CORD Platform

Improve Developer Experience

(In general, working design notes are collected in a Google Drive folder.)

• Incremental Build Environment (Design Notes)

  • Single source of config specification (Design Notes)

  • Support limited scope (laptop) development workflows

  • Support full configuration (CiaB, POD) development workflows

  • Use same tool chain across all development workflows

  • Leverage existing frameworks, tools, and best practices

  • Optimize build times (for all workflows)

  • Predictable/repeatable build success / easy to diagnose failures

  • Decouple hardware/software deployment targets

• Cleanup / Refactor Follow-Through

  • Clean up data models (rename, remove) and model policies

  • Reconcile Service/Instance models (Design Notes)

  • Eliminate hard-coded service dependencies

  • Categorize, unify, document synchronizers

  • Do exception handling, error handling, logging right (Design Notes)

  • Create new model policy framework

  • Dynamically on-board xproto into core

  • Replace legacy xos-ui with generative tool chain

  • Reconcile use of event bus(es)

  • Refactor/reimplement synchronizers

  • Everything-as-a-Ansible Playbook (isolate Ansible Runner)

• Upgrade Components

  • ONOS 1.11

  • OpenStack

  • Ubuntu

  • MaaS

• Fabric Enhancements

• Benchmark and Scale Performance

  • Integrate Intel's DPDK/OvS optimizations into the CORD platform
  • Micro-Benchmarks / Tuning
  • Benchmark M-CORD performance (specifically EPC)
    • Scale number of subscribers (at average throughput each)
    • Maximum end-to-end throughput for a single subscriber
  • Benchmark R-CORD performance (specifically vSG)
    • Scale number of subscribers (at average throughput each)
    • Maximum end-to-end throughput for a single subscriber

• Integrate Kubernetes as Infrastructure Provider

• Comprehensive Testing

  • Unit tests plugged into a coverage framework

  • End-to-End tests for CORD-in-a-Box

  • End-to-End tests for Physical POD

  • Functional tests as necessary (address biggest points-of-pain)

QA

Theme...

• Framework Enhancements
• Support framework for VOLTHA
• Functional Tests for VOLTHA, vRouter
• Enhance CI/CD tests/framework
• Tests on Physical POD
• Enhance End-end tests
• Performance and Scale framework
• Base framework for M-CORD
• Performance Test platform

VOLTHA

Theme: Management and Operations of vendor OLT solutions (XGS.PON)

• VOLTHA Security

  • Local Access Control - Least Privilege Access (Install, Instantiate, Maint.)

  • Least Privilege Access (Install, Instantiate, Maint)

  • East/West Container Secure Communication

  • Northbound API Secure Communication 

  • Soundbound gRPC, Twisted, NetConf Interfaces Secure Communication

  • No Open Ports 

• VOLTHA Remove Internet network access dependency 
  • No external internet dependency for deployment, installation or instantiation of services
• PON Management & Configuration 

  • AutoDetect ONU

  • ONU Registration

  • Control Plane

• VOLTHA High Availability 
• VOLTHA Backup /Restore 
• VOLTHA Software Component Upgrade
• PON Simulator Update
• Default Edgecore Adapter (XGS.PON) 
• ONOS 1.10 Integration

Exploratory/Foundational Work:

YANG Common Data Model - NETCONF/YANG

G.Fast (DPU Driver)

Harmonizing PM KPI’s

K8s Container Management

Enterprise CORD

Hardening and Analytics

• vCPE
  • OAM metrics for A-CORD
  • Different types and capabilities
• vEE
  • Ethernet Edge whitebox switch variety
  • OpenFlow vs generic QoS model
• Value-Add Services
  • Firewall
  • WAN-X
  • Hw acceleration
• Connectivity Services
  • L3VPN
  • SD-WAN
• Global XOS
  • Converged global service model
  • Multi-site VNF chaining
• Transport ~ Bandwidth On Demand
  • SPTN (Software-define Packet Transport Network)
  • T-API (Transport API)
  • VPLS
• Security
  • Hardened NBI / security services
    

Dependencies on Platform

• Pseudowire / VTN integration
• Upgrade to use xproto (for 3.0.1 Release)
• Security / Access Control (Roles)

Mobile CORD

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Dependencies on CORD

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Analytics for CORD

Scale + Close Feedback Loops

• Adaptive analytics framework
• Scalable deployments
• BroadView analytics/sFlow analytics
• A-CORD in standalone deployments
• Unify Monitoring-, Test-, and Assurance-as-a-Service
• PoC of SD-Collectors
  
• Ingeration of A-CORD with ONAP

Dependencies on CORD 

• Traffic TAP