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Cloud-RAN: Improving Mobile Operators’ Network Efficiency
Renuka Bhalerao Sr. Product Line Manager
March 2, 2015
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EMEA 14%
Radisys at a Glance
§ 25+ years of telecom hardware and software excellence • Headquarters in Portland, OR, USA
• 800+ employees with ~600+ in R&D
§ Strategic portfolio driven by: • Cloud infrastructure • IP communications
• Mobile broadband
Embedded
Products
Software-
Systems
2014 Revenue $193M
Revenue Distribution by Region
Traffic Distribu-on Small Cells Media Processing
#1 MRF Market Share
3G/LTE Licenses
80+ Performance Leader Data Plane Load Balancing
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Our Products and Services
Product Lines
Radisys Products
Applications
FlowEngine TM
TDE-‐1000 Intelligent Load Balancer
SDN, NFV, DPI, Data Plane Load Balancing
Traffic Distribu?on
TD
Cloud
Strategic Focus
MediaEngine TM
MPX-‐12000 MRF Virtualized MRF
WebRTC Media Server
VoLTE, VoWIFI, WebRTC Conferencing, Transcoding
IMS and OTT services
Media Processing
MP
IP Communica-ons
CellEngine TM
TOTALeNodeB (LTE) Femtotality (3G)
Small Cell SoGware 3G, LTE, Advanced-‐LTE Enhanced Packet Core
Small Cell
SC
Mobility
Embedded Products
T-‐Series, ComE, RMS, Trillium Protocol Stacks, Perfect Fit Hardware
Communica?ons and Medical Imaging
Enabling Products
EP
Next Gen PlaVorms
Professional Services (Hardware, SoWware)
Key Industry Trend
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Coverage
Cap
acity
Enterprise/ Metro
100 – 500 UEs Pico 32 – 64
UEs
Residential 4 – 16 UEs
Macro 800 – 2400
UEs
LTE Market Leadership
C-RAN
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Recent News
1st VoLTE Deployments Radisys MRF
World’s 1st LTE-A Small Cell Solution Radisys TOTALeNodeB with Airspan
Radisys and ASOCS Partner to Deliver Virtual Base Stations for C-RAN deployments
Airhop RSYS Integration on Broadcom Advanced Interference Mitigation
World’s 1st LTE Small Cell Deployments
Connecting 4 Billion People Every Day
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Topic
§ C-RAN: A Technology Evolution for HetNets Why? How?
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Network Transformation
5G
4G/LTE
3G
2.5G
2G
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All IP Network with simplified architecture data speeds in Gbps range
Coverage and Capacity
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What Are Operators Looking For
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Worldwide Embedded Mobile Broadband Device Units
Tablets Netbooks Mobile Internet devices PCs
§ Large operators continue to unveil their LTE and LTE-A plans
§ New devices defining mobile broadband success = New opportunities
§ Operators looking forward to SDN/NFV
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Why Change The RAN?
§ HetNet Deployments are picking up but not without challenges
Cost and complexity of network planning
When it comes to capacity management, redirection alone is not sufficient
C-RAN promises improved network efficiency, with lowered TCO, to improve monetization of mobile broadband
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Evolution of RAN
HetNet • Capacity addition • Demand based
Small Cells
• Coverage • Spectrum utilization
DAS • Local CRAN • Multi
operator
CRAN • Scalability • Virtualization
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C-RAN: The 4 Cs
C-RAN
Improved coordination
Centralization Resource Pooling
Cost and Energy
Optimization
Cloud Virtualized Functions
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The Centralization and Cloudification
Simple software upgrade
Efficient connection fail management
Network synchronization enabling CA and
CoMP
Centralized SON, Policy
virtual machines on standard COTS servers
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C-RAN: Architecture Possibilities
Scenario #1 • All functions centralized
§ Scenario #2 • All functions centralized except
PHY
§ Scenario #3 • All functions centralized except
scheduling and PHY • BBU, Time critical L2 co-located
§ Scenario #4 • Only L3 functions centralized • L2 and PHY distributed • BBU, L2 co-located
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Small Cell Evolution
Remote Radio Head (RRH) and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN)
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Radisys Solutions for C-RAN and NFVI
Virtual Computing
Virtual Network
Virtual storage
Virtualization Layer
Hardware Resources
NFVI
VI-Ha
Computing Hardware
Network Hardware
Storage Hardware
EMS1 EMS3 EMS2
LTE L1 VNF
LTE L3 RRM /SON VNF
LTE L2 VNF
T-Series Platforms • Optimized for
high performance Intel Multi-Core NFVI
• Full LTE FDD and TDD eNodeB SW Solution
• Designed for SON and C-RAN flexibility
• C-RAN Virtualization Functions • SW architected for VMs
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Final Thoughts
§ Mobile devices are driving the wireless network evolution
§ The HetNet shows a way to solve capacity and coverage issues
§ Bringing the cloud concept to RAN is the path for mobile broadband monetization
§ Various architecture options addressing the operator network deployments
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Questions?
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Small Cell Access Point Solution
Si, Platform, Radio
Physical Layer (PHY)
Integrated Small Cell Access Point Solution
Protocols
Application Radio Resource Management (RRM)
Self Organizing Network (SON) O&
AM
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Radisys CellEngine Software
Silicon Partners
LTE Small Cell Access Points (some customer examples)
Deployment Proven Solutions
§ TOTALeNodeB § Femtotality