PLEASE ALSO REFER TO R1 NETWORK CLOUD RELEASE DOCUMENTATION

Blueprint overview/Introduction

Network Cloud Unicycle with OVS-DPDK support is an Akraino approved blueprint and is added as a new species to existing Akraino's Network Cloud Blueprint Family. This blueprint integrates Akraino feature project Support for OVS-DPDK in Airship which primarily focuses on up-streaming OVS-DPDK functionality in to the Airship project. This blueprint will address multiple edge usecase supporting both virtual machines and container based workloads.

Use Case

The primary usecase of Network Cloud Unicycle with OVS-DPDK blueprint is to support vRAN and 5G Core applications which requires high performance through-put with low latency.The blueprint will be evolved further to support multiple edge usecases.

Where on the Edge

Business Drivers

Overall Architecture

The Network Cloud family describes a detailed architectural view of Akraino Edge Stack Network Cloud (NC) Blueprint Family.

The figure below shows the collection of opensource projects that enable the Akraino Edge Stack Network Cloud (NC) Blueprint Family. This picture also highlights (marked yellow) the components and projects which are updated to fulfill the requirements on this blueprint.

< This section will use the Akraino architecture document as reference>

Platform Architecture

Software Platform Architecture

APIs

APIs with reference to Architecture and Modules

High Level definition of APIs are stated here, assuming Full definition APIs are in the API documentation

Hardware and Software Management

Licensing

GNU/common license

Architecture Document