A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)

With the development of information and communication technologies, traditional telecom business support systems (BSS) are facing the challenge of agilely meeting the flexible needs from business.Application scenarization, service standardization, technology componentization and resource sharing hav...

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Main Authors: Wen QIAO, Xiaozheng WANG, Zhenqiang SUN, Gan REN, Yunxin LIU, Aidong YANG, Peng WANG, Da WANG, Xiaozhou YE, Ye OUYANG
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Published: Beijing Xintong Media Co., Ltd 2022-06-01
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Online Access:http://www.telecomsci.com/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093/
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author Wen QIAO
Xiaozheng WANG
Zhenqiang SUN
Gan REN
Yunxin LIU
Aidong YANG
Peng WANG
Da WANG
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Ye OUYANG
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Zhenqiang SUN
Gan REN
Yunxin LIU
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Peng WANG
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Ye OUYANG
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description With the development of information and communication technologies, traditional telecom business support systems (BSS) are facing the challenge of agilely meeting the flexible needs from business.Application scenarization, service standardization, technology componentization and resource sharing have gradually become the consensual features among the evolution of telecom BSS architectures.A business function virtualization (BFV)-based BSS architecture, which is based on cloud-native, micro-services, containers, and DevOps technologies, was proposed.By embedding four components into the architecture, including standardized virtual network functions, modular design orchestrator, micro-service management framework, and multi-plane elastic computing controller, the system is able to deploy unitized system and distributed cloud.Therefore, the requirements of flexible telecom business development and frequent evolution of the system could be satisfied by the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture.In other words, the lightweight delivery of IT technologies and agile business support could be fulfilled by using the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture, and the proposed architecture will eventually become the standard architecture of next generation telecom BSS.
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spelling doaj-art-47f60fe42cfe4f209e94606ebe4d34e62025-08-20T02:59:00ZzhoBeijing Xintong Media Co., LtdDianxin kexue1000-08012022-06-013814315559811400A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)Wen QIAOXiaozheng WANGZhenqiang SUNGan RENYunxin LIUAidong YANGPeng WANGDa WANGXiaozhou YEYe OUYANGWith the development of information and communication technologies, traditional telecom business support systems (BSS) are facing the challenge of agilely meeting the flexible needs from business.Application scenarization, service standardization, technology componentization and resource sharing have gradually become the consensual features among the evolution of telecom BSS architectures.A business function virtualization (BFV)-based BSS architecture, which is based on cloud-native, micro-services, containers, and DevOps technologies, was proposed.By embedding four components into the architecture, including standardized virtual network functions, modular design orchestrator, micro-service management framework, and multi-plane elastic computing controller, the system is able to deploy unitized system and distributed cloud.Therefore, the requirements of flexible telecom business development and frequent evolution of the system could be satisfied by the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture.In other words, the lightweight delivery of IT technologies and agile business support could be fulfilled by using the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture, and the proposed architecture will eventually become the standard architecture of next generation telecom BSS.http://www.telecomsci.com/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093/business function virtualizationmodular design orchestrationelastic computing controllerunitized deployment
spellingShingle Wen QIAO
Xiaozheng WANG
Zhenqiang SUN
Gan REN
Yunxin LIU
Aidong YANG
Peng WANG
Da WANG
Xiaozhou YE
Ye OUYANG
A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
Dianxin kexue
business function virtualization
modular design orchestration
elastic computing controller
unitized deployment
title A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
title_full A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
title_fullStr A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
title_full_unstemmed A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
title_short A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
title_sort pilot study of telco s next generation it architecture evolution business function virtualization bfv
topic business function virtualization
modular design orchestration
elastic computing controller
unitized deployment
url http://www.telecomsci.com/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093/
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