Introduction

In Akraino's R1 release the Network Cloud (NC) family provides for the automated deployment of three different types of edge pod:

• Rover
• Unicycle with an OVS-DPDK data plane for guest VMs
• Unicycle with a SR-IOV data plane for guest VMs

The deployment process is based on a two tier hierarchical model incorporating a Regional Controller (RC) which is responsible for the deployment of any number of independent Rover and/or Unicycle pods at one or multiple edge locations within its region of control. In a large geographic deployment multiple RCs would be deployed to subdivide into a multi-region deployment.

Servers

Build Server

The Build Server node is built using a pre-provisioned VM. Full details are contained in the Validation Labs section of the NC's R1 documentation.

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