5G Readiness for Transport Network

Huy Nguyen
TSA
May 2019
5G Evolution

5G is different in that it is design to augment – not replace – existing access technologies (wireless and fixed
line/cable)

1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

1G 2G 3G 4G 5G

Data rate 200 Mbps 1 Gbps

Latency 100 msec 1 msec

Radio, Voice/Data Evolution Service and Network Revolution

Use Cases Network Revolution

• eMBB – enhanced Mobile Broadband

• Increased Bandwidth
(inc. Fixed Wireless Access)

• mMTC – massive Machine Type Communications

• Slicing, Flexible deployment, NFV/Virtualization
about large scale IoT

• URLLC – Ultra-Reliable Low Latency

• Push data plane to the Edge, Intelligence in Network
new use cases : V2X, AR/VR
5G Requirement (1/2)

• 500 Mbps

• 1 → 5 msec

Source : NGMN 5G White Paper

5G Requirement (2/2)

• E2E NW Slicing

Source : NGMN 5G White Paper

5G Architecture
Need to manage huge Video traffic efficiently and optimize TCO

4G Architecture EPC NSO

eNodeB WAE Analytics/
Telemetry

Automate
CPRI
backhaul
RU DU Backhaul aggregation IP Edge IP Core
Central Datacenter

Decomposed and virtualized Decomposed & Virtualized & Distributed

NGC
5G Architecture vCore vCore vCore
NSO
User plane User plane Control plane
gNodeB WAE Analytics/
Telemetry
SR SR SR SR
SR
Automate

Fronthaul backhaul

C-RAN IP Edge IP Core

Central Datacenter
5G Managed
Small Cell Video
MEC
Wifi
LPWA
E2E Network Slicing
E2E Security
Single Pane of Glass Management and Orchestration
5G – Mobile Core & RAN
CUPS, Cloud RAN, Video offload, and Network Slicing are mandatory for 5G

CUPS : Control/User Plane Separation Cloud Scale Networking with Cloud RAN / SDN
• Charging and Policy
SDN
vCore • Authentication and Security
User plane • Legal Intercept

xHaul vCore
Control plane Fronthaul Backhaul
vCore
C-RAN
Enterprise xHaul
Internet Enterprise
vCore
User plane

Mobile network to scale with video using MEC Network Slicing

vCore vCore IoT Core NW

User Control plane
plane

Streaming
Fronthaul Backhaul Cam Core NW
C-RAN

MBB Core
MEC Managed
Video
5G - IP Transport Network
IP Transport network should be able to accommodate RAN technology, and support ultra low latency, and deploy easily

5G Architecture NSO
WAE Analytics/
Telemetry
SR SR SR SR
Automate

Fronthaul backhaul

C-RAN IP Edge IP Core

Central Datacenter

▪ Capacity Upgrade across xHaul, Edge and Core

▪ Accelerate 100G+ upgrade
▪ Migration to Packet Network
▪ Low Latency Router
▪ Segment Routing simplifies and optimizes operations and enables SDN
• Simplifies Network slicing e.g. VPN with SLA
• Simplifies Mobile Edge Computing with traffic breakout
Segment Routing in IP Transport Network
Segment Routing is simplified and advanced routing protocol, and it is easily working with SDN controller

Segment Routing Benefits With Automation

Simplified Routing Protocol SDN Controller WAN Automation and optimization

SDN WAN
controller
Segment Routing

WAN

Dynamic-path
Explicit-path
SDN based peering and optimization
Simplified Carrier Ethernet
Application Enabled Source Routing SDN Peering
BGP
ISP
controller
T-LDP BGP & SDN

RFC 3107
1 0 ISP
Autonomic &
RSVP-TE Segment Routing Peer’s
MPLS-LDP
Segment Routing DC WAN ISP
IGP & IP
HOST
MPLS
 5G – Network Slicing
E2E Network Slicing is Cisco value proposition

Policy / Slice
NSO, WAE, Analytic Engine
selection
Ent 1 User Plane 1

Control
IoT User Plane 2
Plane EPC
Consumer User Plane 3
CUPS

Tenant 1 Tenant 2 Tenant 3

Micro DC
ACI / VxLAN

VPN 1
VPN 2 IP Transport
PE PE
VPN 3 Segment Routing
5G – Automation (1/3)
Telco operators can operate network easily with Cisco Network Automation Solution (NSO) without learning multi-vendors’ command

Network Service Automation solution based on standard

Product Provisioning thru Automation tool
▪ Automatic provisioining based on Modeling
Service Network
▪ Fast process for service add, change, delete
Applications Engineer
▪ Multi-vendor support thru NEDs

Service request
Standardize config information
▪ Manage standard based config information
Automation Solution
▪ Minimize Human error
(NSO)
▪ Easy to add and delete config information

Real-time
Service config
Cisco / Juniper / Huawei, etc References
▪ Sites : AT&T, DT, Comcast, etc
PNFs
▪ Cases : MPLS L2/L3 VPN, etc
VNFs
5G – Automation (2/3)
Cisco Automation solution (NSO) already support interoperability for multi-vendors, and also can support interoperability
for new product through additional development
5G – Automation (3/3)
Telco operators can operate network easily with Cisco Network Automation Solution (NSO) without learning multi-
vendors’ command

Service Orchestration Open API

NSO
Service Orchestration

SDN Controller WAE Open API OSS, Customers

Network Model Applications, and Endusers
Operators
and
XTC
XTC Open API
Engineering
Path Computation
Path Computation

Network PCEP BGP-LS

Infrastructure vCore vCore vCore

NSO
User plane User plane Control plane
WAE Analytics/
Telemetry
SR SR SR SR
SR
Automatio
Fronthaul backhaul n EPNM
Network
Management
C-RAN IP Edge IP Core System
Central Data Center
5G Managed
Small Cell Video
MEC
Wifi
LPWA
5G Reference Sites

5G Architecture vCore vCore vCore

NSO
User plane User plane Control plane
WAE Analytics/
Telemetry
SR SR SR SR
SR
Automation
Fronthaul backhaul

C-RAN IP Edge IP Core

Central Data Center
5G Managed
Small Cell Video
MEC
Wifi
LPWA