5GTANGO has delivered an integrated NFV Service Platform, which includes:
a) A Service Development Kit (SDK) to facilitate developers the creation of innovative NSs and applications;
b) A Validation and Verification (V&V) Platform that facilitates the automatic testing of these NSs in “quasi-production” environments before being deployed in a real network. It targets Network Operators and/or Third-party Organisations that may provide services for the certification of these new Services.
c) A Service Platform with an innovative Management and Orchestration (MANO) solution that allows the efficient orchestration of the available infrastructure resources and the control of the whole life cycle and expected performance of the NSs. It is oriented to Network Operators.
Each of these modules corresponds to one of the main stages of the life cycle of a service: development, testing and operation. 5GTANGO allows the implementation of an extended DevOps (Development-Operations) model for Telecom that enables the agile management of the complete lifecycle of NS, increasing the productivity, reducing the time to market of services and allowing the creation of an ecosystem to encourage collaboration and innovation.
5GTANGO results have been delivered under Apache 2.0 license in a public GitHub repository, freely available for download and use. The latest software release, SONATA 5.1 was delivered by the project in January 2020. A huge effort has been made in order to facilitate adoption, which includes high quality documentation, easy installation processes, technical support, etc.
5GTANGO system have been demonstrated in three vertical pilots, with different but complementary requirements:
• Smart manufacturing, which goals was to design a novel, agile and flexible network for a modern factory making use of NFV/SDN technologies. It also focused on how analysing the data coming from the machines in order to improve different processes in the factory with the goal, for example, of improving the efficiency.
• Immersive media, that showcases how to provide advanced multimedia services making use of new technologies like 5G, vCDN, VR, 360° video cameras, image recognition, etc. It focuses on streaming a real-time video using a 360° camera at 4K resolution to users that, for example sitting at the leisure of their home, can enjoy a fully live immersive experience on a variety of devices such as VR head mounted displays, desktops or smartphones. The live stream is also enriched adding multiple secondary streams that can be selected by the user and even with social media (YouTube and Twitter) content. This enables high personalization of the live stream creating a unique experience.
• Real-time communications, which goal is to deploy a commercial operator real-time unified communication platform over an NFV architecture. Each instance of a collaboration system for real-time communications is deployed on each Network Slice, with different QoS requirements, which are enforced though a Transport network, using WAN Infrastructure Manager (WIM) interface.
This guarantees that 5GTANGO has a sufficiently generic approach to fulfill a large variety of scenarios.
