The SD-RAN community is pleased to announce the release of SD-RAN v1.4. This is the first Apache licensed open-source release, which has been made possible after incubating the project for over a year under the ONF Member only license. All code repositories, helm-charts and documentation are now Apache licensed and available to the community regardless of ONF membership.
The highlights of this release for the RIC platform include the implementation of the O-RAN A1 interface and significant improvements to the onos-config microservice in preparation for a comprehensive O1 interface implementation in upcoming releases.
3rd party integration with xApps from RIMEDO Labs and Intel Labs are supported, and 5G-SA gNBs from Sercomm. A summary of the use-cases, xApps, SMs and their support in this release on various platforms is shown below.
| Use Case | xApps | Service Model (developed by) | Radisys disaggregated 5G SA CU/DU | Sercomm 5G-SA gNB | Whitebox LTE CU/DU | RANSim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KPI Monitoring | onos-kpimon, fb-kpimon, fb-ah | KPM v2 (O-RAN) | E2-AP v1.0.1 | E2-AP v1.0.1 | E2-AP v2.0 | E2-AP v2.0 |
| PCI Conflict Resolution | onos-pci, fb-ah | RC-PRE v2 (ONF / FB / AirHop / Radisys) | E2-AP v1.0.1 | E2-AP v2.0 | ||
| Mobility Load Balancing (MLB) | onos-mlb, fb-ah | RC-PRE v2 (ONF / FB / AirHop / Radisys) | E2-AP v1.0.1 | E2-AP v2.0 | ||
| Mobile Handover (MHO) | onos-mho, Intel CM-xapp | MHO v1 (ONF/FB/Intel) | E2-AP v2.0 | |||
| RAN Slice Management | onos-rsm | RSM v1 (ONF) | E2-AP v2.0 | |||
| Policy driven Traffic Steering | rimedo-ts | MHO v2 (ONF/FB/Intel/Rimedo-Labs) | E2-AP v2.0 |
Read the details about SD-RAN v1.4 in the release notes on the SD-RAN documentation site. Anyone is invited to join the SD-RAN Community Meeting on Thursday, March 17th at 9am Pacific Time, which will include a discussion of the SD-RAN v1.4 release along with a demonstration of the Traffic Steering xApp from RIMEDO Labs.
