Section 1.1: ONAP's value
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& relevance for the industry
We are increasingly living in a "Now Economy", everyone expects everything to be instant and in real time.
Delays and long turn around times are fawned upon and are increasingly becoming bottlenecks for a seamless digital experience for consumers in every industry.
While communications industry helps in enabling everyone around us to be connected and be a part of "Now Economy", we ourselves need to be much better at it.
Disruptive technology and collective global initiatives needed for propelling us to such a digital future is impacting communications
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Technology disruption and global initiatives for a Digital future world has influenced Telco industry more than any other; primarily due to the reason fact that Telco’s we provide a the critical infrastructure whose agility and future readiness acutely adds value to economy, digitization and required.
Agility with nimbleness, and efficiency with speed, which are required for this disruptive digitization and inevitable future, ultimately enables this smart society across a wide range of verticals including health, education, tourism, scientific and technology research to mention a few etc...
Considering the importance and value coming derived from infrastructure modernization Telco’s have undergone , communication providers are undergoing through major transformation programs around embracing Cloud, deploying NFV , & SDN and launching 5G.
These new initiatives are impacting not only technical architectures but infact redefining and creating new business models and services for a Digital Telco addressing the future customer requirements for a large range of data hungry applications. On top of it possibility which a digital communication provider needs for addressing the demands from "Now Economy" consumers.
Possibility to host future services on the Cloud have put Telco’s cloud (or in a sense direct competitors of hyper scale cloud providers who are more nimble, agile and efficient to deliver a omni channel to reach and deliver value to customers.cloud like manner) has posited communication providers into a unique position.
Choices & directions are wide and challenges are huge, along with the network capabilities that communication providers know and understand well, we are having to on one hand compete with OTT / Hyperscalers and at the other hand learn from them and usher in a collaborative future of "Now Economy" opportunities.
Key is to be nimble & agile to deliver excellent customer experience while becoming more efficient and make network transparent to its users / consumers.
Technology and Infrastructure modernization has gravitated higher value from hardware towards software and that points the needle towards "As A Service" construct.
Software concepts drifts service Technology and Infrastructure modernization have shifted the value chain from hardware to software and which mandates Service design, deployment and management needs to evolve towards new agile paradigms to promptly react which promptly reacts to customer needs and to optimize overall costs .The finally Telco’s future operation (FMO) need to be changed with focussing more on Data to bring Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence(AI) advantages to the Telco world .
on one hand, while optimizing our network & costs on the other.
Finally communication provider's future mode of operation needs to be changed, focus now is much more on data - this brings concepts like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) into the communications world.
We have to create a platform which enables this 2-sided approach, is based on open standards and is completely software based. Such a platform must have some key features - As A Service Exposure, Service Orchestration, Template Based Service Design, Data Analytics, Network & Application Controllers, Operational Tools etc... to name a few.
Availability of such a platform will help communication providers with the required business transformation and will Such results can only be achieved by the introduction of a service orchestrator that can address both the business transformation and solve operational pain points to coordinate and automate management of cloud, networking and application workloads in both physical and virtual world and the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) was formed to address and solve these challenges.
Atul - Do we want to specifically called out service orchestrator ??? ONAP is much more than SO ?
Saad: As major Operators are defining E2E SO layer that will include all possible functions comnig from ONAP , so E2E SO looks a best stanza defining it , will update after group call as per consensus
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The future landscape of industry is rapidly changing and will require to re-define caveats of Moore’s law and Shannon limits covering a wider industry use cases backed by a rich ecosystem.
Such a holistic future ambition can only surely be achieved if Telco’s communication providers embrace power of collaboration and crowdsourcingcrowd-sourcing.
In the this new era Telco , communication industry is pooling and sharing best resources for initiatives where previously they have competed.
As we know, Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) was formed to address exactly the same.
Since the time Telco communications industry embarked on its journey to towards this transformation, more or less everybody agreed agrees on principles of opensource initiatives to deliver deliver exponential value, however it is also a reality that the presence of so many open source initiatives in each domain makes it difficult to evaluate, benchmark vendors MVP products and select carrier grade solutions.ONAP, thanks to the effort of Telco Industry stakeholders across a wider ecosystem is a solution that aims also to complement standards efforts (ETSI, 3GPP, MEF, 5G,MEC, TM Forum, OPNFV,OVP ...) to accelerate market adoption by merging the
ONAP aims to complement efforts by various standards organizations (Example - ETSI - MANO, ZSM & MEC, 3GPP - 4G, 5G, Radio, MEF, TMForum, OPNFV, OVP and many others) to accelerate market adoption.
ONAP is a software manifestation of innate SDOs knowledge and experience with the collaborative innovation and openness offered by open source.
Evidently Currently there is a growing collaboration in SDN/NFV standards/open source communities, and this harmonization effort is paving the way towards the adoption of software driven networking innovation.
Here to add ONAP info getting some text already available about road map, etc….?? Frankfurt key targets and road map need a diagram (Cecilia, Beth) ?
Section 1.2: Purpose of the Paper
EUAG (End User advisory group ) has has been created by LFN (Linux Foundation) to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations, highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community; .
EUAG is made of individuals from end-user organizations, including telecommunications carriers, cable operators, network, application, compute or storage service providers.
Being the voice of end users EUAG , it is important to support the vision of ONAP and its adoption in the industry and in at the same time to contribute for use cases and requirements quantification which delivers to deliver maximum value to the industry as a whole. ONAP EUAG has taken the initiative of this paper to share
EUAG's ONAP working group is authoring this paper, which is aimed towards sharing the views on most important challenges impeding considerations as well as impediments towards seamless adoption of ONAP.
We want to articulate various and consumption models that will which are out there to support end users to deploy towards deploying ONAP framework and solutions in the communication networks.
In this paper EUAG community will try to address following queries and challenges -
1.2.1 How to consume ONAP in organizations
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