This Akraino Blueprint, when completed, will be a complete vBBU (virtualized baseband unit) - vCU and vDU (central and distributed unit) design plan.
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Case Attributes
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Description
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Informational
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Type
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New Blueprint for appliance tuned to meet the requirement of the 5G Distributed & Centralized user plan
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Blueprint Family - Proposed Name
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Telco Appliance
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Use Case
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vRAN - DU, CU Applications
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Blueprint proposed Name
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Radio Access Cloud
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Initial POD Cost (capex)
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x86 General Purpose servers x 6
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Scale & Type
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x86/ARM OCP Open Edge x6 or deep edge class
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Applications
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5G vDU or/and vCU
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Power Restrictions
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Example only: Less than 10Kw
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Infrastructure orchestration
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Kubernetes v1.15 or above
Docker 18.6.0-ce1 or above
OS – Wind River Linux LTS 18 (4.18.31-rt)
Under Cloud Orchestration - Airship v1.0
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Low latency real time kernel
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SDN
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OVS, Calico
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Workload Type
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Containers
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Additional Details
CPU Manager for Kubernetes (CMK)
Node Feature Discovery (NFD) for Kubernetes
NUMA Topology Manager for Kubernetes
Multus
CNI Plugins (support for SRI-IOV CNI, and Userspace CNI)
Device Plugin for Kubernetes (support for SR-IOV, FPGA, and QAT)
Ironic
Keystone
Helm
Ironic
Keystone
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The blueprint will include hardware components, Wind River Linux OVP real-time low latency kernel, Airship, Middleware components, and ONAP (open network automation platform) for policy-driven service orchestration and automation.