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2020

Accelleran in the open RAN Movement

Arnaud Polster, Accelleran

RAN Protocol & Integration AI Automation Cloud Scaling & Virtualization (Containers)

Accelleran Positioning

dRAX Products & Services

CORE ASSETS IT Skill to Telco

Need of RAN Know how

dRAX in Sweet Spot of required technology competence in the new Open RAN paradigm shift

Accelleran Proprietary

MWC2019 : dRAX Product Launch

First O-RAN Aligned Control Plane

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dRAX Principles

• dRAX = loosely coupled CU

(4G + 5G) + Near-RT RIC

• Cloud Native Microservices

architecture

• 4G/5G coexistence
• Scalability
• Openness
• Data
• Orchestration
• RIC platform

Control Plane essential IP Distributed Data Bus AI/ML Decoupled User traffic

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Why Cloud Native?

• Platform Agnostic
• Dynamically Orchestrated
• Dev Ops enables service

innovation

• Scalable and Fault Tolerant
• Leveraging huge open source

asset base

• De facto assumption for the

future of telecom virtualisation

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Accelleran dRAX – API’s

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Control Plane (L3)

Contact : info@accelleran.com Control Plane (L3)

L1 L2

dRAX near-RT-RIC

Data Bus

dRAX

(3rd Party) Applications / non-RT RIC

• Big Data
• AI / ML
• Visualization
• ….

4G or5G

L1 L2 NFVI

4G or5G

Open Api

3rd Party Application (Orchestrator, GUI,…)

NetConf REST

dRAX CU

5GC gNB CU-CP gNB CU-UP DU

NGAP NG-U F1-U F1-C

dRAX CU

E1AP

RRU

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dRAX CU in ONF Aether

Google Cloud

UPF RAN CU ONOS UPF RAN CU ONOS UPF RAN CU ONOS UPF RAN CU ONOS UPF RAN CU ONOS RAN Emulator MME SPGW-C HSS NEM ONF Menlo Park ONF Tucson Accelleran Antwerp Intel USA Infosys Dallas Accelleran Proprietary

dRAX RIC : App Store for the RAN

Interference Management RAN Intelligence and Automation Smart HandOver (Joint IP)

Accelleran Focus : Plug’nPlay/Easy Instal, ANR, MultiConnectivity, NH Multiple RIC Partnerships xAPPs RAN Apps

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dRAX RIC Platform

DataBus

NetConf Server

4G CU

NetConf Server

5G CU

Systems Metrics API Proxy

E2 Broker

PCI ANR

Smart Handover Dashboard

Accelleran xApps 3rd party

Geolocation

KPI Broker

dRAX Near-RT RIC

Service Orchestrator

Core RIC Services

Interference Mgmt

Service Monitor State Monitor

Databus Pub/sub Messaging

• CU data & control hooks
• inter-xApps communication
• Security
• Open to 3rd Party CU/DU/…

Core RIC Services

• xApps Lifecycle Management
• Policy Management
• Orchestration
• API Proxy
• E2 Broker*

NetConf Server

3rd Party DU

NetConf Server

3rd Party CU

Productized Framework

• Existing customer References
• Community & Support
• Easy Installation (Helm)
• Real RAN Components support
• Cloud Native

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dRAX Dashboard xAPP

• Monitoring
• Cells Configuration
• Systems Health
• xApps Onboarding

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Example xAPP Architecture

RIC DataBus

Core RIC Services

Dashboard xAPP

GUI

Chart Server Time Series DB Systems Metrics Ne NetConf nf Ne NetConf nf

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Automation & Operational efficiency AI-based Cluster Optimization

When Open RAN meets A.I.

Example xApps

Application to Private Cellular

• 4G vs 5G
• Simplicity of deployment / Operations
• « Plug and Play » - Wifi-like
• Virtualization
• Complementarity with Wi-Fi –

Multiconnectivity

• Development and Education of Vertical

Integrators

• End to End solution / Managed Service

Accelleran Proprietary

RAN Protocol & Integration AI Automation Cloud Scaling & Virtualization (Containers)

Accelleran Positioning

dRAX Products & Services

CORE ASSETS IT Skill to Telco

Need of RAN Know how

dRAX in Sweet Spot of required technology competence in the new Open RAN paradigm shift

Accelleran Proprietary

2020

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