...
- Single Pane of Glass Control - Single view management of edge resources across 10,000 + sites.
- Thin local Control Plane - Develop multiple ways to reduce local box or data center control plane footprint. For example, run control/data plane mixed with security measures, run in network switches, etc.
- Edge user/ Developer APIs - Provide agnostic Edge APIs.
- Edge IaaS/ PaaS - Wide variety of Edge applications.
- Central/Regional VIM - Alternative to Thin local Control Plane. Remote orchestration of edge compute resources (thin control, agent only at the edge).
- Edge capabilities like analytics etc.
- Low Latency Provisioning - Dynamic Micro services enablement.
- Central/Regional ONAP - Enhance ONAP to support Edge scale.
- Cloud Native VNFs - Container/ Micro services based VNFs.
Edge Requirements and Key principles
Edge computing requires significant efforts associated with seamless integration and user experience. Also, Edge computing solutions require large-scale deployment, typically covering 1000 plus locations. Keeping these challenges in mind, the key requirement for the Akraino project is to keep the cost low and ensure it supports large-scale deployments via automation. The Akraino community to work with multiple upstream open source communities such as Airship, OpenStack, ONAP, etc., to deliver a fully integrated stack. The Akraino Edge Stack will supply a fully integrated solution that supports Zero-touch provisioning, and Zero-touch lifecycle management of the integrated stack.
...