About the Book
This book describes the current trends in network automation, operators challenges and how they are addressed by micro-service based closed-loop automation platform-ONAP, by providing required details on ONAP architecture, design principles, development guidance and key features of ONAP components. Also it describes how to use cases and details on how a new network service can be designed and deployed.
Finally it covers on how ONAP supports Linux Foundation's OPNFV Verification Program. We hope this book would help to promote the establishment of network automations and its standards.
About the Authors
Xudong Ren (Bill Ren), Chief open source liaison officer & General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. He is an Board members of LFN and LF Edge. He is fully responsible for the implementation of open source solutions for operators/enterprises in the network automation industry, using open source means to build industrial ecology, expand industrial space, build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment, and support the success of the companys business. Since Joining Huawei in 2000, he served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General Manager of Business OSS, Vice President of Network OSS, Vice President of Network OSS Strategy and MKT, Vice President of Solution MKTG, etc.
He holds an EMBA and Master Degree from Peking University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Kalyankumar Asangi, Senior Executive and technologist in Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd with 20 years of rich experience in Technology and Product Management. He has played various roles Architect, System Engineer, Design Engineer and Program Manager for the Huawei Datacom VRP platform. He has in-depth knowledge and expertise in the areas of SDN, NFV, Routing, MPLS, VPN, Network Automation and Edge Computing Currently he is serving as leader for the Open source and Technical Research team to build open source based solution and ecosystem.
He holds Bachelors Degree of Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharawar.
Kanagaraj Manickam open-source NFV Cloud Lead Architect at Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd, having 15 years of R&D and Operational experiences in Data-Center, Cloud & Telco Service Orchestration & Automation. He has incubated VNF Test Platform (VTP - VNFSDK), Open Command Platform (OCOMP - CLI) projects in ONAP community and leading them as PTL. He is one of the author of Linux Foundations Certified ONAP professional (COP) certification course. In OPNFV community, he is PTL for Dovetail project, part of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) Verified Program (OVP). He is also an contributor in TMForum (TMF) Open API project. and was committer in OpenStack HEAT and ETSI NFV Orchestrator (Tacker) projects From Anna university, Tamil Nadu India.
He holds Master degree in Computer Science & Engineering (at PSG Tech), and Bachelor degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (at Kongu Eng. College)
