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Virtualized RAN Deployment on Airship based Containerized Cloud Haseeb Akhtar, Ericsson and Bin Hu, AT&T Special contributors: Jan-Erik Mangs, Ericsson and Cagatay Buyukkoc, AT&T Open Infrastructure Summit, Denver, CO 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM, April 30, 2019 Ericsson Internal | 2018-02-21

Overview “ Airship is a collection of loosely coupled, but interoperable, open source tools that declaratively automate cloud provisioning.” Motivations • Orchestration: Batteries included • Singular Deployment Method • Predictable Upgrades • Repeatable Multi-site Deployments • Resiliency • Enterprise-Grade Security Ericsson Internal | 2018-02-21 Page-2

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5G RAN -HLS (Higher Layer Split) architecture 4G RAN eCPRI S1-U RRU 4G EPC Baseband S1-C 5GC 5G Core eCPRI evolved Common Public Radio Interface Custom Hardware CU Central Unit CU-CP Central Unit-Control Plane Custom Hardware CU-UP Central Unit-User Plane DU Distributed Unit EPC Evolved Packet Core RAN Radio Access Network RRU Remote Radio Unit 5G RAN (HLS) DU CU N3 F1-U E1 CU-UP 5GC RRU 5G Baseband eCPRI N2 F1-C CU-CP Custom Hardware Custom Hardware Distributed Cloud Ericsson Internal | 2018-02-21 Page-5

Demo overview 5GC 5G Core 5GEPC 5G Evolved Packet Core CU-CP Central Unit-Control Plane CU-UP Central Unit-User Plane EPC Evolved Packet Core RAN Radio Access Network R-VNFM RAN VNF Manager VNF Virtualized Network Function vSD virtualized Service Discovery R-VNFM Traffic vCU-UP vSD Generator Containerized OpenStack Container Deploy Run Time Hardware • Airship deploys Container Run Time and Containerized OpenStack utilizing declarative YAML • vCU-UP (virtualized CU-UP) and virtualized Service Discovery (vSD) form the core of vRAN • Traffic Generator simulates RN (Radio Node) and vCU-UP processes the packets Ericsson Internal | 2018-02-21 Page-6

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• Visit Ericsson booth (C-16) to see the live demo • Don’t forget to drop by the 5G Lounge Ericsson Internal | 2018-02-21 Page-8