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Our Gateway platform, SpartanShield FogEdge, serves as a fully featured ecosystem for building value-added application and services for Broadband, SmartHome service providers. It can be fully independent offloading some workload from a vendor cloud platform or managerable via SpartanShield Cloud Platform.
The same set of micro-services accessible at our Cloud Plaftorm can rolled-out on the SpartanShield Fog Edge as well. So SpartanShield represents the End-to-End solution for the Cloud and Gateway tiers. The services are deployable as Docker containers on a target Gateway platform.
The following device management protocols are supported on the SpartanShield Fog Edge :
SpartanShield Fog Edge Platform is designed for the following key players in the Broadband, SmartHome business domains :
It allows to solve the following challenges for Gateway ecosystem :
Recently introduced Matter specification for SmartHome vendors is playing a key role in harmonization of all value-added products and services on the market.
SpartanShield Fog Edge Platform is the perfect fit for Matter as it allows to abstract underlying hardware platforms from software services running on top of it.
Fog Edge Platform runs on top of Linux/BSP and OpenWrt with Prpl Foundation middleware. Below presented the layered architecture of the Platform along with its core components.
SpartanShield Fog Edge includes open source core components along with commercial products on top of them:
There are different software deployment options available for Gateway. SpartanShield Fog Edge exploits the most effective deployment approach – customer products and services are deployable as separate docker containers.
It allows to maximize ease of development, test and deployment, maximize ROI and enhance customer satisfaction from new services and products.
Gateway firmware and services development and testing pipelines are automated in order to push deliverables to SpartanShield AppStore for products and services.
Once available in the AppStore they can be installed on the Gateway via SpartanShield Container Orchestration lifecycle.
Also SpartanShield Cloud Platform is responsible for Gateway Device Management via USP(TR-369) protocol.
The key factors for Gateway containerization are as follows:
SpartanShield Fog Edge Platform can drive your target Gateway platform via all those efforts mentioned.
On top of that, SpartanShield USP client manages the Gateway according to USP(TR-369) protocol along with SpartanShield GW Agent performs Gateway orchestration.
Container LCM peforms the following operations on a Gateway platform :
SpartanShield FogEdge supports LCM operations based on PrplLCM open source product.
SpartanShield FogEdge Platform in conjunction with SpartanShield ADMP can provide End-to-End orchestration for Matter solutions.
From a moment when end user pressed a button on a Matter mobile commissioning application till a Matter device reacts to a command, the following magic happens behind the scene :
With core features of SpartanShield AMDP and SpartanShield FogEdge like loosly-coupled messaging, micro-services, infinite scalability and load-balancing, millions of Gateways along with millions of SmartHome connected users are handled easily.
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| CPE | Customer premise equipment |
| SDP | Service Delivery Platform |
| LCM | Life cycle manager |
| EE | Execution environment |
| IPC | Inter process communications |
| ODM | Original Device Manufacturer |
| DU | Deployment Unit |
| LXC | Linux containers |
| runc | Execution environment for Linux containers |
| UCI | Unified Configuration interface |
| UBUS | OpenWRT micro bus architecture |
| CWMP | CPE WAN Management Protocol |
| DTLS | Datagram Transport Layer Security |
| Firmware | A piece of software executable as part as device operating system(OS) |
| FOTA | Firmware Over The Air |
| ADMP | AI/ML Device Management Platform – multiprotocol device management platform with AI/ML analysis for device fleet and connected users |
| SpartanShield | SpartanShield ADMP - multiprotocol device management platform with AI/ML analysis for device fleet and connected users |
| DDD | Dynamic-Domain-Definition technology invented by SpartanShield to detect a device management protocol in run-time and load approprate micro-service container to manage such device type |
| FTTx | Fiber-to-the-Home physical layer set of protocols |
| IaaS | Infrastructure-as-a-Service |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IoT Server | IoT Device Management Server |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LPWA | Low Power Wide Area Network |
| M2M | Machine to Machine |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport is an ISO standard |
| MQTTS | MQTT Sensor Networks |
| NB-IoT | Narrowband Internet of Things |
| NIDD | Non-Internet protocol Data Delivery |
| OTA | Over The Air |
| PaaS | Platform-as-a-Service |
| Matter | Application level protocol for Smart Home devices |
| Thread | Physical layer RF Mesh protocol for low powered devices communicating via IEEE 802.15.4 networks |
| PAN | Personal Area Network such as used in Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, RF Mesh, Thread, Matter and other IEEE 802.15.4 networks |
| QoS | SpartanShield’s Quality of Service Professional Solution |
| REST | representational state transfer API |
| RF | Radio Frequency, like RF based wireless networks |
| SaaS | Software-as-a-Service |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TR-069 | Broadband Forum technical specification which enables remote and safe configuration of Broadband devices |
| USP(TR-369) | User Services Platform (TR-369) – next generation of broadband device management protocol |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
