Study Notes

Richard Kuo

TIP Motivation• Allows more users to access internet

“Every day, more people and more devices around the world are coming online… Scaling traditional telecom infrastructure to meet this global data challenge is not moving as fast as people need it to.”

• Open SourceFacebook is teaming up with telecom companies to both streamline the process and encourage faster development.

• Software Defined Everything (SDx)The Telecom Infra Project is initially going to separate the hardware and software components of network architecture which are usually bundled together, with the goal of increasing efficiency and designing new solutions.

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Telecom Infra Project

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MissionThe Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is an engineering-focused initiative driven by operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and other technology companies that aim to reimage the traditional approach to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure.

•Founded in February 2016 by SK Telecom, Deutsche, Facebook, Intel, and Nokia

Paradigms

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Project Groups

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Solutions Integration

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TIP Community Lab

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Data-Model Driven Management

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Voyager• A networking solution for Open

Packet DWDM networks — and what we believe is the industry’s first “white box” transponder and routing solution.

Sub-project:

Backhaul: Open Optical Packet Transport project group

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OpenCellularfrom: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1754757044806180/introducing-opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access-platform

• General-baseband computing (GBC): The GBC further consists of power, housekeeping microcontroller, microprocessor, timing/sync module, sensors, and control mechanism. The system is designed to take in various input power sources: PoE (power-over-ethernet), solar, DC, and external batteries (seal lead acid) and internal battery (lithium-ion). The system also has numerous sensors that monitor things like temperature, voltage, and current.

• Radio with integrated front-end: On the radio subsystem, we have multiple options based on a software-defined radio (SDR) or system on chip (SoC). The SDR and SoC versions support various open source and commercial cellular stacks. The system supports two configurations: as a full network-in-a-box, when the daughter card is combined with the GBC board; and alternatively as an access point, when the daughter card is operating alone (only the SoC version supports this configuration).

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Backup Slides

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