sbi

South Bound Interface

South Bound Components

• VIMs: Register the VIMs in each location of the platform that will be used in each location for hosting network services as part of network slices
• NFVOs: Register the NFVOs in the platform that will be responsible for the management of the network services
• WIM (Optional): Register the WIM in the platform that will be responsible for managing the Transport Network part of the Slice. If no WIM is added during a slice creation phase, the slice will still be created, but the Transport Network will not be configured
• EMS (Optional): Register the EMSs that will be responsible for configuring the RAN functions that will be part of the Slice. If no EMS is added during a slice creation phase, the slice will still be created, but the RAN functions will not be configured
• Policy Engines: Register the Policy Engines/Systems that will interact with Katana

Supported Components

Current version of the Slice Manager supports the following components:

VIM	NFVO	WIM	EMS	Policy
OpenStack (Queens, Rocky & Stein)	OSM (5 - 9)	Athens Platform ODL WIM	Amarisoft EMS	NEAT
OpenNebula				APEX

Katana Slice Manager communicates with these components via REST APIs or the Kafka message bus.

Component Configuration Files

• JSON Model
• Examples