A scientific paper entitled “5GTANGO: A Beyond-MANO Service Platform” has been co-authored by ALTICE Labs, CCT Catalunya, University of Piraeus, NCSR Demokritos and UBITECH, and is presented at the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC) that is going to take place in Ljubljana at 18-21 of June 2018. In this paper, Eleni Fotopoulou, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos and their co-authors present the 5GTANGO Service Platform, highlighting the features that we consider being beyond-MANO, which are the strongest points when compared.
The SLA feature allows the establishment of contracts between NFV customers and providers, in order to ensure that the expected service levels are actually delivered. The Policy feature allows the creation of an internal policy-driven engine, which is able to take decisions like scaling, healing, etc, based on monitoring or other kind of data. Finally, the Slicing feature allows the creation of virtual networks (slices), allowing his entire lifecycle management. The authors believe that this set of enhanced features, together with a strong ETSI NFV compliance with standards, makes the 5GTANGO Service Platform an extremely competitive solution within the overcrowded open source MANO arena.
