Authentication approach, 192 Block(s), 52 Authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA), 35 function, 95 Automated validation techniques, 345 storage, 53 Automatic neighbor relations (ANR), 162 BNGs, see Broadband Network Gateways Automation, 16, 51, 157, 183, 347 Bootstrapping SDN/NFV deployments leveraging, 348 for configuration management, 44 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), 6, 14, 93, 286-287 configuring ONAP to enable operations, 343 Border Gateway Protocol-Link State (BGP-LS), 355 control-loop, 157-160 protocol, 288 of infrastructure management, 45 Bottleneck analysis, 71-72 machine learning for closed-loop, 160-161 "Bottoms-up" approach, 263 of recovery, 78 BPMN, see Business Process Management Notation Auto-scaling BPON, see Broadband passive optical network model, 382-383 Breakout gateway control function (BGCF), 312 NFV service, 382 Bring your own device (BYOD), 194, 202 Availability, 69, 266, 380, 381 Broadband Forum (BBF), 232-233, 241 to cost tradeoff, 71-72 G. fast architecture TR-301, 232-233 to downtime/year conversion, 70 Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs), 233, 252 high, 94 Broadband passive optical network (BPON), 231 sensitivity to key parameters, 82 Broadband Remote Access Server, see Broadband single-site, 69-71 Network Gateways (BNGs) tradeoffs, 68 Broadcom AWSs, see Amazon Web Services OLT PON MAC SOC, 235 Trident/Tomahawk, 255 Broad network cloud strategy, 105 BSS, see Business support systems Backbone, 18 B2B, see Business to business AT&T's domestic intercity optical backbone B2C, see Business to consumer network, 267 Buffer manager, 213 example IP/optical network with, 356 Business intelligence systems (BI systems), 195 IP common, 276-277 Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), SDN-enabled backbone network, 354 113, 115 "Bad" automation, 343 Business support systems (BSS), 15, 30, 61, 99, 104, "Bad" policy, 344, 345 229, 347 Bandwidth legacy BSSs interactions with ONAP, 133-135 aware routing, 282-283 Business to business (B2B), 193 "calendared" services, 289-290 Business to con