Automating the provisioning of 5G services, deployed over a heterogeneous infrastructure (in terms of domains, technologies, and management platforms), remains a complex task, yet driven by the constant need to provide end-to-end connections at network slices at reducing costs and service deployment time. At the same time, such services are increasingly conceived around interconnected functions and require allocation of computing, storage, and networking resources.

The METRO-HAUL 5G research initiative acknowledges the need for automation and strives to develop an orchestration platform for services and resources that extends, integrates, and builds on top of existing approaches, macroscopically adopting Transport Software Defined Networking principles, and leveraging the programmability and open control of Transport SDN.

自动化跨异构基础架构（就域，技术和管理平台而言）部署的5G服务的配置仍然是一项复杂的任务，但是由于不断需要在网络切片上以降低成本的方式提供端到端连接和服务部署时间。同时，围绕互连功能的服务越来越多，它们需要分配计算，存储和网络资源。

METRO-HAUL 5G研究计划认识​​到自动化的需求，并努力开发用于服务和资源的编排平台，以扩展，集成和建立在现有方法之上，宏观上采用传输软件定义的网络原理，并利用可编程性和开放性控制传输SDN。