ACROSS is a secure, end-to-end network and service management platform that aims to address the dynamic and complex requirements of modern and future services in a cloud processing environment. It provides a highly scalable service orchestration layer, managed by a multi-domain cloud-native service orchestrator, to manage multi-faceted infrastructures across geographically distributed edge-to-core deployments. It increases security and trust over underlying devices and data sources while jointly exploiting data, programmability, and AI to improve performance and outsmart existing service orchestration.
It employs zero-touch mechanisms for multi-objective service management optimizations and fosters a democratized cloud ecosystem for multiple stakeholders. It is built on principles such as event and data-driven microservices, open and standardized APIs, and true unsupervised real-time automation using AI. It aims to be the first of a new breed of AI-driven zero-touch service deployment and management platforms and has a concrete roadmap for proof-of-concept demonstrations to selected standards.
a future-proof service orchestration framework with AI capabilities for handling events across a distributed cloud continuum.
a service deployment and orchestration framework using a logically centralized cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator and distributed domain orchestrator instances.
an end-to-end telemetry infrastructure for zero-touch reporting and collection, featuring standardized reports and visualization.
unsupervised AI for automated decision-making based on telemetry data to empower control loops.
zero-touch operations as programmable hooks in response to infrastructure and telemetry data.
platform security and trust.
the ACROSS platform across multiple sectors and real testbeds.
ACROSS impact and adoption through standardization and open-source activities.
p-NET will offer its testing facility and infrastructure and closely collaborate with the University of Patras in the integration of the ACROSS platform over the testbed, and in particular the interoperability and validation checks. In addition, p-NET will support the design, development and deployment of testing cases. It will moreover provide the view of its industry members on the potential migration path and needs for 5G-assisted automation in various vertical industries.