Nokia Bell Labs leads project to develop next generation 5G platform-as-a-service for 5G era
August 09 2017 - 8:01AM
Press Release
- NGPaaS project - part of 5G-PPP initiative - aims to develop
customizable platform supporting acceleration and flexibility of 5G
development
- Project will enable transformation across multiple industry
stakeholders
- Consortium composed of 12 leading industry vendors, operators,
IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and academic
institutions
9 August 2017
Espoo, Finland - Nokia Bell Labs is to lead a consortium of
industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized
enterprises and European academic institutions to build over the
next 24 months the Next Generation Platform-as-a-Service (NGPaaS)
for the 5G era. The consortium is part of the 5G Infrastructure
Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP), launched in 2014 as an
initiative between the European Union and telecom concerns.
5G standard is emerging at a particular time in technology
history when the cloud is deeply transforming many industries and
services. As such, innovations have to be cloud-native in order to
be successful and this means adopting a model beyond the current
telco Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model: a
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model.
Such a 5G cloud-native platform has two key features:
- An ideal 5G cloud-native platform must facilitate building,
shipping and running virtual network function (VNF) applications
with 'telco-grade' quality in terms of latency, reliability and
capacity, thereby delivering the promise of 5G performance.
- It must also combine all sorts of third-party applications with
those VNF, thereby creating more versatile and powerful cloud
objects breaking silos between connectivity (to humans, robots,
sensors, etc.) and computing (machine learning, big data, video
applications).
Such a platform does not exist today. With NGPaaS, the
consortium's goal is to realise the vision of adopting the PaaS
model to optimally support cloud-native 5G systems.
Bessem Sayadi, consortium project leader and research manager
for Nokia Bell Labs, said: "The consortium's ambition for
developing a next generation PaaS is to enable developers to
collaborate within the 5G ecosystem (operator, vendor, third party)
in order to ignite new businesses; thereby increasing market scale
and improving market economics."
Industry and academia players included in the
consortiumVendors and IT: Nokia Bell Labs France (FR), Nokia
(IL), ATOS (ES), Operators: BT (UK), Orange (FR)Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises: Virtual Open Systems (FR), Vertical M2M
(FR), B-COM (FR), ONAPP (UK)Academia: University of Milano-Bicocca
(IT), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), IMEC (BE),
Nokia Bell Labs has been a major force in driving and
participating in 5G research and industry collaboration. It looks
at PaaS as an essential stepping stone for service providers
seeking to gain the greatest benefit from the carrier cloud as they
evolve their networks. In addition to leading the NGPaaS
consortium, Nokia Bell Labs is also cooperating with key academic
partners and is active in various events such as ICC, MWC,
OpenStack Summit and OPNFV to discuss with the research community
how to achieve this goal.
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