Research

5GTANGO is a 5GPPP Phase2 Innovation Action that enables the flexible programmability of 5G networks with:

a) an NFV-enabled Service Development Kit (SDK);

b) a Store platform with advanced validation and verification mechanisms for VNFs/Network Services qualification (including 3rd party contributions); and,

c) a modular Service Platform with an innovative orchestrator in order to bridge the gap between business needs and network operational management systems.

5GTANGO is contributing to OSM Rel FIVE with:

the support of novel packaging formats that are aligned with ETSI NFV SOL004.
the development of an Slice Manager that will allow the deployment of 5G Network Slices with OSM.

SONATA is an EU-funded project Horizon 2020 and part of the 5G-PPP initiative on Agile Service Development and Orchestration in 5G Virtualized Networks

It targets both the flexible programmability of software networks and the optimization of their deployments. SONATA contributed the VIM emulator (vim-emu) to OSM Release THREE. The vim-emu, now part of OSM DevOps allows network service developers to locally prototype and test their network services in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the developer's machine. The emulation platform offers OpenStack-like APIs for each emulated PoP so that it can be easily integrated with MANO stacks. [Learn more ...]