In summary, the project has achieved all its objectives.
Objective 1: Design an advanced and accessible 5G end to end facility.
Measures of Objective 1 achievement: Deliverables 1.1-1.7.
Objective 1 is achieved. The designs and requirements delivered in 1st reporting period (D1.1–1.3) were revised in second reporting period (D1.4–1.6) taking into account updates from industry standards bodies (particularly 3GPP Release 16), feedback from implementations of the Facility Sites, and progress made in other Work Packages. The deliverables were used by the work packages WP2-5 to realize their goals.
Objective 2: Build several interworking sites of the 5G-VINNI end to end facility.
Measures of Objective 2 achievement: Deliverables 2.1-2.6.
Objective 2 is achieved. The initial Design (HLD) as made in D2.1 (and updated in D2.5) has been implemented, with results and design deviations as given in D2.2 and D2.3. How to use the implementations for industry verticals has been described in D2.6. Four main sites and four experimental sites have been implemented, with open APIs for use case tests, including network slices and user provisioning on these slices, with a variety of accesses, and with interworking between selected sites.
Objective 3: Provide user friendly zero-touch orchestration, operations and management systems for the 5G-VINNI facility.
Measures of Objective 3 achievement: Deliverables 3.1-3.5.
Objective 3 is achieved. Service specifications and catalogues to vertical consumers have been made. Service catalogues including E2E services across operator domain, service specification governance model as well as service orchestration and life-cycle management have been published. These deliverables were critical for continuous implementation and upgrade of facility sites and their use verticals.
Objective 4: Validate the 5G KPIs and support the execution of E2E trial of vertical use cases to prove the 5G-VINNI capabilities.
Measures of Objective 4 achievement: Deliverables 4.1-4.6.
Objective 4 is achieved. D4.1 defines KPIs and pre-qualification test cases important for the facility sites readiness for test campaigns. Test cases and measurement approach documented in D4.2 and D4.4 provide the full test handbook. Initial test reports of the main facilities are documented in D4.3. The test framework designed and implemented has been documented in D4.5 in the form of the Test as a Service (TaaS) platform, which has been used to perform automated periodic tests and monitoring of NFVI and 5G network performance in the main facilities while also supporting experimenters in executing tests related to experiments. The results obtained from experiments and periodic tests executed on all facility sites are documented in D4.6.
Objective 5: Develop a viable business and ecosystem model to support the life of the 5G-VINNI facility during and beyond the span of the project.
Measures of Objective 5 achievement: Deliverables 5.1-5.4.
Objective 5 is achieved. An actor role model was defined by analysing 5G as an ecosystem, SWOT analysis was applied to evaluate "5G experimentation-as-a-service", business and economic KPIs were defined, and critical business layer functionalities were identified. The 5G-VINNI Business Layer requirements and associated capabilities was identified in D5.2. The final 5G-VINNI Business Layer design and the proposed rollout of capabilities along the 5G-VINNI Maturity Levels (MLs) were delivered in D5.3. The set of final Business and Economic (B&E) KPIs for evaluation of business success and sustainability of 5G-VINNI facility, along with target values, was defined in D5.3. The evaluation of 5G-VINNI business success was documented in D5.4. Sustainable business models for Experimentation as a Service were introduced and evaluated in D5.4. Sustainable governance models for provisioning Network Slice as a Service across multiple facility sites was introduced and evaluated.
Objective 6: Demonstrate the value of 5G solutions to the 5G community particularly to relevant standards and open source communities with a view to securing widespread adoption of these solutions.
Measures of Objective 6 achievement: Deliverables 6.1-6.4.
Objective 6 is mostly achieved. The report D6.3 contains all results of the impact creation activities including details of publications like scientific articles, workshops, conferences, contributions to standardization, the 5G PPP programme and others. Furthermore, this report contains the final exploitation plan that demonstrates how project results are used in developing, creating and marketing new products and services and how future research activities may be inspired. The planned participation to events and trade shows was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 and several attempts to participate e.g. at MWC and EUCNC were not possible.
