Out with ECOMP and Open-O, in with ONAP - Battle for Open Orchestration
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For quite sometime, there hasn't been any real standard for MANO-NFV Orchestration and Automation, granted that there are plenty of excellent proprietary solutions but there wasn't a real open Source reference architecture on this regard. Somewhere around 2015, two main initiatives where created: ECOMP and Open-O. ECOMP was part the Domain 2.0 initiative which goal was to virtualize up to 75% of AT&T network by 2020 by leveraging cloud technologies (AIC, AT&T integrated Cloud) and network virtualization while reducing CAPEX and achieving operational The main issue was that there was no playbook to follow for virtualizing and software-controlling a Wide Area Network, ECOMP was the biggest software project to AT&T to date, tasked to address these key issues. It stands for Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy . ECOMP is an infrastructure delivery platform and a scalable, comprehensive network cloud service. It provides automation of many s