ACROSS Test Case Demonstrations: “Zero-Touch End-to-End Service Provisioning”

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 “Zero-Touch End-to-End Service Provisioning”

Going from source code to deployed service instances (from zero-to-hero) in a fully-automated manner is a feature that modern service providers would love to be offered by an orchestration platform. Doing so for 5G-enabled services is even more desirable, as it also abstracts the complexity of the underlying network, leaving service providers to worry only about their code.

ACROSS materializes this important feature through a promising use case on “Zero-Touch End-to-End Service Provisioning“ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bw62zdl2dE), which entails the following zero-touch operations upon an automated end-user service order request:
• Zero-Touch Compute Cluster Provisioning to host the end-user’s service
• Zero-Touch End-to-end 5G Provisioning to provision a 5G slice for the end-user’s service and interconnect it with 5G user equipment
• Zero-Touch Compute Cluster Telemetry and Visualization to observe the health of the cluster that hosts the end-user’s service
• Zero-Touch 5G System Telemetry and Visualization to monitor the state of the 5G slice associated with the end-user’s service
• Zero-Touch End-user Service Instantiation atop compute and 5G slices, and
• Zero-Touch End-user Service Telemetry and Visualization to observe key runtime metrics of the deployed end-user’s service instance

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:

UBITECH https://www.linkedin.com/company/ubitech/

University of Patras https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-patras/

pNET https://www.linkedin.com/company/-net-competence-center/

NOVA https://www.linkedin.com/company/novagreece

 

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