5G-VINNI Timeline

MilestoneDue dateMeans of verification
Workshop for ICT-19 proposersSept 2018
  • Workshop event
Release 0 of E2E facilityJune 2019
  • For 5G-VINNI project internal validation of KPIs and specific use cases for E2E facility validation.
  • Facility will consist of Non Stand Alone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G Core.
  • Virtualization infrastructure, NFV Orchestration and Service Orchestration will be implemented. E2E slicing is implemented supporting basic life-cycle events.
Service offer and on-boarding roadmap for ICT-18-19-22 projectsSept 2019
  • Including initial results of KPI validation on Release 0
Release 1 of E2E facilityDec 2019
  • Ready for use by ICT-18-19-22 projects and other external use cases.
  • The main facility sites (Norway, UK, Spain and Greece) will be 3GPP Rel15 compliant.
  • Minimum one of the facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
  • E2E slicing is implemented supporting all planned life-cycle events. Service orchestration across two interconnected main facility sites.
Release 2 of E2E facilityJune 2020
  • Backward compatible with Release 1.
  • Two main facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
  • Service Orchestration across 3 interconnected main facility sites.
  • Minimum 2 vertical use cases from ICT-18-19-22 project(s) and 3 use cases from other external verticals “customers” of the 5G-VINNI facilities are on-boarded.
Release 3 of E2E facilityDec 2020
  • Backward compatible with Release 2.
  • All main facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
  • Service Orchestration across all interconnected main facility sites. Initial results from vertical use cases and KPIs validation and testing.
Release FINAL of E2E facilityJune 2021
  • 3GPP R16 compliant.
  • Ambition to be backward compatible with Release 3, depending on standard compliance.
  • Minimum 4 vertical use cases from ICT-18-19-22 project(s) and 6 use cases from other external verticals “customers” of the 5G-VINNI facilities are on-boarded.
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