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OVERVIEW OF PNF Plug and Play

BUSINESS DRIVERS & SCENARIOS

This section describes Business Drivers needs, Scenarios.

For service providers to discover and deploy a network, Physical Network Functions (PNF) are needed to be deployed and discovered by their network. This serves as a foundation to create a wireless, optical, or wire-line network efficiently. The ability to deploy, discover, manage and incorporate PNFs efficiently is vital to business operations.

Without Plug and Play, a service provider and their operator technicians would need to manually create the PNFs into their network which entails a high OPEX and would be very time-consuming and prone to error.

STAGES OF PLUG AND PLAY

PNF Plug and Play is used to register a PNF when it comes on-line. This use case is intended to be applicable to a variety of PNFs such as routers and 5G base stations. The steps and descriptions have been drafted to be as general as possible and to be applicable to a relatively wide variety of PNFs. However, the use case was originally developed with consideration for 5G PNF Distributed Units (DU).

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