1 Introduction

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy (Policy) is a key component of the 5G Service Based Architecture (SBA). It is a cloud native solution consisting of both, a 4G Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) and a 5G Policy Control Function (PCF) as a unified framework. It provides a flexible, secure, and scalable policy designing solution.

Policy interacts with other Network Functions (NF) through Network Repository Function (NRF) to provide a unified communication platform for the NFs to interact with each other. It helps operators to design, test, and deploy different network policies supporting 5G deployments. Policy solution supports deployments into cloud native environment, including containers on bare metal managed by Kubernetes or VMs managed by OpenStack.

Note:

The performance and capacity of the Policy system may vary based on the Call model, Feature/Interface configurations, underlying CNE and hardware environment, including but not limited to the complexity of deployed policies, policy table size, object expression, and custom json usage in policy design.

For more information about Policy architecture, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.

1.1 Purpose and Scope

This document is designed to help operators in measuring the performance and capacity of Policy, Policy microservices, and deployment environment setup software such as Cloud Native Environment (CNE) and cnDBTier.

It is recommended that Policy is run through a benchmark on the target cloud native infrastructure to determine the capacity and performance in the target infrastructure. This information can be used to adjust the initial deployment resources for Policy. These recommendations are just guidelines, since the actual performance of the Policy can vary significantly based on the details of the infrastructure.

1.2 References

  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, cnDBTier Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide