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EU funding (€6,657,721): Service Programing and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks Hor18 Jun 2015 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
Overview
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Service Programing and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks
Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment. SONATA addresses both issues. For service development, SONATA provides service patterns and description techniques for composed services. A customised SDK is developed to boost the efficiency of developers of network functions and composed services, by integrating catalogue access, editing, debugging, and monitoring analysis tools with service packaging for shipment to an operator. For deployment, SONATA provides a novel service platform to manage service execution. The platform complements the SDK with functionality to validate service packages. Moreover, it improves on existing platforms by providing a flexible and extensible orchestration framework based on a plugin architecture. Thanks to SONATA’s platform service developers can provide custom algorithms to steer the orchestration of their services: for continuous placement, scaling, life-cycle management and contextualization of services. These algorithms are overseen by executives in the service platform, ensuring trust and resolving any conflict between services. By combining rapid development and deployment in an open and flexible manner, SONATA is realising an extended DevOps model for network stakeholders. SONATA validates its approach through novel use-case-driven pilot implementations and disseminates its results widely by releasing its key SDK and platform components as open source software, through scientific publications and standards contributions, which, together, will have a major impact on incumbent stakeholders including network operators and manufacturers and will open the market to third-party developers.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Altice Labs SA | €272,125 |
| Atos Consulting Canarias SA | €0.00 |
| Atos IT Solutions And Services Iberia SL | €0.00 |
| Atos Spain SA | €602,438 |
| British Telecommunications plc | €200,550 |
| Fundacio Privada I2Cat, Internet i Innovacio Digital A Catalunya | €524,438 |
| Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum | €620,938 |
| National Center FOR Scientific Research Demokritos | €458,364 |
| NEC Europe Ltd. | €506,851 |
| NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS ISRAEL Ltd. | €561,313 |
| Optare Solutions SA | €332,938 |
| Synelixis Lyseis Pliroforikis Automatismou & Tilepikoinonion Anonimi Etairia | €296,538 |
| Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SA | €228,886 |
| Thales six GTS France SAS | €314,359 |
| Ubiwhere Lda. | €343,613 |
| UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN | €545,000 |
| University College London | €849,375 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/671517
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