Private LTE/5G ICN Blueprint

Use Case Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Blueprint Family

Integrated Cloud Native NFV (ICN)

Use Case

End to end connectivity using Private LTE/5G over the CBRS band 

Blueprint proposed Name

Private LTE/5G ICN blueprint

Initial POD Cost (capex)

Same as ICN — 50K minimum

Scale & Type

Same as ICN — Minimum of 4 Xeon Servers + 1 Xeon server as genesis 

Applications

RAN+Core (initially LTE, eventually 5G), and reuse of existing ICN applications: ML/DL Analytics, EdgeXFoundry and 360 degree Video streaming

Power Restrictions

TBD

Orchestration

Same as ICN —

Infrastructure Orchestration

• Bare Metal Provisioning :  ironic with Metal3 controlled by Cluster API

• Kubernetes provisioning :  KuD.

• Centralized controller:  With Cluster-API

• Docker for containers and Virtlet for VMs

Service Orchestration : ONAP with AF integration

MEC framework: OpenNESS

Site orchestrator :  Kubernetes upstream

Traffic Orchestration within a cluster: ISTIO

Traffic orchestration with external entities : ISTIO-ingress and ISTIO-egress with MCDeployment

Knative for function orchestration

Additional platform component: Open source UPF

SDN

Same as ICN — OVN, SRIOV, Flannel; additionally Tungsten Fabric

Workload Type

Containers and functions

Additional Details

Our roadmap will be:

• Private LTE

• Private 5G Option 5 (i.e. LTE radio + 5GC)

• Private 5G SA (i.e. 5G ratio + 5GC)

Use cases:

• Manufacturing

• Farming

• Healthcare

• V2X

• Others

Prem Sankar Gopannan

Cohere Technologies

@Prem Sankar G

PTL. Manage Architecture, Usecase and project planning

Yes

Ravi Chunduru

Verizon

@kumarcv

End user requirements guidance

Manoj Mourya

Orange

End user requirements and contributions

Hakim Achouri

Airbus

End user requirements guidance

Vikram Balimidi

Cloudlyte - Tata Communications

@Vikram Balimidi

End-user requirements and guidance

Vineet Anshuman

Cloudlyte - Tata Communications

@vineet anshuman

End-user requirements and guidance

Alain Soleil

T-Mobile US

@Soleil, Alain (Deactivated)

End-User requirements and guidance

Vincent Seet

Globe Telecom, Inc.

@Vincent Seet

End-User requirements and guidance

Srinivasa Addepalli

Intel

@Srinivasa Addepalli

With MICN as the basis for this,  my colleagues and I at Intel will help in following:

• MICN integration

• SD-EWAN CNF

• OVN-for-K8s-NFV network controller

• ONAP

Will work with other team members in adding new controllers in ONAP to auto program the UPF & adjacent gateway micro-service to steer the traffic to locally offloaded applications.

Amar Kapadia

Aarna Networks

@Amar Kapadia

ONAP

Sriram Rupanagunta

Aarna Networks

@Sriram Rupanagunta

ONAP

Ramki Krishnan

Advisor, VMware

@Ramki Krishnan

Pradnesh Dange

Rebaca

@Pradnesh Dange

Testing

Sivasothy SHANMUGALINGAM

Independent 

@sothy shan

UPF and SMF

Mansoor Khan

Wavelabs.ai

@Mansoor Khan

Systems Integration

Parthiban N

Wavelabs.ai

@Parthiban N

Orchestration

CI/CD, DevOps

Mohamed El Gamal

NetNumber

@Mohamed El Gamal

Sukhdev Kapur

Juniper Networks

@Sukhdev Kapur

TSC Member of Akraino as well Tungsten Fabric

Qasim Arham

Juniper Networks

@Qasim Arham (Deactivated)

Tungsten Fabric Integration

Prabhjot Sethi

ATS Systems

Prabhjot S Sethi

Chair of Tungsten Fabric TSC

Boris Renski

FreedomFi

@Boris Renski

OCN Automation Workstream Lead

Lakshmi Swetha Ramisetty

Independent contributor

 @Lakshmi Swetha Ramisetty

Isaac Manuel Raj

Lumina Networks

@Isaac Raj

End user requirements contributions

Kanagasundaram K (KKS)

Independent contributor

@Kanagasundaram Kuppusamy

QA and Automation

Shivaprasad Ginka

Divistha Networks

@Shivaprasad Jinka

Systems Integration

Ganesh Gudigara

Divistha Networks

Ganesh Gudigara

Systems Integration