Platform
Nabstract is a unified service platform that enables a range of Verticals and Enterprises to leverage on the latest generation of mobile networks and their exposure-capabilities and thereby drive operational efficiencies and business-performances. The platform makes possible new use-cases that can make the most of a 5G network’s enhanced features like eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband), mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications), URLLC (Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications), Edge Computing, QoS, Slicing and IoT among others. These in-built programmable features bear the promise and potential to bring in remarkable transformations across various verticals like healthcare, automotive, smart factories, mission-critical communications, transport, utilities, UAVs and others. Nabstract platform can be used by different entities, i.e. Telcos, Vertical Enterprises and Cloud Companies.
The Platform follows an open and distributed architecture wherein all the components are Kubernetes-capable and deployable across any cloud. It provides Northbound-services to Application-providers and the services can run on cloud infrastructure or on dedicated enterprise-servers.
Platform Components
Nabstract Operation Platform
- Partner Management System for provisioning and managing Application Partners and Application Server-related information
- Device Management for configuring the devices and monitoring their attributes like location, status and others
- Policy Studio for defining the policies for all the services
- Rule Engine to define circumstances for automated triggering of service-requests, based on Partner-requirements
- Analytics Engine to give insights into the application and device behaviour
- Charging and Rate Control
Nabstract Platform can be deployed to realize the GSMA Operator Platform (OP) where the Capability Exposure Role and Service Manager Role along with the User Client (Nabstract Shadow) and the interfaces towards SBI-NR and SBI-CHF will be provided by the Platform.
Nabstract NEF
- Network-services for connectivity and device management and control
- Fully compliant with 3GPP Rel 15 and Rel 16 and for selected services with 3GPP Rel 17
- Cloud-native and Kubernetes-based deployments
- Interaction with all major 5G Core NFs, with support to standard interfaces
- Support to policy-configuration for service-handling
- Support to eMBB, URLLC and mMTC-based Use-cases
CAPIF and AF-enabler
- Compliant with 3GPP-specified framework
- Authentication of access from the API-invokers (External Applications)
- Authorization of API-invokers before each service-access
- Security methods, based on OAuth, an open standard for access-delegation
- Onboarding of API-invokers
- API access-control, based on the operator policies
- Audit of the Service API Invocation Logs
Shadow
- Interaction with App-clients
- Role of SEAL or Edge App clients, as per the 3GPP-standards
- Handling of services from App-clients
- User-policy updates