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5G SBP Use Case - Application Centric Connectivity

5G SBP Use Case - Application Centric Connectivity

This page serves as the working document for the Use Case as it is developed. All contributors are asked to add contributions to the project on this page. The table below may be modified in anyway to fit the needs of the project. Meeting notes along with meeting recording links are captured at the bottom of the page.

 

Use Case Name:

Application Centric Connectivity

Use Case Name:

Application Centric Connectivity

Use Case Description:

Deploy containerized and distributed applications to bare Linux and Kubernetes endpoints in any location in conjunction with a dedicated network overlay and any needed infrastructure (software-defined).  And when various components of that application are moved to a new environment or locations, move the connectivity along with it without any downtime.  The configuration of the application and corresponding connectivity should be represented by declarative intent.

Overview-

LF-Networking, a Linux Foundation initiative, extends network functionalities to deliver real-time data services at the edge - without reliance on the cloud. This innovative integration combines EdgeLake (a Virtual Data Layer), Open Horizon (an Edge Orchestration Platform), and advanced networking capabilities to empower telecom companies to provide edge data services traditionally dominated by cloud providers.

In today’s landscape, organizations face challenges of cost, latency, and compliance by transferring edge data to the cloud. LF-Networking disrupts this dependency by enabling data to remain at the edge while being serviced to applications as seamlessly as if hosted in a centralized cloud database.

This groundbreaking approach transforms telecom companies from being mere data pipelines to full-fledged edge data service providers. Importantly, it requires no investments in data centers, software development, or modifications to existing telecom infrastructure. With LF-Networking, telecom companies can capitalize on new revenue opportunities and strengthen their competitive position in the rapidly evolving data economy.

-Epic

-Problem Statement

Separate teams currently manage network access and overlays, and application deployments.  This approach removes barriers and empowers those deploying applications to also specify, provision, and stand up the connectivity within provided guardrails.

Industry Use Cases Descriptions

Use Cases from existing demo

  1. Using CI/CD automation to connect deployed applications to remote services. Nephio? @Joe Pearson 

  2. Moving a network overlay to a new location without disrupting an application’s connectivity @Muddasar Ahmed to provide detail (gNodeB components):  RAN Components are CU-CP, CU-UP, DU-CP, DU-UP, RU.  ORAN RAN gNodeB implementation components are SMO(Service Management, and Orchestration controller), CU-CP, CU-UP, DU-CP, DU-UP, RU.  SMO has subcomponents- Non-Realtime RIC, and Near Realtime-RIC, xApps and r-Apps.

  3. Resilliency and Redundancy capabilities- Showing application connectivity resilliency in the face of a network segment going down

  4. Enabling application mobility

 

Users Stories

 

  • @Muddasar Ahmed after watching the video will add to user story(s)

  • Company A is researching options for deploying an edge solution. The company is offered a plug and play solution that would make the starting point a virtual data lake or a virtual cloud where queries can be run against the edge (rather then sending engineers to the edge and moving huge amounts of data to the virtual cloud.)

  • Company B needs to move across the virtual cloud. A solution is offered where the data can be moved by expressing an SQL query(s) (rather then sending engineers to the edge to move the data).

  • ….

Business Justications

 

Requirements

  • Portability of Workloads- Workloads have to be capabile of running in each of 3 environments (private virtualized data center, AWS/Google Clould/Azure, or 3rd party) relatively unchanged both in the cloud and at the edge.

    • decription or information model that describes the appplication itself @joe

  • Transparently move components of a complex application, or the whole application itself between the locations with no downtime.

Interaction with other open source projects and components

  • Open Horizon

  • Edgelake

  • L3AF, L3AF wiki - for observerability (potential/option)

  • ORAN (detailed discussion from 06/11)

  • Nephio - How is Nephio different then what Open Horizon is doing?

Resources -people

 

Resources (people) to execute on the blueprint:

  • Moshe Shadmon (AnyLog)

  • Joe Pearson (IBM)

  • ...

 

Steps to Realization

  • What is the very 1st step to realization?

  • 2nd step?

  • 3rd step?

High-level architecture diagram

 

 

High level lab topology diagram

 

 

Dependencies - list of any dependencies that rely of future releases of a specfic component.

 

Yes

  •  

    • Enter details:

or

No

High-level timeline

 

  • Month that build can begin: enter month/year

  • Approximate duration of build: enter number of weeks or months

  • Approximate completion of outputs: ONE Summit Nov 2024

Upstreaming Opportunities

 

  • enter project(s) and details

Blueprint Outputs 

(Suggested. Not all may apply)

check all that apply:

Code repository
Configuration files (e.g. Helm charts, etc.)
Upstreaming to relevant projects 
Continuous Integration
Test requirements and test results (if applicable)
Documentation:
Overview and Theory of Operation (i.e., what does it do?)
Deployment and setup
Videos
demo
lab setup/behind the scenes
other

Links to existing documentation (Build Guide, Slideware, etc), if available.

Links to existing demo/video, if available.

Links to existing code/repos, if available.

 

Meeting Notes and Recordings

Aug 26, 2025

Jun 17, 2025

Agentic AI and Federated Learning Use Cases for the July 1 meeting

Jun 3, 2025

  • Post webinar

    • Webinar recording- followup with Sunny

    • Next Step- Hone followup messaging

    • What is the next use case/target market. With a focus on AI. Look at a broader space outside telco.

      • (Eric) - A deployment on Federated Learning exists. Can AI be leveraged?

 

Apr 22, 2025

  • Webinar wiki

  • Outreach follow-up

    • Followup meeting with Beth for Verizon introductions

    • LFN Board member from Verizon might be interested, @Ranny Haiby to followup

    • Telus- bring in Sana? What is the ask? @Ranny Haiby (Unlicensed) can reach out.

    • Outreach to LFN TAC- proposal for May 14, 2025 at the earliest

 

Apr 8, 2025

  • Webinar planning with LFN marketing, April 8

  • Outreach with Beth Cohen April 9. Send to Eric

  • Outreach- Ranny met with Orange CTO org during Kubecon, there might be some interest. @Ranny Haiby to make introduction

  • Outreach- LFN Board member from Verizon might be interested, @Ranny Haiby to followup

  • Outreach to LFN TAC- proposal for April 30

  • Outreach followup

    • Telus- Moshe/Eric

    • ONAP SECCOM and ONAP TSC

    • Member Summit

  • GSM Fraud & Security group

    • Eric (Anylog) connected with Eric Gathere (Orange/GSM Security group chair).

    • Next Steps:

      1. Build story and value prop around security @Moshe Shadmon

      2. Get on a GSM Fraud & Security group agenda working through Eric G.

  • Other events inside and outside the LF.

  • LJ PTO Apr 14, 2025 to Apr 18, 2025

 

Mar 25, 2025

Updates on Outreach:

  • Lesson Learned - pre-meeting email with demo and some content

  • @Moshe Shadmon @LJ Illuzzi to follow up with ONAP SECCOM and ONAP TSC

  • Readout from Member Summit

    • 20 something people at the talk. Limited networking people. There is overall interest (IBM, SI, Toyota, Honda)

    • Follow on leads.

  • Followup with Telus on presentation from 03/24

    • There is opportunity, Telus is working on an Edge strategy. Jahal also mentioned a connected cars project. Working with AWS.

    • Next step- Ranny, Moshe, LJ strategize on how to approach Sana on next steps.

  • Presentation to TAC - next available meeting is Apr 16, 2025

    • @LJ Illuzzi to put it on the agenda for Apr 16, 2025

  • Webinar planning

    • Material/Content @Moshe Shadmon

    • Pre-marketing- get the word out- pre-blog, LFN LinkedIn post, LFN events page, mailing lists LFN, LFEdge, ORAN, LF-wide? other umbrellas? Can we get on the LF events page?

    • Post-marketng- blog, Linked, LFN YouTube

    • Live via zoom and recorded.

      • @LJ Illuzzi to check zoom limitations on PCC

    • Next Step-

      • Setup a date in advance as a target. After ONE Summit

      • Setup meeting with Jill and Sunny after ONE Summit.

  • Beth Cohen (Verizon retiree with connections) presentation. After ONE Summitt.

  • GSM Fraud & Security group

    • Eric (Anylog) connected with Eric Gathere (Orange/GSM Security group chair).

    • Next Steps:

      1. Build story and value prop around security @Moshe Shadmon

      2. Get on a GSM Fraud & Security group agenda working through Eric G.

  • Other events inside and outside the LF.

  • LJ PTO Apr 14, 2025 to Apr 18, 2025

 

Mar 11, 2025

Updates on Outreach:

  • Presentation to ONAP SECCOM occured today. Thoughts from those present?

    • Next steps-

      • Present to ONAP TSC on 03/13

      • Present to ONAP PLT is pending

  • Member summit next week: talk that was accepted by the members summit.  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lf-member-summit/program/schedule/  03/20

  • Presentation to Telus- 03/24

  • LFN TAC- pending Moshe availability

  • Webinar - pending

  • Beth Cohen

 

Feb 25, 2025

Outreach

Latest deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pMP5IayTsw1h53zI9sST6zx0_5FpjjOVt1c4KCuvTls/edit#slide=id.g31fc8139225_0_27

  • Get on SECCOM agenda for March 11 @Muddasar Ahmed @LJ Illuzzi

    • Tuesday 8am EST/5am PST @LJ Illuzzi to send meeting invite to Moshe.

    • Material presentation, architecture, and demo

  • Update on Amy @Muddasar Ahmed . She will be presant on seccom call.

  • Update on Beth @Ranny Haiby . In progress

  • Update on Telus (Sana, Jalal)

    • Monday Mar 3, 2025 10am or 11am PST

 

 

Feb 11, 2025

  • Next steps on Outreach-

  1. Setup brainstorming meeting with Byung-Woo Jun who represents both ONAP and Nephio.

    • What are we asking of the CSPs on these projects?

    • What are we asking from the projects themselves? upstreaming?

  • EdgeLake enables Federated Learning at the Edge

  • IBM is working to allocate a couple of development resources to create a POC to show how to:

    • Deploy an EdgeLake node in a private network

    • Deploy a network gateway within that private network

    • Connect the EdgeLake node to the greater EdgeLake ad-hoc P2P network

  • EdgeLake/Anylog-

    • Introduction of Telco MEC Industrial with AnyLog

      • EdgeLake working with Telco’s on Private 5G Use Case.

 

Jan 28, 2025

Meeting Recording

 

Jan 14, 2025

Meeting Recording

 

Dec 10, 2024

Outreach Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2AaH3qbNtwwJZPsaD3X1qrAoZCXMk-cNnuEgQhEMPo/edit?usp=sharing

 

Dec 3, 2024

Meeting Recording

  1. Create and align on an overview paragraph and slide(s) that outlines the opportunity. How do we deliver the message? @moche to draft first pass from the data side.

  2. Get input from a telco user, as suggested by @Muddasar Ahmed . Amy Zwarico, Beth Cohen may be able to help.

  3. Identify telco contacts to pitch to.

  4. Delivering the message

    1. Cloud Native/Telco Day- April 2025 in person. Requires travel to London. CFP link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/cloud-native-telco-day/

    2. Blog post (LFN and LFE platforms) with Call to Action.

    3. Individual outreach - maybe Amy Zwarico, Beth Cohen can help.

    4. @Ranny Haiby to reach out toLincoln for dev resources