Attendance: LJ Illuzzi 

Agenda:

  • 5GSBP Library is ready to go
    • Proposal to add a column for higher level network function associated with each entry, example; slicing, security, UPF integration, IoT (visual inspection), etc.
  • End-to-End deployment of an eBPF-based Free5GC Core - Library inclusion?
    • Might be of interest to orgs with sensitive standards for deployment (sensitive workload segmentation), finance, government, etc.
  • November D&TF Planning
    • Opportunities-
      • End-to-End deployment of an eBPF-based Free5GC Core
        • first, generic capabilty of secure workloads
        • then show how secure workloads of eUPF in 5G Use case can be accomplished
      • 5G SBP Library - LJ
        • What is the 5G SBP Library? (mind maps). Inform users/readers and be able to take the next steps with find the right capability and use the information. Different capabilities to put together 5G services
        • High level overview of each project currently in development (SABREs, SEDIMENT, ORAN SMO, Edge site selection)
        • How to get involved
        • Process- how to submit a proposal
        • Build out talking points; work with Muddasar


 

Attendance: LJ Illuzzi Muddasar Ahmed Ranny Haiby 

Agenda:

  • LFN Antitrust Policy

  • 5G Super Blueprint Library

    • Additional Inputs -
      • May need to adjust titles to make it more intuitive- gear it toward the end user, (IT manager, busines need)
      • RA can be/may be split into 2 titles
    • Rollout Plan
  • November D&TF Planning
    • Opportunities-
      • RA with Accuknox and KubeArmor - show existing demo to larger audience.
      • SABREs
      • ORAN SMO (Aarna)
      • Nephio- deploying RAN work loads, etc. (Muddasar). Interest from Research Group in India (NgKore.io?). Funding for intership.
  • What are the SABREs capabilities plan for 2024, as needed for DARPA. Sync with David
  • Simplified Slicing- what are the baselines for 5G?


 

Attendance: LJ Illuzzi ,Rodney Elder , Ganesh Venkatraman 

  • Turn "finished" 5G SBP D&TF sessions into deliverables:

  • Blueprint Outputs

    check all that apply:

    • Code repository
    • Configuration files (e.g. Helm charts, etc.)
    • Upstreaming to relevant projects 
    • Continuous Integration
    • Test requirements and test results (if applicable)
    • Documentation:
      • Overview and Theory of Operation (i.e., what does it do?)
      • Deployment and setup
    • Videos
      • demo
      • lab setup/behind the scenes
      • other
    • Presentation
  • Input on Wednesday meeting (instead of Tuesday)


 

Attendance: LJ Illuzzi Rodney Elder Ranny Haiby Ganesh Venkatraman David McBride 

  • New wednesday meeting time starting 05/17
  • June D&TF - need to urge session topics and registration:
    • Potential 5G SBP Topics: not intended to be finished PoC; rather discussions on current work with the intent to promote collaboration and interest.
  • 5G SBP Whitepaper/eBook: Lessions Learned- input from the community
  • Wednesday 05/17 meeting will include SABRES presentation


 

Attendance:Rodney Elder Ranny Haiby David McBride LJ Illuzzi 


How do we jump start Edge Placement Project?


 

Attendance:

Agenda-

2023 events planning on 04/18 call - Heather

New Projects (Equinix/Accuknox)- updates

  • Edge Placement - link to Use Case
  • SEDIMENT packaging for Accuknox deployment for 5G SBP use case

PCEI Project Updates


 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi Rodney Elder Ranny Haiby 

Agenda:


 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi Ranny Haiby Rodney Elder 


Agenda

  • Proposal for a 5G SBP community survey
  • Work Activities- defining and laying out a workplan
  • LFN Mentorship Program


Initial Thoughts:

  • Proposal for a 5G SBP community survey.
    • Purpose- to identify community skill-sets, time availability to contribute (more then just meeting attendance), interest areas, .....
  • Opening- Thank you for being part of the 5G Super Blueprint community and taking this brief 8 question survey. The purpose of this survey is to discover additional skill-sets within the community, interest areas within the community, and gain insights into what accomplishments the community would like the 5G Super Blueprint to achieve in the next 12 months.
    • Types of questions:
      • Page 1- anonymity
        • What originally drew you to attend 5G SBP meetings - pick list of reasons + other (fill-in)
          • Business development for my company (getting in touch with potential customers)
          • Providing expertise and positioning myself/my company as a thought leader
          • Participating in a common learning experience with a community
          • Driving the technology solution in a direction that is aligned with my/my company's vision
          • Just curious
          • Other (please specify)
        • What are your current interest areas in the 5G SBP if different?
          • 5G RAN
          • Mobile packet core
          • Automation
          • NaaS
          • Enterprise Networking
          • Public Cloud/Edge Cloud
          • Networking apps
          • Edge workloads
          • Other (please specify)
        • How does your company benefit from the 5G SBP?
          • Leveraging community shared knowledge
          • Showcasing our leadership
          • External exposure
          • Other (please specify)
        • List 3 things you and/or your company would like to see the 5G SBP community accomplish in the next 12 months?
          • Use cases:________
          • Software components:________
          • Target market:_______
          • Publications:_________
          • Industry event participation:_________________
          • Other:_______
      • Page 2 - no anonymity
        • What specific contributions would you and/or your company like to make to the 5G SBP in the next 12 months?
          • Engineering resources to build and document the solution
          • Physical lab
          • Cloud/Edge infrastructure resources
          • Other (please specify)
        • What skill sets can you and/or your company bring to the 5G SBP?
          • Solution Architecture Expertise
          • System Integration Engineering
          • Technical writing and marketing (Whitepapers, blogs, e-book, webinars)
          • Other (please specify)
        • Do you have experience with automation?
          • ONAP
          • Nephio
          • EMCO
          • Closed source automation/orchestration
          • Other (please specify)
        • Can you and/or your company commit development time in the 5G SBP labs? If so quantify
        • multiple choice options
      • Can we followup with you with an email?


  • Work Activities- defining and laying out a workplan:
  1. Establish/Re-establish permanet 5G Network capability in the labs
    • Must have requirments:
      1. Core
      2. RAN
      3. Automation end-to-end
      4. .....
    • Workplan:
      1. Step 1
        • Task
        • Technical resources needed
      2. Step2
        • Task
        • Technical resources needed
      3. Step 3 ....
  2. NaaS
    • Must have requirments:
      1. LFN and LF Edge projects at the core, cloud, & edge
      2. Enterprise Use Case(s)
      3. ...
  3. Enterprise Use Cases



  • Potential for the a 5G SBP project under the LFN Mentorship Program
    • During the LFN TAC meeting on 03/01 the question was asked if the 5G SBP could benefit from the mentorship program and vise-verse.
    • Considerations:
      • Will need a community member to serve as "Mentor"
      • Draft a project proposal:
        • Bring Nehio into the lab?
        • Automation? Leverage EMCO in Hyderabad (Wavelabs)
        • Time is of the essense (program deadlines)



 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi Muddasar Ahmed Kenny Paul 


Agenda/Notes

  • Ops5G Demo- "Over the Air 5G UE Connection to SD-Core". The Ops-5G team would like to present this demop to the 5G SBP community. Potential for a Deep Dive call
    • Value statement . Ask for a preview
  • NaaS Use Cases

  • 2023-02 - 5G SBP: Birds of Feather: Is there value in adding Nephio?

    • Next Steps-
      • Community participation. Top priority
        • GXC- Hardik
        • Amar
        • Satish (IBM)
        • Wavelabs (K8?)
        • Kaloom
        • Needed skills: K8 (Wavelabs/UNH), RAN (GXC/Kaloom), Core (Amar/Kaloom)
        • As needed support
        • Project Plan & Skills needed per phase.
        • Phases 
          • Where do we get network. Who is supplying the network, IP pool, VLAN design
          • Build K8 (or VM)
          • Nephio/EMCO
          • Network Functions; RAN and Core
          • Network Functions Day 1 configurations
          • Enterprise Application(s)/Use Case(s)
      • MEC Use Case/application (agriculture, medical, retail, etc.)
      • NaaS tie-in
        • IP Transport as a Service. Front haul/backhaul
        • RAN as a service
        • Core as a Service
        • MEC as a Service




 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi Ranny Haiby Muddasar Ahmed Ganesh Venkatraman 

Notes:

  • NaaS Use Cases
    • how do we break down NaaS in terms of 5G
      • Slicing & sub-components
    • What are the User Story(s)
      • MNOs will have order fulfillment self- service portal
      • 5G needs-  network connectivity, need edge compute facitlities, intelligent data sharing
      • What are the network components/sub-components?: RAN, backhaul, edge cloud, 5G application services
      • varying SLAs
  • Next steps with IBM Use Cases
    • Ganesh- IBM has disconnected and is reusing training server for MWC. Working with Jason Hunt
    • IoT Use Case weather and agriculture (soil testing, moisture, etc)
      • Develop User Story- need to highlight 5G attributes. how do we build on hard hat Use Case to add open source platforms, automation, etc.
      • Develop architecture- currently in prelim stage
    • Retail Use Cases- (after MWC)
      • IBM/Walmart
      • IBM/TMobile 
  • Self-Assessing SLAs with Hyperledger Fabric
    • Webinar on Feb 9
    • Post Webinar questions:
      • Is there value/Use Case(s) for 5G SBP?
      • What is the LOE to include in 5G SBP?
      • High level of technical guidance needed- Hyperledger Telecom SIG as use case owner?
    • Assessment- this is very forward looking technology. Nice-to-have
      • consider roadmapping this technology
  • 02-07-23 - Bi-Weekly Status Meeting - Draft Agenda



 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi

Muddasar Ahmed 

Ganesh Venkatraman 


Agenda:

  • Antitrust Policy
  • Lab Updates (Ganesh):
    • RAN solution- eliminate faraday cage
    • Creation of BOM as consumable for end-users
      • Each participating company provide a BOM, then consolidate into an overall 
    • Next steps with IBM use case(s) - demo at IBM Dallas lab
    • How to position ORAN-SC
    • How to utilize Wavelabs lab in Hydrabad- lacency may be an issue
      • potential to install ORAN-SC to create gNB
      • automation dev and test
      • Setup call with Wavelabs call after documentation.
  • Looking ahead to 2023:
  • Next Advisory Group meeting January 9, 2023


 

Agenda:

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi

Muddasar Ahmed 


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Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi

Martial

Muddasar

Ganesh





 

Attendance:

LJ Illuzzi

Heather Kirksey

Rodney Elder

David Armbrust (Mitre)

Ben Posthuma (GXC)

Ranny Haiby

Abhijit Patil

Martial Ngueko (AT&T)

Sundar Nadathur (Intel, EMCO)

Bob Heinemann

Ganesh Venkatraman (Kaloom)

Muddasar Ahmed (Mitre)





 

Attendance:


Agenda;

  • Antitrust Policy
  • What are the core requirements of a 5G Super Blueprint and Use Case?
  • How is a 5G Super Blueprint documented?
    • Are the right questions being asked to get to a documentation process?

Action Items:


 

Attendance:


Agenda:

Action Items:


  Next meeting 11:30am ET, 8:30am PST

Recording

Chat File

Attendance:

@Abhi Patil

Neil Hoff

@lawrence Kerr

Brandon Wick

Nadathur Sundar

Oleg Berzin

Ranny Haiby

Bob Monkman

Muddasar Ahmed

@Ryan McAllister

Haseem Ahmed

Michael August

Heather Kirksey


Agenda:

  • Review Use Case Wiki Page and Use Case submission template
  • Proposal- 5G SBP "Releases"- New use cases, updated use cases, etc. Proposal for every quarter: "5G SBP Fall2022 Release", "5G SBP Winter2023 Release", "5G SBP Spring2023 Release", etc.
  • Proposal- "Tracks" and "Use Cases"

    • Track: Orchestration

      Use Case (under Orchestration Track): Orchestration of Magma with ONAP

      Use Case (under Orchestration Track): Orchestration of Free5GC with EMCO

  • Security SIG- Muddasar Ahmed (Mitre)- asked about non-functional reuirements; "security orchestration". Ranny suggests we will need to have the capability to demostrate security capabilities. Ranny suggests a security "champion" needs to step foreward. Potential for a security SIG under the Advisory Council - add to June 6 agenda
  • Meeting day/time and cadence
  • June 5G SBP Meetings

Attendance:



 Kickoff Meeting 

Recording not available

Attendance:

@Haseem Ahmed

Bob Monkman

@Oleg Berzin

LJ Illuzzi(LFN)

Ranny Haiby (LF)

@martialNgueko(AT&T)

Nadathur Sundar(Intel)

Proposed Agenda:

  • Discussion on 5G Core- Magma TSC is looking at a dual core approach, with the 2nd core being Free5GC or OAI. Recommendations have been put forth that 5G SBP should wait on a core decision until this is sorted out.
    • Magma
      • Magma TSC is looking at a dual core approach, with the 2nd core being Free5GC or OAI
    • Free5GC
    • OAI
    • Open5GS
    • Reference: Lab Architecture Draft
  • Meeting Cadence and Next Meeting - June 6, 11:30am EST


Action Items:

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