| NFV MANO Business Case |
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- Basic ETSI MANO feature set: resource / service orchestration and VNF management, including deploy, provision, manage, updates, scaling and resource placement
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- Increased efficiency of network infrastructure
- Higher service levels
- Dynamic network scalability
- Simplified network management
- NFV business case: lower OpEx, CapEx
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| Openness and Flexibility |
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- Customizable by design, including swappable modular plugins, such as lifecycle management, service monitoring, conflict resolution, etc.
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- Bespoke implementation leads to best-fit solution for network operator and their existing assets
- Easily extensible for future requirements via a microservices inspired design
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- Open interfaces for multi-vendor support, independent of the supporting orchestration stack(s)
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- Business agility and reduced risk of vendor lock-in: flexibility among different vendors: VNFM, VIM, NFVI, etc.
- Adaptable to multiple VNFM architectural choices, including generic VNFM or the interfaced vendor-specific VNFM)
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- Lower investment risk
- Extensibility and further compatibility with other NFV components from propietary or open source solutions following similar ETSI compliance
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- Compatibility with leading community solutions (especially OpenStack)
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- Ecosystem flexibility (cloud management stack, application management software, etc.), and sync with industry de-facto roadmaps “out of the box”
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- Open interface with legacy OSS/BSS, adaptable to new systems for 5G-focussed environments
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- Extended RoI for legacy systems, capacity to address gradual NFV adoption and brown-fields scenarios
- Extensible to support new OSS/BSS systems as required by 5G
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- Support for an extended value chain of stakeholders involved in development of 5G services
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- Incorporation of new functionality, compatible with third-party catalogs
- New B2B opportunities, e.g. third-party developers, solution providers, SMEs, potential revenue sharing with OTT
- Adapt and differentiate in changing network service market
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- Open source, commercial-friendly licensing: Apache v2
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- Open source community support
- Lower procurement costs, vendor/operator customization/extension without licensing conflicts
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- Recursiveness (platform working on top of other implementations of the platforms)
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- Operator models with separated network / infrastructure focused providers or MNO / MVNO models
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- Improved NFV/SDN integration
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- Enhanced end-to-end service operations
- Ready and extensible for 5G SDN-empowered networks
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| Agile Service Development and NFV DevOps |
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- Agile management of full service lifecycle
- Methodology and tools to implement a modern DevOps workflow for NFV and developed services
- Multi-organizational by design
- Compliance component (“Gatekeeper”) for vetting network functions and service developed by SDK
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- Increased productivity, quicker iterations, time-to-market reduction
- Create ecosystem with internal and external developers, leading to differentiation and increased revenue (CSP)
- Lower barrier to entry to develop services (third-party)
- New business models, closer B2B collaboration
- New customization for third-party developers, optimizing QoS/QoE to end-users
- More competitive offerings by network operators with the support of a developer ecosystem
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