Open RAN Service Management and Orchestration & RAN Intelligent Controller Demo
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This demo highlights how service providers can bring new levels of service agility, automation and operational efficiency by unlocking the innovation and value in the RAN. We take a deeper look at the RIC Admission Control use case demonstrated with Vodafone Turkey, in a live network running commercial traffic.
You’ll learn
How the Juniper RAN Intelligent Controller works
How to apply RAN Intelligent Controller to different use cases
Who is this for?
Host
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Transcript
0:00 [Music]
0:01 hi everybody I am nataraj and
0:03 krishnamurthy product marketing manager
0:05 for Juniper open range Solutions and
0:08 today I am going to talk about how
0:10 service providers can achieve new levels
0:13 of service agility Automation and
0:15 operational efficiency by unlocking
0:17 Innovation and value in the ram so we
0:20 are going to talk about two Juniper
0:22 Solutions Juniper ran intelligent
0:23 controller and Orion service management
0:25 and orchestration so let me start with
0:27 juniper Ryan intelligent controller I am
0:30 happy to share that Juniper Ryan
0:31 intelligent controller has been awarded
0:33 the glomo award for best network
0:36 software breakthrough at Mobile World
0:37 Congress 2023. this is in partnership
0:40 with rakutan Symphony for the record and
0:42 Sim World platform with juniper Ryan
0:44 intention controller Juniper provides a
0:46 ran intelligent controller platform
0:48 which is fully compliant with uran
0:50 Alliance specifications and interfaces
0:53 we have the near real time rig we have
0:56 the non-real time rig as well as the X
0:58 apps and the RX
1:00 platform also provides an open API and
1:03 an SDK to onboard applications from
1:06 third-party vendors this gives greater
1:08 flexibility and choice of suppliers to
1:11 service providers in this demo we are
1:13 showcasing three different use cases
1:15 admission control traffic steering and
1:17 Energy savings
1:18 the admission control and traffic
1:20 steering use cases were demonstrated
1:22 with Vodafone on a live Network running
1:25 commercial traffic parallel Wallace was
1:27 providing the rent for that deployment
1:30 so let me get into this admission
1:32 control use case admission control is
1:34 used to deliver Priority Services for
1:35 any user type at any time for example it
1:39 could be for Public Safety users schools
1:41 hospitals Etc this is the setup that we
1:44 use to kind of validate this use case so
1:46 parallel Wireless was providing the rent
1:48 we had the Juniper near real time brick
1:49 non-real time brick and Juniper was
1:52 providing the admission control RF and X
1:54 app traffic steering RF was coming from
1:56 juniper and traffic steering except was
1:58 coming from parallel Wireless this is an
2:01 example of how a third party vendor has
2:03 developed plan except on top of juniper
2:05 near real time brick platform so let's
2:08 get into this use case so we have a
2:10 landscape with a suburban area and a
2:13 rural area
2:13 so let's start with by configuring
2:16 admission controller so we are first
2:18 starting with juniper non-real time
2:19 brick where we are going to onboard the
2:22 admission control RM the next step is we
2:25 have two near RT rigs where we are going
2:28 to onboard admission control accepts so
2:30 here you could see two admission control
2:32 accepts running one in the rural area
2:34 one in the Suburban area
2:36 the tenant we have here is a public
2:39 safety tenant he has subscribed for 2000
2:42 us as SLA by default 1000 have been
2:46 allocated to the suburban area thousand
2:48 has been allocated to the rural area we
2:50 have a normal situation here there is no
2:52 emergency the number of active duties is
2:55 well within this thousand limit so you
2:57 don't see any rejections here now let's
2:59 say we have an emergency uh in the rural
3:01 area there is a fire in the rural area
3:03 you have First Responders firefighters
3:06 Healthcare Personnel arriving in the
3:09 rural area and trying to connect to the
3:10 network and you suddenly see a kind of a
3:13 strike in the number of active ues in
3:15 the rural area you have about 242
3:17 rejections for this tenant so this is
3:19 not a situation that we want so this is
3:21 where Rick comes into picture Rick can
3:23 get triggered by an external enrichment
3:25 server or it can identify on its own
3:28 that there are rejections in the rural
3:30 area and automatically increase the
3:32 allocation of resources in the rural
3:34 area
3:35 here you could see the trick has
3:37 increased the allocation in the rural
3:38 area from 1000 to 1800 it has reduced
3:41 allocation in suburb from 1000 to 200
3:43 and you can see here that the number of
3:45 rejections has come in the rural area
3:47 has come down to zero
3:50 and you could see that on the in the
3:52 rural area all the active ues who needed
3:54 connections are getting connections
3:56 this is a simple deployment where we are
3:59 showing a single tenant but in a typical
4:02 deployment you could have hundreds of
4:03 such tenants each of them having needing
4:06 their own resources and that's why you
4:09 need something like a rig to be able to
4:10 manage this now the emergency situation
4:12 has gone away
4:13 so the allocation has gone back to a
4:17 thousand each in Suburban rural area so
4:19 in summary admission control is able to
4:21 provide Dynamic allocation of network
4:23 resources without having to over
4:24 provisioning resources at each location
4:26 and the services here are automatically
4:28 optimized by the ram based on real-time
4:31 data since this is based on open run if
4:33 you develop an application once it can
4:35 be used across all vendors without
4:37 having any vendor specific
4:38 implementations you will take a quick
4:40 look at the oran service management
4:42 orchestration
4:43 before we get into the demo let's look
4:45 at why do you need a new approach to
4:47 service management and orchestration the
4:50 first is evolving architectures service
4:52 providers are moving from closed
4:54 monolithic solutions to virtualized
4:56 disaggregated and open Solutions second
4:59 massive scale with 5G and orange
5:01 services are going to be delivered from
5:03 thousands of clouds and tens and
5:06 thousands of radio sites the third is
5:09 drive for on-demand service models
5:11 service providers want to spin up new
5:13 custom services on demand and deliver
5:16 them under SLS and charge them on a as a
5:19 service basis to overcome this
5:21 complexity Juniper has is providing a
5:23 service management orchestration
5:24 platform for open Ram its fully standard
5:28 compliant supporting 3gpp TMF and open
5:30 run standards it implements the Ryan
5:32 Network slice management function it has
5:35 the near real time brake non-real time
5:36 brick it has 4com which is Federated Oak
5:39 load management and orchestration which
5:41 takes care of management of
5:43 infrastructure resources like data
5:45 centers clusters on top of which the
5:48 network functions are going to be
5:49 deployed it has the network function
5:51 orchestrator the nf4 which takes care of
5:54 orchestrating the network functions such
5:56 as ODU ocu near real time brick on top
5:59 of this cloud
6:01 so we are going to demonstrate Oran
6:03 smo's capabilities with this topology
6:05 which we have a Barcelona landscape
6:07 where we have a regional Cloud three
6:09 different Edge clouds along with their
6:11 orus
6:13 we are going to show how Quran Smo can
6:15 be used to deploy and manage slices to
6:18 an Enterprise as well as an industry we
6:21 will be walking through the entire life
6:22 cycle of a network slice starting with
6:25 the preparation phase where we are going
6:27 to onboard Cloud infrastructure designs
6:29 license service templates reduce service
6:32 creation do service activation do
6:34 service operations to ensure the slas
6:36 within the confirmed limits and as well
6:39 as flash termination Juniper Smo has
6:42 been designed with a clean slate
6:43 architecture to implement and monetize
6:46 Network slicing it uses open interfaces
6:49 across the entire architecture to
6:51 support multi-vendor purposes