Tagline / Mission | Empower the global communications community to deliver reliable and secure network services faster. | ||
Elevator Pitch (30 word) | Anuket provides standardized infrastructures for both virtual machine-based and containerized network functions, enabling providers to shorten onboarding from weeks and months to hours and days, reducing costs and accelerating digital transformation. BobM: Alternatively: Anuket delivers standardized infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for both virtualized and containerized network functions, enabling onboarding in hours or days, instead of weeks or months, reducing costs and accelerating digital transformation. BFC: Anuket delivers standardized reference infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions, enabling faster, more robust onboarding into production, reducing costs and accelerating telecom digital transformations. | ||
Elevator Pitch (50 word) | Bob M: Anuket delivers standardized reference architectures and conformance verification frameworks for both virtualized and containerized cloud infrastructure and network function solutions, based on a common reference model specification, thereby enabling onboarding those solutions in hours or days, instead of weeks or months, reducing costs and accelerating digital transformation. BFC: Anuket delivers standardized reference infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions, enabling faster and more robust onboarding into production, reducing costs and accelerating telecom digital transformation. The project supports ongoing strategic activities and evaluation of emerging technologies for the Telecom industry. | ||
Elevator Pitch (100 word) | BobM: Anuket empowers the global communications community, working together to design and deliver standardized reference architectures, tools and conformance verification frameworks, for both virtualized and containerized cloud infrastructure and network function solutions, based on a common reference model specification, The result of this close collaboration and iterative improvements is to dramatically lower the time and cost required to onboard those solutions, from what today takes weeks or months to only hours or days. Anuket is all about improving the efficiency of, and accelerating digital transformation for the benefit of the entire ecosystem, including end customers. BFC: The LFN Anuket project’s mission is to enable members from the Telecom communities; operators and supporting companies alike, to mutually develop standardized reference infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions and workloads, enabling faster and more robust onboarding into production, reducing costs and accelerating telecom digital transformation. These artifacts include integrated, tested, and validated open software reference infrastructure (including interfaces to hardware) that will be used to design a conformance framework and validation programs, that support ongoing strategic activities with other standards bodies, and evaluation of emerging technologies for the Telecom industry. | ||
Market Dynamic | [Include reference history of Anuket (GSMA, LF, CNTT, OPNFV). Emphasize cooperation / collaboration. Include references to 5G, Cloud Native, and Edge]. The Telecom Industry is in the process of remaking itself as it rolls out 5G and other innovative new services. Cloud Native applications, standardized infrastructure for network functions and Edge architectures are all needed to support these initiatives. Anuket, formed out of the merger two Linux Foundation entities, CNTT and OPNFV, is the transformative organization needed to create a new and better understanding and capability of the infrastructures across the Telecom Industry to plot our future. To further amplify its mission, it works in partnership with GSMA and other open source communities of industry-leading CSPs and NFVI/VNF suppliers, as a truly global collaborative effort. | ||
Value Proposition | Service providers find that network functions require specialized cloud infrastructures. Because of this lack of standardization across the industry, each function may require its own unique infrastructure platform, leading to increased costs, longer onboarding times, and more complex operational support requirements. Anuket empowers the global communications community by creating a reference cloud infrastructure model, architectures, tools, and programs to deliver network services faster, more reliably, and securely. Benefits:
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Artifacts | Reference Model | Reference Architectures | Reference Implementations, Testing and Conformance frameworks |
Capabilities (How deliver on the benefits) | The reference model documentation allows vendors and operators in the Telecom industry to work from a single point of reference on how to build infrastructure to support VNFs and CNFs. The documents are available as the base for the Reference Architectures and other downstream documents, code and frameworks. It is also given to the GSMA, which publishes the documents after additional vetting, as Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model | [TBD] | [TBD] |
Target Audiences | Network Operators | Network Function Vendor | Infrastructure Vendor |
Why should I Invest? | Leveraging a common infrastructure and participating in a global, open source community and ecosystems the future of network transformation. Common service provider requirements are met for both infrastructure and network functions by vendors -- reducing costs by reducing the number of individual clouds and the time to onboard individual functions. | By creating conformant versions of your products, you can assure customers that your network functions will deploy and run easily on their existing infrastructure. | By creating conformant versions of your products, you can assure customers that their network functions will deploy and run easily, and will not require heavy support in order to get them running. |
Business Angle: | Telecom operators will benefit from the reduced complexity of maintaining multiple infrastructure platforms include reduced capital expenses, operating expenses, and faster | The Telecom community operators and vendors alike, will benefit from creating a common infrastructure platform in terms of | The Telecom community operators and vendors alike, will benefit from creating a common infrastructure platform in terms of |
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Keywords: | Telecom, Reference Model, Infrastructure, | ||
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