1. Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV):
Consensus building activities
Ivana Golub, PSNC
TNC19, Tallinn
7C: Multilayered service orchestration and monitoring
18 June 2019

2. Agenda Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) in WP6
The need for consensus building
NREN OAV Survey
GN4-3 Future Service Strategy Workshop – OAV in GÉANT Community
Next Steps

3. Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) in WP6

4. Current Status
OAV consensus building team was formed with 12 people from 8 project partner countries
NREN OAV Survey
31 organisations participated in the survey
Co-organised GN4-3 Future Service Strategy Workshop
Focused on the use of Automation, Orchestration and Virtualisation in the GÉANT Community
TNC19: Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) BoF
Thursday morning side meeting – registrations still open

5. NREN OAV Survey

6. Survey Objectives
Learn about the strategy and actions of each NREN related to network and service orchestration, automation and virtualisation
Explore if there are common use cases, ideas, needs and issues in the community in the areas of automation, orchestration and virtualisation
Identify potential areas of collaboration both amongst NRENs and between NRENs and GÉANT
Determine and recommend potential future work within Work Package 6 (or other WPs) of the GÉANT GN4-3 project that could be of benefit to as many partners as possible for identified use case(s)

7. Survey Areas: Results: Existing platforms (OSS/BSS)
Current OAV use cases
Challenges in adopting OAV
Future OAV use cases
How GÉANT might help NRENs
Results:
Presented at the workshop, serving as a starting point for discussion there
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8. Survey Results Interpretation
NRENs have common pain points:
Lack of appropriate manpower, time, cost, priorities,...
A wide variety of systems and components are in use
No obvious common single direction or architecture for OAV
Opportunity exists for work on BSS and OSS – BSS integration
The most important OAV use cases for NRENs are configuration integrity, problem troubleshooting and security operations centre enhancements
The current NREN focus is more on providing their own services, rather than inter-domain services with other service providers

9. GN4-3 Future Service Strategy Workshop OAV in the GÉANT Community

10. OAV Workshop 70 representatives in person or remote
34 NRENs and affiliated organisations
Objectives:
Present the survey results
Gather input about the longer term vision / strategy
Gather input about immediate next steps along that path
Group discussions – on site and remote participants

11. OAV Workshop Outcomes There was a high interest in OAV topics
NRENs are all at different stages of their OAV journeys
Scope exists for greater collaboration between the NRENs
There is no “one size fits all” solution
A common terminology needs to be agreed
We must avoid reinventing wheels
A particular interest exists in OAV for connectivity services
Initial focus should be "intra-domain"
Value, uptake and sustainability are all important

12. Next Steps

13. Next Steps Focus groups Knowledge sharing/exchange
Developing common terminology and a “reference architecture / framework” – explore APIs, interfaces
Exploring use case(s)
Knowledge sharing/exchange
Regular InfoShares on OAV technologies and NREN use cases
OAV Tools Repository – potentially using GÉANT GitLab
Open Wiki – (launching soon)
Continuing the discussion:
TNC19 OAV side meeting on Thursday -
STF meeting in Dublin on 3-4 July -

14. Conclusions
The GN4-3 Network Technologies and Services Development Work Package wants to raise the level of OAV in the community
Important to focus on specific use cases, initially intra-domain
Many differences in approaches to date by NRENs
Future work upcoming in the areas of:
Focus groups
Knowledge sharing/exchange
The TNC19 OAV side meeting / BoF is the immediate result of inputs from the survey and the workshop