OpenShift Commons Gathering Chicago 2023 - Case Study: 5G Core on OpenShift

Yoshihiro Nakajima (NTT Docomo) and William Caban (Red Hat) present at the OpenShift Commons Gathering co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023.

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1. Case Study 1 5G core on OpenShift Yoshihiro Nakajima Director, Network Virtualization Platform NTT DOCOMO William Caban Senior Principal Product Manager Red Hat
2. 2 Copyright ©2023 NTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved.
 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 DOCOMO 5G service 5G SA service has been launched on August 23rd, 2022 2021/12/13 SA launch (Enterprise customers) NSA SA 2020/3/25 5G service launch (NSA) 2022/8/23 SA launch (consumer) 5GC 5G area 5G base station SA NSA 4G base station 5G base station EPC 4G area 5G area SA smartphone
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 5G Standalone (SA) introduction Responding to diverse needs in addition to further increasing communication speeds 4.2Gbps 1.7Gbps 14.4Mbps Faster Communication Responding to diverse NW needs in various fields 5G (SA)
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 For the diverse needs of our customers New architecture and container infrastructure (OpenShift) enable flexibility to meet diverse customer’s needs. Unified interface ensures independence/extensibility for each service 5GC NF/application Container platform P O D ・・ Rapid development and deployment by lightweight, portable containers AMF SMF PCF UDM AF NSSF NEF NRF AUSF UDR UDSF ・・ ・・ 5GC NF
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 Future High SLA from rapid service deployment phase to large scale operation, and future migration by Collaboration with Red Hat and NEC 5GC NF Container PF IaaS P O D ・・ ・・ ・・ VM EPC Other core NF Protocol termination Protocol termination 4G/5G combo function 4G 5G Hybrid approach of using container / VM Combo function for 4G and 5G Carrier-grade operation with container control #3 #1 #2
6. OpenShift Roadmap and Update 6 What’s New for 5G Core in OpenShift?
7. OpenShift Roadmap and Update for Telco 7 Global Fleet Management Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is expanding the management capabilities across the global fleet for extremely high scale scenarios. Global Hub operator for aggregate policy compliance view across all regions. Centralized inventory of all managed hubs and clusters for easy understanding of fleet topology Alerts triggered upon detection of unusual policy behavior
8. CNF vendor A CNF vendor B CNF vendor C OpenShift Roadmap and Update for Telco 8 Both deployment models are supported. CNF vendor A CNF vendor B CNF vendor C One Large multi-vendors OpenShift cluster One OpenShift cluster per vendor 5G Core with Large Clusters or Smaller Ones + Hosted Control Plane (HCP)
9. commons.openshift.org youtube.com/OpenShift facebook.com/openshift twitter.com/openshift 9 Commons builds connections and collaboration across OpenShift communities, projects and stakeholders. In doing so we'll enable the success of customers, users, partners, and contributors as we deepen our knowledge and experiences together. Thank you