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Many operators have their own ETSI-compliant NFVOs, and there is a strong desire for us to have both ETSI- and ONAP-compliant NFVO. So, we propose the ONAP SO NFVO "platform", which is based on ONAP and leveraging modular and extensible plugin-based microservice API management, such as an enhanced MSB, Gravitee, Kong or Kubernetes. Once we build this NFVO platform in ONAP, operators including us can focus on the proprietary development of truly differentiating value-added capabilities on top of the NFVO platform. We believe this approach provides cost saving over implementation of proprietary code, both for initial development, ongoing standardization support and enhancements.
Note: VFC would be still a valid NFVO reference implementation. And, we want to have this NFVO platform which provides modular and extensible capabilities.
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ONAP SO NFVO is a sub-component of SO and provides ETSI NFV-compliant NFVO functions in ONAP, such as ETSI NFVO MANO 1) SOL007, SOL004 and SOL001 Modeling and Package, 2) SOL005-compliant NBI, 3) NS LCM and 4) SOL003-compliant SBI for VNFM invocation.
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For the ONAP SO NFVO, we plan to build:
1) the NFVO platform foundation,
2) SOL005 NBI (based on the forge.etsi.org SOL005 swagger files; we believe it is easy to upgrade for ETSI specification changes),
3) NS LCM Manager leveraging Camunda BPMN with custom workflows support (in the future, possibly design workflows from SDC and associate them with NS models – model-driven),
4) leveraging VFC NS Instance DB microservice and NS LCM business logic, and
5) CNF support hook. Since ONAP SO already has the SOL003 Adapter, for our project, at this time we don’t need VFC gVNFM and VNFM adapting mechanism.
P1: Phase 1 (for Guilin)
P2: Phase 2 (post Guilin)
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