OB-BAA R6.0.0 Release Notes (5 July 2023)

Release 6.0.0 Highlights:

This release provides enhancements and fixes to the existing OB-BAA software that provides:

• an automation test suite based on open source Robot Framework
• telemetry of ONT data via vOMCI function based on Kafka and storage+visualisation of this data
• a D-OLT (WT-477) PPPoE IA embedded in the OB-BAA layer
• a configurable ONU simulator for vOMCI testing
• vOMCI solution aligned with latest WT-451 annex 1
• a proprietary sample L2-L3 abstraction on the NB interface
• an IPFIX (vendor) adapter framework

Two repositories have been added in this release

• a repository containing the code that allows to run a WT-477 PPPoE IA VNF in OB-BAA SW layer
• a repository that contains the code required to run the automation test suite

Release 5.1.0 Highlights:

This release provides enhancements and fixes to the existing OB-BAA software that provides:

• Enhancements to micro services discovery.
• Scale testing.

Release 5.0.0 Highlights:

This release provides enhancements and fixes to the existing OB-BAA software that provides:

• policy based authentication of ONU by the BAA layer or notification to another management entity.
• additional enhancements for the vOMCI solution (e.g., ONU alarm handling) in support of future BBF vOMCI plugfests.
• scale testing: For single OLT device, 512+ ONUs created and 127 ONU's connected and aligned

Restrictions:

1. Sporadically OB-BAA may not auto-detect link loss with devices (e.g., after device start). When a new provisioning/force alignment is attempted the connection will be restored.

2. Sometimes Kafka will not have the required topics being available when it started, hence vOMCI functionality might not work properly in that case. As a workaround after starting OB-BAA micro-services using docker compose file, we should restart the vomci container (wait for a minute to have the vomci container up and running) and restart vproxy container. This would solve the problem.

Release 4.1.1 Highlights:

This release provides enhancements and fixes to the existing OB-BAA software that:

• adds the update configuration actions needed in vOMCI implementations.
• permits multiple ONUs to be managed.
• provides additional support for HSIA service activation scenarios.
• provides fixes to defects for the vOMCI implementation.

Release 4.1.0 Highlights:

This release enhances the existing OB-BAA software by added now functionality that:

• adds the new vOMCI Proxy according to the Broadband Forum's WT-451 specification.
• aligns the interfaces between the vOMCI function and vOMCI Proxy and the OLT with Broadband Forum's WT-451 specification.
• aligns the interfaces between the vOMCI function and vOLTMF (BAA layer) with Broadband Forum's WT-451 specification.

In addition, this release includes:

• the ability to deploy OB-BAA software using either Kubernetes or Docker.
• an updated simulator for OLTs and ONUs that can be used for virtualized ONU management when developing OMCI message translation services.

Restrictions:

1. Sporadically OB-BAA may not auto-detect link loss with devices (e.g., after device start). When a new provisioning/force alignment is attempted the connection will be restored.

Release 4.0.0 Highlights:

This release enhances the existing OB-BAA software by added now functionality that:

• provides management of ONUs using virtualized OMCI message processing capabilities that includes YANG to OMCI message translation as a separate microservice and capabilities to proxy OMCI sessions between the OLT and the OMCI message translation service.
• enhanced ONU management to include flexible ONU discovery and authentication capabilities.
• capabilities to relay user and control plane packets between Access Nodes and SDN M&C control plane functions. The relay of user and control plane packets can be done via standard and/or vendor proprietary control adapters.
• full support (FCAPS + Control Relay + vOMCI (OLT) capabilties for whitesboxes using standard interfaces.
• the ability to dynamically create and deploy standard device adapters for new types of devices

In addition, this release includes:

• a simulator for OLTs and ONUs that can be used for virtualized ONU management when developing OMCI message translation services.

Restrictions:

Same as release 3.0.0.

Release 3.0.0 Highlights:

This release enhances the existing OB-BAA software with new functionality that:

• provides the capability that permits clients to subscribe to a set of events for notification purposes.
• enhances the existing notification capabilities alarm relay and reporting.
• enhances the adaptation framework to allow upgrade of Access Nodes.
• provides the capability to check the conformance of a vendor's adapter with standard adapters.
• enhances the adaptation framework to provide a conformance grade for adaptor's support of YANG modules for the type of node.
• includes the Performance Monitoring (PM) collection framework with a PM collector for IPFIX exporters.
• includes the basic SNMP adapter for use in vendor specific SNMP implementations.

In addition, this release includes:

• a simulator that acts as an IPFIX exporter that can be used with the PM framework.
• a time-series database, InfluxDB, that can be uses a the PM framework's data lake.

Restrictions:

Same as release 2.1.0.

Release 2.1.0 Highlights:

This release provides additional enhancements for:

• Vendor Device Adapters (VDA): Provides the capability for VDAs to include a default configuration to be used for initial device configurations.

• Included the capability to have multiple versions of Vendor and Standard device adapters for a type of Access Node and/or vendor model/version.

• Examples related to the usage of the NETCONF stack used in OB-BAA

Restrictions:

Same as release 2.0.0.

Release 2.0.0 Highlights:

This release enhances the existing OB-BAA software by adding functionality that:

• provides the capability for vendors of access nodes that use protocols other than NETCONF/YANG to be used in OB-BAA.

• provides the ability for service providers to define the YANG modules that comprise a type of Access Node (e.g., OLT, DPU). The project includes examples of the YANG modules for an OLT or DPU based on the work of the Broadband Forum's TR-413 specification. Included with this feature is additional capabilities to audit the adapters and the instances of access nodes that are associated with the type of access node.

• includes the basic framework for support NETCONF notifications needed in future releases of OB-BAA.

In addition to the new functionality, the OB-BAA distribution can be download as a docker directly from the Broadband Forum's public docker repository.

Finally this release includes additional examples of NETCONF commands that can be used to configure access nodes (OLTs, DPUs, ONTs) including the ability to configure:

• access node network interfaces along with their associated VLAN tagging (C-VLAN, S-VLAN) and p-bit policies

• forwarding rules for traffic between the ONU UNI and the OLT NNI

• traffic descriptors and associated traffic filters for the access node

• Layer 1 profiles (e.g., G.Fast) and association of the profile to the interfaces

Restrictions:

1. Restriction for TR-385 PON YANG modules: When trying to create a channel partition, the BAA layer returns an error that "An unexpected element channel-group-ref is present". This message is due to the Open Daylight YANG tools component used by the BAA layer. There has been an issue submitted for this problem with the OpenDaylight team.

Release 1.1.0 Highlights:

• BAA Core Framework Enhancements:

  • Consistency checking within the BAA layer for configuration commands

  • Incorporate the ability to include vendor specific modules and deviations from the common modules per AN type using inline schema mounts.

• Plugins and Profiles

  • NETCONF Device Adapter Plugins for OLTs and DPUs

• BAA Layer Administration

  • Device Adapter Management

• Relevant documentation

  • Examples of requests to the BAA layer and YANG modules for an OLT

Release 1.0.0 Highlights:

• Framework for the BAA Layer to include:

  • NETCONF/YANG based Southbound Interface

  • NETCONF/YANG based Northbound Interface

  • Persistent management enabled BAA core that allows an Access Node to be configured when they are offline and to be synchronized when connectivity is reestablished.

• Capabilities to discover and manage an Access Node that includes the ability to:

  • YANG module sets for a type of Access Node

  • Discover an Access Node based on Direct SSH, TR-301 CallHome

  • Create, retrieve, update and delete (CRUD) an Access Node within the BAA layer as well the AN's data

• Relevant documentation

  • Deployment & Usage instructions

  • Simulator recommendations

  • Examples of requests to the BAA layer and YANG modules for a DPU