5G – Infinite Acceleration

Cisco Knowledge Network

Humberto J. La Roche, PhD, Principal Engineer

October 25, 2016
Our “Big Bang”
…the Internet!

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Internet Is Constantly Growing

By year 2020:
•  82% of the world’s IP traffic
will be video
•  There will be over
12 billion IoT connections
•  The network needs to
fundamentally change
Cisco VNI Report Feb. 2016

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Time For The Next Generation Networking?
2020s

2010s
5G
2000s 4G ?
1990s
1980s 3G •  LTE/LTE-A,

1G 2G •  WCDMA,
Broadband data
& video
CDMA2000
•  Digital
•  Analog •  GSM, IS-95, IS-136 •  Voice & data
•  AMPS •  Voice capacity
•  Voice

Driven by Data Growth
•  More Devices (IoT)
•  More Traffic – Pervasive Video
•  New 5G Enabled Applications
Technology Landscape
New Business Models •  Virtualization/NFV & SDN
•  Asset Provider (XaaS) •  New Spectrum
•  Connectivity Provider •  Enabling Enhanced Video
•  New Partnering Arrangements •  Common IdM and Core platforms
•  New Internet Technologies (ICN)

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5G Journey from Concept to Realization

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5G Has Lots of New Things!
LTE in 2010 5G in 2016

OTT
Internet
Operators Services
Mobile Core
Backhaul
Radio

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What Does the 5G Network Mean for Cisco?
Keeping it very simple:

Cisco’s 5G network is a highly automated, access agnostic,

super-scale platform offered to operators and enterprises. It
enables new and innovative use cases either introduced
securely by the operator or through enablement of third-
party partners or vertical industry customers.

One key word: enablement

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Example for Core Network
as it evolves to 5G
What is the 5G core?

•  A set of verticals built on a common infrastructure

•  The verticals are built on an “innovation platform” but the verticals themselves
contain the innovation
•  Examples of verticals: MBB, IoT, Video/ICN, MVNO, Mobility-on-demand/ICN,
Fixed Wireless Access, Supplementary Hot Spot coverage, …

•  5G Verticals allow the use of newer mobility-friendly protocols

•  They simplify the networking while removing signaling cost

•  5G uses SDN and NFV in a basic and fundamental way

•  Orchestration aligns the resources and capabilities to support the vertical

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Representative Enabling Technologies

WAN
Controller

vRAN vCore
Fronthaul Backhaul WAN

CUPS:
Cloud RAN / Core and SD WAN
Control/User Plane
Separation
Network Slicing
Managed IoT Core Network
Control Sub
Video DB
Control
Plane

Network Slice
MBB Core Network
Selection Function
User
MBH Plane Internet
User Plane +
CACHING
+ MCASTà
Unicast

Streaming Camera
Core Network
Mobile Network to scale
with video using MEC
Network Platform for Slicing Spans RAN and Core

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Control User Plane Separation… Enables
!  Distributed architecture
!  Greater function
utilization efficiencies Enterprise
Charging & Policy
User Plane /
Service Functions Mobility
!  Placing exact services SDN Forwarder
Control Plane
Authentication & Security

and functions where Legal Intercept

needed
Service Functions
•  Network slicing done User Plane / Internet
right SDN Forwarder
Edge
•  Near-edge compute and Computing

storage MVNO

•  Enterprise premise Service Functions

based secured Connected

User Plane /
SDN Forwarder
Commerce
customized services

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 Network Slicing
5G is all about Managing Verticals

•  Definition:
•  Network slicing is the ability to run multiple logical
Network
networks as virtually independent business Slice
operations on a common physical infrastructure Selection SDM MBB Core
Function Network
•  Network slicing goes hand-in-hand with SDN and
NFV

•  Comprised of three fundamental components:

•  A collection of control points in the user plane that Slice Streaming
have the ability to pivot or steer selected traffic flows Selection Camera CN
on one path vs. another
•  The data-enablement of the control point so the
traffic flow path selection can be controlled by
subscriber database dip or policy dip
IoT Core
•  A Management and orchestration systems that Network
create sand-boxes (day-0 functions) for the slices,
configure them for operation (day-1) and then
manage the slices (day-n)
Virtualization CPU

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Cloud RAN/Core and SD-WAN
Reducing the cost of Operating the Network for Multiple Use Cases

!  Cloud-RAN E2E Orchestration NG

•  Implies introduction of
SDM
E2E RAN IF WAN IF SDN
Orchestrator Controller Controller Controller

front/back - haul split Policy

•  Multi-radio support Control

Plane

SDN

!  Software Defined WAN

Domain
Controller
SDN
Domain
Controller

•  Optimizes transport to the SDN

Domain User Plane
use case
Controller
Functions
SDN
Fronthaul Backhaul Domain
Controller
Slice
•  Partitions into VPNs each Slice

one with its own domain Slice

manager
Virtualization CPU

!  Well suited for network

slicing use cases
•  Lives well with virtualized
packet core and services
When combined with end-to-end slicing, Cloud RAN,
Cloud Core, SD-WAN, and SDN the network becomes a
full use case platform
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Enablement Examples MNO Partner
MNO RAN

MNO Core
MVNO
Internet
Anchor VAS Internet
GRX/IPX
MVNO
Enablement
UE
!  MVNO Enablement
IPsec/Internet IMS VoIP
ePDG IMS
•  Allow an MVNO or an Enterprise Trusted or
Anchor Network
Untrusted Wi-Fi
to build a mobile service
integrating VoIP and Data
Wireless Access & Operator Connected Device
WAN WAN Enterprise
Things Partners Platform
!  IoT Connected Device Platform Connected
•  Allow a CDP provider (such as
Device
3GPP Application Enablement
Access Platform

Jasper) to build a connectivity CDP

platform for enterprises to reach Platform Non-3GPP
Access
Application Enablement
Platform

their things
!  Enablement via tenancy
•  Allow a content publisher to Tenancies Partner
Management

optimize content delivery Carrier

Content
Carrier Tenancy Tenancy Tenancy APIs
!  APIs and in-band signaling Access Services A B C
Content
A
•  Key for enablement Software Defined Network Internet
Content

Tenancy Platform
B

Content
C

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 5G Network Architecture: A Synthesis View
NG Subscriber
Data Management
E2E Orchestration
Service Focused NG-6a/p
Programming the Service
Capability
Exposure
network Residential
Access
NG RAN NG Lawful
Intercept
NG Policy
NRs NG-Gx Control
Network Slice NG C-Plane
Selection
Function Function
Micro Services Charging/
AD

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NG-CH
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NG-X
Billing
“Personal” Networks Things Wi-Fi
Slice
NG U-Plane VAS VAS
Hot Spot Selection
NB-IoT Function(s) SDN
NG-Gi
Logical Network
Intelligent Slicing Other Slicing Functions IP Services

Sub-Slicing HetNet RAN Virtualization CPU

& cRAN

5G as and Enablement Platform!

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5G Components

Access Agnostic
Licensed and unlicensed
Virtualization, NFV and Small Cell
SDN, SD-WAN Wi-Fi
Early 5G and FWA
Simplicity
Automation
Separation

Scaling and distribution

Connections and throughput
API Exposure
Independent dimensioning
Extract data from the network
Create Vertical Value

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Take-aways
!  We cannot work 5G in a vacuum nor can we imagine 5G as a pure “marketing construct”
•  5G use cases are completely real

!  There is a 5G emerging architecture which is becoming very visible. We can say that 5G architecture
will:
•  Decouple control plane and user plane and
–  hence integrate SDN and NFV in an inherent way
–  Finally enable a user plane edge for a variety of applications
–  Enable C-RAN
•  Support multiple very diverse use cases hence driving the need for network slicing
–  Network slicing is “end-to-end” requiring SD-WAN in addition SDN and NFV
•  Support massive amounts of video hence requiring the introduction of offload, multicast-to-unicast and caching

!  The main challenge

•  Introducing a graceful “from here to there” transition that emphasizes investment preservation

!  Cisco is superbly positioned for 5G through a “business enablement platform” concept

•  Our business “is business”: we enable business
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We’ve gone from Bits to Apps

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Channel: Physical Transmission Medium Channel: The Application

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5G is the Platform for Innovation

BROADBAND RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

5G
SECURE BUSINESS SERVICES

MISSION CRITICAL INTERNET OF THINGS

Opportunity
NETWORKS ON DEMAND

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5G Requires Architectural Transformation

Virtualization Automation Simplification

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 5G
It’s everything you need
Exactly where and when you need it

There’s never been a better time for 5G

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