This is was an animated presentation I did at the LTE North America Conference 2015 in November in Dallas. Originally it was an animated presentation. As usual without me speaking is not easy to grasp the message
6. Alberto Diez – 2015
Effects of NFV
Scaling down
Manageability of larger amount of deployments
ITification of telecommunications
Open Source new standards
Atomization of vendor landscape
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Radio Access Network
Verticalization of the NFV Core Network
Core Network
MVNO
Apps
Web
Video
IoT
…
Radio Access Network
MVNOApps
Web
Video IoT
…
Core
Network
Core
Network
Core
Network
Core
Network
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Extreme use case: NFV
Virtual Network Functions
OSS/BSS
NFV Orchestrator
VNF Manager
Core
Network
User 1
EM
Virtualized
Infrastructure
Manager
Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
Management & Orchestration
Core
Network
User 2
EM
Core
Network
User N
EM
Core
Network
User 3
EM
SGi
S12
S3
S1-
MME PCRF
Gx
S6a
HSS
Operator's IP
Services
Rx
S10
UE
SGSN
LTE-Uu
E-UTRAN
MME
S11
S5Serving
Gateway
PDN
Gateway
S1-U
S4
UTRAN
GERAN
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SDN
Control
Data Flows
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
SDN
Controller
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
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Extreme use case: SDN
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Switch
Traffic becomes less predictable
Dimensioning and planning
challenge
More dynamic control of
resources
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ServicesCoreCaching
MEC
Content
DNS
Improving User Experience by reducing round-trip time
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Extreme use case: MEC
Core
Core
Core
Services
Services
Services
MANO
Deploying everything at the
edge
Mobility anchoring becomes
an issue
Mobility SDN control for
MESH networks
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C-RAN
L1
MAC
L1L1
MAC
L1
RLC
PDCP
UDP/IP
GTP-URLC
PDCP
L2
IP
RRC
SCTP
S1AP
eNodeB
Control Plane Data Plane
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RRU
C-RAN
L1
MAC
L1L1
MAC
L1
BBU
RLC
PDCP
UDP/IP
GTP-URLC
PDCP
L2
IP
RRC
SCTP
S1AP
Control Plane Data Plane Control Plane Data Plane
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Extreme use case: C-RAN
SDN C-RAN
ControllerRRU
RRU
RRU
EPCBBUBBUBBU
RRU
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BBU
Extreme use case: C-RAN
SDN C-RAN
ControllerRRU
RRU
RRU
EPCBBU
RRU
Backhaul and Fronthaul decategorization
BBU
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Extreme use case: C-RAN
SDN C-RAN
ControllerRRU
RRU
RRU
EPCBBUBBU
RRU
Backhaul and Fronthaul decategorization
BBU BBU
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IoT
Long battery life
Low device cost
Low deployment cost
Massive number of devices
Full coverage
LTE-M
NB-LTE
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5G
• Multi access (including new radios)
• Higher reliability
• Lower latency
• New topologies
• NFV/SDN
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Extreme use case: 5G
SDN
Control
Subs/Devices
Switch/
Gw
VAS1
VAS2
MANO
Anchor
IP
OF, RESTConf,
NETCONF, ?
NSH
LTE
MME
mm
Wi-Fi
Charging
Security
Policy/QoS
Switch/
Gw
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Summary
5G
IoT
C-RAN
MEC
SDN
NFV
Signaling effect
Neutral IncreaseReduce
?
MEC & 5G most
positive effects
Simplifying network
should be added to
requirements
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Thank you!
Takeaways
Signaling increase due to MANO and
extremely dynamic control plane
Rethink architecture to improve service &
support all use cases
Upcoming Trends
Simplification of core network
New business models for operators
alberto@mobileplots.net
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