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host: @Byung-Woo Jun
ONAP and LFN Collaboration
@Byung-Woo Jun
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.
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.
DT plans to deploy selected components into production environment (TNAP) this year - discussed during D&TF last year and in several TSC meetings
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).
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 does 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.
Huawei, @zhuguanyu , please summarize how Huawei uses ONAP
Tata, please summerize how Tata uses ONAP
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."
Byung-Woo Jun explained the ONAP Streamlining Evolution initiative to address these concerns
Has gone from a full “platform” to a collection of “network automation components”
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.
TSC Strategy
@Byung-Woo Jun
PTL input?
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 based component independent deployment: @Andreas Geißler
Argo-CD /Flux are a DT choice, but ONAP can allow other CDs,
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, A&AI, Portal-NG)
@Dan Timoney , @Keguang He@Fiete Ostkamp : are you interested in this 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: @Dong Wang
AI Model-As-A-Service : @Keguang He
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): @Dan Timoney
Resource-based Orchestration Pattern (leveraging CD and Operator)
Energy saving / monitoring : @N.K. Shankaranarayanan
Ensure the security of ONAP components and operations : @SECCOM
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 : @SECCOM
Ramesh Murugan Iyer, Policy team will check vulnerabilities on direct dependencies; may need to open a ticket for the product (Sonatype) company; Kevin Sandi, asked Murali to send the test results before raising tickets; CycloneDX-based SBOM; may need a conversion between CycloneDX and SPDX;
Deena Mukundan, put expectations for Kevin Sandi in the ticket
So far, LFN supports SPDX only for their pipeline SBOM. SECCOM will discuss it further with the LF team. We need a conversion between CycloneDX and SPDX.
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!!! @Andreas Geißler , any update / plan? Thanks.
Note: SO does not have a new feature for Paris. Sanket will check the SO Package Upgrade
Any update? @Kevin Sandi will work on it later; backlog
make a job build more intelligent - still ongoing
OOM Update & MSB Dependencies
@Fiete Ostkamp
@Andreas Geißler
OOM updates, charts changes such as SDC, policy-opa-pdp patches
Argo CD deployment; Andreas Geißlerworking 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
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
@Fiete Ostkamp
Sonatype scanning reports from netxus-iq: some of the applications have not been scanned; need to clean up deprecated ones from the reports. @Fiete Ostkamp will issue a ticket to Matt. matt cleaned up all the old (anything older than 20 months; read-only) projects; done? Matt will check…
Call to Action- LFN is looking for both community members to help staff the booth, as well as project or collaborative demos that we can showcase in the booth.
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
next week PTL meeting
@Byung-Woo Jun
Next Monday is an US holiday. we will check if we have the PTL meeting or not. It is scheduled for February 18th at SECCOM. PTLs, please attend this. Thanks.