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The need for a Common Telco Cloud Infrastructure model across the industry to facilitate more rapid adoption is clear. By running network applications as software rather on commodity rather than on purpose-built hardware, the operators aspire to realize operational efficiencies, and capital expense savings. These virtualised network services are increasingly being used by telecom operators to support their internal and customer facing network infrastructures. The need for a Common Cloud Infrastructure model across the industry to facilitate more rapid adoption is clear.
Scope
The diagram below above shows the different types of specifications and how they relate to the different elements of a typical cloud platform stack. RA1 builds upon the Reference Model (RM) specifications, and details:
OpenStack: the selection of OpenStack version and OpenStack projects that would be components of the cloud platform, and specifications for their resiliency and availability
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