An independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization
in the telecommunications industry, the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI) has introduced what it described as Zero touch network and
Service Management Industry Specificiation Group (ZSM ISG), reports ITRealms.
The group which commenced work at the weekend also informed
ITRealms that over 40 organizations have already joined the group since it
kicked-off at ETSI on 10-12 January.
This, ETSI said underlines the importance of this new
activity for future network and service management.
ITRealms noted that this first meeting provided the
opportunity to elect a leadership team, start discussing the first topics to
work on and initiate collaboration with other standards bodies, fora and open
source communities.
ITRealms gathered that Klaus Martiny of Deutsche Telekom,
was elected as chair of the ZSM ISG, while Nurit Sprecher of Nokia and
Christian Toche of Huawei, were elected as vice chairs of the group. The
Network Operators Council (NOC) advisory group elected Ashiq Khan of DOCOMO as
chair and Serge Manning of Sprint as vice chair.
One of the key achievements at
this first meeting was the agreement on five working topics including the
development of use cases, requirements, and reference architecture with an
end-to-end view of a zero touch system as well as an analysis into areas such
as automation techniques and the management of network slices.
Networks need to evolve towards programmable,
software-driven, service-based and holistically-managed architectures, using
technology enablers and catalysts such as NFV, SDN and MEC. New business
models, including network slicing, will support new markets and impose
unprecedented operational agility and higher cooperation across network
domains. The resulting exponential increase in overall complexity makes
automation a necessity. The goal of ETSI’s ZSM ISG is to provide an end-to-end
solution to have all operational processes and tasks - delivery, deployment,
configuration, assurance, and optimization - executed automatically, ideally
with 100% automation.
“While 5G and its building blocks are being developed, it’s
time to offer an end-to-end view focusing on automated end-to-end network and
service management”, says Klaus Martiny, ZSM chair. “We want to offer the
market open and simple solutions. A continuous feedback from all stakeholders
will lead to the first implementations of the specifications which will be
tested through Proofs of Concepts, the outcome being fed back to improve
existing specifications. A strong collaboration and cooperation with others
standards bodies and Open Source projects is important for the ISG.”
Participation in the Zero touch network and Service
Management Industry Specification Group is open to all ETSI members as well as
non-members organizations. For information on how to participate please contact
zsmsupport@etsi.org. The ISG participants list is available on the ETSI Portal.
ITRealms further recalled that ETSI produces
globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies
(ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, aeronautical, broadcast and internet
technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European
Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association
whose more than 800 member companies and organizations, drawn from 66 countries
across five continents worldwide, determine its work programme and participate
directly in its work.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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