End Users

End Users of Telco Network Cloud Orchestration (TNC-O)

The types of users for TNC-O can be divided into a set of roles based on their main responsibility:

• VNF Engineering
• Network Service Design
• Installation and Administration
• Operations

The main use cases of the user roles are described below.

VNF Engineering

The VNF Engineer is a VNF subject matter expert with responsibility for the creation and/or onboarding of third party VNF software through the creation of an operational package that can be managed by TNC-O. The VNF Developer creates VNF functional tests and behaviour scenarios

Network Service Designer

• The Service Engineer is responsible for realizing a network service from a documented network service design and the set of VNFs which it is composed from.
• The Service Engineer translates service designs from other SMEs into a Network Service design.
• The Service Engineer implements the Network Service design by connecting Network Service and VNF packages to a location based network configuration.
• The Service Engineer validates that network service packages and all their included third party VNFs behave as expected.
• The Service Engineer brings network service and VNF packages through a pre-production verification process and publishes the packages for production use when appropriate.

Operations

• Operations manages the life of service instances within production environments.
• Operations is responsible for executing new or planned changes to service instances.
• Operations is responsible for diagnosing and resolving reported errors or anomalies.

Installer and Administrator

• The Administrator configures and administers TNC-O, tailoring the system to manage their environment.
• The Administrator models the infrastructure universe that TNC-O will be deploying to, modeling placement groups and available infrastructure features.
• The Administrator configures pre-production environments that can run and test network service designs.
• The Administrator onboards Resource drivers and external resource managers that are required to run a network service.