A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)

Wen QIAO; Xiaozheng WANG; Zhenqiang SUN; Gan REN; Yunxin LIU; Aidong YANG; Peng WANG; Da WANG; Xiaozhou YE; Ye OUYANG

doi:10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093

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A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)

Engineering and Application | 更新时间：2024-06-05

- A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)
- Telecommunications Science Vol. 38, Issue 6, Pages: 143-155(2022)
- 作者机构：
  
  1. 亚信科技（中国）有限公司，北京 100193
  2. 中国移动通信集团浙江有限公司，浙江杭州 310016
  3. 中国电信股份有限公司研究院，北京 100035
  4. 清华大学，北京 100084
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- 基金信息：
- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093
  CLC： TP181
- Published Online：2022-06，
  
  Published：20 June 2022
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Wen QIAO, Xiaozheng WANG, Zhenqiang SUN, et al. A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)[J]. Telecommunications science, 2022, 38(6): 143-155.
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Wen QIAO, Xiaozheng WANG, Zhenqiang SUN, et al. A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV)[J]. Telecommunications science, 2022, 38(6): 143-155. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022093.

摘要

随着信息和通信技术的发展，灵活多变的业务需求给传统大型电信业务支撑系统带来了诸多挑战。应用场景化、服务标准化、技术组件化和资源共享化正在成为电信业务支撑系统架构演进的共识。提出了一种电信业务功能虚拟化（business function virtualization，BFV）架构，以云原生、微服务、容器、DevOps等技术为基础，引入标准化的IT虚拟网元、单元化的设计编排器、微服务管理框架和多平面弹性计算控制器，使 IT 系统具备单元化部署和分布式云部署能力，满足系统稳定扩展与平滑演进的要求，实现 IT 系统轻量交付和业务敏捷支撑，可作为下一代电信业务支撑系统的参考架构。

Abstract

With the development of information and communication technologies

traditional telecom business support systems (BSS) are facing the challenge of agilely meeting the flexible needs from business.Application scenarization

service standardization

technology componentization and resource sharing have gradually become the consensual features among the evolution of telecom BSS architectures.A business function virtualization (BFV)-based BSS architecture

which is based on cloud-native

micro-services

containers

and DevOps technologies

was proposed.By embedding four components into the architecture

including standardized virtual network functions

modular design orchestrator

micro-service management framework

and multi-plane elastic computing controller

the system is able to deploy unitized system and distributed cloud.Therefore

the requirements of flexible telecom business development and frequent evolution of the system could be satisfied by the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture.In other words

the lightweight delivery of IT technologies and agile business support could be fulfilled by using the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture

and the proposed architecture will eventually become the standard architecture of next generation telecom BSS.

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