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commitff52e1b2b7944a6c13786ddf511703b6b14012c1[log] [tgz]
authorSergio Slobodrian <sslobodr@ciena.com>Mon Apr 24 12:39:08 2017 -0400
committerkhenaidoo Nursimulu <knursimu@ciena.com>Mon Apr 24 11:48:21 2017 -0700
tree2fda2376d57301126c404090fe2c383b7bd8de40
parent4db8ca2480aec229efee897a50dd2031a4e1c778 [diff]
Add an nginx proxy service with consul template with the objective of
consolidating all the voltha web UIs on a single port on the host.
This update includes the first UI, portainer. Additional UIs will be
added in subsequent updates. The configuration files are currently
mounted into the container. This is temporary to simplify the
development and addition of other UIs to the proxy configuration. Once
all UIs have been added, the configuration will be copied into the
container.

Change-Id: I218c486b56a627995981489602ab44ae0edf0930
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tree: 2fda2376d57301126c404090fe2c383b7bd8de40
  1. .dockerignore
  2. .gitignore
  3. BUILD.md
  4. GettingStartedLinux.md
  5. Jenkinsfile
  6. LICENSE.txt
  7. Makefile
  8. README.md
  9. TODO.md
  10. Vagrantfile
  11. ansible/
  12. build.gradle
  13. cli/
  14. common/
  15. compose/
  16. dashd/
  17. docker/
  18. docs/
  19. env.sh
  20. experiments/
  21. gradle.properties
  22. gradle/
  23. gradlew
  24. gradlew.bat
  25. kafka/
  26. netconf/
  27. nginx_config/
  28. obsolete/
  29. ofagent/
  30. podder/
  31. ponsim/
  32. portainer/
  33. requirements.txt
  34. scripts/
  35. settings.gradle
  36. setup.mk
  37. setup.py
  38. shovel/
  39. tests/
  40. tmp_integration.md
  41. vagrant-base/
  42. voltha/
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.