OCNWDAF Features

2 OCNWDAF Features

This chapter lists the added or updated features in Release 24.1.x. For more information about the features, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.

Release 24.1.0

Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function (OCNWDAF) 24.1.0 is updated with the following enhancements:

Slice Load Monitoring Enhanced: The Slice Load Monitoring screen in the GUI is enhanced with tabs to display different visualization styles of slice data. Three different tabs present the slice load data. The tabs display Active Slices, Line Charts, and the Tracking Areas. The Active Slices tab displays the Registered Slices, information about the Registered Slices, and a map view of the slices. The Line Chart tab displays the Slice Load data in Line Chart format and information about the Registered Slices. The Tracking Areas tab displays the tracking areas in the Registered Slices and a map view of the tracking areas. All tabs display information about the Slice Load Threshold Events. The multilayer feature introduced enhances user view by allowing the choice of the order in which the slices and areas are drawn in the map view. On changing the order of the listed slices and tracking areas, the map view gets updated accordingly. Viewing overlapping slices and tracking areas is more precise in the map view. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. The internal procedure used to calculate metrics is upgraded to derive accurate Slice Load metrics. Configure the Data Director as specified in the section "Configuring Data Director" in the Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide to view the accurate Slice Load Metrics.
Capex Optimization: The Capex Optimization feature aids in identifying network areas that require additional resources due to the high density of preferred subscribers and network activity. A new microservice has been introduced to interface between the Portal service and the Analytics DB service to create Capex groups and view Capex analytics information. Users can create Capex groups on the GUI and view detailed graphical representations of Capex metrics on the GUI. In this release, this feature is intended only for use case demonstration. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
IPv6 Support: OCNWDAF supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard protocol. This activity is a part of the architectural enhancement for OCNWDAF. The default format is IPv4. Users can choose to configure either IPv4 or IPv6 during deployment through the HELM configuration. IPv6 is supported on all ingress (and egress) interfaces, including SBA, Kafka, and HTTPS. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. To configure IPv6 support, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
Upgraded Versions of Ingress, Egress Gateway, and NRF Client Service: OCNWDAF now supports upgraded versions of Ingress, Egress gateways, and the NRF Client Service. This activity is a part of the architectural enhancement for OCNWDAF. For information on the latest versions supported, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
Machine Learning (ML) Model Replication in Georedundant Deployments: Georedundancy is used to mitigate such network failures and ensure service continuity in a network. To implement georedundancy, information from one site is replicated across multiple sites to efficiently handle failure scenarios and ensure High Availability (HA). The OCNWDAF now supports ML Model replication along with data replication. The ML models created by the Model Executor service are replicated across all georedundant sites. For more information on ML Model Replication, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. To configure this feature, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
Performance Metrics for Deployment: Scaling an OCNWDAF deployment and utilizing it to its maximum potential requires a detailed understanding of the resources needed for data collection, processing, storage, model training, subscriptions, and analytics information requests. Extensive Benchmark testing provided insights on storage and sizing recommendations, limitations, Database Benchmarking, and deployment suggestions to overcome the identified constraints. For more information see, Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Benchmarking Guide.