Network eAcademy

The Network eAcademy (NeA) offers knowledge sharing and exchange between GÉANT, NRENs, and organisations and is intended to serve as a platform to discuss strategies, common use cases and ideas related to a variety of topics. One of our main focus areas are network and service orchestration, automation and virtualisation (OAV) in our GÉANT community (including an OAV maturity model, information on OAV terminology and OAV architectures). Applied OAV can be found as part of our OAV community portal and with the example of the SPA Service Provider Architecture. Another major focus area of NeA is the Network eAcademy Training Portal with on-demand training courses ranging from Network Automation to Quantum Technology.

Our model defines four main dimensions that describe different aspects of OAV, each further specified using subdimensions that highlight the important OAV areas of each dimension. The short and long descriptions of stages for each subdimensions help quickly identify the current status in the organisation and the main tasks that need to be accomplished in order to advance to the next level. Read more...

OAV Architectures

A high-level architectural blueprint (the TM Forum Open Digital Architecture, or ODA), provides R&E institutions with an easy way to understand and compare the architectures of their Network Management (NMS), Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) and helps guide community efforts towards the creation of interoperable systems and operations. Read more...

OAV Terminology

During our discussions with NRENs it became clear that there are OAV terms that are being used in different ways and in some cases with slightly different meaning and understanding. In order to have a common basis we decided to identify a list of relevant OAV terms and add a short definition with a reference link (source) for each term as well as an acronym table. Read more...

OAV Community Portal

Applied OAV examples by country. Follow our community portal to see what NRENs are implementing in their own environments. Read more...

SPA Service Provider Architecture

The Service Provider Architecture (SPA) is a service management platform that is based on the TMForum Open Digital Framework. SPA follows all main aspects of Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation design principles. The SPA platform can be used by any service provider that would like to implement a flexible new generation digital platform to manage its services. Read more...