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Defining the 5G Network Connectivity Challenge

January 23, 2017

Today’s Presenters

David StokesSr. Portfolio Marketing Manager, ECI

Gabriel BrownPrincipal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Moshe Shimon VP Product Management, ECI

Global 5G Activity (selected examples)

400MHZ of C-Band

120MHZ of 3.5GHz 28GHz mobile @ 2018

Winter Olympics

5G network share in Japan

4.5-4.9GHz nationwide deployment plan

NSA & Mid-Band Advocate

5G @700MHz

Mid-band 5G 2.5GHz, 2018

600MHZ 5G deploymentMid-band interest

12 markets in 2018NSA Advocate

Interop tests, trials5xFWA markets in 2018 @ 28GHz

Automotive Tie-up (SEAT)

2018 5G Deployment!

28GHz Trials

5G @ 2GHz

Large scale trials in 2018C-Band leader

2020 Summer Olympics Flagship

NAM EMEA ASIA

C-Band; 2 cities 2019

“Our vendors, such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei, will launch commercial modems

for 5G smartphones in December 2018 and are expected to release 5G smartphones six

months later, in June 2019.”

Light Reading interview with Park Jin-hyo, CTO at SK Telecom, January 12 2018http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/sk-telecom-cto-we-need-new-business-models-for-5g/d/d-id/739633

Handset Timeline for 5G

5G Development & Deployment Timeline

5G NR NSA-mode

(w/ LTE anchor)

Simulations, Prototypes &

PoCs Commercial Services

5G Standalone Development(5G system architecture & core)

Field Trials5G NR Early Drop

2018 2019 2020 20252017

Distributed 5G Network Cloud

SDN SDN

UPF

UPF

5GC Control-

Plane

UPF

CU

DU

CU

DU

DU

CU

DU

DU

MEC

MEC

MEC

AU

AU

AU

Service-specific Network Slices

ECI Proprietary

SOLVING THE 5G

CONNECTIVITY

CHALLENGE

THE ECI APPROACH

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Devices

and things

Radio Access

Technology

Connectivity

fabric

Core

Network

Applications

& services

Ubiquitous

connectivity

Inter/Intra-RAT

Massive MIMO

Network slicing

Mobile Edge computing

Fully meshed

Highly

dynamic

Internet

applications

Cloud services

WHERE THE CONNECTIVITY FABRIC FITS

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

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TODAY’S LTE ARCHITECTURE:

CENTRALIZED CONTROL

Backhaul

X2

eNodeB

S-GW

HSS

IP Network &

Services

Evolved Packet Core

S1-MME

P-GW

MME

PCRF

S1-U

S5/8

S11 Gx

S6-a

NPT

NPT

eNodeB

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5G ARCHITECTURE

DISTRIBUTED CORE, MESH CONNECTIVITY

EDGE CORE DC

FH

DATA NETWORK

VERTICAL SERVICES

MEC

UP

CP

VNFs

IOT App

Critical App

PCE

Server

SDN

Controller

vEPC

RRH

Low

Latency

Massive

Broadband

IoT

UP

CP

VNFs

MEC

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EVOLVING TO A

5G CONNECTIVITY

FABRIC

Mobile backhaul

is not enough

Mobile needs high

bandwidth, mesh

connectivity

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5G TRANSPORT EVOLUTION

Transport

networks

become

increasingly

complex ENHANCED

SYNCHRONIZATION

MOBILE EDGE

COMPUTING

SECURITY XHAUL

NETWORK

SLICINGMASSIVE CAPACITY

AND CONNECTIVITY

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MASSIVE CAPACITY AND CONNECTIVITY

L1-L3 Packet aggregation platform with SDN and NFV

Capacity, Scalability and

Density: 100GbE to the cell

site and 100G switching

Packet Optical integration:

Flex OTN, FlexE, ROADMs,

ASON, WSON

Flexible bandwidth: SDN controlled with

centralized PCE providing segment

routing and multi-layer optimization

COREACCESS AGGREGATION AGGREGATIONEDGE

IP/MPLSBackbone

OPTICALLAYER

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Slice configuration

Control and user plane

independence

Dynamic slice programmability

FlexE for flexibility, reliability

and agility

Slice assurance

SLA with KPIs per slice

Automation, optimization

and prediction

NETWORK

SLICING

5G slice 1(smart devices)

5G slice 3 (massive IoT)

5G slice 2 (autonomous driving)

Other slices

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATIONEDGE

OPTICALLAYER

RNCBSC

Cyber

IP/MPLS

EPC

Radio Access

Radio Access

Radio Access

End to end slide control

PCE

Server

SDN

Controller

CONNECTIVITY DOMAIN

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TRANSPORT SLICING BASED ON FLEXE/OTN

EDGECORE

DATA CENTRE

gNB/eNB

DATA NETWORK

VERTICAL SERVICES

MECUP

UPCP

VNFs

VNFs

IOT App

Critical

App

uRLLC

Slicing

mMTC

Slicing

eMBB

Slicing

CPCP

UPVNFs

VNFs

MEC

FlexE

FlexE/OTN

FlexE

FlexE

FlexE/OTN

FlexE

FlexE

FlexE/OTN

FlexE

10Gig 10Gig 10Gig

50Gig 50Gig 50Gig

25Gig 25Gig 25Gig

10Gig

50Gig

25Gig

VNFs VNFs

5G Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS)

• Slice isolation

• Guaranteed SLAs

• Programmable

BW per slice

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SEGMENT ROUTING AS A SLICING ENABLER

METRO

gNB/eNB

VR AppCritical

App

uRLLC Slicing

eMBB Slicing

MEC

PCE

ServerSDN

Controller

MEC

EDGE CORE

EVPN,L3VPN

VNF 2

VNF 1

Unified overlay and underlay , E2E cross domain automation(BGP-LS)

Slice performance metrics & protection requirements

Path restriction (e.g., must pass through some points)

High-availability guidelines (e.g., uRLLC slice restoration within 10ms, or 1ms)

Topology abstraction per slice for higher Orchestrator include TE constrains

SEGMENT ROUTING

SEGMENT ROUTING

SEGMENT ROUTING

SEGMENT ROUTING

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EPC Control and user plane aware

Underlay and overlay handling

Traffic inspection and

classification (GTP aware)

Service chaining

Traffic and data path

offloading

Programmable

data-plane (SDN)

5G READY

MEC SOLUTION eNodeB

X2

VNFs &

APP’s

NGN MEC HOST

eNodeB

MEC HOST

MEC HOST

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Compute, storage and

networking move

closer to the end user Ultra-low latency

High-bandwidth,

3rd party applications

Distributed, dynamic

control and user plane

MEC – MOBILE

EDGE COMPUTING

EXAMPLE:

VIDEO STREAM ANALYSIS

Video

Storage

Core/IT

Video management

and analytics

NFV

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Requires carrier grade

capabilities

Real-time, high performance,

reliable NFV solution

Street cabinet and outdoor

condition environment

HW Accelerators to burst

virtualization and all

kinds of application

performance

MEC

ARCHITECTURE

`

Software stack for

Programmable Data Plane

Towards MEC

Orchestration

ME Host level

Management

Virtualization

Infrastructure

manger

Mobile Edge

Platform

MEC

Platform

manager

Virtualization Infrastructure

Containers & Hypervisor

`

MEC

infrastructure

components

Software stack

specifically designed for

handling mobile

Mobile Edge

Applications

Hosted PaaS

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5G TIMING REQUIREMENTS

Radio Unit (RU)

CLUSTER

Access

network

DU

Digital Unit

(DU)Radio Unit (RU)

CLUSTER

Fronthaul

network

Global Navigation

Satellite System

(GNSS)

Enhanced

time server

Transport

network

± 20 ± 100 ± 10

18 Hops / ±5ns

TE GM

GNSS

TE TN TE END

Transport

networkEnhanced

time server

TE Total

E2E accuracy need to be

enhanced to ±130ns, Single node

accuracy ~ ±5ns

GNSS receiver is required for

distribute GM

New HW & Standard will be

required for C-RAN domain which

required ±10ns Time accuracy

New synchronization technologies

and standards are required

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SYNCRONIZATION

SOLUTION

FOR 5G

End to end solution

to improve:

Timing reference source

Time transport

Synchronization

architecture Hub site aggregation

No long boundary

clock/transparent clock chains

Built in GPS receiver and 1588

grand master

Supports up to 64 1588 sessions

Radio Unit

(RU)

CLUSTER

Access

network

DU

Digital Unit

(DU)Radio Unit

(RU)

CLUSTER

Fronthaul

network

Global Navigation

Satellite System (GNSS)

Enhanced

time server

Transport

network

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FRONTHAUL SOLUTION

Today there are two main solutions for fronthaul:

Ethernet Solution

Next Generation Fronthaul Interface,

(NGFI) based on IEEE P1914.1 and eCPRI

using Ethernet access

Based on completely new TSN Ethernet

Switch family

New 1588 timing

L1 OTN* Solution

Two box solution

Apollo like architecture

Common 100G blade for both boxes

Pending on pricing and availability of 100G WDM

RRU

CU+DU+MEC

Fronthaul 1

RRU

RRU

RRU

Fronthaul

Transport

Network 1

5G

RRHs

Fronthaul

Transport

Network 2

CU/BBU Pool

CE Backhal

5G DUs

5G

RRHs

5G

RRHs

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Next Generation Fronthaul

Interface, (NGFI) based on

IEEE P1914.1 and eCPRI

using Ethernet access

AnyHaul - Ability to support

both FH and BH at same

node using MPLS access

and NGFI

XHAUL

Fronthaul

Network

Aggregation

PoP

MBH

Macro

Cell

MPLS Access

Network

NGFI

Computing

on the Edge

RRH

VNFsV2I IoT FW

BBU SGW IDP

RRH

RRH

Core

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5G SECURITY

An integrated cyber

security suite to protect

the 5G infrastructure

5G transport using mix of

physical functions and

virtual function

infrastructure will increase

the network vulnerability

1

Big Data Cyber Analytics

L2-L3 Encryption

Secured Site

DPI, Logs & Anomaly Detection

2

3

4

Mobile

Core

Inspect All TrafficCollect All Logs

3

12

33

Real-time unified

threat dashboard

2

Cell

Site

1

Secured Connectivity

3

4

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OPEN OPERATIONS

FOR ASSURED 5G NETWORKSHigher level

orchestration

Network

Controller

Functions

Network

Applications

Service

Applications

Network Control VIM

Carrier Grade PaaS

3rd Party

Applications

3rd Party

Open interface

5G Connectivity Fabric 4G MBH

Slice 1

Slice 2

Slice 3

NFVI

NFVI

Front Haul

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MEETING THE 5G

CHALLENGE

Scalable transportfor efficient mobile networks

Integrated MECfor optimized performance

Adaptive network slicingfor tailored service delivery

Assured 5G connectivityfor exceptional customer

experience

Open architecturesfor ecosystem flexibility

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