Network Services Evolution and Development WP6 Task 2 Network Services Evolution and Development Roman Łapacz TNC19, Tallinn 7C: Multilayered service orchestration and monitoring 18 June 2019

Key objectives of Task2 (1/2) To build a consensus-building team drawn from the NRENs to consult with the wider NREN community (paying due attention to international collaborators) to establish and maintain consensus on a direction for interoperable network service orchestration, automation and virtualisation (OAV), which will then drive the further work of Task 2. In response to specific identified use cases, to foster partner interoperability by piloting enhanced/new technology-agnostic service platform components, based on interoperable standards in a multi-domain environment.

Key objectives of Task2 (2/2) To identify existing and/or develop new software components and APIs needed to enable single and/or multi-domain service orchestration and partner interoperability. The task continues the work on the Service Provider Architecture (SPA) in particular looking for possibilities to grow the services offered through the self- service portal (SSP) and other SPA components.

The Service Provider Architecture (SPA) The Service Provider Architecture (SPA) is a software architecture for an OSS/BSS solution bringing OAV (orchestration, automation and virtualisation) mechanisms to be used in the R&E environment by GÉANT and the NRENs. Provide a common way to introduce new services Reuse available common blocks Fast forward new service development User-centric Unified view of service offerings, service monitoring and management TMForum standards

OSS/BSS Business Support Systems (BSS) – Processes and systems that support customer facing activities Product Management Customer Management Revenue Management Order Management Operations Support Systems (OSS) – Processes and systems that support back-office activities within a network Service Delivery Service Fulfillment Service Assurance Customer Care Network Management Systems

TMForum Frameworx Components Processes Information Model Open APIs

SPA Components Network ESB BPM Self-service portal CMR Ordering Catalogue Problems R&S Inventory Activation Monitoring Faults TMF API Network

SPA Implementation with the E-LINE service Main components and APIs Self-service Portal (Admin View and User View), R&S Inventory, Activiti, Camel Open source tools: SuiteCRM, OTRS E-LINE as the first service in SPA E2E circuits NSI protocol Activation by OpenNSA compliant with MEF's LSO Reference Architecture and Framework Management Console OpsDB Cacti

SPA Development Java, Javascript and Python Open source libraries (Activiti, Django, Camel) GEANT development tools Bamboo Jira SonarQube Test environment 2 GTS testbeds SPA components monitoring with Nagios SLAC (event notification) Code Audit is ongoing Collaboration with WP9

SPA and Generic Connection Service (GCS) Generic Connection Service (GCS) provides fully transparent Ethernet circuits over the GÉANT network using specific software tools for automated provisioning GCS is being developed by WP7 SSP Portal to manage circuits in the GCS service Close collaboration between WP6 T2 and WP7 T2 Test deployment in GÉANT VMs R&S Inventory Camel Activiti OTRS SuiteCRM Self-service Portal (SSP)

OpenNSA Key resource facing component for the E-LINE service (and the GCS service) Implementation of NSI NSI network abstraction layer for Self-service Portal (SSP) STPs as circuit end points Lower level network OAV using STPs and OpenNSA API and Agents Test instances of OpenNSA in the T2 GTS testbeds Network X a b Network Y c d STP a STP b Network Z e f STP c STP d STP e STP f

The Self-service Portal for the GCS service (1/2)

The Self-service Portal for the GCS service (2/2) Circuit order Circuit details

Ongoing activities and plans Policy management in SPA The use of SSP Portal to set up MS ExpressRoute connectivity Integration of SSP with eduGAIN Support for WP7 at production deployment of SPA with GCS in the GÉANT network Input from the T2 Consensus Building group (a new service in SPA, new use cases) Testing, testing, testing …

Conclusions SPA – user-centric, standards-based OSS/BSS platform to manage network services Continuation of OAV efforts started in GN4-2 Focus on standards and quality Deployment in the GÉANT network – the GCS service Collaboration with WP7 and WP9 We have plans to enhance and improve SPA Next releases, next deployments, next services managed by SPA and use cases

Thank you Any questions? © GÉANT Association on behalf of the GN4 Phase 3 project (GN4-3). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 856726 (GN4-3).