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WT-328 | Virtual Business Gateway | This Working Text specifies architecture and requirements for the virtual business gateway. The virtual business gateway architecture describes the migration of functionalities running on a business gateway to the network service provider's infrastructure for enabling network-based features and services. Such migration is expected to simplify the deployment and management of the network and business services. The purpose of this Working Text is to specify the virtual business gateway architecture as well as deployment scenarios. Such architecture would target different business premises sizes, e.g., small and medium enterprises (SMEs), campus, as well as single office and home offices (SOHO). | JIRA contributions | Ron Insler, RAD Data Communications Guiu Fabregas, Nokia |
WT-384 | Framework of Cloud in Central Office | Definition of a reference architectural framework of the Cloud Central Office i.e. defining the behavior of the functional modules and how they interact. The project will: describe a reference architectural framework for the Cloud Central Office; decompose BNG, Access Node and CPEs to functional modules, physical or virtual, with proper granularity; reconstruct into network functions and service processing flows/interfaces between them; and specify how to host VAS VNFs and corresponding service processing flows/interfaces between them. | JIRA contributions | Ding Hai, China Unicom Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies |
WT-408 | CloudCO migration and co-existence |
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WT-411 | Definition of interfaces between Cloud CO Functional Modules | This work will define the Interfaces between the Functional Modules in the Cloud CO Architectural Framework, as well as the Cloud CO Northbound API. Network Transport Protocols will be defined to carry the interface attributes. Furthermore the data models, schemas or APIs that are signaled across them will be defined as well. Existing Open Interface works, as described in Standards and Open Source work will be leveraged as much as possible. It is foreseen that this work will grow incrementally, based upon a series of Cloud CO Application Notes. Cloud CO Application Notes will detail how a certain service is instantiated, maintained and consumed across the Cloud CO Architecture and will detail the necessary interactions between the different Functional Modules in the Architectural Framework, as well as the interactions with the Cloud CO Northbound API in order to achieve the necessary end result. | JIRA contributions | Wei Lin, Huawei Technologies Dharma Rajan, VMware |
WT-412 | Test Cases for Cloud CO Applications | This work will define Test Cases for Cloud CO Applications. Cloud CO scenarios are described in Cloud CO Application Notes. The Cloud CO Application Notes will detail how a certain service is instantiated, maintained and consumed across the Cloud CO Architecture. The Test Cases will be consumed by the Open Broadband Labs, effectively validating the Cloud CO Application Note. | JIRA contributions |
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WT-413 | Migration to SDN-Enabled Management and Control | In the Cloud CO context, WT-413 specifies the management and control framework of Network Functions and a formalism to specify their NBIs to identify the supported macro functionalities and link them to existing/to-be YANG DMs. This work primarily enables the migration from SNMP/MIB towards NETCONF/YANG interfaces and potentially other protocols to exercise not only traditional FCAPS management functions but also fine grained flow control across VNFs and PNFs network service graphs. This is a key step towards Software Networking introduction and in turn the automation and Orchestration of PNFs and VNFs in a Cloud CO type of architecture. The development of this Working Text shall also shape the thinking on the way Cloud CO interfaces, especially for VNFs, are modeled and the opportunity to reuse/extend existing YANG work for that. | JIRA contributions | Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies Mauro Tilocca, Telecom Italia S.p.A |
WT-416 | Use Cases and Scenarios for Cloud Central Office | This CloudCO document complements the CloudCO architectural framework specified in TR-384 and it helps drive a key element of the BBF's strategy in enabling new revenue generating-services, which is articulated in the Forum's Broadband 20/20 vision. It encompasses the Existing Broadband Scenarios used to support the CloudCO architectural framework design and as well the Use Cases that are established using this CloudCO architectural framework. Operators want their networks to be adaptable, agile, scalable and dynamic, while reducing costs. Besides reducing CAPEX and OPEX, shortened time-to-market is much more desired. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in conjunction with general purpose hardware are two powerful tools that are exploited in the industry to optimize current networks. | JIRA contributions | Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies |