1. Network Analytics Suite Release Notes
  2. Feature Descriptions

2 Feature Descriptions

This chapter provides a summary of new features and updates to the existing features for Network Analytics Suite products released in 23.4.x.

2.1 OCNWDAF Feature Descriptions

Release 23.4.0

Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function (OCNWDAF) 23.4.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Quality of Service (QoS) Sustainability Analytics: Consumers can derive QoS (Quality of Service) Sustainability Analytics from the OCNWDAF. This analytics information includes QoS change statistics in a target area (for a specified period). OCNWDAF provides both statistical and predictive analytics. The OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced to provide graphic visualization of QoS analytics, and QoS APIs are introduced for this feature. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Data Director (OCNADD) Integration: The OCNWDAF supports the Data Director (OCNADD) as a data source. OCNADD receives messages from Oracle NFs (such as SCP, SEPP, and NRF), captures the call flow messages exchanged between the control plane NFs, filters data from the call flows, and sends it to the CAP4C. The Kafka Mirror Maker replication utility replicates Kafka topics between the OCNADD and the OCNWDAF to implement this feature. The Data Collection Service is also enhanced to support the Data Director as a data source.
    Data mine "Cell Location" from Data Director Message Feed: When the OCNADD is configured as a data source for OCNWDAF, the Cell Location information is mined from the Data Director Message Feed. This information is used for generating analytics for the following Analytics IDs:
    • Slice Load Level Analytics
    • UE Mobility Analytics
    • UE Abnormal Behavior Analytics

    For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.

  • OCNWDAF Dashboard Enhancements: The OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced with rich visual features for ML Model Selection, Slice Load Monitoring, NF Load Monitoring, Geofence Monitoring, UE Mobility Monitoring, Network Performance, User Data Congestion Analytics and QoS Sustainability Analytics. A new GUI page is introduced to view UE Mobility Analytics, and a new tab is presented on the Monitoring page to view QoS Analytics. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Analytics Database Integration: This feature is an architectural enhancement for OCNWDAF. The new database is based on MySQL cluster and stores relational and time-series data. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Georedundancy and Data Replication: In a georedundant deployment, High Availability (HA) can be achieved by data replication across all sites. Data topics across all sites are replicated by the “Mirror Maker 2 (MM2)”, the replication tool for Kafka topics. OCNWDAF supports Mirror Maker Configuration for Data Replication. For more information on configuring Mirror Maker and its parameters, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Performance Metrics for QoS Sustainability Analytics: OCNWDAF provides performance metrics for the QoS Sustainability analytics ID.

2.2 OCNADD Feature Descriptions

Release 23.4.0.0.1

Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 23.4.0.0.1 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Kubectl HNC Packaging: Kubectl HNC package is added as part of the OCNADD package. The package is used to create hierarchical (nested) namespaces using the command set kubectl hns. The steps to install the package are added in the install guide. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Support for Admin User and Access Control: OCNADD supports two types of users with different access control levels. The users can be created using CNC Console and assigned any of the three roles (Read/Write, and Read). For more information, see the "OCNADD Users" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.

Release 23.4.0

Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 23.4.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Centralized Deployment: OCNADD, in centralized deployment mode, provides the separation of the configuration and administration services and pods from the traffic processing services and pods. The single management pod group can serve multiple traffic processing pod groups (called Worker Groups), thereby saving the resources for management pods for very large customer deployments spanning multiple individual OCNADD sites. The OCNADD GUI supports configuration of data feeds, filters, and correlation for the worker groups. This mode ensures separation of the configuration management from the traffic processing so that the traffic processing units can scale independently of each other. For more information, see the "Centralized Deployment" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Correlation and xDR Support: This feature provides the capability to correlate messages of a network scenario that can be represented by a transaction, call, or session and generate a summary record known as xDR. The summary of records provide deep insights and visibility into the customer network and assist in:
    • Network Troubleshooting
    • Revenue Assurance
    • Billing and CDR Reconciliation
    • Network Performance KPIs and Metrics
    • Advanced Analytics and Observability

    The OCNADD GUI is used to configure this feature and the xDRs are consumed using the Kafka feed feature. For more information, see the "Correlation Feature" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.

  • KPIs and Visualization: This feature provides options to configure and visualize the KPIs that can be generated using the OCNADD transactions for the correlation feature. The KPIs provide insights into the network transactions that are running the Service Provider's network. The KPIs generated can be visualized using the OCNADD GUI dashboard.

    The KPIs can be configured along with the correlation feature configuration. For more information, see the section "Supported KPIs" in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.

  • TCP SEQ/ACK support in Synthetic Feed: This enhancement to the OCNADD Synthetic Feed provides support for the TCP Sequence and Acknowledgment in the synthesized packet. The sequence number and the acknowledgment number will not be the same for every packet. The new connection for any srcIP, srcPort, dstIP, and dstPort combination shall initialize the Sequence and Acknowledge number with "1" and increase them based on the length of the packet being sent on the connection. This feature is useful in cases where the third party application is involved in the validation and processing of the TCP sequence and acknowledgment number from the synthesized packet. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Performance Improvements: Performance metrics are benchmarked for the following features:
    • Correlation feature
    • 100K MPS synthetic feed with replication