Apart from this, Diego is a more than acceptable Iberian ham carver and extremely fond of seeking and enjoying comics, wines, and cheeses.

Open Source MANO (OSM) is an open-source project committed to build a production-ready, flexible, and highly scalable NFV orchestration framework. This short talk will briefly introduce the no-nonsense design principles of OSM, its architecture and applicability to network operation and management, and the evolution of the successive releases towards full production readiness.

The DevOps model is already an established concept in IT industry, focused on reducing time to market by close collaboration between service developers and service operators. The switch to virtualization technologies in the network and its potential for quicker time-to-market deployment requires the application of agile development cycles supporting a DevOps approach. Development and operational tools, the two essential pillars of

DevOps translate into the need of addressing the interfacing of service development tasks and the service platform, which have to be closely linked together. A realistic NFV DevOps approach has to take into account a trustworthy cycle with a mediation mechanism that ensures compliance to policies set by the service providers, and allowing developers across stakeholders to enter the ecosystem, so a collaborative approach that mitigates liability risks becomes possible across the network service lifecycle.

This short talk will introduce 5TONIC, the 5G research and innovation test lab that Telefónica has started in collaboration with IMDEA Networks, its membership, main characteristics, and recent activities. Despite its short lifetime, 5TONIC has a great deal of results to report, and goals to achieve.