PLANO, Texas, March 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:
ERIC) has collaborated with AT&T to deploy the world's first
lifecycle management based on ONAP software for network slices at
various enterprise locations. The physical radio and virtualized
core network elements were configured, and the virtual network
elements orchestrated, in an automated manner to be part of the
targeted network slices.
One of the key accomplishments of this demonstration was to
ensure robustness of both the infrastructure and ONAP elements,
while demonstrating network slices at the same time. In addition,
existing network components such as the radio base station and a
Mobility Management Entity (MME) were modeled to define a new
service that represented the network slice.
As opposed to manual workflows, network slices can now be
created using a single click that executes a multi-tiered workflow
in an automated manner. The lessons learned from this exercise will
be contributed back to the ONAP community.
Hank Kafka, Vice President of
Access Architecture and Standards, AT&T says, "Developing and
consuming open source software is one of the key tenets of
AT&T's network strategy. We're excited to collaborate with
Ericsson and other ONAP members in order to advance ONAP-based
software platforms and enable other carriers to use it to
demonstrate and manage network slices."
AT&T and Ericsson are fully committed to advance the
evolution of ONAP as a key viable open source automation platform
through active collaboration with rest of the industry.
Mats Karlsson, Vice President and
Head of Solution Area OSS, Ericsson says, "ONAP provides key
components for Ericsson's end-to-end OSS portfolio that optimizes
the total cost of ownership for our customers. Ericsson will
continue to work with AT&T and rest of the industry to innovate
with ONAP and advance carrier-grade ONAP elements."
At a recent meeting for the ONAP Casablanca release, Ericsson
successfully demonstrated a new Performance Management (PM) Mapper
function to convert 3GPP based PM XML files to ONAP specified VNF
Event Streaming PM events. Ericsson is one of the top ten
contributors to ONAP and will continue to play a significant role
in projects such as network slicing, bulk PM features and PNF
onboarding.
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