commit | a49727416714766a8eff36a5745388d47785d331 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Khen Nursimulu <knursimu@ciena.com> | Fri Dec 23 17:15:20 2016 -0500 |
committer | Zsolt Haraszti <zharaszt@ciena.com> | Tue Dec 27 10:50:39 2016 -0800 |
tree | 1741ffcc9df4d4b73e5ac796e05aeec9e1cdc261 | |
parent | 01bbe88e818a6e12562b2109c75d60b337dace18 [diff] |
This commit consists of: 1) Parsing protobuf responses from Voltha into a dict which will also include the yang proto annotations 2) Converting a protobuf response into a yang-compatible XML format 3) Support for GET (no request params) for Voltha, VolthaInstance and VolthaInstances 4) Minor bug fixes 5) Testing done using the MG-Soft Netconf client Change-Id: Ibb7f62a391e19b0240cc739919fccc689a316005
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:
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.
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.
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.