Be 5G Ready With

Next-Gen Programmable Radio

November 5, 2019
Sponsored by
Today’s Presenters

Gabriel Brown Swapnil Shah Dr. Ravishankar Ravindran

Principal Analyst, Mobile Head – System Engineering, PNI, Principal Architect – Radio Technologies,
Networks, Heavy Reading Sterlite Technologies Limited Sterlite Technologies Limited
Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
RAN Equipment Market Forecast
40,000
35,000
30,000
$ (millions)

25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
2G/3G 4G 5G

Source: Ovum, 1Q 2019

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Ambitious on 5G Coverage
How much of your RAN footprint will be running 5G by end of 2021?

29%
Less than 25%
51%

49%
26 - 50%
40%
US (n=70)
ROW (n=76)
13%
51 - 75%
4%

10%
More than 75%
5%

Source: Heavy Reading, 1Q 2019

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Open RAN Initiatives
 Open RAN is Strategic
How important will Open RAN be to your company's network
• A majority of respondents see
over the next three years? (n=115)
Open RAN as important or
strategic to their company over
Very important – the next three years. Optimistic,
this 31.3% but not irrationally so, is one way
is a strategic…
to summarize this response.

Important 44.3% • U.S. respondents were

significantly more likely than the
Somewhat rest of the world (RoW) to
important – 23.5% identify Open RAN as "a
but not a priority
strategic priority," (39% vs 25%).
This pattern of the U.S. being
Not important 0.9% more bullish than RoW is
repeated several times in the
survey.
Source: Heavy Reading’s Open RAN Operator Survey, 2018 (n=117)
Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
Radical shift to open and programmable radio networks

TRADITIONAL
Closed interfaces
Vendor specific hardware
Monolithic and proprietary
Localized control and data plane
Expensive
NON-TRADITIONAL
Standardized open interfaces
Programmable white boxes
Cloud native, disaggregated
Centralized, programmable control plane
Frugal
100% Programmable Open Disaggregated radio solution

…...

• 5G NSA AND SA
• PRIVATE LTE
• RURAL CONNECTIVITY
• EDGE CLOUD
Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
pRadio Solution
Example STL 5G POD • OCP Compliant

• RU - 3 certified partners

• CU & DU - Partnership established, Integration and testing ongoing currently

• RIC - Setup for RT and NON-RT with use cases

• Virtualization and Cloud Platform - 2 certified partners

• Orchestration - Pre-production setup

• EPC / 5GC - Integration certified

• OSS BSS Analytics - Integration certified

• ML - Use Case implementation

• Each module disaggregated with tested open interfaces support

• Community Pre-production lab at Santa Clara (US) and Pune (India)

Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
 5G and ORAN

• 5G with Rel-15 has solution to offer eMBB with flexible 5G-NR

• Core Networking using CUPS and realizing heterogeneous services using Architecture enabled Network Slicing paradigm

• Rel-16 and beyond to address more pressing URLLC use cases

• ORAN focused on disaggregating RAN with real-time optimization over open interfaces, while keeping 3GPP
core interfaces
• Best of the breed applications

• Open Front Haul (RU/DU i/f)

• Open Interfaces to Disaggregated RAN (DU, CU-CP, CU-UP) -> O1/A1/E2

• Open Whitebox design for E2 nodes design and implementation

 ORAN Architecture
ORAN Architecture :
• RAN focused with 3GPP compatibility
• Openness, agility and cost
• Software-defined through RIC
• Data-driven optimization (AI/ML)

4G/5G Core Internet

Fig. Source ORAN WG1 - Use case and Architecture

Non real-time and real-time RIC Details and
Multi-level Optimization Loops
Service Management and Orchestration Fraemework (ONAP)
3rdParty Apps APIs Non-Realtime RIC
at the edge Design FCAPS Policy AI/ML RAN/Non-RAN
Manager Management Data Manager

A1
5G RAN
Loop 3: >1 s (policies,
Near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)
orchestration, SON)
Application Layer Radio
3rd Party App Radio Connection Mgt. Mobility Mgt. Network
Loop 1: per msec QoS Mgt. Interference Mgt. Trained Model Information
radio scheduling Data Distribution Bus API Base
Plug-in/
E2 Data from eNB
Mediator

Distributed F1 Centralized Unit Centralized Unit E2

Radio
Unit Control plane E1 Data plane
Radio
Virtualization Layer with off-the-shelf open hardware platform
Loop 2: 10ms – 1s (area resource
4G RAN optimization)

eNB
Cell Sites Edge Cloud Central Cloud

Fig. Source ORAN

O1*/O1/A1/E2 Interfaces Life cycle showing the use of these three
Interfaces for Slice Management
{Business Request}
Slice
• O1* SMO
Manager
– NFVI related LCM Management of virtual E2 (Ran/Non-Ran
nodes and the Control Plane components. Data) {RAN Domain Slice Intent}
• O1
AI/ML Model
training Core Network/Compute/
Slice Policy Storage Controller
– FCAPS of E2 Nodes (Fault, Configuration, O1* Non-Realtime RIC Manager
Accounting, Performance, Security), Non-
Realtime and Real time RIC.

{Slice Statistics} O1
– Data subscription interface from E2 nodes A1 {Slice Policy Configuration}
(DU/CU). (Real time
Data) Slice App
Near-Realtime RIC
• A1 (Xapp) 10ms-1s
– Application specific Policy, Intent, Trigger (Control Action)
{Slice Policy Enforcement}
and Data Management
– AI/ML Model Management
– Application specific Enrichment Data to
Near-RT RIC F1
DU CU DU CU
• E2
– Policy to control mapping
– Control Management COTS (X-86/GPU/FPGA..)
– E2 Node Data Subscription to X-APPs
RU RU
Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
 {GPS} RIC

Use cases motivating ORAN {GPS} {Beam steering}

• Three broad Categories

• RAN Service Assurance (Application Specific
optimization)
• Dynamic RAN Slicing and Management considering
slice SLAs
• RAN Automation (Minimizing Human effort) Mobile UE
• 3D MIMO Optimization RIC
RSRP/RSRQ/CQI
RSRP/RSRQ/CQI
• Adaptive Beam Configuration in non-Realtime and Real time
conditions
• RAN Optimization (User performance metrics or
Spectral Efficiency)
• Traffic Steering
• Move from cell-centric to Use Centric Optimization
• QoE Optimization
• Application classification, QoE prediction, and available
bandwidth prediction Handoff
Fig. Source ORAN WG1
Deployment models
Deployment Models
• Different models of deployment for Neal-
Realtime RIC and CU/DU/RU
• Choice of deployment depends no user
context, workload, and QoS requirements

Enterprise Scenario
• Specific deployment scenario converging
outdoor and Pico cell deployment
• Near-RT RIC managing many CU-DU pairs
• Multiple RU aggregating to and Edge Cloud
(Central Office)
• Ideal for Latency sensitive services

Fig. Source ORAN WG6

5G in a box (pRadio Solution) - powered by STL
Programmable
• Global Orchestrator
• Near-Realtime Controller
• Non-Realtime Controller
• Intelligent Applications for RAN

Open
• ORAN / 3GPP Aligned

Disaggregated
• Disaggregated RAN
• CUPS based
• Virtualized

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Agenda
• Role of RAN in 5G era
• 5G demands radical shift in network infrastructure
• 5G PODS for radio infrastructure
• 5G and ORAN
• ORAN use cases with pRadio
• STL at forefront
Why STL - Value Proposition

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Q&A