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6 Open Network Automation Platform
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9 Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is an open source project hosted by
12 ONAP provides a comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven service
13 orchestration and automation. ONAP enables service providers and developers
14 to rapidly automate the instantiation and configuration of physical and
15 virtual network functions and to support complete life cycle management
16 activities. By unifying the resources of open source members, ONAP enables
17 the acceleration of the development of a vibrant ecosystem around a globally
18 shared architecture and the implementation of network automation faster than
19 any product could on its own.
21 The ONAP Platform architecture is built on the highly efficient cooperation of
22 Design-time Framework activities with the functions provided by the
23 Run-time Framework. The Design-time Framework defines resources, services
24 and products, creates and manages processes and policies, provides a single
25 platform for deploying and defining instantiation management besides many
26 other activities. The Run-time framework manages the full lifecycle of
27 networks, services, resources, topology, orchestrates delivery, provides
28 monitoring via analytics and controls activities for applications and
31 ONAP platform activities are supported by the Microservices support
32 system and by the ONAP Portal.
34 The following figure presents the high-level architecture of ONAP:
36 .. image:: media/ONAP-architecture-high-level.png
39 For more details, see :ref:`ONAP Documentation <onap-documentation>` (or alternatively you can also use the navigation bar on the left).
46 guides/onap-developer/index
47 guides/onap-user/index
48 guides/onap-provider/index