The Open Broadband CloudCO Application Software Development Kit (OB-CAS) aims to make monitoring and maintenance easier for BSPs, enabling them to easily integrate applications into their access network management platforms. BSPs will also have access to a greater selection of fit-for-purpose applications from a community of software vendors. The OB-CloudCO Application SDK team is continuing its journey to develop an open API framework through which applications can interact with an access domain controller. These applications typically consume and analyze network data for enhancing or automating service assurance.
OB-CAS is progressing towards the first release (1.0) of its SDK, containing the wrappers for KAFKA, Opensearch, FluentD and NETCONF APIs, as well as a sandbox environment comprising OLT simulators. It also includes the alarm correlation app, which was demonstrated at Network X 2024. The release is planned for completion this month.
This year, the project team aims to add the Open TSDB API to its SDK. Open TSDB is an efficient way to store a time-series of KPIs/metrics retrieved by a data collector from the network, and is a fundamental capability to enable 24/7 assurance, troubleshooting analysis and planning. The OB-CAS team will be developing a “smart threshold setting” application, which can detect anomalies in a running time-series of metric values without using pre-defined and/or manually set thresholds on the network elements.
The OB-CAS team is aiming to demonstrate the open software, with its new features, as part of the Broadband Forum Innovation Demonstrations at Network X 2025.
Management and data analysis software application providers are invited to join OB-CAS’ project to help shape the API requirements and test and grow the SDK to see how their applications can operate in a CloudCO environment.
To learn more about the OB-CAS project’s ongoing work, please see: https://wiki.broadband-forum.org/display/OBCAS/OB-CAS+Home.