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The Reference Model (RM) specifies a virtualisation technology agnostic (VM-based and container-based) cloud infrastructure abstraction and acts as a "catalogue" of the exposed infrastructure capabilities, resources, and interfaces required by the workloads. This document has been was originally developed by Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT), and now is maintained and further developed by the RM sub-project of Anuket.
Problem Statement: Based on community consultations, including telco operators, technology suppliers, and software developers, there is a realisation that there are significant technical, operational and business challenges to the development and deployment of VNF/CNF network applications related to the lack of a common cloud infrastructure platform. These include but are not limited to the following:
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Cloud Infrastructure abstraction: in context with how it interacts with the other components required to build a complete cloud system that supports workloads deployed in Virtual Machines (VM) or containers. Network function workloads that are deployed on virtual machines and containers are referred to as virtual network functions (VNF) and containerised network functions (CNF), respectively; please note that it is now more common to refer CNFs as cloud native network functions.
- Cloud Infrastructure capabilities & metrics: A set of cloud infrastructure capabilities and metrics required to perform telco scale network functions and satisfy their performance criterion.
- Infrastructure profiles catalogue: A catalogue of standard infrastructure software and hardware configurations, referred to as profiles; these profiles abstract the infrastructure for the workloads. Only a few profiles, with well-defined characteristics, can meet the operational and performance requirements of all workloads.
Cloud Infrastructure Software and Hardware profiles:
- Cloud Infrastructure software profiles: These software profiles are components of the corresponding infrastructure profiles within the infrastructure profiles catalogue, and specify the host infrastructure software configurations.
- Cloud Infrastructure hardware profiles: These hardware profiles are components of the corresponding infrastructure profiles within the infrastructure profiles catalogue, and specify the host infrastructure hardware configurations.
Conformance and verification
- Conformance programs: These define the requirements for verification and validation programs for both the cloud infrastructure and workloads.
- Test framework: Provides test suites to allow conformance of cloud infrastructure and workloads.
Links to Reference Model specifications
Master copy: https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/tree/master/doc/ref_model
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Link to RM calendar
https://lists.anuket.io/g/rm/ics/9786299/320306117/feed.ics
Work stream lead
Walter Kozlowski (Telstra) is the Works Stream Lead (WSL) for this project, email: walter.kozlowski@team.telstra.com
Regular meetings
Wednesdays @ 2021:00 UTC
Link: https://zoom.us/j/997256543?pwd=MWptM0F0Y1NpckhFVUgrZnM2TkJ0Zz09