Introduction and Purpose of the SEBA Architecture

SEBA Blueprint is a member of the Telco Appliance blueprint family and provides an appliance tuned to support the ONF SDN-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, Radio Edge Cloud (REC).  The first use case of the SEBA blueprint is for virtual broadband access using XGS-PON.  XGS-PON is a 10-Gbps symmetric passive optical network, standardized in the G.987.x series of ITU-T Recommendations.

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)
• Utilization of 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)
• Integration with Regional Controller (Akraino Feature Project) for “zero touch” deployment of SEBA to edge sites
• Deployability to multiple hardware models

High level architectural view: 

(highlight differences from REC??  Note that some development in future phases)

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:
  • SEBA is the application running on the Telco Appliance
  • Fully automated testing includes running full application test suite

Components of SEBA (NEEDS UPDATE)