This document summarizes the key aspects of the ONAP Dublin release, including: - The Dublin release focused on blueprints like BBS (broadband services), 5G enhancements, and CCVPN. It also expanded interoperability testing and improved alignment with standards. - Functional enhancements in Dublin included improvements to design time tools, support for more cloud environments and containerized network functions, new data collection and analytics capabilities, and policy upgrades. - The release emphasized ongoing work to improve stability, performance, scalability and security (S3P) through measures like reduced footprint, enhanced security, and documentation improvements. - Upcoming releases will focus on S3P in El Alto and new

1. What’s New in ONAP
Dublin?
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Webinar — July 09, 2019

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Presenter
Currently
● Co-founder of Aarna Networks
● Author of “ONAP Demystified”
● NFV specialist with background in OpenStack, Ceph,
dataplane acceleration technologies
Previously
● Co-founder Aarohi Communications (acquired by
Emulex)
● Also at Mirantis, Seagate, Philips, HP
● MS EE from University of California, Berkeley

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Agenda
● ONAP Overview
● Quick Facts
● Release Highlights
● What’s Next
Dublin

4. ONAP Introduction
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Management and
Orchestration (MANO)
NFV Orchestrator
VNF Manager(s)
Virtualized
Infrastructure
Manager
(VIM)
Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs)
NFV Infrastructure (NFVI)
Physical Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure
Compute Storage Network
VNF VNF VNF VNF
OSS / BSS
EMS EMS EMS EMS
Virtual Computing Virtual Storage Virtual Networking
Design
Studio
Service
Assurance
SDN
Controller
(WAN, DC)
ETSI NFV Architecture (Modified)
ETSI Defined Additional
Components
ONAP
ONAP in NFV Architectural Context

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ONAP Dublin Release

7. Dublin Release Quick
Facts
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ONAP Dublin Release
Source onap.biterg.io
4th ONAP release
July 2019
Commits: 16.2K+
Developers: 480
Organizations: 36

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Dublin Commercial Activity
From onap.org:
During the Dublin release cycle, new production deployments were announced
by AT&T around consumer mobility services, and by Orange to monitor the
quality of network management system access in several European countries.
China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, Turk Telecom,
Bringcom, Swisscom, KDDI, and TIM conducted testing, PoCs, or trials that in
several cases will result in production deployments by Q4’19. On the vendor side,
Aarna Networks, Amdocs, Huawei, and ZTE announced a pure-play ONAP
distribution or products based on ONAP. In addition, new demos and support
services were made available by Accenture, Ampere, Arris, Ciena, iconectiv, Netsia,
Ribbon, Rift, Pantheon, Wipro, Ericsson, Nokia, and Tech Mahindra.

10. Dublin Release Highlights
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Highlights
1. Blueprints
a. New BBS blueprint, progress on 5G, CCPVN and others
2. Interop & standards
a. OVP program expansion
b. Increased collaboration/alignment with standards
3. New features
a. Design time
b. Run time
c. ONAP lifecycle management
4. S3P (security, stability, scalability, performance and more)

12. Dublin Release Blueprints
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Dublin Release Blueprints (Major)
Use Case Value in Dublin release
BBS (New) Multi-gigabit residential connectivity over PON,
orchestration & LCM, change of location support for
ONT (nomadic)
5G
Enhancements
Better configuration and PNF support (including
upgrade), perf. mgmt. & fault mgmt. (PM, FM)
improvements, modeling progress for network slicing
CCVPN
Enhancements
Dynamic addition of services, bandwidth on demand
*Prior blueprints include vCPE and VoLTE

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ONAP Blueprint: Broadband Service
● Automation of multi-gigabit residential internet connectivity services based
on PON (Passive Optical Network)
● Automatic re-registration of CPE when subscriber moves

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Dublin Release Blueprints (Additional)
Functionality Value in Dublin release
k8s based cloud region support Container based network function support in Multicloud
Control Loop Requirements
Model driven control loop; common notification across
orchestrators/controllers
Scaling Enhancements (Continuation) Ease of use enhancements
HPA Enhancements (Continuation) Ease of use enhancements
Change Management - Extensions
Model-driven change schedule optimization, traffic migration
and user-defined workflows, PNF software upgrade and roll-back

16. Dublin Release Interop &
Standards
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OVP Expanded to ONAP⇔VNF Interop
● Open source, community led compliance
and validation program; part of LFN
● Program expanded to include interop
testing of commercial VNFs with ONAP
● Currently focuses on static testing of VNF
packages (Heat, TOSCA)
● Does not cover operator specific
requirements
○ New feature in Dublin allows VSP (vendor
software product) compliance checks to be
added in SDC to fill this gap

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Standards Alignment
ONAP is serving as a focal point for industry alignment
across multiple standards.
NFV ISG SOL003,
SOL001, SOL004,
SOL005 alignment
ZSM ISG E2E arch,
network slicing
Ref. implementation
for new Business
Operating System
(BOS) effort
Alignment with APIs
Alignment with LSO 5G blueprint working
on 3GPP standards for
data collection,
network slicing; ONAP
VNF i/f may get used
in 3GPP standards

19. Dublin Release Functional
Enhancements
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Design Time Enhancements
Functionality Value in Dublin release
Configuration Design Studio (CDS) Model driven configuration and lifecycle management of VNFs
Portal framework internationalization
and localization
Allows ONAP GUI to be available in different languages
Basic PNF package validation Ability to perform static checks on PNF packages
VSP compliance feature Operator specific VNF compliance checks

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Run Time Enhancements
Functionality Value in Dublin release
Multicloud support for k8s, Azure,
StarlingX
Support for more types of clouds
Initial CNF support; CNFs can coexist with VNFs and PNFs
Numerous Policy enhancements Create new policies and policy types outside of a release cycle
New collectors, event processor and
analytics microservices
Broader set of use cases supported with closed loop automation
OpenDaylight Fluorine Improved WAN connectivity and greater stability
Kafka 1.1.1
DMaaP can support multisite applications; data router, message
router enhancements

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DCAE Enhancements
● New microservices suite of collectors/event processors/analytics:
○ Collectors: RESTConf collector
○ Event Processors: VES/Universal Mapper, PM-Mapper
○ Analytics/RCA: SON-Handler (former PCI-Handler), Heartbeat, TCA-Gen2
● Common SDK for DCAE services
● DCAE component enhancements for security, logging, resilience
● Support HELM chart deployment using Helm Cloudify Plugin
● Healthcheck enhancement
● Multisite k8S cluster deployment support for DCAE services (via k8S plugin)
● PolicyHandler Enhancement to support new Policy Lifecycle API’s
● Blueprint generator tool to simplify deployment artifact creation

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MUSIC Enhancements
● Provide MUSIC as a fully sharded, scale out common service
○ Many ONAP sites/component replicas can be added as required for performance
● Ease of deployment, performance
● Foundational work for edge computing
● Seed code for RDBMS clustering

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Multicloud Enhancements
● Continued enhancements for OpenStack StarlingX, Lenovo
ThinkCloud, Azure, k8s, WindRiver, VIO Add SDC client to retrieve of
workload artifacts from SDC
● Security improvements and footprint reduction

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OOM Enhancements
● Improving platform health monitoring
● Security via Envoy (northbound), Network Policy (east-west)
● Starting migration to single "shared" database instances that will
also reduce footprint
● Initial multi-site Kubernetes Cluster support

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OOF Enhancements
● Traffic distribution
● Extend PCI (Physical Cell ID) optimization to include optimization for
ANR (Automated Neighbor Relations)

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Policy Enhancements
● Reliability improvements
● Policy API — Lifecycle API that supports onboarding Policy
models/templates and the creation of raw policies from the
models/templates.
● Policy PAP (2nd Gen) — PAP component that allows PDP engines to
be grouped
● Policy XACML (2nd Gen) — lightweight XACML PDP

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Want to Know More?
● Dublin release highlights
● Dublin release notes

29. Dublin Release S3P
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What is S3P?
Stability Performance
Scalability Security
Manageability Resilience
Usability Documentation

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S3P
● Footprint reduction
○ Database sharing
○ Lightweight Alpine Linux OS (early results promising, 49% reduction in Policy size,
64% in OOF/HAS)
○ Memory optimizations
● Security
○ Penetration testing
○ Security policies between containers (OOM)
○ Consolidation of common 3rd party components with increased vulnerability
checking
○ Secure communication between xNFs
● Improved logging in certain projects
● Stability improvements
● Documentation improvements

32. Next Steps
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Next ONAP Releases
El Alto (S3P only)
End 2019
Frankfurt
2020
Guilin
2020

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