TADSummit 2022, 8/9 Nov Aveiro Portugal Time to ditch the ‘dumb-pipe’ – reinventing the core mobile network, to put developers first. Mike Bromwich, CEO / Co-Founder Stacuity & Tim Dowling, Co-Founder Stacuity The emergence of public cloud has revolutionized the way developers can muster and deploy virtual infrastructures, as and when required. In contrast, mobile networks are still rigidly defined and protected by operators, who are unable or unwilling to offer such control and flexibility. As a result, the mobile network operates as little more than a dumb-pipe (unless you have lots of patience and deep pockets). Addressing this problem requires a different approach, not just the creation of a thin façade over legacy network elements. How Stacuity is reinventing the core mobile network, to put developers first.

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Time to ditch the dumb-pipe

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Introduction

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Cloud vs mobile

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Over 40 years of legacy
1980s 2020s
1990s 2000s 2010s
Technology
Services

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Harmonized architectural model
STP DRA
IP Signalling/Interconnect (IPX)
HLR/HSS
PGW-
U
PGW-
C
SMSC
IN/
SCF
USSD
G-
MSC
PCRF
OSS Provisioning OCS
BSS
CRM
Portal/eCommerce
Mediation
Roaming and interconnect partners

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Harmonized architectural model
STP DRA
IP Signalling/Interconnect (IPX)
HLR/HSS
PGW-
U
PGW-
C
SMSC
IN/
SCF
USSD
G-
MSC
PCRF
OSS Provisioning OCS
BSS
CRM
Portal/eCommerce
Mediation

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Cloud vs mobile

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Cloud vs mobile
How can we take flexibility
from here…
…and make it available
here?

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The conventional approach
STP DRA
IP Signalling/Interconnect (IPX)
HLR/HSS
PGW
-U
PGW
-C
SMS
C
IN/SC
F
USSD
G-
MSC
PCRF
OSS Provisioning OCS
BSS
CRM
Portal/eCommerce
Mediation
Service exposure layer
Innovators, Developers

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A better approach:
“The programmable mobile network”
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Why? What could be possible? (#1)

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Why? What could be possible? (#2)

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That’s what we’re building at stacuity

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How are we building it?
MTP2 (M2PA)
SCCP
TCAP
MAP CAMEL
DIAMETER
S6
GTP-U GTP-C
IP Signalling/Interconnect (IPX)
Developers
REST GraphQL WebHooks WebSocket

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How are we building it?
MTP2 (M2PA)
SCCP
TCAP
MAP CAMEL
DIAMETER
S6
GTP-U GTP-C
IP Signalling/Interconnect (IPX)
Developers
REST GraphQL WebHooks WebSocket
Signalling Interworking Platform
(C#, Go)
Packet Forwarding Engine
(Rust, AF_XDP, DPDK)
5G-style (HTTP/2) signalling
Edge
PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
ELK
(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Portal (C#, Typescript, Angular)
Integration layer (API) (C#)
Apache Kafka
Core
Identity (KeyCloak,OpenID Connect)
Service
MongoDB
‘Serverless’ (Lambdas, Wasm)
PFPC-style control using Kafka

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Our next steps for stacuity FUSION
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