PLEASE ALSO REFER TO R1 NETWORK CLOUD RELEASE DOCUMENTATION
NC Family Documentation - Release 1
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 use case of Network Cloud Unicycle with OVS-DPDK blueprint is to support vRAN and 5G Core applications or other VM based edge applications which require high performance through-put with low latency. The blueprint will be evolved further to support multiple edge use cases.
Where on the Edge
The Unicycle blueprint can be deployed at any location in a network where between a three to seven server multi-tenant Openstack service is required to support applications.
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.
Platform Architecture
Please the Network Cloud Unicycle physical infrastructure requirements
Software Platform Architecture
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APIs
Not applicable to the blueprint
Hardware and Software Management
Licensing
GNU/common license