Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020

Representatives from AT&T (Moderator), CommScope, Ericsson, and Nokia (in alphabetical order) will discuss results of the O-RAN Plugfest session that took place in North America within one of the of three Innovation Zones recently designated by the FCC. The Plugfest demonstrated LCM/FCAPS use cases developed by ONAP and OSC project teams in the context of an O-RAN framework. The use cases to be discussed include (1) Physical Network Function (PNF) Plug and Play, a 3GPP-aligned O1 interface use case that enables service providers to have the PNFs discovered by Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) via PNF registration handler; (2) Bulk Performance Management Data Collection, also a 3GPP-aligned O1 interface use case; (3) Basic O1 interface functionality for Configuration, Performance, and Fault Management of multi-vendor PNFs via a vendor-agnostic SMO; (4) basic network optimization (as intended by A1 interface) of PCI (Physical Cell ID) / RSI (Root Sequence Index). The panel will also provide an update of the next O-RAN Plugfest that will take place at the end of September 2020.