Niral Open Product Frameworks

Curated, Open Source, Disaggregated Solutions

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 Niral Networks aims to partner in
Mobile Operator’s Transformation
from Vendor Controlled to Vendor Agnostic
by embracing

Curated, Open Source and Disaggregated

Product Frameworks

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Niral Team
• Founding Chairman of OpenDaylight (ODL)
• More than 20 patents and 70 Technical publications
• 25 R&D Projects in Telecom, Networking & IOT
• Operator Projects - Access Router, Site Router, Deep Packet
Inspection
• Products leveraged open source technologies and
proprietary solutions
• Products deployed in US, India, South-East Asia, Middle-East

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 Problem faced by Operators Globally
Our team understood the risk of Vendor lock-in
and disadvantage of proprietary, rigid and closed solution.

Vendor lock-in makes upgrades slower, increases cost and

hampers innovation

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Niral’s 3 step approach to develop open 5G solutions
Disaggregation Open Curation + Support

Integrate Telco choice of Curate best-of-breed open Customize NiralOS to Telco’s

Whitebox Hardware and Third- source to make NiralOS robust, requirement and provide
Party Software to NiralOS scalable, feature rich and flexible support
standard compliant
Niral Open Product Frameworks = Curated + Open Source + Disaggregated

Niral makes it easy to deploy and support 5G open networking

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 Lifecycle of Niral Product Frameworks
Work with Open Source Ecosystems to build and
Niral Open Source Curation integrate Open Source Software and curate it to make
it robust, scalable, feature rich and standard compliant

Work with Mobile Operator to customize it to

Telco Collaborated Curation their requirement and integrate to their existing
Network components

Work with Mobile Operator to integrate their

Telco Driven Disaggregation choice of Whitebox Hardware and Third-Party
Software

Continue to provide support, maintenance and

Niral Flexible Support develop new features
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 Niral a key 5G technology player from India

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5G Access and Edge Cloud Access
Aggregation
Router
Router

Core
Router
CDN
4G
UE-1

5G DCSG-1 CR-1
IOT
Gateway

Internet
Residential PGW
DCSG-2
Triple-play
CR-2
4G
Enterprise VPN
Core Routers
Router
UE-2

DCSG-3
DPI

Aggregation NiralOS is an open NOS for Mobile Access and Edge Cloud
4G FHG-1
Router

Access
Router

Access Edge Cloud

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 Open source alternative for 5G deployment
5G Customer Edge Router
SDN Controller
SGW
OLT + Router
4G RIC Controller

DCSG PGW

Universal CPE Access Router

IOT Gateway
DPI
GPON + Datacenter Router
Wifi Router

CGNAT CDN
SDWAN BRAS

Access Router & switch Mobile Core & Edge Cloud

Niral Open Product Framework curates, integrates and hardens

Niral Networks various open source components to develop 5G solutions
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 Niral DCSG Product Framework
Niral OS
Open, Disaggregated Routing SW
OSPF, ISIS, BGP, PIM Routing
MPLS, LDP, SR Signaling
Netconf, SNMP, REST Management
IPv4, IPv6, GTP, MPLS Forwarding
Niral Curation
Customization for Mobile Carrier
Custom Software Feature
Netconf, REST Integration to OSS/BSS
Telemetry, Statistics Integration
SDN Controller Integration
Niral Disaggregation
HW choice of Mobile Carrier
x86 server with Intel DPDK port
Broadcom Whitebox HW
NXP Whitebox HW
Any Whitebox HW

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 Niral DCSG Whitebox Disaggregation

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 Niral DPI Product Framework
Niral OS
Open, Disaggregated DPI SW
Layer7 Classification, Application
Detection, Subscriber Mapping,
Subscriber Block, Rate-limit, Shape
CDR Collection, Live Statistics,
Traffic Mirror, Divert, Lawful Intercept
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Niral Curation
Customization for Mobile Carrier
Custom Software Feature
Netconf, REST Integration to
OSS/BSS/AF/PCRF
Telemetry, Statistics Integration
SDN Controller Integration
Niral Disaggregation
HW choice of Mobile Carrier
x86 server with Intel DPDK port
NXP ARM server HW
Any Whitebox HW
 Niral FHG Product Framework
Niral Curation
Customization for Mobile Carrier
Niral Disaggregation
Niral OS Custom Software Feature HW choice of Mobile Carrier
Open, Disaggregated FHG SW x86 server with Intel DPDK port
Netconf, REST Integration to
MPLS, Routing Protocol, ROE, NXP ARM server HW
OSS/BSS/AF/PCRF
TimeSync, 7.2x Split, PHY Processing, Any Whitebox HW
Telemetry, Statistics Integration
CPRI/eCPRI, OTN Processing
SDN Controller Integration

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 Benefits of Niral OS – Redhat Model
Zero CAPEX

Open source software and hardware

Niral OS Niral Open
Source Code Collaborative feature development
Operator Custom SW
Security vulnerability ”backdoor”
scrutiny by wider audience
Open HW
Customization controlled by Operator

Subscription Model

Vendor-agnostic approach enabling faster innovation

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 Our Differentiation
Traditional OEM COTS HW + COTS HW + Open SW
Proprietary SW

Open Proprietary SW and HW Proprietary SW and Open Open SW and Open HW

HW
Flexibility Only binary, need vendor Only binary, need vendor Source code available.
support for new feature support for new feature Anyone can add feature
Support Same Vendor Same Vendor Any Vendor

Custom Features No Limited Yes

Cost High Medium Zero CAPEX

(Annual Subscription)
Security Binary code scrutiny is Binary code scrutiny is Source code scrutinized by
vulnerability ”backdoor” difficult difficult wider audience

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 Flexible Business Model – Redhat Model

• Revenue model:
• Annual subscription for support and feature upgrades
• One-time NRE fee for customization and bespoke product development

• Niral can deliver:

• System products with pre-integrated software and hardware
• Software for Telco to integrate with separately purchased hardware

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