TSC Task Force: ONAP for Enterprise Business

Meeting Minutes - 1/20/2021

Key Questions: 

#1 What does ONAP offer to an enterprise customer (IoT, Financial, Healthcare, Gaming, etc) that we can't get from existing cloud offers or outside the Cloud.

#2 What does ONAP offer on top of that outside of the telco space?

Different Scenarios

1) 3rd party vendors using ONAP to serve their enterprise customers (operating model - managed services)

2) Operators offering solutions to Enterprises (based on 5G Techno - Network Slicing, Virtual Edge, etc) supported by 3rd party vendors

• Feedback from Carriers:
  • Fernando Oliveira- Investment in Gaming, Edge Computing - possibility to re-use ONAP as a key orchestrator
  • Catherine Lefevre -  Edge Computing is the area where AT&T have invested (i.e. Akraino) in conjunction with ONAP possibilities; We have a  Gaming division inherited from TimeWarner but not yet explored added-value of ONAP in this space

3) Enterprise customers running ONAP themselves (on their premises), supported/trained by 3rd party vendors

Additional thought(s)

#1 Investigate what Openstack is offering to Enterprise Business?

#2 Contact Cheng Huang, gyaoguang wang - leading ONAP Support for Vertical Industry (DDF Topic in Feb 2021)

#3 Maybe reconnect with Helen Chenabout Healthcare

#4 Ask TSC members, EAUG if any contact point from their Enterprise Business

#5 Kick-off a survey to get feedback about interest and use cases

Meeting Minutes (LFN Event) - 2/2/2021

• 2021-02-02 - ONAP: TSC Task Force- ONAP For Enterprise Business - LF Networking - Confluence

Meeting Minutes - 2/17/2021

• Review action items from LFN Event
• Importance
  • to rebrand ONAP and its components outside the "Network" domain
  • to be able using ONAP components independently
  • to demonstrate with some real cases ONAP components with other systems/applications (not CNF, PNF, VNF)
  • to use ONAP (or a subset of ONAP) as a black box

• Survey - key items (in progress)
  • Comments: Need to re-adjust the survey and also ONAP message based on "Enterprise" Terminology
  • What are your goals about Cloud migration?
  • Are you already hosting your IT applications in public cloud or private cloud managed by a 3rd party vendors? If not - Where are you in your virtualization journey?
  • What are the different major steps being part of your migration?
  • Which OSS/BSS systems/IT applications will not be part of your virtualisation journey? Hybrid model (Private on prem/Cloud & Public Cloud)
  • (After introducing ONAP) which consumption model do you think you would like to adopt? Or will you adopt another one not listed below? Need to re-adjust the consumption model for Enterprise Business

• Have you any regulatory requirement to be considered?
• Any particular device/standard to be supported and connected to your IT application(s) ?
• Size of production deployment (small/medium/large)? Define "size' for Enterprise Business
• What would you consider "as a service" for your Enterprise Business (which application, what type of IT support, etc?)

• Some material:
  • The Business Case for Deploying SDN in Enterprise Networks
  • SDN in the home: A survey of home network solutions using Software Defined Networking

Meeting Minutes - 3/3/2021

• Invite Walmart to share any potential use cases