Operator Platform: Requirements and Architecture Version 6.0

The Operator Platform intends to provide a common solution for operators to expose the capabilities of their networks to enterprise customers and developers allowing monetisation of those capabilities. Through its federation capabilities the Operator Platform enables those enterprise customers to connect to a single platform and get access to the capabilities of all networks with which that platform has federated. The Operator Platform architecture provides the technical basis for the implementation of Open Gateway services in the operator network. While the initial version of these requirements focussed on Edge Compute, subsequent versions have expanded on that by covering Network and Network Slicing as a Service capabilities. This new version of the requirements and architecture for the Operator Platform covers enhancements to the roaming architecture, support for DNS handling for client access to edge instances and Network Slicing as a Service in a federated environment which also changes the scope to exposure of Network Communication services in general. This ensures consistency in what is exposed across different radio and core network generations.