Orchestrator Platform Automates Virtual Distributed Unit Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The deployment of virtual distributed units (vDUs) and virtual radio access networks (VRANs) is a resource-intensive and time-consuming process, often resulting in incorrect installations due to complexity, leading to wasted computing resources and performance interference.
Innovation Solution
An orchestrator platform automatically determines and sends deployment information to network devices to deploy vDUs, using a rigorous process involving client devices, server devices, and element management systems to reduce incorrect deployments and improve efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual deployment process is used for vDUs, then flexibility in deployment is maintained, but deployment time and resource consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service deployment through automated orchestration that performs service discovery, dependency resolution, and configuration automatically without requiring manual intervention. The orchestrator platform autonomously manages the entire deployment lifecycle, transforming a complex manual process into an automated self-executing workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestrator performs preliminary actions by pre-discovering services, pre-resolving dependencies, and pre-configuring resources before actual vDU deployment. This advance preparation eliminates deployment bottlenecks and reduces the time required for actual deployment execution.
2Reliability
If complex manual deployment procedures are followed, then deployment flexibility is maintained, but incorrect deployments occur frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestrator implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring deployment status, validating configurations, and verifying service functionality. This real-time feedback ensures deployment accuracy by detecting and correcting errors automatically, preventing incorrect deployments while maintaining rapid deployment speeds.
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestrator platform acts as an intermediary between deployment requests and actual vDU deployment, mediating the complex deployment process through automated service discovery, dependency resolution, and configuration management. This intermediary layer ensures accurate deployments by systematically managing all deployment aspects without manual intervention.
3Extent of automation
If automated orchestration is implemented, then deployment accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestrator platform implements multi-functionality by integrating service discovery, dependency resolution, configuration management, and deployment execution into a single universal system. This consolidation reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate manual processes for each function, while achieving high automation levels.
Data Source
AI summary
A device may obtain network information associated with a network device to be installed at a particular location in a network. The device may select, based on the network information, a virtual distributed unit (vDU), of a plurality of vDUs, to be deployed on the network device. The device may generate, based on selecting the vDU, deployment information associated with the vDU, where the deployment information includes configuration information that is configured for the particular location. The device may send the deployment information to the network device to cause the vDU to be automatically deployed on the network device.