SCF Densification Summit, Mumbai

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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
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Our Portfolio
Disruptive Solutions Enabling Your Business Transformation
Platform
Disaggregated
Virtualized
&Disaggregated
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)
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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
Core
Cloud
NFV
SDN

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Why CORD?
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Perspective from PoV of Telco Customer
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Lots of efforts on standards interface
Today’s Telco Ecosystem
(Innovation boundaries)
Mix of legacy and
new
Highly tailored physical
platforms
Any change is
difficult
Cloud Model
Open
Architecture
Built 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 SGW
PGW-
C
PGW-
D
• 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

13. Thank You
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Prakash Siva
VP – Global Business Development
Mobile – +1.971.263.8978
Email - psiva@radisys.com
Vivek Jha
Sr Architect
Mobile – +91-7406998209
Email – Vivek.Jha @radisys.com