November 5, 2013
1200 G Street, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
www.atis.org
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Technology and Operations
Council
Andtrew White, ATIS
VP of Standards and Technology
awhite@atis.org
Tom Starr
Chairman
Broadband Forum Board of Directors
ts1452@att.com
Robin Mersh
Chief Executive Officer
Broadband Forum
Rmersh@broadband-forum.org
Re: ATIS TOPS Council Software-Defined Networking Focus Group Deliverable
Dear Mssrs. Starr and Mersh,
Yvonne Reigle, ATIS
Director of Technology Development
yreigle@atis.org
ATIS is pleased to share with you the newly-released Operational Opportunities and
Challenges of SDN/NFV Programmable Infrastructure, created by the ATIS SoftwareDefined Networking Focus Group over a six-month effort ending in October 2013. This
document identifies operational issues and opportunities associated with increasing
programmability of network infrastructure.
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The document also identifies likely changes in operational procedures and staffing skill
sets required to support increasing programmability. Use cases and areas of needed
standardization were identified as time permitted. The document does not lay out
specific technical solutions, protocols, and data models.
Standards that
Drive the Business of
Communications
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As a next step, ATIS plans to conduct an analysis of existing standards with a focus on
northbound APIs to identify missing functionality, opportunities, and implications for
ATIS deliverables related to programmable infrastructure. ATIS will also analyze
existing open source initiatives (e.g., OpenStack, OpenDaylight) to identify
opportunities for synergy in the area of programmable infrastructure. Lastly, ATIS will
continue to focus on OSS/BSS requirements.
This document is being provided only for the purpose of the Broadband Forum. Any
other use of this material is prohibited without the express written permission of ATIS.
The distribution of this document must be limited to Broadband Forum members, and
ATIS requests that you take all the reasonable steps to protect against unauthorized
access and use, including, for example, maintaining these documents in a passwordprotected area of your website.
Please advise whether your organization has existing work relevant to this topic, or if
future work is anticipated. We would appreciate receiving a response by the end of
November 2013. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Sincerely,
Steven Wright
SDN Focus Group Co-Chair
CC:
Jim McEachern, Senior Technology Consultant, ATIS, jmceachern@atis.org
Paul Savitz, Committee Administrator, ATIS, psavitz@atis.org
Andrew White, VP of Standards and Technology, ATIS, awhite@atis.org
Yvonne Reigle, Director of Technology Development, ATIS, yreigle@atis.org
Ramki Krishnan, SDN Focus Group Co-Chair, Brocade, ramk@Brocade.com
Phil Jacobs, SDN Focus Group Co-Chair, Cisco, phjacobs@cisco.com
Serge Manning, SDN Focus Group Co-Chair, Huawei,
serge.manning@huawei.com