Ericsson Orchestrator
Ericsson Cloud Manager, the product has been renamed to Ericsson Orchestrator.
The Ericsson Orchestrator product enables automation of your hybrid infrastructure including PNFs and VNFs. It supports Resource Orchestration and VNF Life Cycle Management Orchestration for both Telco and Enterprise environments.
5GC & Cloud RAN ready
For 5G services/slicing automation.
Rapid 5G network rollout and service delivery
Design, deploy and scale services and functions in minutes and with less effort.
Operations Cost Reduction
By eliminating manual processes and enabling zero-touch operations.
Flexible deployment
Run on any cloud, and manage any network vendor infrastructure.
Ericsson Service Orchestration and Assurance
Multi-domain SOA product spanning access, transport and core – an engine of innovation.
Ericsson Service Orchestration and Assurance
Ericsson Orchestrator (EO) is a comprehensive suite of modules which support the orchestration of resources and services in virtualized and hybrid networks. These modules can be combined in various ways to provide life cycle management of Virtual Network Functions, control the allocation and use of virtualized infrastructure resources, manage transport connections over Wide Area Networks.
Ericsson Orchestrator consists of the following applications:
- EO cCM (CM)
- Evolved VNFM (EVNFM)
- EO Lifecycle Manager (LM)
EO cCM
EO cCM consists of G-VNFM, System Configuration Management (SCM), and NFVO.
Cloud technologies provide ISP operators and enterprises with the ability to manage Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) services and IT workloads in a more efficient manner.
EO cCM performs the following:
- Provides an integrated platform for LCM of NFV and IT workloads.
- Operates in a geographically distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Enables secure and hierarchical multi-tenancy for this cloud infrastructure.
- Provides a secure GUI and open APIs for all the NFV and IT workload management services.
- Manages virtualization resources in a flexible way, allowing cloud providers to build and grow cloud infrastructure for virtualized applications and VNF-based services.
In the NFV domain, EO cCM provides generic VNF Manager (VNFM) and NFVO functions for Virtualized Network Services and Virtual Network Functions with open and standard-based interfaces. EO cCM offers orchestration of NFV services by using the following:
- Standard-based templates or descriptors
- Orchestration workflows
It also enables extensibility of the workflows through REST API callouts and asynchronous notifications. The southbound adaptation framework of EO cCM enables customization of virtualized overlay networks for data center and WAN network infrastructure.
EO cCM also supports the ETSI MANO architecture for VNF LCM. The support for this architecture is characterized as follows:
- VNF package onboarding and management are provided through a standardized interface.
- The NFVO functionality for VNF management is separated and enhanced with quota and capacity check.
- The actual VNF LCM can be delegated to multiple external VNFMs registered to EO cCM. The communication between the NFVO and VNFM is performed through a standardized interface.
EO cCM offers a comprehensive fault management and Performance Management platform for highly reliable operations of virtualized workloads. Infrastructure capacity management and tenant quota management features provide operational controls. Such controls are necessary in multi-tenant, distributed cloud environments. Operational capabilities are rounded up by a High Availability and geographically redundant deployment model. This deployment model is suitable for most demanding Internet Service Provider and IT operations environments.
EVNFM
EVNFM provides Life Cycle Management (LCM) support for Containerized Network Functions (CNFs) and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) according to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Management and Orchestration (MANO) specifications.
Currently, the ETSI standards do not support CNFs. EVNFM aligns to the existing standards as closely as possible and includes the necessary changes to support CNFs.
EO LM
EO Lifecycle Manager implements Network Function Orchestrator (NFO) and Federated Open Cloud Orchestration & Management (FOCOM) and integrates with O-Clouds using the O2 interface.
Functions of EO LM:
Automation at scale: Combining the Ericsson Orchestrator resource orchestration knowledge with latest IS/IT technology to enable automation at scale for Cloud RAN
Life-cycle management: Supports workload and Cluster LCM from small to XL Cloud RAN networks reducing OPEX.
Single source of truth: EO LM holds the topology of all O-Clouds, including information of deployed SW for each network function. Network robustness improved with continuous monitoring and reconciliation.
Simplified rollout through support of O2: O2 supports interoperability and integration. EO LM Implements O2 dms for LCM of cloud RAN and O2 ims for LCM of clusters and networking
Based on standards and Open source: Ericsson is active in ORAN, GIT, Nephio and Flux communities to ensure the use of the latest technology and supporting multivendor networks.
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