Virtual EPC/MEC on NGCO

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Edge Data Centre (DC) Regional Data Centre (DC) Central Data Centre (DC)

DEPLOY AND EVOLVE TO 5G WITH NGCO ARCHITECTURE

4G vCoreASTRI virtual MEC enables time critical data offloads for MEC applications

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4G vCore

Edge Data

Centre

Regional Data Centre

Central Data Centre

Virtual Mobile Edge

Computing

vEPC

• vEPC

• Roaming Gateway

S/P-GW User Plane

S/P-GW Control Plane

• Roaming Gateway

• Data

Storage/Training

UPFE5G User Plane Function

(Edge)

UPFR

5G User Plane Function (Reginal)

AMF

5G Access and Mobility

Function

Roaming Gateway

Data Storage/training

SMF

5G Session Management

Function

MME

DEPLOY AND EVOLVE TO 5G WITH NGCO ARCHITECTURE

Service Based Architecture (SBA)C/U plane separation

ASTRI VIRTUAL EPC

S5/S8GTP-C

S11GTP-C

Intel DPDK

FastGate

Networking Stack

SGW Data Plane

HA FrameWK

Open

SAF

Linux OS

Control Plane

FrameWK

MME CP

HA FrameWK

Open

SAF

Intel DPDK

FastGate

Networking Stack

PGW Data Plane

HA FrameWK

Open

SAF

Linux OS

Control Plane

FrameWK

SGW CP

HA FrameWK

Open

SAF

Linux OS

Control Plane

FrameWK

PGW CP

HA FrameWK

Open

SAF

S1MME

DPF/Sx

S1-UGTP-U

S5/S8GTP-U

SGi

HSS

Virtual EPC

VM VM VM VM VM VM

Orchestration

NB-IoT C-SGN

LTE B-TrunC

EPC

• End-to-end: End-to-end

deployments, ideal for private

network deployments

• Virtualization: Support virtualized

or non-virtualized on general

purpose x86 platform

• Evolving to 5G: support R13&R14

and ready to R15

• Orchestration: end-to-end NFV

orchestration for virtual network

functions (VNF)

S1 Transparent Mode

IMSI Acquisition

Access Control (based on IMSI)

TCP/Protocol Acceleration

MEC Key Features

ASTRI MEC provides additional key features besides network offloading

DNS messageLocal server traffic

Normal traffic

ME Host

Management Interface (REST API)

UE

ME App

192.168.6.21

Accessexample.com

Logical switch(SFC Traffic routing rule)

EPCData plane(UE Decap rules) Dnsserver 8.8.8.8

ME Platform Manager

ME Orchestrator

DNS

handling

Service

ASTRI VIRTUAL MECOrchestration

VIRTUAL EPC – DELIVERS 200GBPS THROUGHPUT

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ASTRI: High Performance virtual EPC User Plane Processing stack

Intel: Intel Scalable Processor Platform + NIC: load distribution to VMs with linear scale up

EPC User Plane Processing

EPC User Plane Processing

VM#1

1

2

3

4

VM#10

1

2

3

4

NIC NIC

Intel and ASTRI delivers 200Gbps 4G/5G user plane throughput, while providing

headroom for applications!

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FLEXIBLE ORCHESTRATION IN NGCO

ASTRI FastCloud Orchestratorfacilitates wireless network functions deployment and manages complex applications

deployment in NGCO!

MEC

MME

SGW PGW

UP

UP MME

S-CP P-CP

UPF

UPF AMF

UPF

SMF AMF

vEPCRoaming Gateway

Roaming Gateway

Data Storage

Data Storage

VR Industrial IoT

Disaster Telecom

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Edge Data Centre (DC) Regional Data Centre (DC) Central Data Centre (DC)

Edge Gateway (EGW) &

Area Analysis Engine (AAE)For specific local road environment

analysis, real-time road situation

monitoring, potential danger &

traffic black spot identification, and

generate alarms to individual

vehicle in a local area

Network Cooperation Engine (NCE)For real-time traffic management based on multiple local areas vehicles info from EGWs, in response to current traffic situations (like traffic congestion, accidents etc) with provisioned strategy plan & policy

V2X ManagementFor centralized V2X orchestration, traffic management, strategy plan & policy control to configure & provision different NCEs in wide area

V2X ManagementWeb GUI

ENABLING C-V2X NETWORKING SYSTEM IN NGCO

Mobility Management

UPF - EGW

UPF - EGW

UPF

SMF + UPF

+ AMF

SMF + UPF

+ AMFNCE

AMF

V2X

ManagementEGW

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