ACROSS is poised to become a 6G-ready orchestration platform with unprecedented intelligence, automation, security, and trust capabilities compared to today’s state-of-the-art orchestration platforms. These capabilities are gradually developed and integrated around two main components of the ACROSS orchestration platform: (i) the Maestro end-to-end service orchestrator integrated with (ii) a distributed grid of ETSI OpenSlice domain orchestrator instances to cover geo-distributed deployments across multi-tenant network domains.
Use Case on “Northbound-driven ZT Secure Compute Onboarding”
The dynamic extensibility of network resources is a well-sought feature in contemporary orchestration platforms. The infrastructure should be able not only to scale within the original provider’s premises, but also incorporate private resources and/or combinations of both. Naturally, this can alleviate even the demanding endeavour to support hardware-specific deployments with a more seamless manner.
ACROSS address this issue holistically by enabling the extension of in-premises resources (Kubernetes-as-a-Service), but most importantly it qualifies the external stakeholder with the capability to provide and incorporate its own compute node(s) within the platform’s infrastructure, which is captured through a compressive use case on “Northbound-driven ZT Secure Compute Onboarding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwVz2ote2I).
Specifically, the respective stakeholder is able to:
• Select the “Join an external node” platform service from the ACROSS catalog
• Provide the node’s information
• Overview the overall zero-touch onboarding, as it is fulfilled
Thιs fully-automated use case was demonstrated during the ACROSS intermediate review on September 17, 2024 (half-way to the end of the project), leaving a great promise for the remaining part of the project where the intelligence, automation, security, and trust capabilities of the ACROSS orchestration platform are expected to thrive further, while contributing to open and standardized community projects.
Credits to the partners who participated in this demonstration:
University of Patras https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-patras/
pNET https://www.linkedin.com/company/-net-competence-center/
NEC https://www.linkedin.com/company/nec-laboratories-europe-gmbh/
