Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

Many evolving open source/ONAP areas are defined according to standard bodies under ETSI. But in order to create an easier, more productive way of communicating between ONAP and ETSI, and keep up with the pace of networking-technologies development, ONAP and ETSI recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

So how is this formal collaboration being put into practice?

Alla Goldner reveals the different collaboration activities already in place between ETSI (3GPP SA5, NFV ISG, ZSM ISG) and ONAP: the challenges, open issues, what’s next, and what has already been done… for example, mapping using 3GPP SA5 to define network management for 5G network slicing, with the implementation being carried out by ONAP’s 5G network slicing group. Another example: ETSI ZSM – its role in defining end-to-end network-management reference architecture and how it’s being mapped to ONAP modules, etc