d, the spectrum used by mobile wireless access networks is a scarce and valuable resource, and the explosion of mobile data traffic has continued to emphasize that value. The advancement of mobile wireless data protocols and standards has been a relentless pursuit to employ real-time algo- rithms and digital signal processing electronics to continually achieve higher spectral efficiency [3]. Over time, as Moore's law has increased the amount of digital signal processing available on dedi- cated integrated circuits optimized for wireless access network technology [4], wireless standards and network equipment have consumed that capacity to improve spectral efficiency and capacity. The mainstream compute platforms used in data centers do not provide the level of specialized digital sig- nal processing that is needed to build a high-performance mobile broadband wireless access network. The extension of SDN and NFV all the way to the end of the access network gives a complete end- to-end implementation of the SDN/NFV and open network automation platform (ONAP) architecture Building the Network of the Future across all access technologies, enabling the creation of new features and services that can incorporate the access network and that can be written once and applied across multiple access technologies, even as those access technologies continue to evolve. Access technologies present a challenge for NFV and SDN. The virtualization of high-performance access networks does not directly fit with conventional centralized general-purpose compute and storage platforms, because components of the access network need to be distributed rather than centralized, and because access networks rely on specialized hard- ware to perform functions that cannot be efficiently executed on general purpose compute platforms. The access network is a critical and expensive part of the overall end-to-end network, and the full ben- efits of NFV and SDN control cannot be achieved without including the access network in the overall architecture. 