ONF Community Highlights: August 2019

We want to take a moment to highlight people and contributions that are making a substantial difference across our amazing communities.

Table of Contents

Certification Brigade

Rewrote OMEC control-plane and data-plane helm charts, which provide better dependency resolution between services as well as multi-cluster deployment scenario, data-plane at edge site and control-plane at central site for example. Ready for release.
Finished standard Docker build for COMAC images.
Finished to deploy CORD platform and COMAC profile in COMAC-in-a-Box.
Started to integrate ng4t into our CICD.
We made the end to end setup ( from phone + accelleran enodeb + container based OMEC ) works for Release.
Started to refactor CDN code and COMAC profile code clearly.
Started to integrate the wired service (i.e., SEBA) in COMAC-in-a-Box.
Created ONF Connect Demo. We are ready to show the COMAC release deployed in multi-cluster environment.
Added a monitoring service to COMAC for the mobile subscribers.

Improvements to cordctl CLI tool: add regex and substring matching to filters, better error reporting

Modulation implementation with Driver and Rest API thanks to Sterlite (Puneet, Vishnu and Chetan)
Modulation CLI command (Andrea Campanella)
Optical UI modulation, target input power, current output and current input power (Andrea Campanella, Sean Condon)
Documentation augmentation (ONF, IPI)
Test and bug-fixes for Optical App (Ivan from Nokia)
Testing and deployment on CASSINI thanks to IP Infusion
Adva Integration and TAPI testing thanks to Konrad, Rafal and Andrea
Modulation and OSNR OpenConfig yang extension proposal thanks to Sterlite (Puneet, Vishnu)

Made the ONF TR-512 Core Model codes open to the public and posted on https://github.com/OpenNetworkingFoundation/CoreInfoModel. The codes include the
- CoreModel files: They are the .di, .notation, and .uml files.
- Common Data Types
- Profiles: including the OpenModelProfile files, the ProfileLifecycleProfile files
- CoreGendoc: They are the genDoc template files for generating the MS WORD part-documents of the TR-512 suites (such as TR-512.1, TR-512.2, … etc.) that describe the Core Model.
  - Note that the PDF form of the generated MS WORD documents have been made available to the public on https://opennetworking.org/software-defined-standards/models-apis/
  - Note that TR-512.1_OnfCoreIm-Overview.pdf in the zip file https://opennetworking.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TR-512_v1.4_OnfCoreIm-info.zip provides an overall overview of the TR-512 Core Model
Continued reviewing the work plan for next releases (v1.5 and v2.0) of TR-512 and working on the new features and feature enhancements, including the storage model, and the Core & TAPI streaming models
Finalized the agenda plan for the September OIMT & OTCC joint Face-to-Face meeting

Nikolai Merinov (Inango-Systems) implemented typed queues for OF message processing which allows for a better a packet-in queue in ONOS and packet prioritization. Improved cbench performance by ~20%. Merged and part of 2.2.0 release.
ONOS 2.2.0 Sparrow Released
Planning for ONOS 2.3.0 (yet to be named) scheduled for September 18th at 10:30 PDT
µONOS in preparation for Demo at ONF Connect
Complete µONOS stack can now be installed and tested on Kubernetes with “onit” tool
onos-ztp handling direct configuration of Stratum device via roles
onos-topo using Atomix as distributed storage; onos-config to follow
onos-gui updated to handle configuration and rollback

Arturo Mayoral (Telefonica) has provided material for a TAPI 2.1.2 Reference Implementation Guide based on their experience with testing and implementation. Nigel Davis (Ciena) and Kam Lam (FiberHome) will edit the document.

Multicast brigade:
- Vignesh Ethiraj (Infosys) modified Multicast to not program Multicast tree on unconfigured devices
- Esin Karaman (Netsia) migrated IGMPProxy application to use new Multicast store
BNG in ASG
- Daniele (ONF) and Carmelo (ONF) are working hard to demonstrate a PPPoE capable BNG application on a Tofino switch in a SEBA Setup

Added platform support for switches from Inventec and QCT
Code refactoring and cleanup in preparation for open source release by community
Enhancements to platform database and adapters by community

Comcast, Infosys, Broadcom, Accton and ONF teams are working on two demos for ONF Connect
- ONF booth will focus on showing Trellis features and production readiness.
- Comcast/Infosys booth will demonstrate how Trellis is integrated with other components in large scale production deployments.
- Please visit our booths at ONF Connect to learn more.