MANO, NSO & Service Orchestration
How SOM integrates with ETSI MANO and Cisco NSO for VNF/CNF lifecycle management and network service orchestration, including Day-0/1/2 responsibilities and RFS-to-engine mapping.
Comparing ETSI MANO, Cisco NSO, and SOM — what each does, where they overlap, and when to use which.
Deep dive into the MANO architecture: NFVO, VNFM, VIM layers, Day-0/1/2 lifecycle, and how SOM orchestrates above MANO.
Integration patterns for SOM-to-NSO: direct API, adapter/mediation, event-driven, with L3VPN worked example and RFS-to-engine mapping.
How SOM routes RFS order items to the correct execution engine across fixed, mobile, SD-WAN, broadband, and cloud domains — catalog-driven routing logic, per-technology integration patterns, and worked examples.
How Itential fits between SOM and NSO as the automation middleware — SOM decides what, Itential decides how, NSO safely changes the network — with L3VPN worked example and comparison to direct SOM→NSO integration.