Announcing SD-Core 1.0 release

[Ajay Thakur]

Hello Everyone,

We are happy to inform you that we just released the first version of SD-Core.  Here is the list of feature we would like to highlight for this release:

• Extensive documentation of SD-Core Project
• New site - https://docs.sd-core.opennetworking.org/1.0.0/index.html
• Various sections which will help developers and users of SD-Core
• 3gpp compliance of  SD-Core project
  
• Configuration APIs
  
• Support of REST APIs to configure SD-Core
• Support of Yaml based configuration through Simapp
  
• Subscriber Management Interface
• Clean separate interface to manage subscribers in SD-Core
• Modular architecture to allow third party subscriber management application integration
  
• 3gpp defined procedures validation and hardening
• All supported procedures handle the error cases seen in production like packet loss, retransmission, error response, no response
  
• Operations support to manage multiple PLMN within Core Network
• Multiple User plane support using CUPS call flows
• SD-Core is compliant with CUPS architecture and uses PFCP to interact with the user plane
• SD-Core can handle multiple user plane connections simultaneously.
  
• Metrics exposure to get visibility of radio network connections and UE connections
• SD-Core Scale support
• Support of 5000 calls at rate of 10 calls per second in 5G
• Support of 16000 calls at the rate of 100 calls per second in 4G 
• Policy framework to support QoS at multiple levels
• Dynamic PCC rule support using Gx interface
• QoS support at UE level and  Application/PCC rule level
• 5G gNB simulator
• gNB simulator simulates 5G UE & 5G gNodeB
• gNBSim is capable of supporting multiple UEs and multiple gNodeBs.
  
• Tool support ICMP data test

SD-Core team has put together detailled release notes  at  https://docs.sd-core.opennetworking.org/1.0.0/release/1.0.html .

Documentation website is available to ONF members. For any questions/query, reach out#sdcore-dev channel in ONF Community Slack

Thank You,

SD-Core Team.