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How XGVela Complements Sylva for Telco PaaS
Cloud-native infrastructure technology is constantly advancing, with #Kubernetes and other layers as CaaS and PaaS playing a crucial role. While these technologies have made significant progress in meeting the requirements of Telco applications, there are still areas where further evolution is needed. In order to address these gaps, XGVela Complements Sylva for Telco PaaS needs.
XGVela PaaS capabilities for the 5G network :
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The advantages that XGVela based for telco application and telco cloud features:
- The heartbeat/healthcheck need to be much faster for telco app compared to regular non-telco microservices.
- Kubernetes supports the liveness/readiness which are in the orders of 10s of seconds. However, telco app needs sub second heartbeat check.
- Dynamic injections of configuration to the telco network functions required without restarting network functions.
- Typical network functions contains multiple smaller microservices to realize overall telco functionality. Health checks and monitoring should be across the components of the network function instead of individual PODs.
- Topology of a network function consisting of multiple microservices, how the traffic flowing across services is critical for the monitoring.
Opportunities to generalize certain Telco specific functions such as subscriber tracing, Lawful Intercept (LI), CDR (Call Data Records), etc.
The fault management service implements 3GPP compliant fault and alarm management model and provides interfaces for application µService to publish and subscribe to various events.
Kubernetes does not meet fast HA requirements needed for certain Telco stateful services, whereas it provides overlay HA capability by supporting Active-Standby model in a distributed scalable fashion
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Next Steps
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1 | Prepare a Demo to showcase XGVela deployment along with Sylva on one Cloud Provider/Baremetal, possibly along with sample network function to walkthrough Telco cloud feature set. | ||
2 | Identify the integration touch points and its gaps (if any) surfaced as part of demo activity and plan in XGVela Roadmap | ||
3 | Adoption Layer to General PaaS : Usage of Cloud Provider's native observability components (like AWS cloudwatch etc) for XGVela Telco PaaS layer |
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# | Name | URL |
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1 | XGVela Technical Architecture | XGVela Technical Architecture - XGVela - LF Networking Confluence |
2 | Sylva Architecture | Sylva – Linux Foundation Projects Site (sylvaproject.org) |