| Milestone | Due date | Means of verification |
| Workshop for ICT-19 proposers | Sept 2018 | |
| Release 0 of E2E facility | June 2019 |
- For 5G-VINNI project internal validation of KPIs and specific use cases for E2E facility validation.
- Facility will consist of Non Stand Alone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G Core.
- Virtualization infrastructure, NFV Orchestration and Service Orchestration will be implemented. E2E slicing is implemented supporting basic life-cycle events.
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| Service offer and on-boarding roadmap for ICT-18-19-22 projects | Sept 2019 |
- Including initial results of KPI validation on Release 0
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| Release 1 of E2E facility | Dec 2019 |
- Ready for use by ICT-18-19-22 projects and other external use cases.
- The main facility sites (Norway, UK, Spain and Greece) will be 3GPP Rel15 compliant.
- Minimum one of the facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
- E2E slicing is implemented supporting all planned life-cycle events. Service orchestration across two interconnected main facility sites.
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| Release 2 of E2E facility | June 2020 |
- Backward compatible with Release 1.
- Two main facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
- Service Orchestration across 3 interconnected main facility sites.
- Minimum 2 vertical use cases from ICT-18-19-22 project(s) and 3 use cases from other external verticals “customers” of the 5G-VINNI facilities are on-boarded.
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| Release 3 of E2E facility | Dec 2020 |
- Backward compatible with Release 2.
- All main facility sites will include Stand Alone (SA) 5G NR and 5G Core.
- Service Orchestration across all interconnected main facility sites. Initial results from vertical use cases and KPIs validation and testing.
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| Release FINAL of E2E facility | June 2021 |
- 3GPP R16 compliant.
- Ambition to be backward compatible with Release 3, depending on standard compliance.
- Minimum 4 vertical use cases from ICT-18-19-22 project(s) and 6 use cases from other external verticals “customers” of the 5G-VINNI facilities are on-boarded.
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