OpenNESS 20.12 Release

OpenNESS - 20.12

• Reference Converged Edge Reference Architecture (CERA) On-Premises Edge and Private Wireless deployment focusing on On-Premises, Private Wireless and Ruggedized Outdoor deployments, presenting a scalable solution across the On-Premises edge.
• Reference deployment with Kubernetes enhancements for High performance compute and networking for an SD-WAN node (Edge) that runs Applications, Services, and SD-WAN CNF. AI/ML applications and services are targeted in this flavor with support for Hardware offload for inferencing.
• Reference deployment with Kubernetes enhancements for high-performance compute and networking for an SD-WAN node (Hub) that runs SD-WAN CNF.
• Reference deployment for high-performance Computing and Networking using SR-IOV for reference Untrusted Non-3GPP Access as defined by 3GPP Release 15.
• Reference implementation of the offline installation package for the CERA Access Edge flavor enabling installation of Kubernetes and related enhancements for Access edge deployments.
• Early access release of Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestration(EMCO), a Geo-distributed application orchestrator for Kubernetes. This release supports EMCO deploying and managing the life cycle of the Smart City Application pipeline on the edge cluster. More details in the EMCO Release Notes.
• Azure Development kit (Devkit) supporting the installation of an OpenNESS Kubernetes cluster on the Microsoft* Azure* cloud. This is typically used by a customer who wants to develop applications and services for the edge using OpenNESS building blocks.
• Support Intel® vRAN Dedicated Accelerator ACC100, Kubernetes Cloud-native deployment supporting higher capacity 4G/LTE and 5G vRANs cells/carriers for FEC offload.
• Major system Upgrades: Kubernetes 1.19.3, CentOS 7.8, Calico 3.16, and Kube-OVN 1.5.2.