Open Broadband: Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA)

Version 5.1.0

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Architecture
  4. Installing OB-BAA
  5. Using OB-BAA

Introduction

The Broadband Forum is a non-profit corporation organized to create guidelines for broadband network system development and deployment. This Design Document has been approved by members of the Forum. This Design Document is subject to change. This Design Document is copyrighted by the Broadband Forum, and all rights are reserved. Portions of this Design Document may be copyrighted by Broadband Forum members.

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Terms of Use

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Revision History

Release 5

Release 4

Release 3

Release 2

Release 1

Participants

Altice Altran ATT Broadcom
BT Calix CenturyLink ChinaMobile
ChinaTelecom ChinaUnicom CommScope DZS
Fiberhome Furukawa Huawei ISKRATEL
nbn Nokia Orange Reply
Tibit TelecomItalia UNH Vecima
Vodafone ZTE    

How to Get Involved

Involvement in OB-BAA requires that you sign the Broadband Forum's Contribution License Agreement (CLA)/Project Participation Agreement. Information regarding the agreement can be found here. Send the signed agreement to: info@broadband-forum.org.

Issues and bugs can be submitted using the Issues feature on the OB-BAA Github repository.

License

The OB-BAA project's license is structure is to provide a RAND-Z (Apache 2.0) license for the program's software license and keep the Broadband Forum’s license for the project's artifacts.

Program (Software) License

The OB-BAA project is considered a RAND-Z open source project for program deliverable (e.g, source code and associated object code). The program deliverables use the Apache 2.0 license.

Project Artifacts

The OB-BAA project's artifacts (e.g., documentation, architecture specifications, functional behavior descriptions, Epics, Stories) use the Broadband Forums IPR policy.

Third Party Tools and License

The following tools are used by the OB-BAA project:

Software Name Purpose Vendor Paid/Open Source License Details
Netopeer2 NETCONF device simulator CESNET Open Source BSD-3 Github link
Atom NETCONF client text editor Atom Open Source MIT Documentation link
atom-netconf NETCONF package for the Atom editor Nokia Open Source MIT Github link
protoc Protocol Buffer Compiler gRPC Authors Open Source BSD-style Github link

The following tools are used in and delivered by the OB-BAA project:

Software Name Purpose Vendor Paid/Open Source License Details
HSQL DB YANG Datastore HyperSQL Open Source BSD Documentation link
Apache Karaf Container Apache Open Source Apache 2.0 Documentation link
JSch Simple adapter JCraft Open Source BSD Documentation link
SNMP4j Sample SNMP adapter SNMP4j Open Source Apache 2.0 Documentation link
InfluxDBv2 Time series DB InfluxData Open Source MIT Repository link
Kakfa Distributed Streaming platform Apache Open Source Apache 2.0 Documentation link
ZooKeeper Highly reliable distributed coordination Apache Open Source Apache 2.0 Documentation link
Python Programming Language PSF Open Source BSD Documentation link
kafka-python Kafka-Python Implementation kafka-python Open Source Apache 2.0 Documentation link

The following tools are used in and delivered for the Control Relay Service by the OB-BAA project:

Software Name Purpose Vendor Paid/Open Source License Details
github.com/Juniper/go-netconf Simple NETCONF client base on RFC6241 and RFC6242. Support for SSH transport Juniper Open Source BSD 2 Github link
github.com/golang/mock Mocking framework for the Go programming language Go Project Open Source Apache 2.0 Github link
github.com/golang/protobuf Go support for protocol buffers Google Open Source BSD Github link
github.com/google/go-cmp For comparing whether two values are semantically equal Go Project Open Source BSD 3 Github link
github.com/google/gopacket Packet decoding Google Open Source BSD Github link
github.com/kr/text Manipulating paragraphs of text Many Open Source MIT Github link
github.com/niemeyer/pretty Provides colors to the logger Many Open Source MIT Github link
github.com/rifflock/lfshook Local filesystem hook for Logrus Many Open Source MIT Github link
github.com/sirupsen/logrus Structured logger for Go Many Open Source MIT Github link
github.com/stretchr/testify Framework for testing Go code Many Open Source MIT Github link
github.com/ziutek/telnet Provides simple interface for interacting with Telnet connection. (indirect dependency) Michal Derkacz Open Source Proprietary of Michal Derkacz (BSD 3 like) Github link
google.golang.org/genproto Go generated proto packages Google Open Source Apache 2.0 Github link
google.golang.org/grpc The Go implementation of gRPC Google Open Source Apache 2.0 Github link
google.golang.org/protobuf Go support for protocol buffers Google Open Source BSD Github link

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