VOL-1623-meter support and handling  techprofile and fix for flow delete , now migrated to onosproject/onos:1.13.9-rc4

Change in flowupdate API towards adapters

Remove meter_get API from adapter to core

Added dependent vendor library files downloaded  by "dep-ensure -update"

Added techprofile changes in the single commit

Review comments are addressed

submiting patch for  integration tests for meter changes and modifications in unit test for updated flow decomposer logic
  - submitting on behalf of "Salman.Siddiqui@radisys.com"

Load test for meter updated and other flow management test cases with meter
- Performed load test for 1K meters serially and parallely and added more TC in flow management

Rebased

Load test for meter updated and other flow management test cases with meter
- Performed load test for 1K meters serially and parallely and added more TC in flow management
- submitting on behalf of "Salman.Siddiqui@radisys.com"

pulled latest protos

verified EAPOL/DHCP/HSIA data with Edgecore OLT & TW ONT kit for one subcriber
verified delete/re-add is working end to end for the same subscriber

Change-Id: Idb232b7a0f05dc0c7e68266ac885740a3adff317
40 files changed
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  1. .gitignore
  2. .gitreview
  3. BUILD.md
  4. Gopkg.lock
  5. Gopkg.toml
  6. Makefile
  7. README.md
  8. VERSION
  9. adapters/
  10. afrouter/
  11. arouterd/
  12. cli/
  13. common/
  14. compose/
  15. db/
  16. docker/
  17. k8s/
  18. kafka/
  19. python/
  20. quickstart.md
  21. ro_core/
  22. rw_core/
  23. tests/
  24. vendor/
README.md

VOLTHA

What is Voltha?

Voltha aims to provide a layer of abstraction on top of legacy and next generation access network equipment for the purpose of control and management. Its initial focus is on PON (GPON, EPON, NG PON 2), but it aims to go beyond to eventually cover other access technologies (xDSL, Docsis, G.FAST, dedicated Ethernet, fixed wireless).

Key concepts of Voltha:

  • Network as a Switch: It makes a set of connected access network devices to look like a(n abstract) programmable flow device, a L2/L3/L4 switch. Examples:
    • PON as a Switch
    • PON + access backhaul as a Switch
    • xDSL service as a Switch
  • Evolution to virtualization: it can work with a variety of (access) network technologies and devices, including legacy, fully virtualized (in the sense of separation of hardware and software), and in between. Voltha can run on a decice, on general purpose servers in the central office, or in data centers.
  • Unified OAM abstraction: it provides unified, vendor- and technology agnostic handling of device management tasks, such as service lifecycle, device lifecycle (including discovery, upgrade), system monitoring, alarms, troubleshooting, security, etc.
  • Cloud/DevOps bridge to modernization: it does all above while also treating the abstracted network functions as software services manageable much like other software components in the cloud, i.e., containers.

Why Voltha?

Control and management in the access network space is a mess. Each access technology brings its own bag of protocols, and on top of that vendors have their own interpretation/extension of the same standards. Compounding the problem is that these vendor- and technology specific differences ooze way up into the centralized OSS systems of the service provider, creating a lot of inefficiencies.

Ideally, all vendor equipment for the same access technology should provide an identical interface for control and management. Moreover, there shall be much higher synergies across technologies. While we wait for vendors to unite, Voltha provides an increment to that direction, by confining the differences to the locality of access and hiding them from the upper layers of the OSS stack.

How can you work with Voltha?

While we are still at the early phase of development, you can check out the BUILD.md file to see how you can build it, run it, test it, etc.

How can you help?

Contributions, small and large, are welcome. Minor contributions and bug fixes are always welcome in form of pull requests. For larger work, the best is to check in with the existing developers to see where help is most needed and to make sure your solution is compatible with the general philosophy of Voltha.