Introduction and Purpose of the

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SEBA Architecture

SEBA Blueprint is a member of the Telco Appliance blueprint family and

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Akraino Radio Edge Cloud (REC) provides an appliance tuned to support the O-RAN Alliance and O-RAN Software Community's Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) and is ONFSDN-enabled Broadband Access (SEBA) platform.  The SEBA blueprint will utilize a reusable set of modules introduced by the first example of the Telco Appliance blueprint family which provides a reusable set of modules that will be used to create sibling blueprints for other purpose tuned appliances., Radio Edge Cloud (REC).  The SEBA blueprint provides the following on designated servers:

• Installation of host OS
• Configuration of network
• Installation/setup of Kubernetes cluster
• Installation/testing/validation for SEBA components (VOLTHA, NEM, ONOS)
• RIC on Kubernetes on “bare metal” tuned for low latency round trip messaging between RIC and eNodeB/gNodeB,
• Support for telco networking requirements such as SRIOV, dual POD interfaces, IPVLAN
• Built from reusable components of the “Telco Appliance” blueprint family
• Automated Continuous Deployment pipeline testing the full software stack (bottom to top, from firmware up to and including application) simultaneously on chassis based extended environmental range servers and commodity datacenter servers
• Integration Integrated with Regional Controller (Akraino Feature Project) for “zero touch” deployment of REC SEBA to edge sites
• Deployable Deployability to multiple hardware models

High level architectural view: (NEED AN EDITABLE VERSION TO UPDATE)

Objectives

• Fully automated simultaneous deployment and testing on multiple hardware platforms
  • Blueprint defines exact hardware configurations
  • Each hardware variant is deployed into a Continuous Deployment system that runs the full test suite
• Appliance model automates the installation, configuration and testing of:
  • Firmware and/or BIOS/UEFI
  • Base Operating System
  • Components for management of containers, performance, fault, logging, networking, CPU
• Application:
  • RIC is the application running on the REC appliance
  • Other appliances will be created by combining other applications with the same underlying components to create additional blueprints
  • Fully automated testing includes running full application test suite

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