SONATA (Service Programing and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks)

Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment.

By combining rapid development and deployment in an open and flexible manner, SONATA is realising an extended DevOps model for network stakeholders. SONATA validates its approach through novel use-case-driven pilot implementations and disseminates its results widely by releasing its key SDK and platform components as open source software, through scientific publications and standards contributions, which, together, will have a major impact on incumbent stakeholders including network operators and manufacturers and will open the market to third-party developers.

SONATA Partners:

• Atos Spain SA
• NEC Europe Ltd
• PT Inovacao e Sistemas SA
• Thales Commincations & Security SAS
• Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SAU
• Alcatel Lucen Israel Ltd
• Universitaet Paderborn
• National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
• University College London
• Iminds VZW
• Optare Solutions SL
• Fundacio Privada I2CAT
• British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
• Ubiwhere Lda
• Synelixis Solutions Ltd