Nogales Dorado, BorjaVidal Fernández, IvánLópez, Diego R.Rodríguez, JuanGarcía Reinoso, Jaime JoséAzcorra Saloña, Arturo2023-12-112023-12-112019-01-01IEEE Communications Magazine, (2019), 57(1), pp.: 20-27.0163-6804https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39048Management and orchestration of virtual resources and functions, commonly referred to as MANO, are key functionalities of NFV environments. This article describes the design and deployment of the NFV MANO platform of 5TONIC, the open research and innovation laboratory on 5G technologies founded by Telefonica and IMDEA Networks. This NFV MANO platform provides 5TONIC trials and experiments with access to a functional production-like NFV environment, enabling experimentation with novel NFV products and services. As a relevant feature, the platform is capable of incorporating external sites to complement the portfolio of software and hardware resources that can be made available for experimentation activities. The 5TONIC MANO platform has been designed and built using open source technologies. The research carried out during its design and deployment has resulted in a contribution already made to its upstream projects regarding the automated configuration of virtualized network functions. Finally, we explore the scalability properties of the 5TONIC MANO platform, and we experimentally validate its functional capacity to orchestrate multi-site experiments.8eng© 2019 IEEE.Network functions virtualizationNFVManagement and orchestrationMANOOpen Source MANOOSMExperimental infrastructureresearch articleTelecomunicacioneshttps://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2018.1800084open access20127IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE57AR/0000023180