Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)

Architecture Overview
Vimal Begwani – AT&T
Lingli Deng – China Mobile
Outline

 Motivation and Background

 Meta Data Driven Strategy
 ONAP Architecture Overview
 Illustrative Flow: Design, Deploy and Operate
Key Imperatives and Drivers for ONAP:
 As We Move Towards Software Defined Networks and Virtualized Network Functions, We Need
a New Approach for Operational Management Framework to Realize the Following Objectives:
 Increase Value of the Network:
‒ Rapidly on-board new services
‒ Facilitate new business & revenue models
‒ Make Network Programmable in real-time
 Reduce Capex:
‒ Reduce / Eliminate dependency on development cycles
‒ Dynamically adjust capacity & Allocate Resource When / Where Needed
‒ Lower aggregated spare capacity
 Reduce OpEx:
‒ Automated service delivery and activation with Zero Touch Flow Through
‒ Policy & Analytics-driven closed loop optimization

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 Meta Data Driven ONAP Platform Strategy
ONAP Design Time Framework ONAP Execution Time Framework

 Catalog-driven Graphical design

 Meta-data driven execution
studio to:
modules to:
−Define Recipes for instantiating &
− Instantiate VNFs, Configure VNFs &
Configuring VNFs & Services Deploy

E2E Services
− Design Monitoring & Managing
− Track Active & Available Inventory
VNFs & Services
− Monitor and Take Automatic
 Test & Validate artifacts
Corrective Action
 Distribute meta-data to Execution
 Operational Dashboard
Environment
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ONAP Platform

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Proposed ONAP Merged Architecture
E – Services BSS / OSS Big Data

ONAP Portal Dashboard External Data Movement & APIs

OA&M
Operation Active & Available
Service Orchestrator
Administration Inventory
Service Design & Creation & Maintenance
VNF SDK

Common Services, Data Movement, Access Control & APIs

Policy Creation
Controllers
Data Collection &
Analytic Application Design Analytics SDN Infra. network App. VF
Agent Cont Cont Cont Cont
Operational Functions
Recipe/Engineering 3rd Party VNFM /
Controller EMS
Rules & Policy ONAP
Distribution
Controller
Storage Compute
Design Functions Networking
VNFs / Applications
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Proposed ONAP Merged Architecture Service Orchestrator (SO)
E – Services• Orchestrates
BSS /andOSS Bigdelivery,
manages the Data
modification or removal of networks &
Active & Available Inventory services
(A&AI) • Provides cross domain orchestration and
ONAP Portal Dashboard External Data Movement
coordination& APIs
• Real-time topology map with context
• Integrate TOSCA end-to-end orchestration
views of virtual networks,
OA&Mservices
and applications Operation Active & Available
• Uses the network resources as the Service Orchestrator
Administration
database of record due to their Inventory
Service Design & Creation & Maintenance
dynamic nature
VNF SDK

Common Services, Data Movement, Access Control & APIs

Policy Creation
Controllers
Data Collection &
Analytic Application Design Analytics SDN Infra. network App. VF
Design Platform Cont Cont
Agent Cont Controllers Cont
• Service Design: environment to define
service and resource, constraints, Operational Functions • Network: Configuration Management of VNFs, infrastructure
instantiation & modification recipes. Data Collection, Analytics & Events 3networking
rd Party & WANs VNFM /
Recipe/Engineering Controller EMS
• Policy Creation: Associate anomalous (DCAE) • Service/App: configures & manages of Service VFs
Rules & Policy
and actionable conditions with ONAP
• Collects Telemetry Data from VNFs and • VF-C: works with DCAE, policy and orchestrator to provide
Distribution
automated remedy actions Controller
other sources Life cycle and FCAPS management for complicated VNFs, and
• Provides SDK to onboard and certify • Analytic Applications Detect Anomalous Storage
provides adaptors to support vendor EMS / VNF-Manager
Compute
Design
Vendor VNFs Functions conditions • SDN Agent: adaptor for 3rp party controllers.
• Publishes Actionable conditions Networking
• Infrastructure: Configuration Management of infrastructure
VNFs / Applications
(compute, storage, etc.)
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ONAP Illustrative Flow: Design, Deploy and Operate

Operator Domain Run Time Framework

Design Time Framework External APIs
❺ ❼ ❻ SO E2E Service
❶ ❸ VF Onboarding
VF Design
Catalog A&AI Orchestration & Mgmt
(Verification, LCM testing,
Deliver Benchmarking, Certification) Distribute Common Service
❷
VF Package
❹ ❹ ❹ ❽ DCAE ❻ ❻ ❻ ❻ ❻
Service Policy Analysis Data Collection, SDN Infra Net App VF
Design Design Design Analysis & Event Agent Cont Cont Cont Cont

Vendor
Domain ❻ 3rd party ❻ 3rd party
Cont VNFM/EMS
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