ONAP ‘Beijing’ Paves Way for Cloud-Native Network Functions

The Linux Foundation's LF Networking group announced availability for the second version of ONAP,  or the Open Network Automation Platform that is codenamed “Beijing," which is being used by AT&T and several other large carriers to manage and automate network traffic and security.
Beijing follows "Amsterdam," which was a first release late last year that integrated the code bases from two other carrier orchestration projects, one from AT&T and the other from the largest providers in China, said LF Networking General Manager Arpit Joshipura, in an interview with eWEEK.  The ONAP Beijing release builds on that integrated base, adding several new areas of functionality and “deployability,” and plants the seeds for the third release, "Casablanca," which will be the focus of the ONAP Casablanca Release Developer Forum, to be held in Beijing next week.  In addition to AT&T, ONAP is supported by Comcast, Bell Canada, Orange, China Mobile, China Telecom, Vodafone, Turk Telekom and Verizon, as well as all the major network equipment providers. Cloud-native APIs
The new pieces include interfaces for industry standard APIs from groups such as the TF Forum, the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum), and ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute), which enable ONAP to support services across any carrier and vendor product set.