Cloud Native Infrastructure
The SMF services includes the configuration to process PDU Session Management API calls. The IP Address Management (IPAM) technique is integrated with the SMF in the Application Services layer for tracking and managing the IP address space of a network. The SMF uses the Operations Center interface, which is a system-level infrastructure, to initiate the deployment of micro-services, to push application specific configuration to one or more micro-services, and to run application-specific commands to invoke APIs in application-specific pods.
The following features are related to this use case: