1. VP Solutions & Partnrships
Use Case Steering
Aseem Parikh
VP Solutions & Partnrships
November 7, 2017

2. ONF’s Mission
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit operator led consortium driving transformation of network infrastructure and carrier business models. ONF serves as the umbrella for a number of projects building solutions by leveraging network disaggregation, white box economics, open source software and software defined standards to revolutionize the carrier industry.

3. The Virtuous Cycle: Platforms and Use Cases
Enable
ODTN
R-CORD
M-CORD
E-CORD
A-CORD
MAE-CORD
ONOS
CORD
Trellis
VOLTHA
Use Cases/ Solutions
Platforms
Inform & Enrich

4. Use Case Steering: Idea to Impactful Contribution
Provider-Led
Use Case Steering
Use Cases
Enable
Brigade 1
Brigade 2
Brigade N
Use Cases/ Solutions
Platforms
Feature
Ideas
Part of Provider Network
Inform & Enrich

5. ONF Working Model
ONF Members & Collaborators
>75%
Operator Partner BD/Prod Mgmt
other
Product Management from Operators & Vendors
ONF
Board
propose brigade
Creates
Use-case
Steering Team
Creates
Provides ‘product owner’ for most brigades
Approves (option #2)
Tier 1 Designated Project (CORD, ONOS, <future>)
Approves (option #1)
Technical
Steering Team (TST)
Brigades .c
.pdf
Brigades work on specific goal with a well defined ‘consumer’ (another project or brigade that intends to use the output).
Brigades are most often formed by a project TST (project-oriented brigades) and do the majority of their work with the project.
”Solution-oriented brigades” may be formed by the UCST.
All artifacts produced by brigades need to be housed within a project (since brigades are transient). Since a clear ‘consumer’ is needed for brigade formation, a consumer-project is a natural place for the artifacts to land.
.uml
.java
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6. ONF Use Case Steering Team (UCST)
UCST is responsible for identifying and prioritizing use-cases that will be developed into solutions within the ONF-led projects (in the UCST context the term “use case” can also mean a demo or PoC).
The primary role of the UCST is to work with the operators to prioritize the use cases most important to member operators. The development work of the ONF community will be prioritized on those use cases.
Some of the work done by the UCST:
Receive proposals for use cases
Actively drive debate on the merit and priority of the use cases
Help shape use cases to have the most impact
Own/maintain the priority list of use cases and the process for its evolution
Ensure each use case has operator support - preferably multiple operators for each use case
Own finding the product owner for each use case  that is prioritized so that as the use case gets worked on, it has a product owner to prioritize work and guide the vision for the end result
Work with ONF to find the engineering leader and to set up brigades
UCST’s role is to help ONF efficiently fulfil its mission to revolutionize the industry.

7. UCST Formation & Composition (As agreed by ONF board in July 2017)
UCST is composed of:
One representative from each ONF Partner-level network operator (8) 
UCST Co-lead comes from this group (elected by partner representatives of UCST)
Three elected representatives from ONF Innovator-level Operators (3)
Must be a technical lead from business unit responsible for product delivery
Three elected representatives from ONF Partner-level Vendors (3)
Must be a product manager from a Product BU, and not their research or architecture groups 
Up to three ONF Board appointees (Includes the UCST Co-Lead) (1-3)
In steady state, the UCST will have 15 to 17 members

8. ONF & SP Partner UCST Members
Organization
Representative
Office Location 1
AT&T
Tom Anschutz
Atlanta, USA 2
China Unicom
Wei Zhou
Beijing, China 3
Comcast
Yiu Lee (Co-Chair)
Philladelphia, USA 4 DT
Hans-Jörg  Kolbe
Darmstadt, Germany 5
Google
Anees Shaikh
Silicon Valley, CA 6
NTT Group
Toru Furusawa 7
Turk Telekom
Memiş Akkuş
Ankara, Turkey 8
Verizon
Sandhya Narayan 9
ONF
Aseem Parikh (Co-Chair)

9. Elected UCST Members (Elected for 1-year term starting Oct 15 ’17)
Organization
Representative
Office Location 10
China Mobile
Weiqiang Cheng
Beijing, China 11
Microsoft
Zaid Ali Khan
Silicon Valley, CA 12
Telefonica
Alfonso Carrillo
Madrid, Spain 13
Ciena
Lyndon Ong 14
NEC
Osamu Matsuda
Tokyo, Japan 15
Radisys
Prakash Siva
Portland, OR

10. Characteristics of Good ONF ”Use Case”
Level of impact to the industry
Level of public support from Operator(s)
Plans by Operator(s) to trials and deployment in production network
Level of detailed requirements (what and why)
Clear specification of ”goals”, ”roles/actors” and ”interactions”
Level of difficulty for ONF’s ecosystem to deliver
Cost/Benefit analysis
Enthusiasm from vendor/developer community to contribute
Being very transformational may be an impediment to adoption
Within Scope – leveraging existing work, adjacent.
New technology driven use-cases
Architectural specification
Strategic work v/s near term

11. What Artifacts will UCST Deliver?
Received Use case specifications (un-prioritized)
Published on UCST wiki
For prioritized use cases by the UCST, we are formulating plan to deliver a call to action (Request for Collaboration-“RFC”) and publish it on ONF website.
This document may result in creation of a new solution brigade

12. ONF UCST Online Resources
Web:
Wiki:

13. Submitting New Use Cases to UCST
Download the “UCST Use Case Template” from
Provide details on the requested
Use Case Overview & Description
Motivation
Business & Technology Drivers,…
Submit use case to
Interesting Use Case submissions will be invited to present to the UCST

14. Current ONOS™ Use-cases

15. ONOS Use Cases, You know of Already
Global deployment in R&E Networks
Disaggregated ROADM
SDN/IP Peering
Traffic Engineering/PCE
Packet-Optical Use Case
[R, E, M] CORD

16. More Recent ONOS Use Cases that ONF & the Community is Working On
OLT Disaggregation and VOLTHA
Optical Disaggregated Transport Network (ODTN)
Clos Fabric Control: Trellis  
RAN Disaggregation: xRAN Controller 
Air Traffic Management (commercial product)

17. Current CORD™ Use-cases

18. CORD Use Cases/PoCs Each of these have several use-cases/PoCs R-CORD
M-CORD
E-CORD
A-CORD
Multi-Access Edge CORD
CORD and ONAP Integration
Each of these have several use-cases/PoCs

19. Send your use-case for CORD to newusecase@opennetworking.org
Thank you!