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Third-party APP Integration Service Introduction

As the operator's virtualized network gradually enters the O&M and service development stage, operators need to introduce new services from new vendors to enrich their service blueprints. In this case, the integration service capability that can quickly introduce third-party APPs needs to be established.

Through years of experience in NFV technology accumulation and project practice, we can gain insight into customers' requirements and help customers to build sustainable and rapid integration capability of third-party APPs. Through requirement investigation, integration HLD/LLD solution design, VNFD production, third-party APP package import, integration test and verification, we can achieve rapid integration of third-party APPs and accelerate the launch of services.

[Product Highlights]

  • Flexible integration framework: Multiple third-party APP integration and interconnection solutions, such as Heat template integration, G-VNFM integration, S-VNFM integration, and container cloud platform integration, are provided to meet the diversified requirements of customers. They have abundant integration LCM and FCAPS cases, and can provide flexible integration framework based on ETSI NFV architecture interface enhancement and open-source Openstack/Kubernetes factual standard API.
  • Professional integration design capability: ZTE has professional resource pool integration architecture design capabilities, and can meet the telecommunication service feature requirements of different third-party APPs. At the same time, a unified third-party APP survey & design template can be provided. Automatic design tools can be introduced to quickly output the HLD and LLD design solutions required for integration, reducing communication costs and improving design efficiency.
  • Providing diversified integration verification: Adhering to the concept of cooperation with integration and openness, ZTE can provide customers with a variety of pre-integration verification solutions. We can also build a pre-integration environment in the ZTE Openlab or the POC lab provided by the customer, and lead or work with third-party APPs to complete the pre-integration verification, so as to ensure fast and stable launch of the solutions and reduce the risks of commercial use of the system.

Major Function

  • Requirement investigation

    ZTE selects a specific integration interconnection plan according to NFVI resource requirement, interface requirement, customers' service requirement and O&M management requirement of APP/VNF NE integration which is offered by the third-party APP vendors.

  • Integration planning

    Design the network planning for the third-party APP integration, mainly including network architecture, network resource planning, IP/VLAN resource planning, AZ/HA/tenant/subscriber planning, NTP planning, and name planning. Confirm the overview plan, and then design the execution, configuration and test plan.

  • Integration development

    Perform adoption development of necessary interfaces or plug-ins based on the selected integration plan. Generate VNFD files for importing the third-party APP packages with the auto tool which is developed by ZTE, and perform encapsulation of the third-party APP mirror packages.

  • Integration verification

    In an Openlab environment or the project test environment on site, establish the test environment according to the customer's requirements to deploy the third-party APPs and ZTE platform system and to perform the pre-integration test. Aspecific test includes function test, performance test, reliability test, and service test.

  • Service online

    Complete the integration interconnection and deployment of third-party APPs on the customer's commercial DC, and complete horizontal interconnection on demand to provision APP services, complete the test on site and the customer's acceptance based on the manual acceptance guide.