Looking under the hood of various RAN Access Deployment Technologies: 4G, LTE-A and 5G Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
Kristy Chen Product Line Manager MWC 2017
MT09.06.16
xRAN Solution – Making the Network Agile to Deploy New Services
Source: www.xran.org Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
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TIP 4G Unbundled Block Diagram: Type-1 Architecture (Radio Non Virtualized)
Software System Integration (Radisys) Unbundled Software Stack
L1 HW + SW (Intel)
Lower L2 (Aricent)
Open Midhaul
Upper L2 (Radisys)
L3 (Radisys)
Analytics & OAM (Radisys)
OAM Server (BaiCells)
Virtualization
Platform RF (BaiCells)
EPC (Aricent)
IMS (Aricent)
REMOTE ACCESS UNIT
Compute
Storage Open HW & Platform CENTRAL ACCESS UNIT
Network Stack
Virtualization Open HW & Platform CORE
End-to-End System Integration and Optimization
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MCORD Architecture
Disaggregated/Virtualized RAN
Nova
Mobile Edge Services
Disaggregated/Virtualized EPC
XOS (Service Orchestration) Control APPs RAN/EPC Control Agent VTN OpenStack ONOS (Networking) Ceilometer Neutron 5G Capabilities to be Explored on M-CORD White Box
White Box
White Box
White Box
Leaf-Spine Fabric White Box White Box
vBBU
White Box White Box
White Box White Box
vMME
White Box White Box
vSGW
White Box White Box
vPGW-C vPGW-D
RRUs
Content Caching
MME
PCRF
EPC Control Functions
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White Box White Box
PGW
Centralized EPC
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RadiSys LTE Cloud-RAN Solution: System Architecture eNodeB
MME S6a
RRH
HSS IP Core Network
CPRI/OBSAI LTE Uu
S1
S11 S5/S8
LTE UE
BBU
SGW
PGW
CPRI/OBSAI
vBBU
vMME
Access NW VNF
vSGW
vPGW
Core Network VNF
Virtualization COTS HW
Storage Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
RadiSys LTE Cloud-RAN Solution
Compute
Network Stack 5
Why RAN Virtualization
Source: Orange Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
Source: China Mobile Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
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Virtual Network Infrastructure for 5G
Source: Intel Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
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IoT – Connectionless Gateway (Network Slicing) MME dis-aggregation
MME session management + GW slice selection function
S1C
Regular LTE handset
MME mobility management
CORE GW SLICE 1 ( legacy slice )
UE - 1
RAN
S1U
SGW
PGW
OpenFlow
UE- 2
Connection less GW
Static IoT device
CONTROL PLANE SIGNALLING FOR REGULAR LTE DEVICE USER PLANE SIGNALLING FOR REGULAR LTE DEVICE
IP cloud
CORE GW SLICE 2 ( connectionless slice )
CONTROL PLANE SIGNALLING FOR REGULAR STATIC IoT DEVICE USER PLANE SIGNALLING FOR REGULAR STATIC IoT DEVICE
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Radisys 4G, LTE-A and 5G • Radisys 5G v1.0 • Radisys eNB solution for CA, LTA-Advanced and 5G • Key stakeholder for Open Source Consortiums such as xRAN, TIP and CORD • Competitive Value Proposition • Fully compliant to 3GPP Rel-13/14 LTE Architecture • 2 CC CA DL with Roadmap to support 5 CC DL • Licensed Assisted Access (LAA)
• 5G Based on VZ Tech Forum (5GTF) mmWave
• Strong collaboration with eco system partners including Silicon Manufacturers and Carriers • Active discussion with leading NA Carrier to demonstrate LTE-A, LAA interop by Q1 2017
• Active discussion with leading NA Carrier to demonstrate 5G interop by Q2 2017
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Kristy Chen Product Line Manager
[email protected]
Thank You Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL
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