Sandeep Sharma is a Software Engineer with Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that provides zero-touch edge and 5G service orchestration and management services. He is very active in the open source community helping to lead the Nephio, EMCO, and Akraino projects. Prior to Aarna, Sandeeep held leadership roles at Western Digital, Virident Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, and NetDevices. He studied Computer Science at the Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering in Mysuru, India.
In this demo video, we will show you how to use our product, the Aarna.ml Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) to deploy a network service based on Altran 5GC CNFs and A10 Thunder next generation firewall CNF onto Kubernetes. We will show the following steps:
Register an already created Red Hat OpenShift (CRC) Kubernetes cluster with AMCOP
Onboard Altran 5G Core and A10 Thunder NGFW CNFs on AMCOP; we will use Helm charts as the CNF descriptors
Create a network service using these CNFs
Deploy the network service onto the Kubernetes cluster
Please note, it is a silent video. Excited? Please contact us if you would like to create a similar service in your lab.
Amar Kapadia
Amar Kapadia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that offers zero-touch edge and 5G services orchestration and management at scale. Amar has over 20 years of experience in networking, storage, server, and I/O technologies through marketing and engineering leadership positions at Mirantis, Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is the author of three books: "ONAP Demystified", "Understanding OPNFV" and "OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials," and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Jose, California.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) views 5G as an important technology and plans to make significant investments. The DoD also wants to support 5G startups. As part of these initiatives, the DoD is holding an event titled "NSIN STARTS presents: Navy & Marine Corps 5G". In this event, there will be a series of keynote presentations outlining the DoD's 5G strategy. In addition, 10 startups will be providing their pitch in an effort to win a $50,000 award. Aarna.ml was fortunate enough to be chosen to compete. The event is next week on October 27, 2020 from 10:00AM to 5:00PM PDT.
The above startups have been asked to explain how they solve one of four 5G problems: autonomous vehicles, sensor suites, 5G relay, and other 5G enabled technology. We will present how the Aarna.ml Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) produdct solves the 5G relay problem. In the 5G relay problem, the DoD "seeks to dynamically extend the reach of static 5G infrastructure through mobile 5G relay nodes." In reality, all 5G problems need orchestration, lifecycle management, and automation of network services and edge computing applications; however, in this problem, more so than others, needs a fully automated solution. Imagine setting up a 5G network in the field with manual steps that for example require kubectl commands. That's simply not going to happen and that's where AMCOP comes in!
Sriram Rupanagunta is a co-founder & SVP Engineering at Aarna Networks, Inc, and heads their engineering team. Prior to Aarna, Sriram was the Head of India Engineering at Data Center Business of Western Digital Corp. Prior to Western Digital, Sriram was with the SSD based startup Virident Systems (which was acquired by Western Digital). Earlier to that, Sriram was also the co-founder of start up Aarohi Communications which was acquired by Emulex Corporation, and was the Vice President, Technology at Emulex. He lives in Bangalore, India with his wife and a daughter.
As you might have seen, we rolled out a new product two weeks ago—the Aarna.ml Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) 1.0. This is an open source, lightweight 5G + edge computing orchestration and lifecycle management product optimized for Kubernetes environments. We use the EMCO (Edge Multi Cluster Orchestrator) and CDS (Controller Design Studio) software from the Linux Foundation Networking ONAP project to accomplish this. Our goal is to enable b2b applications where the simplicity of the product is the key consideration.
We showed a demo of AMCOP with the Altran 5GC, Kaloom UPF, and Red Hat OpenShift at last week's ONES keynote (If you don't have access to it, you can watch the demo here). Next week, at the LFN Virtual Technical Event, we will show some additional demos:
1) On Tuesday 13/Oct at 12:15PM UTC, we will show a demo of AMCOP orchestrating the Free5GC 5G core onto a Kubernetes edge cloud.
2) On Tuesday 13/Oct, at 3PM UTC, we will show a demo of AMCOP performing Day 1,2 configuration on an O-RAN-SC O1 interface simulator.
Additionally, on Thursday 15/Oct, at 3PM UTC, we will also give an introduction to ONAP for those who might be new to the project.
Please check out our demos and let us know what you think! If you would like to replicate any of these demos in your lab, try out AMCOP 1.0 for free.
Amar Kapadia
Amar Kapadia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that offers zero-touch edge and 5G services orchestration and management at scale. Amar has over 20 years of experience in networking, storage, server, and I/O technologies through marketing and engineering leadership positions at Mirantis, Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is the author of three books: "ONAP Demystified", "Understanding OPNFV" and "OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials," and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Jose, California.
I am pleased to announce a new product—the Aarna.ml Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) 1.0. A bit of background first: we've come to realize over the past several months that we'd be better off addressing a very specific use case as opposed to our prior strategy of going after the horizontal MANO (management and orchestration) market. That is exactly what we are doing with AMCOP. We are solving the cloud native, B2B, 5G network service + edge computing application orchestration, management, and automation problem. We support only the Kubernetes NFVI. And we focus on B2B applications e.g., Industry 4.0, healthcare, precision agriculture, and more.
By narrowing our focus, we are able to use just two ONAP projects—Edge Multi Cluster Orchestrator (EMCO) and the Controller Design Studio (CDS). This makes the solution very lightweight and easy-to-use. These two projects allow us to perform intent-based orchestration of 5G network services and composite edge computing applications and to manage their lifecycle. Policy-driven control loop automation, network slicing manager, Non-Real Time RIC (NRTRIC), Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF)/ Management Data Analytics Function (MDAF), Self-Organizing Networks (SON), and more are on our roadmap and will come later this year and into early 2021.
See the AMCOP product page for more information. The product is open source (based on LF Networking and CNCF projects), so you can try it out for free as well.
Also, check out AMCOP demos at ONES next week:
AMCOP demo of Altran/Kaloom 5G Core orchestration on Red Hat OpenShift (keynote or booth)
AMCOP demo of Free5GC (5G Core) orchestration on K8s
Alternatively, check out the demos on our YouTube channel:
Interested in an AMCOP presentation and demo meeting? Let us know at info@aarna.ml and we can schedule it.
Amar Kapadia
Amar Kapadia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that offers zero-touch edge and 5G services orchestration and management at scale. Amar has over 20 years of experience in networking, storage, server, and I/O technologies through marketing and engineering leadership positions at Mirantis, Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is the author of three books: "ONAP Demystified", "Understanding OPNFV" and "OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials," and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Jose, California.
Please engage with us at ONES next week. We have four ways for you to check out our 5G orchestration demos and to engage with us at the Linux Foundation Open Networking and Edge Summit next week.
Our 5G Orchestration Demos & Activities at ONES 2020
We are working on a cloud native 5G orchestration demo with a number of other companies. This demo will be shown during the Keynote on Monday. In this demo you can see our product based on Intel/ONAP EMCO and ONAP CDS orchestrate Altran 5GC onto Red Hat OpenShift. The 5GC also includes a UPF from Kaloom. The end-to-end testing is done using a gNB/UE emulator by Rebaca Technologies.
This same demo will also be shown during the expo at the "Onboarding 5G CNFs with ONAP: As Easy as 1, 2, 3 (ONAP, OPNFV, K8s)" virtual booth.
We are working on a Private LTE/5G over CBRS blueprint in the Akraino community. See the demo of our first milestone where we orchestrate Free5GC using our new product AMCOP based on Intel/ONAP EMCO and ONAP CDS.
We will be there at the "Ask the Expert" session on Monday to answer any questions about 5G Technology and its relationship to LF Networking or LF Edge.
See you next week! If you miss any demos or would like to follow up with us, please contact us.
Rajendra Mishra
Rajendra Mishra is a Software Architect at Aarna Networks. Over the last two decades, he has had the opportunity to work with a variety of organizations in engineering and management roles. He works extensively with Cloud Technologies, Linux kernel, storage systems, processor architectures and embedded systems. Rajendra was a part of the Virident System team which was was acquired by HGST/Western Digital for $685 Million. He has a degree in Computer Science from the Army Institute of Technology, Pune.
This blog describes onboarding of a TOSCA VNF with ONAP, an exercise that was conducted at the 2020 ETSI NFV & MEC Plugtests Event. This event was conducted online and the participants worked remotely.
Setup
The setup consisted of Aarna.ml ONAP Distribution (ANOD) 4.0 (based on the ONAP El Alto release). ONAP was hosted on bare metal servers and connected to WindRiver Openstack as the NFVI layer. Since the default components of ONAP had unresolved bugs in VFC related functionality, we upgraded a few of them to a higher version:
vfc-nslcm: nslcm:1.3.8
vfc-vnflcm: vnflcm:1.3.8
vfc-generic-vnfm-driver: vnfmgr:1.3.4
vnf-catalog:1.3.8
multicloud-windriver : 1.5.4
multicloud-framework: 1.5.1
The details of all the component versions for ONAP are here.
Next we upgraded the CLI to version 1.5.3. Then we followed the below steps.
1. We downloaded the VNF TOSCA CSAR package to be used. We used the following VNF:
