Objective
As XGVela Telco PaaS has rich feature set to manage and monitor Network functions, this paper trying to evaluate the fitment of XGVela to Telco PaaS requirements of Project Sylva and identify integration gaps and aligning roadmaps.
About Project Sylva
The project Sylva is an industry grade cloud native platform to cover telco and edge use cases. Started as exploratory mode by 5 carriers Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Vodafone ,Orange and Two network vendors Ericsson and Nokia. It defines a framework with all prerequisites - 5G, OpenRAN, EDGE cases and provides reference implementation covering specific Hardware, network cards, GPU with multi tenancy, service mesh advanced security, sustainability features.
Key Objectives:
- Simplify & Automate the operational model
- Interoperability - Validation program, large adoption
- Reduce the fragmentation of the Telco Cloud
- Reduce Cost (opensource, mutualization) and avoid lock-in
Sylva is amalgamation of multiple open source components from CNCF, LF Networking and Edge. It consists of IaaS, CaaS and PaaS layers. Even Though the primary focus Kubernetes, it also has legacy support of Openstack, VMware etc.,
About XGVela
XGVela is a telecom cloud native PaaS platform for 5G and future network cloud. It is targeting on delivering common and reusable PaaS capabilities required in the processes of network function development/running, network cloud management/maintenance, network cloud capability exposure and etc., so that applications are lightweight and contain only code to deliver the intended business logic. Also its management-related Telco PaaS functions implements services, configuration management, fault management, log management, performance management, topology management and high availability for the managed NFs.
How XGVela Complements Sylva for Telco PaaS
Next Steps
| # | Activity | Remarks | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |