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SONATA celebrated its 8th plenary meeting at Paderborn University this week.
After the recent release of SONATA 2.0, pilots were at the heart of this meeting´s discussions. The project is now working on delivering three pilots:
vCDN: This use case focuses on showcasing and assessing the SONATA system capabilities in order to enhance a virtual EPC service with elasticity, placement optimisation, resilience and DevOps methods. The use case considers the case of an MVNO wishing to operate their vEPC as a network slice on top of a virtualised infrastructure provided by infrastructure provider in order to gain more flexibility to continuously dimensioning the service, function of the end-users activity, to optimise placement with regards to the users' locations, to increase resilience by optimally adapting the system to failure or security attack, and to bring new maintenance work-ow using DevOps principles.
Service Platform to Service Platform: ISP providers create and offer a security service catalogue for their customers. Users aware of security risk when using the network can search the catalogue and decide to subscribe to a security service. The Customer selects the preferred business model the service provider offers: a subscription based on time of use, volume of data, a at rate, etc.. BSS channels triggers based on user identify on the network the orchestration, deployment and monitoring process of a set of vNSFs that combines the services required by the user. The Customer may decide to change his/her service's configuration (by applying some additional incoming filters, for example) and SONATA reconfigures the service accordingly. For example, this could result in adding and deploying a new vNSF with Parental control and the list of blocked webpages as part of the configuration.
Service Platform to Service Platform: This use case describes the situation where there is more than one service provider involved in the establishment of an NFV network service and where both are running independent instances of SONATA. In particular, the case is considered where one service provider is responsible for the VNFs and their composition into a network service while a different service provider is providing the NFV infrastructure on which the VNFs are hosted. The model is a 'client/server' model between service providers rather than a 'peer-peer' model.
More information about pilots will be provided in deliverable D6.2 to be delivered soon. Don´t miss it! We will keep you post it!
