Advanced 5G functionality, for Network Slicing development and early steps in long-lead development. Service slicing allows advanced steering of services, based on policy, GW loading, and other criteria.

Maintain inventory of instantiated slice subnets, E2E slices, their states and their hierarchical relationship

Impacts:

• A&AI shall store vSSF (Virtual Slice Selection Function) inventory (and associated EMS inventory) and forward it to downstream systems (eg, DCAE, AOTS-M). (Assumes ONAP will use a vSSF software product and a supporting EMS from some vendor.)
• Radio PNF’s are deployed and configured ( RA, TA’s & cells) and shall be persisted in A&AI.
• A&AI shall also contain inventory of available data centre sites with associated constraints.