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Verizon, in the order of priority:
- Standards compliant on-boarding / orchestration interfaces
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- With configuration comes the need for supporting resource assignment, resource availability, etc.
With regards to the specific use-cases for Casablanca, in order of interest for Bell:
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- An important feature as soon as VNFs gets deployed in a production environment.
- Not natively supported in ONAP - any upgrade of VNF software is 100% a custom implementation.
- It is related to general VNF Configuration management - which is an overall ONAP need.
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3. Edge Automation through ONAP
- Slightly related to item 1 - required when scaling / distributing ONAP components.
- Potential heavy involvement of OOM in this one in order to deploy distributed ONAP components at the Edge.
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4. OpenSource Access Manager
- Interesting use case, but also a very large / ambitious initiative.
- In order to be implemented, it depends on several ONAP components and their features to work reliably.
- For service providers, this is a major undertaking - so slightly less of a short-term, immediate need.
5. 5G Use case Items
- PNF support primarily from our point of view, although ONAP partially supports this - it should definitely be improved.
- 5G is less of an immediate need than the other use cases, given ONAP could benefit from several improvements to existing functionality.
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Additional input from Bell:
We should focus on completing the existing feature set rather than starting something new like 5g - making the features work for real so that more operators can actually start using the platform. Then 5g or other are just use cases.
We should put a very little percentage in adding use cases, especially if we are hard coding policies and other parameters just so that he use case is working at the end of a release. Fix vFW, fix vCPE, fix VoLTE, do not add. The ultimate goal is to have a platform on which any use case can be deployed.
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Other more detailed requirements will come shortly.
China Mobile:
it is really important to make ONAP as a generic platform to run all the use cases.
For R3 use cases, the balance is important and I believe it was already take into consideration well, 5G and edge is also planing to deploy in the following 2-3 years. What I really worried is whether the new use cases can be supported by the generic platform capabilities, or I am afraid, the subsystem we made now cannot make an smooth evolution to support these new use cases.