CORDIS · ACROSS
Automated zero-touch cross-layer provisioning framework for 5G and beyond vertical services
- Code
ACROSS- Programme
- HORIZON
- Call
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-A-01-07- Status
- SIGNED
- Period
- 2023-01-01 – 2025-12-31
Official data · CORDIS · synced 2026-10-17 10:16 · official record
Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVA TELECOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA SINGLE MEMBER SA | coordinator | EL | 574 875 € |
| UBITECH LIMITED | participant | CY | 940 500 € |
| UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID | participant | ES | 685 012 € |
| INNOVATION COMMERCIAL PATHWAYS CLG | participant | IE | 585 562 € |
| PANEPISTIMIO PATRON | participant | EL | 511 250 € |
| NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH | participant | DE | 491 557 € |
| CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA | participant | ES | 474 750 € |
| WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION ANONYMI ETAIREIA | participant | EL | 433 125 € |
| L.M. ERICSSON LIMITED | participant | IE | 400 962 € |
| K3Y | participant | BG | 362 250 € |
| TELEFONICA INNOVACION DIGITAL SL | participant | ES | 241 875 € |
| P-NET ANADYOMENA DIKTYA NEAS GENIAS & EFARMOGES IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA | participant | EL | 199 687 € |
Description
The ACROSS project designs and implements an end-to-end service deployment and management platform for next-generation networks and services, aiming at unprecedented levels of automation, performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. At its basis, the platform is built as a highly-distributed grid of domain-level orchestrators, spread across multiple geo-dispersed and potentially heterogeneous edge environments, overseen by a cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator. The use of standardised communication interfaces fosters separation of concerns (events) between the two orchestration layers through an integration fabric which ensures compliance with ongoing standardisation efforts. The platform is further enhanced with a) deep end-to-end telemetry to unlock visibility of the intertwined network and compute system states, b) AI-driven intelligence that leverages both the vast number of events originating from the dense IoT ecosystem and detailed monitoring data originating from the ACROSS telemetry sub-system, to generate new insights, c) full-stack cross-domain zero-touch provisioning via programmable “hooks” that exploit events originating from raw telemetry and AI processed events, and d) secure and trusted orchestration mechanisms for trusted computing technologies over large and heterogeneous cloud-edge deployments, as well as orchestration and monitoring of the security VNFs.The ACROSS concept is developed over a federated heterogeneous validation and testing environment that hosts a number of test cases and scenarios for promoting all potential intelligent and trusted zero-touch provisioning processes with different event triggering origins. The test cases are carefully designed for being promoted as proof of concept (PoC) project submissions to standards and open-source initiatives (targeting but not limited to ETSI ZSM, ETSI NFV-OSM, TMF, ONF).
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