Broadband Evolution and Fixed

Mobile Convergence
Paul Lachapelle, Director PLM
November 12, 2019

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AGENDA

Broadband Market Inflections and Evolution

BNG Disaggregation and Convergence Standards Update
BNG Disaggregation via CUPS Overview
Fixed Mobile Convergence

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SP TRANSFORMATION AND NETWORK CONVERGENCE

Private Telco Transformative

Fast fail / TTM
Flexibility and elasticity
CLOUD

High bandwidth Mobility and portability

High performance Ubiquitous connectivity
Low power WIRELINE MOBILE High scale, low latency

Wireline
Mobile
Telco-Cloud Telco-Cloud
Convergence

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BROADBAND MARKET INFLECTIONS AND EVOLUTION

TODAY TOMORROW
Shifting
Architectures
FWA CUPS
Vertically integrated
BNG solutions for Integrated
wireline BB BNG Distribution Edge FMC
Disaggregation Cloud
Convergence

Network New
More Bandwidth More Devices
Evolution Architectures

Video leading way Smart Homes, 5G Mobile, Satellite, Cloud/NFV,

to 1Gbps+ to the Connected “X” WiFi, Cable, FWA, Mobile/FWA,
home IOT, M2M G.FAST Disagg/CUPS
Google Stadia Game Streaming Service
35Mbps / user unicast, plans for 8K video 4

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 ARCHITECTURAL SHIFT TO DISTRIBUTE THE EDGE

CENTRAL POINT OF
• Deliver IP services closer to the user
METRO
OFFICE PRESENCE • High performance
CENTRALIZED
BNG
• Low latency
• Local caching and content to reduce
transit costs
• Smaller failure domain

• Scale-out economics
• Platform optimization (capacity,
DISTRIBUTED BNG
scale, redundancy, density, cost)
• JIT Inventory / PAYG
• Precision investments

• Possible direct connect (no agg layer)

• Simplified architecture
• Lower TCO
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NEXT-GENERATION CO EDGE CLOUD
RE-DESIGN OF EDGE SITES FOR UNIVERSAL EDGE CLOUD

Existing CO / POP Location Next Gen CO / POP Location

WAN
WAN
BNG, PE, AGG
Aggregation CO Re-Design
& Edge get VPC
disaggregated, Universal
fabric based Edge Cloud

OLT
CO - IP
Fabric
Distributed
Edge Cloud
VPC
Cloud
extends to VNFs / CNFs 3PP
the edge Edge PNFs Applications
Services Access Leaf MGMT & CTRL VNFs / CNFs

Centralized DC
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 ARCHITECTURAL CHOICES FOR THE RESIDENTIAL EDGE USE CASE

Centralized/Physical
• Traditional BRAS/BNG architecture
• Simplified operations (fewer ‘nodes’)
• Requires large-scale (expensive) IP edge router platforms
• Adds extra backhaul and latency ‘tax’ in aggregation network
Distributed/Physical
• Compact, fixed form factor (1-2 RU) BNG platforms
(integrated)
PHYSICAL
• Distributes broadband edge closer to subscriber and/or
collocated with video cache / peering router
• Limits ‘blast radius’ in event of an outage

CENTRALIZED BNG DISTRIBUTED

Centralized/Virtualized Distributed/Virtualized
• Similar benefits/challenges as centralized – minus large-scale • Same benefits as distributed/physical
router platforms
VIRTUALIZED • Disaggregates HW (x86) from SW leveraging software-
• Extra requirement of integration across HW/SW defined scale out

• TCO challenged at scale due to high BW/subscriber demand • May be more difficult operationally due to number of
for BNG use case instances to be managed

New flexible architectural approach needed to realize most benefits with fewest trade-offs
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STANDARDS IN PLAY – BNG CUPS & CONVERGENCE

AGF
ATSSS

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WIRELESS WIRELINE CONVERGENCE ROADMAP

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

WWC Study
AGF, RG Specs
BNG CUPS Specs

Joint WWC2.0 TBD

BBF/3GPP
Workshop
Release 15 – 5G Phase 1 Functional
Freeze

Release 16 – 5G Phase 2
WWC Studies WWC Specs
Release 17

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BROADBAND FORUM (BBF)
WT-459 - DISAGGREGATED BNG UPDATE

Control and User Plane Separation for a Disaggregated BNG

Sponsors of Project Stream:

• Juniper, Nokia, DT, Vodafone, Ericsson

WT-459 Scope:
• Use cases, deployments & business drivers for BNG CUPS
• Functional requirements and reference architecture
• Specify interface(s) between BNG control plane and user plane
• Control plane and user plane resiliency
• Specify protocol for control plane and user plane separation for defined interfaces
• Define information model exchanged between control plane and user plane interfaces
• Subscriber Management, Policy Mgt, Accounting
• Management architecture / interfaces

Target completion date: 1H 2020

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BNG CUPS BBF REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

PFCP – Packet Forwarding Control Protocol

Simple extensions to PFCP for BNG CUPS
Standardized in 3GPP for EPC and 5GC
• Forwarding state for subscriber sessions
• QOS enforcement for subscriber sessions
• Usage tracking and reporting (credit-control)
• Stats reporting
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 BNG CONTROL AND USER PLANE SEPARATION (CUPS) OVERVIEW

AAA PCRF DHCP

Subs. session mgmt
Auth & Accounting A cloud deployed management function that controls and
monitors multiple BNG UPs
IP address mgmt
BNG Control Plane SDB
Policy decisions • Cloud deployed control and management plane (1
Lawful intercept-CP CP: Nx UPs)
Client protocols
Management & PFCP - Sx/N4 • Centralized redundant, cloud deployed subscriber
control Interface database
Local CP
Unicast / Mcast Routing User Planes • Standards CP-to-UP protocol and management
Traffic mgmt information model – PFCP extensions
Multicast replication • Single CP interface into BSS/OSS
Lawful intercept - UP Physical and/or virtual
Protocol keepalives

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BENEFITS OF BNG DISAGGREGATION / CUPS

BNG
• Independent CP/UP scaling
Control Plane • Simplifies control plane scale-out and failure
recovery through cloud-native deployment
• Operational efficiencies via centralized management
PFCP and control (1 CP to Nx UPs)
User Planes • Distributed edge compute
• High throughput / low latency
Physical Virtualized
• ‘Best fit’ user plane selection
• Single I/F to OSS (e.g. RADIUS, PCRF, etc)
• New Use Cases

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BNG CUPS USE CASES: WIRELINE BNG
BNG CUPS Controller
BSS/OSS UP Load Balancing IP Addr Mgt (Pool Bot)
AAA / PCRF / DHCP Steering/Placement UP High Avail / Maint Failover

Applications

Protocols / Control Plane SDB

BNG Control
Plane SDB L2TP PPP AAA
PCEF
LAC DHCP Client
Subscriber
session DB

Centralized subscriber database enables

new use cases:
Metro / CO POP • Intelligent service placement

• BNG user plane redundancy

BNG
UP • BNG load balancing
MS-
BNG
IP/MPLS
BNG INTERNET
UP • Centralized, network-wide IP address pool management
L7 aware DPI
URL filtering • Staged UP maintenance failover

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 SUBSCRIBER SERVICE CONVERGENCE: WIRELINE + WIRELESS

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Offload with the MX Converged Subscriber Core with the MX
First Step Towards Fixed + Mobile Convergence (FMC) Service Convergence of
# of Subs Throughput Wireline BNG + Wireless 5G AGF/UPF
3% 5G/4G FWA
• By 2020, 10% of mobile subs will
5G Mobile BB 50%
drive 50% of data usage 2% • Convergence enables seamless
4G Unlimited
• Profile similar to wireline BNG 5% migration from legacy to 5G
subs: up to 1 Gbps, always on • Investing in CUPS
90%
4G Mobile 50% • MX: silicon-based user plane for
Subs speed, capacity
UPF
Solution: Offload power users
• Junos: cloud-native BNG control
5G/4G FWA
40%+ TCO Savings plane for operational parity AGF
5G Mobile BB
ASIC w/ MX Offload
• Leverages advantages of MX
3W / Gbps
4G Unlimited • Hierarchical QoS for FMC
BNG
• Network slicing for biz service
4G Mobile Traditional vEPC • Integrated security
Subs x86 On COTS x86 • Open standards-based ecosystem for MX Router
17W / Gbps
mobile core control plane

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 NETWORK EVOLUTION & CONVERGENCE

MME PCRF
S1-MME
MME PCRF S1-MME S11 Gx N13
eNB eNB AUSF UDM
S11 Gx SGW-C PGW-C N12 N8 N10
S5c
gNB N15
SGW S5 PGW SGi
SxA SxB gNB PCF
S1-U
SGW-U PGW-U AMF N7
S1-U S5u SGi
NSA N2 N2 N11 SMF

N4

N3
AAA PCRF DHCP AGF-C N6
AAA PCRF DHCP UPF

N3
BNG-C AGF-U
V
BNG A10
V SCI

V
BNG-U A10

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 MULTI ACCESS USER PLANE FUNCTIONS & PLATFORMS
Partner Subscriber
Management & Authentication, Mobility Management, Policy, Subscriber
Signaling Functions Profiles, Accounting, Lawful Intercept, etc.

Control Plane Container based control functions:

BNG-C SAEGW-C SMF AGF-C
Functions BNG-C & AGF-C
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3GPP/BBF/IETF SxAB N4 SCI*

SCI
standardized Interfaces Dense User Plane:
▪ MPC7: up to 480 Gbps (240Gbps anchor)
▪ MPC10: up to 1.5 Tbps (500 Gbps anchor) (future)
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BNG-U SAEGW-U UPF AGF-U
User Plane Functions Mobile Session Scaling
▪ Up to 1M Session per MX (RE solution)
SCI = session control interface ▪ Up to 8M sessions with SPC3 (future)

MX204 MX10003 MX960 MX480 MX240

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