments (both traditional and ORAN). Refer : https://www.ericsson.com/en/ran/intelligent-ran-automation/intelligent-automation-platform Policy-clamp component from ONAP Policy Framework plays a major role inside EIC functionality in EIAP. Policy-clamp is responsible for the lifecycle management of rApps in EIC. It works together with EIC adapter microservices for the complete lifecycle management of rApps. Apart from this, EIAP is also interested to use the opa-pdp component from ONAP's Policy Framework in their coordination-management component . This is at the initial level of discussion at the moment. But opa-pdp has a strong potential to be used in the coordination-management use case.
- TechMahindra (Deena Mukundan):
Tech Mahindra is a services-driven organization that collaborates closely with its customers to deliver tailored technology solutions, enabling them to achieve their desired use cases effectively. In the past, Tech Mahindra has partnered with leading global enterprises, including AT&T, Bell Canada and Telus, to drive innovation and transformation using ONAP. Currently, the company is working with Deutsche Telekom on ORAN (Open Radio Access Network) integration, showcasing its commitment to advancing next-generation network technologies. Tech Mahindra has a highly skilled team with extensive expertise in ONAP. As a founding Platinum member of ONAP, the company has been a significant contributor to its development, actively contributing to multiple components such as DMaaP, DCAE, SO, AAI, APPC, Policy, SDNC, and more. Since its inception, Tech Mahindra has contributed over 370 KLOC to ONAP, reinforcing its leadership in network automation and orchestration. These contributions have supported Telco operators in adopting ONAP for cloud-native workloads and operationalizing deployments across edge and central locations for advanced architectures like vRAN and 5G slicing. - Capgemini (Viresh Navalli):
Capgemini focusing to transform telecom Network with ONAP Unlocking the full potential of the ORAN Network using ONAP, the leading open-source platform for Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) in the O-RAN ecosystem. ONAP empowers telcos to efficiently manage and optimize Radio Access Network (RAN) components, driving innovation and excellence. Capgemini's deployments and use cases - Capgemini use ONAP mainly for RAN FCAPS Management using the SDNR component - PM KPIs processing using DCAE (VES collector, PM Mapper, File Collector, etc) , and DMaaP (Message Router, Data Router) - DMaaP MR will be replaced with Kafka in future releases. Capgemini is currently working on this feature based on our discussion with ONAP community - CapGemini offers O-RAN compliant CU/DU. Currently, interoperability testing between ONAP based SMO with Capgemini CU/DU is ongoing, to support various features like Provisioning Management, Fault Management, File management, etc.. Why Capgemini choose ONAP - Scalability: Effortlessly manage large-scale RAN deployments, ensuring network grows with business.
- Flexibility: Embracing multi-vendor environment for interoperability and innovation.
- Efficiency: Reduce operational complexity and costs with automation and open-source solutions.
- Future-Ready: Stay ahead of the curve with support for technologies like 5G and edge computing.
Emphasize the product integration of ONAP Use headlines like: "From Control loops and Intent-based to full AI Orchestration and Management." Highlight security contributions, such as those provided during the OPS 5G project by US Government for Networking slicing Byung-woo Jun plans to add details about ONAP's service mesh and Ingress architecture and implementation Mitre, NSA might be able to provide some info
Address past criticisms of ONAP being too large and complex by emphasizing recent efforts, such as "streamlining microservices and modules, archiving legacy software, etc." This is one shot we get. Let's make it BIG!
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TCC / ONAP Liaison Updates |
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Task Force Updates |
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ONAP DTF Days 2025 | Byung-Woo Jun | - Byung-Woo Jun, created a page for ONAP DTF DAYs 2025; we plan to collect ONAP DTF session topics here before presenting them to LFN, and schedule for the event.
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RelEng/Infrastructure | Byung-Woo Jun Paweł Pawlak Kevin Sandi ? Matthew | LF IT migrating CI pipeline to GitHub actions - may take to the end of fall or later, once ONAP is completed for GitHub Actions , we will do security review. Last update from Matt is that LF IT is continuously shipping one project at a time. 4/2: in progress At the TSC Jess mentioned Q4'24? or rather beginning of 2025. - What is the current status of this?
- Kevin Sandi, the LF Team, Matt and Kevin, plans to work on this; Please update the status
- Kevin Sandi, and team will start soon (following week?)
- Andreas Geißler, Jenkins has issues around DNS setting and testing (DCAE...) and networking issues
- will Fiete issue a ticket for this?
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TSC Strategy | Byung-Woo Jun TSC | From the Paris release, TSC needs to discuss ONAP focus areas and strategies / roadmaps - TSC members to add thoughts
Let's discuss more this year for Paris + Any questions or feedback? Byung-Woo Jun presented the brainstorm at the TSC meeting this week. Brainstorm: - Ensure ONAP core components are focused and operate independently, from build to runtime
- DT finishes Argo-CD and Flux based component independent deployment
- optimizing code for Flux
Argo-CD is a DT choice, but ONAP can allow other CDs, e.g., Flux (need contributors)- DT plans to productize some of the selected ONAP core components early next year in their TNAP production environment
- Declarative and Intent-based component operations by the Repository-based Network Automation : see the ideas from ONAP Architecture Evolution - 2025.pdf
- Make ONAP core components more autonomous and ready for use by both ONAP, LF and other external users
- During New Delhi and Oslo releases, CPS and Policy achieved the OpenSSF Gold Badging status. Kudos to the team!
- Continue to promote/facilitate other ONAP core components for the Gold Badging status (e.g., UUI, SDNC) - Ramesh, Toine, Byung will invite Fiete to give him a list of work items for gold badging.
- Incorporate more GenAI capabilities and use cases to the ONAP components, and promote the adoption of open-source LLM models and frameworks aligned with LF AI & Data and GenAI Commons
- Collaborate with LF AI & Data GenAI Commons and Nephio GenAI for 5G and 6G
- Open-source based models and controls
- AI-Based Control Loop
- AI Model-As-A-Service
- ETSI ISG NFV compliance for AI?
- Foster inter-community collaboration with other LF communities, such as O-RAN and Nephio
- SDNC enhancements (which is used by O-RAN OAM as is)
- Resource-based Orchestration Pattern (leveraging CD and Operator)
- Energy saving / monitoring ; N.K. Shankaranarayanan, rAPP in SMO is monitoring energy; it is an industry trend.
- Ensure the security of ONAP components and operations
- The latest security mechanism for communications (service mesh enhancements leveraging Istio and coming Ambient Mesh)
- Deprecate unused sub-components and mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Define a secure LFN CI/CD pipeline by leveraging OpenSSF-associated reference tools
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Operations (40 minutes)
| TSC Activities and Deadlines | Byung-Woo Jun louis li | - Updates to https://www.onap.org.
Updates have been made on "dev" sites. The change will go live once approved by the TSC Preview pages, both with the password of !oslo# Homepage: https://www.onap.org/oslo-dev. Note, if you click on the “Software” tab from this page it will go to the New Delhi release. The link below is the preview of the new onap.org/software page that points to Oslo. Software: https://www.onap.org/software-dev - due date is next Tuesday if you have any comments, please contact Louis.
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PTL Update | Fiete Ostkamp Andreas Geißler Keguang He Byung-Woo Jun | - Fiete Ostkamp, also reported some parts of AAI charts still use MSB.
- Only OOM chart itself; Andreas Geißler, will check it; will update it later ; Fiete Ostkamp worked on it; Andreas Geißler will test it tomorrow or so; a new patch is out for AAI and some issues were found. DT (Andreas and Fietea) is testing it now.
- Done, still testing it.
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PTL Updates | | - For the Paris release features, we need to discuss the package updates; who is doing what?
Note: PTLs, thank you very much for closing the package update. Note: SO, SDC, MultiCloud and DCAE (without PTLs) are open; DT offered their help on SDC, MultiCloud and DCAE. Thank you very much!!! Note: Seshu and Sanket will check the SO package upgrade. |
Paris Release Status | Byung-Woo Jun | |
GoLang Job issues | murali parthasarathy k Kevin Sandi Deena Mukundan | |
Subcommittee UpdatesArch, Lab, Modeling, Seccom, Requirements | | - ARCCOM plans to work on the ONAP marketing catch points and architecture for the Paris release.
- PTLs, please plan for the ARCCOM reviews for your new features, requirements and enhancements for Paris.
- More ONAP Streamlining documentation, ONAP Streamlining Evolution and its sub-wiki pages.
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SECCOM | Paweł Pawlak | |
OOM Update | Andreas Geißler | - OOM updates, charts changes such as SDC, policy-opa-pdp patches
- Argo CD deployment; Andreas Geißler working on the ONAP Argo CD/Flux deployment; some issues are there, and working on fixing them; need to fix some charts for Flux support, e.g., policy, SDC
- MR removal from DFC in DCAE (vresh navalli),
- DB-operator use issue (shrikant dhakalu tarale); some parts were fixed
- Tata is testing Docker Image handling implemented by the Integration team; some issues on testing; Andreas Geißler is investing this; will give some updates
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O-RAN Update | N.K. Shankaranarayanan | |
Events & Meetings (5 minutes) | Upcoming Events & Housekeeping | LJ Illuzzi Byung-Woo Jun | - KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, and Open Networking & Edge Summit, next April 2025 in London
- Open Networking & Edge Summit Registration: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-europe/register/
- There are no community sessions for this event. It’s a 100% curated agenda. There will be keynotes by LFN and LFE, and strategy sessions.
- Take the 2025 Networking & Open Source Survey. Take the survey and get 30% off registration for Open Networking & Edge Summit https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7295139609246650368/
- Whats the survey about? LFN is partnering with Linux Foundation Research to explore trends and priorities in open source networking. We're looking for insights from industry professionals to get a better picture of open source use, opportunities, and challenges in the telecom industry.
LFN's KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU sponsorship that enables us to host Cloud Native Telco Day. LFN will have a booth onsite at the main KC + CNC show floor, April 2-4. Call to Action- LFN is looking for community members to help staff the booth, as well as project or collaborative demos that we can showcase in the booth.
Reach out to Jill Lovato if you want to volunteer at the LFN booth or have a project or collaborative demo to showcase at the booth jlovato@linuxfoundation.org - 2025 LFN Events- as per the guidance of LFN Governing Board
All projects can have a virtual dev event (with LF help) to focus on upcoming releases and strategy A series of virtual workshops around a specific topic (to be determined by the TAC) - eg Domain Specific AI, Security, etc
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