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| A1 Policy Management Service (from ONAP CCSDK) |
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| A1 Controller Service above A1 Controller/Adaptor that provides: |
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| * Unified REST & DMaaP NBI APIs for managing A1 Policies in all near-RT-RICs. |
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| + Query A1 Policy Types in near-RT-RICs. |
| + Create/Query/Update/Delete A1 Policy Instances in near-RT-RICs. |
| + Query Status for A1 Policy Instances. |
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| * Maintains (persistent) cache of RAN's A1 Policy information. |
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| * Support RAN-wide view of A1 Policy information. |
| * Streamline A1 traffic. |
| * Enable (optional) re-synchronization after inconsistencies / near-RT-RIC restarts. |
| * Supports a large number of near-RT-RICs (& multi-version support). |
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| * Converged ONAP & O-RAN-SC A1 Adapter/Controller functions in ONAP SDNC/CCSDK (Optionally deploy without A1 Adaptor to connect direct to near-RT-RICs). |
| * Support for different Southbound connectors per near-RT-RIC - e.g. different A1 versions, different near-RT-RIC version, different A1 adapter/controllers supports different or proprietary A1 controllers/EMSs. |
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| See also A1 Policy Management Service in ONAP: `Wiki <https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=84672221>`_, :doc:`Documentation<onapa1policymanagementservice:index>`. |
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| Implementation: |
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| * Implemented as a Java Spring Boot application. |
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| This product is a part of :doc:`NONRTRIC <nonrtric:index>`. |