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Nokia Open RAN Presentation - Nov 2021
Nokia Open RAN Presentation - Nov 2021
November 2021
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Agenda •
•
Overview of
O-RAN
What is it?
• Nokia O-RAN
contribution
• Way forward and
questions to be
answered
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Key areas of O-RAN
Three main pillars build on technical specification work
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O-RAN architecture
Functions and interfaces can be selected/deployed independently
Interface Status in O-RAN alliance
Open RAN Service Management &
Orchestration (SMO)
Is not clearly specified. It can be
A1 F1 Spec not completed yet
interpreted in different ways. O-RAN O1
can be considered as a subset. RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) W1 Spec not completed yet
E2
O-RAN E1 Spec not completed yet
refers to the interfaces and CU-CP (E1) CU-UP gNB
Distributed
Xn Spec not completed yet
unit (DU)
OpenRAN (w/o space)
Is a project group inside the TIP eCPRI7-
FH eCPRI 7-2x spec available
(Telecom Infra Project). Target is to 2x (“front-haul”)
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What about Cloud RAN? O-RAN and vRAN are inter-related
F1 (Option 2 split)
• Targets the separation of •
MANO / Other
baseband hardware and Virtualization / approach, Open Source
software Containerization • multi-vendor option
Fronthaul
E2, O1, X2
applicable to Classical RAN
Midhaul
• multi-vendor option •
Hardware and vRAN
eCPRI
• work commenced before
O-RAN DataCenter x86
Example:
Core
O-RAN with O-RAN eCPRI
Network
Classical RAN open open
Example:
Core
O-RAN with O-RAN eCPRI vDU F1 vCU open
Network
open
vRAN2.0 open
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