.Across Architecture

Domain-level orchestration

ACROSS employs a distributed grid of domain-level ACROSS orchestrator instances, each dedicated to the management of a domain infrastructure.

 Multi-domain end-to-end orchestration

The ACROSS multi-domain end-to-end orchestrator ensures end-to-end service & network continuity across multiple – potentially geo-distributed – domains.

 Cross-domain integration fabric

ACROSS employs an intermediate integration fabric that ensures alliance with ongoing standardisation efforts

User interfaces and APIs

ACROSS exposes a powerful frontend UI along with management APIs for orchestration, policy management, service management, AI, data generation, and telemetry.

.Project Partners

.Across Objectives

.Design

a future-proof service orchestration framework built upon iterative (i) deep infrastructure visibility, (ii) unsupervised secure reasoning via AI, and (iii) self-tunning zero-touch capabilities, acting upon massive spontaneous events originating from across the end-to-end geo-distributed cloud continuum.

.Design & Implement

a service deployment & orchestration framework empowered by (i) an ensemble of highly distributed domain orchestrator instances across the various edge sites, (ii) orchestrated – in an end-to-end fashion – by a logically centralised cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator, through an integration fabric of standardized interfaces.

.Design & Implement 

an “ultra-sensing” open end-to-end telemetry infrastructure, featuring zero-touch telemetry reporting and collection at the speed of the underlying hardware, along with standardised telemetry reports and visualisation mechanisms.

.Develop

an “ultra-instinct” unsupervised artificial intelligence stratum that will turn deep end-to-end telemetry data (Objective-3) into automated and proactive actionable decisions to empower the control loops of the cross-domain orchestration platform (Objective-2) in a fully-automated fashion (Objective 4).

.Develop

a broad range of zero-touch operations as programmable “hooks” in response to events originating from (i) raw infrastructure & telemetry data (Objective 3) and/or (ii) produced intelligence (Objective 4), both translated into actionable decisions applied to the ACROSS orchestrator (Objective 2).

.Design & Implement

security & trust mechanisms to vertically fortify the ACROSS orchestration platform, focusing on (i) device integrity, (ii) secure data acquisition & dissemination, and (iii) secure AI against attacks (e.g., DDoS heavy hitters, adversarial attacks).

.Design, Deployment & Validation

of test cases, that exercise the entire range of zero-touch operations (see Obj. 5) across multiple geo-distributed vertical sectors over the ACROSS platform and real testbeds, while aligning each test case with realistic aspects of automation.

.Maximise

the impact and adoption of ACROSS through relevant standardisation and open-source activities that will render ACROSS an exemplar orchestration platform with true market potentials.

.Latest News

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05
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ACROSS contributes to the SNS White Paper on “EMERGING 5G AND BEYOND ECOSYSTEM BUSINESS MODELS”

We are happy to announce the publication of the SNS White Paper “EMERGING 5G AND [...]

24
Apr
ACROSS contributes to the SNS White Paper on “AI/ML as a KEY ENABLER of 6G NETWORKS: Methodology, Approach and AI-Mechanisms in the SNS JU”

We are happy to announce the publication of the SNS White Paper “AI/ML as a [...]

10
Apr
ACROSS’s 8th newsletter is now available

The 8th issue of ACROSS’s Newsletter has been released! Explore the latest newsletter here and [...]

03
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ACROSS contributes to the SNS White Paper on “NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT ADVANCEMENTS: Key Frameworks and Interfaces towards Open, Intelligent and Reliable 6G networks”

We are happy to announce the publication of the SNS White Paper “NETWORK AND SERVICE [...]

02
Apr
Paper published in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

We are glad to inform you that our project partners, K3Y and UBITECH, in collaboration [...]

14
Mar
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