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High-level Roadmap for the Aether OnRamp project.

Stage 1: Get Started

An initial version of this exists. Remaining tasks include:

• Specify requirements for BYO-Kubernetes scenarios.

Stage 2: GitOps

An initial version of this exists. Remaining tasks include:

• Add missing component (from https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/aether-configs)
• Automatically load AMP config files (ROC Models & Monitoring Dashboards)
• Reconcile with manual approach (e.g., values.yaml files, clean-related targets, milestones)

Stage 3: Physical Base Stations

A working 5G system now exists, but we still need to do the following:

• Monitoring dashboard is incomplete (and not fully functional)
• Better describe the "SIM burning" process
• Add a second (and third) base station
• Continuously monitor from Raspberry Pi + Dongle

Stage 4: Scale Cluster

Grow the cluster from a single server to multiple servers. Work on this stage is currently underway, and includes an effort to decouple gNBSIM from SD-Core, with both able to scale separately. This should also unify how the Kubernetes cluster connects to external RAN elements (whether they are physical or simulated).

Stage 5: Scale SD-Core

Spin up multiple Slices and UPF instances.

Stage 6: Generalize Network Config

Factor out how the network is configured, making it easier to support different options, including SR-IOV.

Stage 7: Incorporate SD-RAN

• Prune options (focus on OAI Hardware & RAN Sim)
• Run on RKE2.0 (rather than Kubespray)
• Integrate with SD-Core (rather than OMEC)