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authorBin Hu <bh526r@att.com>2016-07-12 20:16:07 -0700
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@172.30.200.206>2016-07-15 07:12:01 +0000
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Add general, future-looking statement in Problem Description, Goals,
and Summary. Change-Id: I9b30ed7f6acc317f813259e8124e3e520504465b Signed-off-by: Bin Hu <bh526r@att.com>
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diff --git a/docs/requirements/introduction.rst b/docs/requirements/introduction.rst
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@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ solutions.
Problem Description
-------------------
+Telco ecosystem's movement toward cloud domain results in Network Function Virtualization
+that is discussed and specified in ETSI NFV. This movement opens up many green field
+areas which are full of potentials of growth in both business and technology. This new
+NFV domain brings new business opportunities and new market segments as well as emerging
+technologies that are exploratory and experimental in nature, especially in NFV networking.
+
It is often stated that NFV imposes additional requirements on the networking
architecture and feature set of the underlying NFVI beyond those of data center
networking. For instance, the NFVI needs to establish and manage connectivity
@@ -50,6 +56,19 @@ can meet the additional requirements of NFV networking. Hence, a thorough
analysis of NFV networking requirements and their relation to the OpenStack
networking architecture is needed.
+Besides current additional use cases and requirements of NFV networking,
+more importantly, because of the **green field** nature of NFV, it is foreseen
+that there will be more and more new NFV networking use cases and services,
+which will bring new business, in near future. The challenges for telco ecosystem
+are to:
+
+- Quickly catch the new business opportunity;
+
+- Execute it in agile way so that we can accelerate the time-to-market and improve
+ the business agility in offering our customers with innovative NFV services.
+
+Therefore, it is critically important for telco ecosystem to quickly develop and deploy
+new NFV networking APIs on-demand based on market need.
Goals
-----
@@ -75,6 +94,11 @@ following:
by the selected NFV use cases. To this end, we analyze existing functionality
in OpenStack networking.
+- Beyond current list of use cases and gap analysis in the document, more importantly,
+ it is the future of NFV networking that needs to be made easy to innovate, quick to
+ develop, and agile to deploy and operate. A model-driven, extensible framework
+ is expected to achieve agility for innovations in NFV networking.
+
- This document will in future revisions describe the proposed improvements
and complementary solutions needed to enable OpenStack to fulfill the
identified NFV requirements.
diff --git a/docs/requirements/summary.rst b/docs/requirements/summary.rst
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@@ -14,3 +14,12 @@ architecture.
Based on the gap analyses, we draw the following conclusions:
* <add conclusions, to be agreed>
+* Besides current requirements and gaps identified in support of NFV networking,
+ more and more new NFV networking services are to be innovated in the near future.
+ Those innovations will bring additional requirements, and more significant gaps
+ will be expected. On the other hand, NFV networking business requires it
+ to be made easy to innovate, quick to develop, and agile to deploy and operate.
+ Therefore, a model-driven, extensible framework is expected to support NFV
+ networking on-demand in order to accelerate time-to-market and achieve business
+ agility for innovations in NFV networking business.
+