Anuket Project
Anuket Task Force
- Sandra Jackson (Deactivated)
- Scot Steele
- Gergely Csatari
Attendees:
- SPC Update
- Meetings on hold until 8/21
- Board meeting update
- Sylva
- Sylva uses RA2, but not RM and RA1.
- Sylva uses functest-kubernetes, but not RC2
- Sylva does not have open stack, uses Kubernetes
- Need to find champion to connect Sylva and Anuket. We have a vacancy in the TSC's Sylva Technical Officier role since a very long time.
Did not meet, will use the August 2nd technical meeting to discuss.
Attendees:
- SPC Update
- Board meeting update
- Sylva
Did not meet not enough in attendance.
Attendees:
- SPC Update
- Anuket Releases
- Sylva
Attendees:
Should Anuket TF hold off until SPC make a decision:
- Activities are parallel, we should continue
- How do we get the cloud providers to participate?
- targeting the right cloud providers and getting to the right business units
- Anuket is not being reference in RFPs
Verizon actively uses Anuket as a reference as are other telecos but it's not being advertised
- Why not?
- Is there a need
Can we get a user group to implement Anuket and make adjustments accordingly?
- This was one of the pulls for Matrix the original idea of being compliant with telcos
- You want to be able to show that it works and this will draw more participants
- what are the carrots for getting the participants -
- Is there an opportunity with TM Forum to showcase?
What do we want to achieve with the PoC?
- Prove the original concept that Anuket can deliver a common model, standardized reference infrastructure specs and conformance and performance framework for virtualized and cloud native network functions.
- Missing piece applications
- We have 2/3 of the solution participating in the TF (operator and cloud provider).
- Take feedback to SPC meetings to see if we can get the application piece and target a working group to work on the PoC.
Attendees:
Agenda
- Brainstorm discussion
- Identified actionable items Anuket can implement now
- More cross community collaboration - Identify communities to collaborate with:
- Nephio – Get the cloud vendors on board at the same time. Mostly an orchestrator and automation tool. Need to confirm that the two communities are in alignment. This is potentially the most fruitful approach. As the cloud providers are working hard on attracting the Telcos to use their cloud infrastructure, this might be a win -win strategy.
- Sylva – Already in alignment, but if Anuket goes into maintenance mode, there is a danger that Sylva might have trouble continuing as well.
- O-RAN? – Needs a definition of the underlying infrastructure and need to make sure that the projects are in alignment
- selective and focused collaboration
- Ask the vendors to participate on the implementation piece
- Find a project (developing markets)to assist
- Approach cloud vendors to contribute to projects by aligning with specs
- More cross community collaboration - Identify communities to collaborate with:
Overall, what do the different communities need from Anuket? Does Anuket need to change to be more attractive to these other communities? It does, but we don't have a good idea of what it is. Discussion of conformance, is it useful? We have launched several conformance projects that have not been adopted by the larger community. Quality specs and quality code is needed, but the backing of the Telcos is needed to drive adoption by the vendors. We lost the backing of one of the major Telcos due to changes in strategy.
Meeting Recording:Anuket Taskforce 06_20_2023.mp4
Attendees:
Agenda
- SPC update
- D&TF
- Brainstorm discussion
- Identified actionable items Anuket can implement now
- More cross community collaboration
- selective and focused collaboration
- Ask the vendors to participate on the implementation piece
- Find a project (developing markets)to assist
- Approach cloud vendors to contribute to projects by aligning with specs
- More cross community collaboration
Meeting was adjourned due to lack of attendees
Attendees:
Agenda
1. Brainstorming Exercise Action/Priority Matrix
- Objective - Find commonality to assist with prioritizing what we should resolve first
- Ground rules
- Identify low hanging fruit, if there's any
- Action/Priority Matrix Exercise
2. Discussion
- Identified actionable items Anuket can implement now
- More cross community collaboration
- selective and focused collaboration
- Ask the vendors to participate on the implementation piece
- Find a project (developing markets)to assist
- Approach cloud vendors to contribute to projects by aligning with specs
- More cross community collaboration
3. Timeline - Target Date
- Implement the actionable quick wins by the end of June
- Waiting to hear back from the GB for direction on the longer term next steps
Meeting Recording: Anuket TaskForce 05_30_2023.mp4
Attendees:
Meeting postponed due to low attendance.
Agenda
1. Brainstorming Exercise Action/Priority Matrix
- Objective - Find commonality to assist with prioritizing what we should resolve first
- Ground rules
- Identify low hanging fruit, if there's any
2. Discussion
3. Timeline - Target Date
Attendees:
Last Meeting Follow-up
- Priorities and scope
- What was your company’s objective when you first started?
- What value can Anuket provide your company now?
- What is a success story for Anuket/what are we trying to achieve?
New Business
- UNH RI Testing
- Brainstorming exercise
- Objective
- Ground rules
Minutes
- Priorities and scope
- What was your company’s objective when you first started?
- Support virtual network platforms, struggle with tools. User story for virtualizing network.
- Building a network in private cloud
- There was not specific representation of the telcos
Series of specifications that suppliers agree to comply
Adoption has been better in Europe than in the US
Scope of interest in different from what it was 4 years
2. UNH RI Testing
RI2 running in UNH
Goal- add CNF and track the effort
There's downstream affects to not continue with Anuket
Demonstrate the value via demo -show that it works
- Suggestion of a demo at MWC for the appropriate level of visibility
- May be difficult without a professional services org to help support
- Possibility for a keynote comparing the cost of implementation of services with & without use of Anuket
- If we can't get in front of the execs for them to see the WIIFM there is little chance of getting traction - "follow the money"
- Suggestion for the creation of a tool to compare with/without Anuket, wrap around a whitepaper and focus on promotion.
Meeting Recording: Anuket Taskforce 05_09_2023.mp4
Attendees:
Agenda
Who's using Anuket
Priorities/Strategy
Opportunities to leverage
Recurring meeting/time
Minutes
Priorities/Scope
- Project scope has not changed as much as economic conditions
- Orange is the only company using it in a practical sense
- Companies e.g. Microsoft and Verizon are using Anuket as guidance
- What is the success story, Anuket would like to see?
- Open conformance between vendors and CNF
- There is value in the specifications
- Telcos are interested in specifications and want to be in compliance as long as it's not a heavy lift
- Is Anuket keeping up with the needs and use cases
- Adoption
- Ask the suppliers to adopt Anuket
- Anuket does not have a contributor guide
- Specs are too hard to read
- Anuket doesn't enforce
- Ideas
- Provide a prototype using open standards
- improve documentation
Meeting Recording:
Anuket Taskforce 05_02_2023.mp4