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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.
For example, Wireless Service Providers will need to roll out tens of thousands of base stations across a nation/world, and the possible and potential business cost savings and expenditures related to rolling out, deploying, and incorporating PNFs to be recognized into a service provider's network encounters vast economies of scale which make Plug and play a vital business imperative.
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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