Download - The Edge in Automation
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The Edge in AutomationExposing and managing Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) services to enhance carrier operations, adoption and customer experience
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The Edge in Automation
Our Champions Our Participants External Advisers
Our Digital Showcase Presenters
Johanne MayerNaaS Consultant, Blue PlanetTMF Distinguished Fellow
Paul ChapmanSolution Architect, Monitoring & ReportingBT
Lester ThomasChief IT Systems Architect, VodafoneTMF Distinguished Fellow
Valère RobinInnovation Strategy Architectures and Security, Orange Labs Services
Chris Thornton Edge Business Development Red Hat
Rob TomkinsSenior Director, Innovations Blue Planet
Brian CoombsTitleCerillion
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• CSPs partnerships with Cloud Providers
• Varied agreements (e.g. IoT Apps, OSS/BSS cloudification, Edge computing, etc)
• Tenant & Actualization platform (Infra)
• Cloud infrastructure belongs to the CSP’s network (not public)
• Can be a secured gateway to access apps on the partner’s public cloud
Network as a Service (NaaS)Principles:
• OSS/BSS decoupled from network domains using Open APIs (vs custom APIs)
• OSS/BSS unaware of resources & “How” services are made
• Network domains expose reusable set of capabilities
• Can be complex (Internet Security) or simple & reusable (Firewall_aaS)
Benefits:
Decreases Time to Market >50%
Enhances customer experience
Key Concepts Demonstrated in Our Catalyst
Telco Cloud Edge Compute
• Architecture for delivering cloud-based Telco and Apps (e.g. IoT) services at the edge of the network
• Catalyst assumes Edge part of the CSP domain even if infrastructure is from cloud partner(s)
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Our Use Case – Automated, Zero-Touch ECaaS in Action Design Time
CustomerService
RepresentativePartner’s Products & Services(icons) Drone_aaS
image recognitionSensor_aaSCamera_aaSEmergency app
Network Services(icons) Edge Compute_aaS
VPN_aaSFirewall_aaSMPLSWavelength
Product Catalog
Platinum PackageDedicated capacity & low latencyVideo streaming Surveillance Emergency servicesVideo analyticsTraffic flow
Enhanced Experiencefor Live Events
Gold PackageDedicated capacity & low latencySurveillance Emergency servicesTraffic flow
Silver PackageBest effort connectivity Emergency services
Create offers
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Our Use Case – Automated, Zero-Touch ECaaS in Action Run Time
Metro/Aggregation Venue5G Tower
Edge
Telco Cloud
Live EventDepict the run time scenario w
icons and animation: • Instantiate and show the
application running on the edge (as game starts).
• Show the drone (icon from previous slide) a picture of a fire
• Demonstrate how this
identification of public safety issue triggers the automated edge reconfiguration to activate and deliver emergency services (icon from previous slide).
• Real-life demo scenario will turn on a set of smart lights (representing IoT solution) to represent new reconfigured capability
Intelligent Orchestration
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• BT is exploring the possibilities afforded by Edge Compute
– Flexibility of Edge Compute supports short duration demand
– E.G. country fair (farmers market), a music festival, or a conference.
• Examining lifecycle of service consumption
– User Story for a short duration event exercises full lifecycle
– NaaS implication for Edge Compute
• Leading to insights for building Edge Compute
– Which standards and artefacts are available
Edge Compute Challenges – Service Flexibility
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• Range of services technically possible far exceeds the
ability of any one of our organizations to deliver in isolation
• Vodafone’s goal is to provide a range of Telco enabling
services following an open platform approach
• Component services enable Developers to rapidly
innovate and deliver many use-cases
• NaaS API component suite provides a set of consistent
APIs enabling exposure and LCM* of Telco’s services
• This Catalyst targets the definition of a standard payload
for Edge services into NaaS service catalog
Edge Compute Challenges – Service Development
*Lifecycle Management
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Challenges - Implementing edge computing ecosystems
Rich stack at the edge & beyond
- Bare metal hardware
- Virtualisation/containers stacks
- Generic enablers
- …
Edge in Automation Catalyst
- API between actors derived from use cases
- Complementing the technical interfaces (ETSI MEC, Cloud CNCF CNTT, NaaS)
- Plug & play exposure of infras and services (catalogs)
- Dynamic on-demand provisioning
Diversity of players
- CSP/Telcos
- Cloud providers
- Federation initiatives
- ...
Challenging requirements
- Latency, performance
- Data management and security
- Agility for applications
- ...
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There are three core requirements that we are seeing being important to
facilitate Edge solution adoption:
Cloud Provider Considerations
Hybrid & Multi-cloudManaging workload at the edge and within the cloud where it makes sense.
OpenProviding choice and flexibilityEncouraging a wide developer ecosystem.
ScaleAccommodating edge nodes that are both resource constrained and vertically scalable.Able manage thousands of edge endpoints, securely and with minimal intervention.
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• TM Forum– TMF909 NaaS API Component Suite
– IG1141 Procurement & Onboarding of Virtualization
– GB999 ODA Production – NaaS focused
– IG1157 ODA Ecosystem Enablement (DPRA)
– 2019 Becoming Edgy catalyst
– API Domain Context Specific Contract Rule
• GSMA
– Operator Platform
• ETSI
– MEC APIs
– ZSM architecture
• MEF
– Cloud Services Architecture
Standards Assets Used in Our Catalyst
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Deployment Architecture
Portal-CPQ COM/SOM
TMF API Gatew ay
Netw ork
Automation
ChargingEdge (container)
Management
Developer
Environment
Customer
Netw ork
Cloud
CopenhagenIoT lights
Edge
ApplicationVNF
VNF Deployment
VNF DeploymentDeploy Container
IoT Service
(image
recognition)
IoT App? (e.g.
image processing
& trained model)
Physical
Edge Apps* Telco Apps*
* Typical telco environment would use separate physical servers
( )
3rd party
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Use Case Scenario - Design
Service Provider Partner
ExtAPI GW
NaaS API Gateway
E2E Service Domain (enhanced event)
ProdCatalog
OrderMngt
Billing
EDGEDomain
IoT lights
ProdCatalog
OrderMngt
Billing
IoT Mgr.
Edge (container)Mngt
12 Partner exposes capabilities (image recognition, camera_aaS, emergency, surveillance, etc) via Prod Catalog (contract agreement done prior) using TMF622 (possibly through cloud broker)
CSP downloads requested applications (APIs TBD)
Ev ent
Operator
Portal
VPNDomain
SD WANDomain
…
ExtAPI GW
Provide external access
securityProvides Authentication / Authorization accessand routes API requests
to proper domain
Prod. Mgr. creates an Enhanced Exp event offer with Telco& partner’s products/ services
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IoT Mgr.
Edge Mngt (conta iner)
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Swap to demo
Start with Ciena BP service description
Moved to Cerillion Product Catalog
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Next Steps: What to expect in Copenhagen
Service Provider Partner
NaaS API Gateway
E2E Service Domain(enhanced event)
ProdCatalog
OrderMngt
Billing
EDGEDomain
ProdCatalog
OrderMngt
Billing
IoT Mgr.
Edge (container)Mngt
Event operator orders Gold package with:- Capacity - Surveillance- Emergency- Secured access (VPN)
for their game
132 IT requests feasibility and selects edge location (TMF645?)
BP activates Telco apps on edge
Ev ent
Operator
Portal
VPNDomain
SD WANDomain
…
ExtAPI GW
ExtAPI GW
vSD-WANvCDNvVPNCapacityDrone_aaSImage_RecEmergency
IoT Mgr.
Edge Mngt (conta iner)
E2E domain sends requests to container mngr to download IoT
apps to edge server
456 Camera/drone sends pictures to image recognition app which detects a fire.
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Surveillance (or image recognition) IoT App sends alarm / event to E2E
8E2E requests Edge Mngr toterminate the original app and activate the emergency
E2E requests activation of surveillance (drone & image recognition), and download game on vCDN
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What’s in it for TMF Members
Our Contributions (Subject to Change):
• Edge_Computing as a Service (ECaaS) service definition
– includes input to TMF Service Fulfillment User Guide
– Input to API Domain Context Specific Contract Rule (for ETSI MEC)
• ECaaS json payload and contribution back to ETSI MEC
• Automated reconfiguration of Edge as Contribution to TMF Autonomous Network project
• Input to ODA Ecosystem Enablement /DPRA and cloud providers