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 .. Copyright 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property

 Open Network Automation Platform Overview
 =========================================

 The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project addresses the
 rising need for a **common automation platform for telecommunication, cable,
 and cloud service providers**—and their solution providers— that enables the
 **automation of different lifecycle processes**, to deliver differentiated
 network services on demand, profitably and competitively, while leveraging
 existing investments.

 Prior to ONAP, telecommunication network operators had to keep up with the
 scale and cost of manual changes required to implement new service offerings,
 from installing new data center equipment to, in some cases, upgrading
 customer equipment on-premises. Many operators are seeking to exploit
 Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
 to improve service velocity, simplify equipment interoperability and
 integration, and reduce overall CapEx and OpEx costs. In addition, the
 current, highly fragmented management landscape makes it difficult to
 monitor and guarantee service-level agreements (SLAs).

 ONAP is addressing these challenges by developing global and massive
 scale (multi-site and multi-Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM))
 automation capabilities for both physical and virtual network elements.
 It facilitates service agility by supporting data models for rapid
 service and resource deployment, by providing a common set of Northbound
 REST APIs that are open and interoperable, and by supporting model
 driven interfaces to the networks. ONAP’s modular and layered nature
 improves interoperability and simplifies integration, allowing it to
 support multiple VNF environments by integrating with multiple VIMs,
 virtualized network function managers (VNFMs), SDN Controllers, and
 even legacy equipment. ONAP’s consolidated VNF requirements enable
 commercial development of ONAP-compliant VNFs. This approach allows
 network and cloud operators to optimize their physical and virtual
 infrastructure for cost and performance; at the same time, ONAP’s
 use of standard models reduces integration and deployment costs of
 heterogeneous equipment, while minimizing management fragmentation.

 Scope of ONAP
 -------------

 ONAP enables end user organizations and their network or cloud providers
 to collaboratively instantiate network elements and services in a dynamic,
 closed control loop process, with real-time response to actionable events.

 ONAP’s major activities, that is designing, deploying and operating
 services, are provided based on ONAP’s two major frameworks, namely on
 Design-time framework and Run-time framework:

 .. image:: media/ONAP_main_functions.png
     :scale: 40 %

 In order to design, deploy and operate services and assure these dynamic
 services, ONAP activities are built up as follows:

 * **Service design** – Service design is built on a robust design framework
   that allows specification of the service in all aspects – modeling the
   resources and relationships that make up the service, specifying the policy
   rules that guide the service behavior, specifying the applications, analytic
   and closed control loop events needed for the elastic management of the
   service.
 * **Service deployment** – Service deployment is built on an orchestration
   and control framework that is policy-driven (Service Orchestrator and
   Controllers) to provide automated instantiation of the service when
   needed and managing service demands in an elastic manner.
 * **Service operations** – Service operations are built on an analytic
   framework that closely monitors the service behavior during the service
   lifecycle based on the specified design, analytics and policies to enable
   response as required from the control framework, to deal with situations
   ranging from those that require healing to those that require scaling
   of the resources to elastically adjust to demand variations.

 ONAP enables product- or service-independent capabilities for design,
 deployment and operation, in accordance with the following foundational
 principles:

 1. Ability to dynamically introduce full service lifecycle orchestration
    (design, provisioning and operation) and service API for new services
    and technologies without the need for new platform software releases
    or without affecting operations for the existing services

 2. Carrier-grade scalability including horizontal scaling (linear scale-out)
    and distribution to support large number of services and large networks

 3. Metadata-driven and policy-driven architecture to ensure flexible and
    automated ways in which capabilities are used and delivered

 4. The architecture shall enable sourcing best-in-class components

 5. Common capabilities are ‘developed’ once and ‘used’ many times

 6. Core capabilities shall support many diverse services and infrastructures

 7. The architecture shall support elastic scaling as needs grow or shrink

 Functional Overview of ONAP
 ===========================

 The following guidelines show the main ONAP activities in a chronological
 order, presenting ONAP's functional structure:

 1. **Service design** - ONAP supports Service Design operations, using the
 TOSCA approach.
 These service design activities are built up of the following subtasks:

  a. Planning VNF onboarding – checking which VNFs will be necessary for the
     required environment and features
  b. Creating resources, composing services
  c. Distributing services - Distributing services constitutes of 2 subtasks:

     * TOSCA C-SAR package is stored in the Catalog
     * new service notification is published

 2. **Service orchestration and deployment**

   a. Defining which VNFs are necessary for the service
   b. Defining orchestration steps
   c. Selecting valid cloud region
   d. Service orchestration calling cloud APIs to deploy VNFs

    * The onboarding and instantiation of VNFs in ONAP is represented via
      the example of onboarding and instantiating a virtual network function
      (VNF), the virtual Firewall (vFirewall). Following the guidelines and
      steps of this example, any other VNF can be similarly onboarded
      and instantiated to ONAP.

   e. Controllers applying configuration on VNFs

 3. **Service operations**

   a. Closed Loop design and deployment
   b. Collecting and evaluating event data

 Benefits of ONAP
 ================

 Open Network Automation Platform provides the following benefits:

 * common automation platform, which enables common management of services and
   connectivity, while the applications run separately
 * a unified operating framework for vendor-agnostic, policy-driven service
   design, implementation, analytics and lifecycle management for
   large-scale workloads and services
 * orchestration for both virtual and physical network functions
 * ONAP offers Service or VNF Configuration capability, in contrast to other
   open-source orchestration platforms
 * the model-driven approach enables ONAP to support services, that are using
   different VNFs, as a common service block
 * service modelling enables operators to use the same deployment and management
   mechanisms, beside also using the same platform

 ONAP Release Information
 ========================

 ONAP is enhanced with numerous features from release to release. Each release
 is named after a city.

 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Release Name     |Release Version |Release Date            |
 +=================+================+========================+
 |Istanbul         |9.0.0           | November 4th, 2021     |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Honolulu         |8.0.0           | May 11th, 2021         |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Guilin           |7.0.0           | December 3rd, 2020     |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Frankfurt        |6.0.0           | June 11th, 2020        |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |El Alto          |5.0.0           | October 24th, 2019     |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Dublin           |4.0.0           | July 09th, 2019        |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Casablanca       |3.0.0           | April 15th ,2019       |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Beijing          |2.0.0           | June 7th, 2018         |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
 |Amsterdam        |1.0.0           | November 16th, 2017    |
 +-----------------+----------------+------------------------+

 ONAP Blueprints and environments
 ================================

 ONAP is able to deploy and operate VNFs running OpenStack based Centralized
 Private Cloud Instances, as well as Mobile Edge Cloud instances.
 ONAP has been tested in the following network environments:

 * Voice Over LTE (VoLTE)
 * Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
 * 5G
 * Cross Domain and Cross Layer VPN (CCVPN)
 * Broadband Service (BBS)

 Licenses
 ========

 Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is an open source project hosted by the
 Linux Foundation.

 ONAP Source Code is licensed under the `Apache Version 2 License <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_.
 ONAP Documentation is licensed under the `Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
 International License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>`_.
	.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
	.. 4.0 International License.
	.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
	.. Copyright 2019 Nokia; Copyright 2017-2018 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.;
	.. Copyright 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property

	Open Network Automation Platform Overview
	=========================================

	The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project addresses the
	rising need for a **common automation platform for telecommunication, cable,
	and cloud service providers**—and their solution providers— that enables the
	automation of different lifecycle processes, to deliver differentiated
	network services on demand, profitably and competitively, while leveraging
	existing investments.

	Prior to ONAP, telecommunication network operators had to keep up with the
	scale and cost of manual changes required to implement new service offerings,
	from installing new data center equipment to, in some cases, upgrading
	customer equipment on-premises. Many operators are seeking to exploit
	Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
	to improve service velocity, simplify equipment interoperability and
	integration, and reduce overall CapEx and OpEx costs. In addition, the
	current, highly fragmented management landscape makes it difficult to
	monitor and guarantee service-level agreements (SLAs).

	ONAP is addressing these challenges by developing global and massive
	scale (multi-site and multi-Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM))
	automation capabilities for both physical and virtual network elements.
	It facilitates service agility by supporting data models for rapid
	service and resource deployment, by providing a common set of Northbound
	REST APIs that are open and interoperable, and by supporting model
	driven interfaces to the networks. ONAP’s modular and layered nature
	improves interoperability and simplifies integration, allowing it to
	support multiple VNF environments by integrating with multiple VIMs,
	virtualized network function managers (VNFMs), SDN Controllers, and
	even legacy equipment. ONAP’s consolidated VNF requirements enable
	commercial development of ONAP-compliant VNFs. This approach allows
	network and cloud operators to optimize their physical and virtual
	infrastructure for cost and performance; at the same time, ONAP’s
	use of standard models reduces integration and deployment costs of
	heterogeneous equipment, while minimizing management fragmentation.

	Scope of ONAP
	-------------

	ONAP enables end user organizations and their network or cloud providers
	to collaboratively instantiate network elements and services in a dynamic,
	closed control loop process, with real-time response to actionable events.

	ONAP’s major activities, that is designing, deploying and operating
	services, are provided based on ONAP’s two major frameworks, namely on
	Design-time framework and Run-time framework:

	.. image:: media/ONAP_main_functions.png
	:scale: 40 %

	In order to design, deploy and operate services and assure these dynamic
	services, ONAP activities are built up as follows:

	* Service design – Service design is built on a robust design framework
	that allows specification of the service in all aspects – modeling the
	resources and relationships that make up the service, specifying the policy
	rules that guide the service behavior, specifying the applications, analytic
	and closed control loop events needed for the elastic management of the
	service.
	* Service deployment – Service deployment is built on an orchestration
	and control framework that is policy-driven (Service Orchestrator and
	Controllers) to provide automated instantiation of the service when
	needed and managing service demands in an elastic manner.
	* Service operations – Service operations are built on an analytic
	framework that closely monitors the service behavior during the service
	lifecycle based on the specified design, analytics and policies to enable
	response as required from the control framework, to deal with situations
	ranging from those that require healing to those that require scaling
	of the resources to elastically adjust to demand variations.

	ONAP enables product- or service-independent capabilities for design,
	deployment and operation, in accordance with the following foundational
	principles:

	1. Ability to dynamically introduce full service lifecycle orchestration
	(design, provisioning and operation) and service API for new services
	and technologies without the need for new platform software releases
	or without affecting operations for the existing services

	2. Carrier-grade scalability including horizontal scaling (linear scale-out)
	and distribution to support large number of services and large networks

	3. Metadata-driven and policy-driven architecture to ensure flexible and
	automated ways in which capabilities are used and delivered

	4. The architecture shall enable sourcing best-in-class components

	5. Common capabilities are ‘developed’ once and ‘used’ many times

	6. Core capabilities shall support many diverse services and infrastructures

	7. The architecture shall support elastic scaling as needs grow or shrink

	Functional Overview of ONAP
	===========================

	The following guidelines show the main ONAP activities in a chronological
	order, presenting ONAP's functional structure:

	1. Service design - ONAP supports Service Design operations, using the
	TOSCA approach.
	These service design activities are built up of the following subtasks:

	a. Planning VNF onboarding – checking which VNFs will be necessary for the
	required environment and features
	b. Creating resources, composing services
	c. Distributing services - Distributing services constitutes of 2 subtasks:

	* TOSCA C-SAR package is stored in the Catalog
	* new service notification is published

	2. Service orchestration and deployment

	a. Defining which VNFs are necessary for the service
	b. Defining orchestration steps
	c. Selecting valid cloud region
	d. Service orchestration calling cloud APIs to deploy VNFs

	* The onboarding and instantiation of VNFs in ONAP is represented via
	the example of onboarding and instantiating a virtual network function
	(VNF), the virtual Firewall (vFirewall). Following the guidelines and
	steps of this example, any other VNF can be similarly onboarded
	and instantiated to ONAP.

	e. Controllers applying configuration on VNFs

	3. Service operations

	a. Closed Loop design and deployment
	b. Collecting and evaluating event data

	Benefits of ONAP
	================

	Open Network Automation Platform provides the following benefits:

	* common automation platform, which enables common management of services and
	connectivity, while the applications run separately
	* a unified operating framework for vendor-agnostic, policy-driven service
	design, implementation, analytics and lifecycle management for
	large-scale workloads and services
	* orchestration for both virtual and physical network functions
	* ONAP offers Service or VNF Configuration capability, in contrast to other
	open-source orchestration platforms
	* the model-driven approach enables ONAP to support services, that are using
	different VNFs, as a common service block
	* service modelling enables operators to use the same deployment and management
	mechanisms, beside also using the same platform

	ONAP Release Information
	========================

	ONAP is enhanced with numerous features from release to release. Each release
	is named after a city.

	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Release Name \|Release Version \|Release Date \|
	+=================+================+========================+
	\|Istanbul \|9.0.0 \| November 4th, 2021 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Honolulu \|8.0.0 \| May 11th, 2021 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Guilin \|7.0.0 \| December 3rd, 2020 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Frankfurt \|6.0.0 \| June 11th, 2020 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|El Alto \|5.0.0 \| October 24th, 2019 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Dublin \|4.0.0 \| July 09th, 2019 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Casablanca \|3.0.0 \| April 15th ,2019 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Beijing \|2.0.0 \| June 7th, 2018 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+
	\|Amsterdam \|1.0.0 \| November 16th, 2017 \|
	+-----------------+----------------+------------------------+

	ONAP Blueprints and environments
	================================

	ONAP is able to deploy and operate VNFs running OpenStack based Centralized
	Private Cloud Instances, as well as Mobile Edge Cloud instances.
	ONAP has been tested in the following network environments:

	* Voice Over LTE (VoLTE)
	* Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
	* 5G
	* Cross Domain and Cross Layer VPN (CCVPN)
	* Broadband Service (BBS)

	Licenses
	========

	Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is an open source project hosted by the
	Linux Foundation.

	ONAP Source Code is licensed under the `Apache Version 2 License <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_.
	ONAP Documentation is licensed under the `Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
	International License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>`_.