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Meeting Highlights are bolded
Name | Representing |
|---|---|
| LFN Staff | |
| Huawei | |
| Kenny Paul | LFN Staff |
| Kaloom | |
| Kader Khan | Wavelabs |
| Aarna Networks | |
| LFN Staff | |
| Heather Kirksey | LFN Staff |
| Sveto Ignjatovic | Kaloom |
| @Pradnesh Dange | |
| Abderaouf KHICHANE | Orange |
| Tracy Van Brakle | AT&T |
@Daniel Nilsson | |
| @Ganesh Venkatraman | Kaloom |
| Ericsson | |
| UNH | |
| @Neil Hoff | |
| Wavelabs | |
| GenXcomm | |
| Kaloom | |
| Huawei | |
| AT&T | |
| LFN Staff | |
| @Amaro Oliveria | |
| @Anindita Raychoudhuri | |
| @Samir Chatterjee | |
| Rajesh Jha | Independent consultant |
| Sascha Desh | |
| Robert Edwards | Matrixx |
| Sandeep Panesar | Turnium |
| Kenny Paul | LFN Staff |
| Heather Kirksey | LFN Staff |
| Mansoor Khan | Wavelabs |
| Yogesh Pandey | Wavelabs |
Agenda/Talking Points:
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Welcome 1st time attendees
Several new names were on the call today. Welcome all. If you have any questions about participating in this effort, please send to Brandon Wick (bwick@linuxfoundation.org) and Louis Illuzzi (lilluzzi@contractor.linuxfoundation.org).
Demo/PoC 2021 & Super Blueprint Jira
When we start to use Jira, how will we track components? We are federating with other upstream projects, e.g. Anuket, ONAP. Cross-tagging possible. ONAP community happy to pilot the initiative with us. We need to better define how we are doing this and what is the process to provide feedback. A separate work stream is being set up in ONAP to help integrate with the 5G Super Blueprint. Looking for a concrete use case & process for participation. Kenny syncing with the ONAP TSC.
Proposal to split Demo/PoC 2021 and Super Blueprint meetings
Group discussed the best way to support both tracks of the work (ongoing demo and new super blueprint work). We will see over time about how this develops. We will start with an informal spit in the agenda to feel this out.
Demo/PoC 2021
FlexRAN + Altran RAN + OpenShift Containers Update (Hanen/Rajat/Sam)
Faraday cage built and ready. Containerization work taking a long time. Option for a work around might be to do a PNF for now (if containerization/orchestration can't be fixed). Hanen/Rajat/Sam to provide an update.
5G Radio Update (Sriram V)
Radio from GenxComm will be packaged up and shipped to Montreal soon.
Heating issue in radio fixed, waiting for the new radio to be shipped (likely end of this month). Once received in US, needs to be shipped to Montreal. Customs with Canada is usually pretty quick.
E2E 5G Slicing Update (Sriram R)
Sriram: ONAP Honolulu up and running, able to do the slicing, with 5G core (at UNH). Built a blueprint between ONAP & 5G Core. Will move this from UNH lab to Montreal lab and integrate with Kaloom UPF. Note: ONAP Honolulu is target for release at the end of the month.
5G Super Blueprint Discussion
LFN staff exploring optimal approach toward technical decision making, licensing, lightweight governance, etc. Developing an area where definitions, tools, etc can be found. Asking LF legal team for input on what might be required, without adding undue overhead. It's important that demo artifacts be make public, available, and accessible. This is needed for easy industry replication and to avoid forks. Best Practice: Upstream first, document all key steps, track outputs, make available. Associating code with a Jira instance. Most of what will go into shared repos is scripts, playbooks, etc. POCs are not production ready, we need to define them. When using commercial components, that needs to be called out and defined. Important to remain vendor neutral. Perhaps adding "multi-vendor, interoperable" to the definition. Include a description around participating labs. Heather to craft an Ethos/FAQ to better define the super blueprint. LFN community members are welcome to use LFN's LaaS to work out demo components. More lab resources from the community are welcome, e.g. TIP.
Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 4, 8:00 AM PT/1500 UTC. Louis is on PTO 05/03 to 05/10, returning 05/11
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5G Super Blueprint Overview
The team concurs to reuse parts of the 5G Cloud Native demo/PoC into the 5G Super Blueprint where is makes sense. And to share technologies and methodologies. For example; common orchestration engine (based on ONAP), 5G-UE and gHB emulators, etc.
Working Group Logistics
Proposal: Use the foundation built by the LFN Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network working group as the "home" of the 5G Super Blueprint.
Track 1: Current Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network + RAN Integration + Network Slicing. Goal: Publish and promote working demo in Summer/Fall
Track 2: 5G Super Blueprint: In parallel, built a 5G Super Blueprint (specs, scripts, instructions, etc) covering the phases presented earlier.
The tracks will use the SAME: Wiki, Mailing List, Slack Channel, & Meeting Schedule (to start). As needed, we could potentially split out a separate 5G Super Blueprint call, sub-section of the wiki, Slack Group, etc.
Channels:
LFN TAC Whitepaper
Parking Lot: