The Akraino community was proud to announce the availability of its release 1 on June 6th. The community has experienced extremely rapid growth over the past year, in terms of both membership and community activity. Before Akraino, developers had to download multiple open source software packages and integrate/test on deployable hardware, which prolonged innovation and increased cost. The Akraino community came up with a brilliant way to solve this integration challenge with the Blueprint model. An Akraino Blueprint is not just a diagram; it’s real code that brings everything together so users can download and deploy the edge stack in their own environment to address a specific edge use case. Learn more about the Akraino Edge Stack. In this talk, we will share details about R1 blueprints and their use, R2 goals, and how to engage and contribute to the Akraino Community.

1. Your Path to Edge Computing
- Akraino Edge Stack Update
Monday, September 30 • 6:40 - 7:20 pm
Tina Tsou – TSC, Co-Chair

2. What is Akraino Edge Stack Blueprint?
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Benefits: Low Cost Large Scale
Zero Touch
Provisioning
Industry
Adoption
Use Case Based Fully Integrated End to
End Solution (CI / CD)
Proven and Tested by
Community
Production QualityCommunity Life Cycle
Support
Akraino Blueprints
OCP
Whitebox/OEM
H/W
Community Integrated, tested, deployable, end to end Edge Stack

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Gateways(Thin and Thick) Industrial/ Telco
Radio Edge
Appliances/HCI
MDCEdge On-Prem DC
Edge
Telco/Cloud
Edge
ELIOT
IOTGW/uCPE
Radio EdgeCloud
(REC)
Network Cloud
(Unicycle, Rover)
IEC
(Type 1 & 2)
Far Edge
StarlingX
Provider AccessEdge(PAE)
› Delivered 10 Blueprints for
variety of Edge Use Case in
June,2019
› Addressed Telco, Enterprise
and IOT Edge Use Cases.
› All Blueprints were CI/CD
tested in lab.
Akraino R1: Unifying the Edge
R1 Blueprints in Akraino Edge Stack
Robust Community Contribution from across the globe

4. Akraino R2: Industry enabler
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Enhancements &
More Blueprints
Community Lab &
Validation
Mandatory security
and conformance
testing
API SpecsLiaison with Other
community
Supplier of Blueprints to O-RAN, ONF, ONAP, LF Edge and other communities
Wiki Community lab: https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Community+Lab

5. O-RAN Enabler
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O-RAN – RAN disaggreagation
• Virtualized Network Elements
• White Box Hardware
• Standardized Interfaces
Akraino Community Blueprints
can supply end to end EdgeStack
to support Virtualized Network
Elements (NFVI) as per O-RAN
requirements

6. Akraino R1 – Radio Edge Cloud
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Benefits:
Fully
Integrated appliance to
address O-RAN requirements
Fully Automated/ Zero Touch
Provisioning
X86 and Arm
Supports OCP Whitebox & OEM
H/W

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Requirements and
Specifications
O-RAN WG (s)
Wiki/Jira
LF Community Wiki/Jira
Akraino Community
Blueprint (s)
Akraino
Blueprint validated/ lab tested/delivered
O-RAN SC (INF/INT)
O-RAN Code
Integration Upstream
Integration
S/W (K8, ONAP,etc.,) H/w
(OCP, OEM)
Additional integration in
Users
Feedback loop
O-RAN TIFG
E2E Certification
Liaison between O-RAN & Akraino

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Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) blueprint family
Highlights
• IEC can run as individual
Blueprint/stack or as a
component within other
blueprint to support
Arm Chipset
• IEC Blueprint family can
support Arm and/or
X86
• Supports Cloud Native
Network Equipment Switch/GW
Edge Servers or
Networking Edge Platform
Acceleration
Smart NICs
FPGA/GPU
Integrated Accelerators
Controller
Calico, NSM, xConnect
Contiv/VPP
Lightweight App
orchestration
Real Time Linux distribution
SR-IOV, DPDK
Infra Orchestration
and Installer
Kubernetes
Fuel @OPNFV
VPP,OVS
Networking
Software
Apps Apps
Bare metal Container
Linux System
Networking
OVN-K8s
Knative Kubeflow EdgeX
Containerized Compass

9. Arm architecture support on Radio Edge Cloud (REC)
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Enhancements to support Arm
• Arm images/packages for
OS
• Arm solutions for HW
Management
• Arm packages for
Remote Installer

10. IEC cloud platform (Arm enabler) used by multiple Blueprints
Micro-
MEC
Telco Appliance (TA)
SEBA
IEC cloud platform (Arm enabler)
REC
5G
MEC/Slice
AI EdgeConnected
Vehicle
IEC Type 4
AR/VR
Edge
ELIOT

11. How to get involved..
› Join the projects’ mailing lists and participate in
the discussions
› Join Akraino Community Events and Project
calls
› Akraino project, TSC and community calls are
open to all ( no membership needed).
› Community calls are conducted every Thursday
11AM -12 PM, Eastern Time
Key Links:
Website:
https://www/lfedge.org/projects/akraino
Wiki:
https://wiki.akraino.org
Mail Lists:
https://lists.akraino.org/g/main
Blueprints:
https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Approved+blueprints
Calendar:
https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Akraino+TSC+Group+Calendar
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