radisys virtualized ran using the mobile-cord platform

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Virtualized RAN using the Mobile-CORD platform

Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL

Radisys Software & Services

Oct 2017

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Contents

• Radisys

• Introduction & Product/Services Portfolio

• CORD: Central Office Redefined as a DataCenter

• Why CORD? Who is this important now?

• CORD Platforms for Mobile, Broadband/Residential, Enterprise & Analytics Use Cases

• Virtualized RAN

• Using Intel FlexRAN, Centralized BBU (L2+)

• vRAN on M-CORD Platform

• PoC at Tier1 Telco

• Configuration & Tests

• Summary


3Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL

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Open Hardware Open Cloud Software Outcomes

DCEngineTM

Open

Service Innovation

Platform

Telco Data Center

FlowEngineTM

MediaEngineTM

MobilityEngineTM

ServiceEngineTM

Smart SDN Switch

Fixed, LTE-A, 5G

Disaggregated

Open

RAN & EPC

5G, LTE-A, LTE

xRAN

Media Resource

and Transcoding

4G 5G Core or

Edge

Virtualized Media

Processing Engine

VoLTE, VoWifi,

WebRTC,

Conferencing,

Video

Traffic Distribution,

L2-L7 Programmable

Service

Central Office Migration to

Data Center:

Open Source Platforms,

Software & Solutions

Open API ‘s

Reference Design

Architecture and

Customization

System Integration

Open Source Sw

Distribution, Support

and Lifecycle Mgmt

CORD, TIP,

Mobile Edge Compute

applications,

IoT

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MobilityEngine Business Overview

MobilityEngine

Accelerating

Customer

Deployments

Telco Market (OEMs)

- Consulting / Ideation / Execution and Maintenance

- Infrastructure/T&M Vendor Product Development

• 3G, LTE, Smallcell, EPC

• Test & Measurement Solutions

- Chipset Integration

• Performance Optimization

• Feature Integration

- Test Tools/Automation/Simulators Development

Product Ideation / Innovation Market

- Dynamic Spectrum Leasing

- 3.5G Citizen Broadband Radio Service

- M2M/IOT Solutions

- HetNet Management Solutions

- Cloud RAN Solutions

- Solutions with Open Source Based Forums

Aerospace/Defense/Public Safety Market

- LTE N/W In-a-Box

- EPC In-a-Box

- Cyber Security Solutions

• UE Tracking

- Smallcell for Tactical Communication

- Solutions for Law Enforcement Agencies

- Search & Rescue Solutions

Telco Market (Carriers)

- TTCN Based Test Equipment Development

- UE Conformance

- IOT Test Suite

- GTP Load Balancing Solutions

- Programmable Edge Router

- Cloud Hosted EPC Implementation

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CORD: Central Office Re-architected as Datacenter (opencord.org)


SDN Control Plane -

ONOS

Service Orchestration

- XOS

Large number of COs

Evolved over 40-50 years

300+ Types of equipment

Huge source of

CAPEX/OPEX

White Box White Box White Box

White Box

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Leaf-Spine

Fabric

White Box

White Box

SDN enabled DC Fabric

Commodity servers, switches and network access

Access

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Cloud

NFV

SDN

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Why CORD?


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Perspective from PoV of Telco Customer


Lots of efforts on standards interface

Today’s Telco Ecosystem

(Innovation boundaries)

Mix of legacy and

newHighly tailored physical

platforms

Any change is

difficult

Cloud Model

Open

ArchitectureBuilt with

commodities

Technology

firepower

What’s the right

path?

Telco + IT + Web-scale Ecosystem

Build an open-standard PLATFORM

Commodity

AI

Machine

Learning

Vendor led path

(Limited openness)

• Guidance on HW/SW agnostic open architecture ✔

• Telco led community focus on refactoring network service ✔

• Ability to influence industry direction (and code)✔

Using CORD as a frame of reference

Telco building HW/switches? ×

Developing own software? ×

Telco Drives the change

(Good for a few applications)

(Self-absorbed risk)

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Multiple Access Technologies on CORD Platform

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M-CORD (Mobile CORD)

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Mobile

Subscribers

Operator Specification (TOSCA) + GUI

Service Graph

Resource Policy

Scaling Policy

Customer Policy

RRH

vMME

vBBU vSGW vPGW

OpenStack Monitoring vCDNONOS

CORD Controller

Controller Controller Controller

ControllerControllerControllerController

Controller

• Everything-as-a-Service(XaaS)

• CORD Controller consolidate all configurations and control

• CORD Controller mediates all inter-service dependencies

M-CORD Software Architecture

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Virtualized RAN Solution Overview

• Lab Setup Overview

• Radisys TotaleNB 5.0 on Intel Xeon Server.

• Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz 72 cores x86_64

• Wind River Linux (3.10.74-ovp-rt74-WR6.0.0.13_preempt-rt)

• Intel DPDK

• RadiSys EPC running on the FlexRAN HW

• Intel CPRI/Ethernet Switch

• 3rd Party RRH

• Supported Scenarios

• Single Cell, FDD/TDD, 20MHz

• 400 Active UEs, 8 UEs/TTI

• CA (4CC DL, 1 CC UL)

• 4x4 MIMO

• Other features as per Intel FlexRAN Roadmap

Windriver OVP

L1/PHY VM Instance

L2/L3 VM Instance

EPC

LTE UEs RRH

Internet

CPRI/Eth Switch

DCEngine

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Virtualized RAN on M-CORD Platform

- MCORD Solution Using

Radisys DCEngine

- Software: Radisys

MCORD with flexRAN &

EPC

Solution

- Chipset: Intel Xeon

- Hardware: Radisys

DCEngine

• Next Steps

• Minimal viable product for field trial on MCORD VNFs

• Integration with ONAP/ECOMP

• 3rd party VNF provisioning

VMs

MGMT SWITCH

FABRIC SWITCH

COMPUTES ( head node – running openstack

and CORD base platform)

COMPUTES ( running VNFs)

POWER

16U DCEngine running M-CORD

OTA interface

Eth interface COMPUTE (running

vBBU )

FerryBridge Switch ( CPRI <-> Eth )

CPRI interface

Remote Radio Unit ( AceAxis - RRU )

Switch has 4 ports – 1 Ethernet port – 10GbE link

3 ports used for CPRI

Windriver – OVP6(host OS )

Windriver OVP6 ( Guest OS )

DPDK

X86 L1 L2/L3

IP ( towards S1 )

Ubuntu - LTS 14.04(host OS )

VM

Ubuntu - LTS 14.04(Guest OS )

MME SGWPGW-

CPGW-

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• Use cases Demonstrated

• Mobile Core Network Central Office As Datacenter Implementation

• Optimized Core for Static IoT Devices

• eNodeB Local Breakout with real time APN Provisioning

• 3rd Party VNF Provisioning with Service Chaining

Thank You

13Radisys Corporation - CONFIDENTIAL

Prakash Siva

VP – Global Business Development

Mobile – +1.971.263.8978

Email - [email protected]

Vivek Jha

Sr Architect

Mobile – +91-7406998209

Email – Vivek.Jha @radisys.com