Introduction
Enea NFV Access for universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) is a
virtualization and management platform, which allows end-users to introduce,
instantiate, and run third-party VNFs onto their operating systems. The
solution is comprised of two major components working in close
cooperation:
The Enea NFV Access Run-Time Platform, which acts as the host for
Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) and provides management over
NETCONF.
The Enea uCPE Manager, a solution that runs on an external server,
providing VNF Management functionality and managing large numbers of
uCPEs.
Enea NFV Access for CMC Networks is tailored around the two use cases
agreed upon during initial discussions. The current version of Enea NFV
Access provides a working and deployable configuration example for the 128T
router and the Fortinet Firewall service chained together on a Kontron
ME-1100 Xeon-D based platform.
This document describes all steps required to replicate the use cases
in the customer environment. The information provided will guide the user in
reproducing the setup using either the uCPE Manager GUI or the Automation
Framework and Test Harness.
All VNF configurations should be seen as example configurations
made while working in the Enea internal lab. The customer will update
these configurations according to his local network setup.
Particularities are described in the Appendix chapters.
It is assumed that the user is familiar with Enea NFV Access and
has studied the official documentation, namely the "Enea NFV Access
Getting Started" manual before proceeding with this document.
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Definitions and Acronyms
Definitions and Acronyms
Component
Definition
uCPE Manager
The Enea uCPE Manager is an EMS/NMS platform that provides
the VNF Management capabilities for NFV Access devices. The uCPE
Manager can be deployed on a Linux (CentOS) based physical or
virtual server. Coresident with the uCPE Manager is additional
functionality, which includes the Automation Framework.
Automation Framework
The Automation Framework consists of a set of tools and a
collection of Python based scripts that can be used to automate
the process of onboarding a VNF with all of the required
configuration for day zero deployment at scale. This tooling calls
the auto-generated REST API that is exposed on the uCPE Manager as
a north bound interface.