Nokia Cloud Mobility Manager

Release 18

The Nokia Cloud Mobility Manager (CMM) performs the 3GPP mobility and
session management control functions in the evolved packet core (EPC)
and GERAN/UTRAN network, and supports the cellular IoT serving gateway
node (C-SGN) solution for optimized IoT services. Built with a cloud-native
architecture, the CMM delivers the scalability, flexibility, high-availability, and
performance to meet growing network signalling loads for consumer mobile
and Internet of Things /Machine Type Communications (IoT/MTC) services
and the path to 5G

Deployed as either a standalone 4G Mobility as MME-only or as a triple-access SGSN/MME

Management Entity (MME) or combined MME/ network function, delivering an enhanced 3GPP
Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) in 2G/3G software feature set.
networks, the CMM uses field-proven application
The CMM provides a highly scalable, reliable and
software, which ensures feature and service
flexible architecture to support an expanded range
consistency with both physical and appliance-based
of services, including mission-critical, and disaster
products. CMM is a virtualized network function
recovery communications for government, public
(VNF) that runs on standard IT computing hardware
safety, and military, as well as IoT/MTC for energy,
and Openstack-KVM and VMWare vCloud NFV
transportation, and health care industries.
virtualized operating environments. It operates
in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV)/cloud The CMM is offered in a range of configuration
environment or in a traditional telco management options and supports both centralized and
operations model, allowing mobile network distributed architectures to address the specific
operators (MNOs) to transition cloud networking needs of each MNO. Subscriber and bandwidth
at their own pace. capacity can be scaled rapidly and flexibly as service
demands increase or change. Innovative capabilities
Features such as smart paging, overload control, tracking
area management and Cellular IoT optimizations
Deployment flexibility and scalability reduce control plane network signalling.
The CMM performs the 3GPP packet core functions
of the MME and SGSN as a VNF within the ETSI NFV
network architecture. These VNFs can be deployed

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High performance • Network Element Cluster Controller (NECC) –
The CMM is built with a cloud-native design Performs the Operations, Administration and
that delivers exceptional performance and Maintenance (OAM) functions and provides the
elastic scalability to meet the subscriber, device northbound external interfaces to the Nokia Network
connectivity, and capacity requirements for Management System (NMS) and the operator’s
consumer and enterprise mobile services, as well management network. The NECC manages the
as the broad range of requirements for IoT/MTC CMM system configuration and system assurance,
services. providing alarm and performance monitoring and
overall VNF system control. It also supports an event
An advanced software design utilizes multi-threaded broker framework providing a time series database
processing and a native 64-bit operating system and an event processing engine. This enables real-
(OS) to maximize performance. time statistics, monitoring, and troubleshooting
The CMM delivers excellent control and data plane for the CMM. It supports: NETCONF, SNMP, Telnet,
performance on x86 platforms using a range of SSH, REST API and CLI.
performance options icluding Single Root I/O • Cloud Database Layer (DBS) – A separate
Virtualization (SR-IOV) and Open vSwitch (OVS) repository to manage subscriber and session
together with Intel® Data Plane Development Kit state using open database technology.
(DPDK) optimizations.
• IP Director Service (IPDS) – Provides the 3GPP
CMM architecture link termination interface (logical) and protocol
The CMM architecture consists of the VNF termination (GTP, Diameter, S1-AP, SCCP, SS7).
components as shown in Figure 1. It performs internal and external load balancing
and supports messaging overload control.
Figure 1. Cloud Mobility Manager Virtual Machine
Architecture

Network Element management (NECC) Cloud mobility manager

OAM, business logic, Open API and centralized functions (MME/SGSN)
also an event broker, providing a time series event database OAM
and event processing engine DBS
Cloud Database (DBS)
Open database technology providing a persistent subscriber
and session state management NECC CPPS PAPS

Control Plane Processing Service (CPPS)

MME 4G Mobility & session management service
IPDS IPPS
Packet Processing Service (PAPS) 3G 2G
SGSN 2/3G Mobility & session management service Signaling GTP-U Gb, GTP-U
IP Director Service (IPDS)
Interface unit for elastic / scalable transaction load balancing,
forwarding and interface aggregation

IP Packet Processing Service (IPPS)

3G User plane handling

LTE 3G 2G
Core

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• Control Plane Processing Service (CPPS) - Hosts flexibility to select the vendor of choice for their
the MME services and 4G control plane handling NFV cloud networking environment. NSP provides
functions. It performs the 3GPP mobility and VNF assurance and a life-cycle management
session management. supervision assistance in the life-cycle management
of the CMM. This gives mobile operators the ability
• IP Packet Processing Service (IPPS) – Provides 3G
to manage both their physical and virtual packet
user plane packet processing and data forwarding
core networks with a common and consistent
and charging and statistics reporting functions.
management solution.
• Packet Processing Service (PAPS) – Performs
2G/3G mobility and session management Comprehensive NFV/SDN portfolio
functions and provides the 2G user plane packet For MNOs that want a fully integrated NFV/SDN
processing and data forwarding functions, Cloud Packet Core solution, Nokia also offers an
including 2G encryption. industry-leading NFV/SDN portfolio that combines
the Nokia CloudBand™ software suite and the Nuage
Reliability and resiliency Networks™ Virtualized Services Platform along with
The CMM is highly reliable and resilient. It leverages a broad ecosystem of cloud partners. The combined
its field-proven, carrier-class software and supports solution provides smart multi-layer monitoring,
several intra-VNF redundancy protection schemes alarming and correlation of events enabling dynamic
(1+1, n+, 2n), fault monitoring and recovery, and adjustment to changing demand.
overload control protection. With these capabilities,
together with geo-redundant configurations, intra-
and inter-system load balancing, as well as 3GPP
Cloud Mobility Manager
network pooling capabilities, the CMM enables
reliability in IT/cloud networking environments
(MME/SGSN)
(greater than 99.999%). CMM also supports the As an MME/SGSN (Gn/S4-SGSN), the CMM performs
upgrade of an existing hardware-based MME the 3GPP packet core mobility and session
or triple-access to NFV without compromising management functions in 2G/3G/4G networks
reliability or resiliency. (Figure 2):

CMM management • Manages UE/MT registration, authentication,

mobility and charging
Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) is the EMS
for the Nokia Cloud Packet Core and backhaul • Manages UE bearer setup and management
networks. NSP provides the Fault, Configuration, for data and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services
Accounting, Performance and Security management • Manages UE Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context/
(FCAPS) capabilities for CMM, the Nokia Cloud bearer setup and management for data services
Mobile Gateway (CMG) and the C-SGN function.
Nokia NSP together with NetAct — provides a single, • Supports Inter-Radio Access Technology (I-RAT)
consolidated view of the entire mobile network. handovers between and within LTE and 2G/3G
Nokia NetAct is the NMS that provides single screen 3GPP networks and non-3GPP networks to
access across the entire network with northbound provide and maintain UE services as users move
interfaces from NSP and other EMSs. about the network
In an NFV operations environment, the CMM
can be orchestrated and managed with any NFV
OpenStack® and VMWare vCloud NFV-based
platform. This gives MNOs/MSOs complete

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Figure 2. Cloud Mobility Manager supports 2G/3G,
and 4G LTE-Advanced services with a path to 5G
Operator cloud
NSP AAA HSS/HLR PCRF

2G/3G RAN
CMM
(MME/SGSN)

4G/LTE RAN Cloud

packet
core CMG (SGW) CMG
(PGW/GGSN/
Trusted/Untrusted Wi-Fi network HA/TDF)

Mobile, loT/MTC CMG

IP and optical network
devices (TWAG/ePDG)

Functional breadth and scope

• Large-scale 2G/3G/LTE consumer and
Cloud Mobility Manager -
enterprise networks appliance
• Network sharing (MOCN/GWCN) The CMM is also available in pre-integrated
• Evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast MME software/server hardware deployment
services (eMBMS) configurations providing the deployment flexibility
to meet targeted service applications and cost
• Voice over LTE (VoLTE) models. For more information, see the CMM-a
• Public safety/first response datasheet.
• Public Warning Notification
• Small cell/HeNB networks
• Roaming optimizations
• IoT/MTC applications

Cloud Mobility Manager

(C-SGN)
Nokia delivers a cellular IoT optimized C-SGN
solution by integrating CMM and the Nokia Cloud
Mobile GW (CMG) functionality together with NSP
providing management as a single solution (Figure 3):
• Supports 3GPP Release 13 and 14 CIoT
optimization features

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Figure 3. C-SGN solution to support cellular
IoT services
Operator cloud
NSP HSS SCEF

loT server

C-SGN

CMM

4G/5G RAN
Cloud
packet
core CMG

loT/MTC devices IP and optical network

Benefits Ordering information

• Field-proven software de-risks deployments To create one pool of CMMs, each instance of the
CMM requires one Application Software License
• Cloud native design with an evolved multi-tier
(ASL). Additional ASLs are required to license the
architecture delivering greater efficiency, auto
CMMs in the pool to scale to support MME and/
scalability, and service agility
or SGSN subscribers or IoT devices. The CMM-a is
• Carrier-grade resilience with multi-layer offered in pre-integrated, pre-configured software/
prevention, isolation and recovery mechanisms AirFrame server packages. For ordering questions,
• Maximized performance on x86 hosts with a contact your Nokia sales representative.
multi-threaded 64-bit OS and application and
network acceleration technologies Technical specifications
• Advanced redundancy models that improve
Standards and protocols
resource efficiency without service interruption
3GPP standards
• Multi-layer elasticity at the transaction and
database layers with independent scaling of each • TS 23.003

• Innovative paging methods that reduce network • TS 23.060

signalling • TS 23.007
• Network operations designed for cloud • TS 23.216
• Advanced troubleshooting and analytics • TS 23.271
capabilities with PCMD and Traffica tools,
• TS 23.246
providing event-stream processing and
real-time diagnostics • TS 23.272

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• TS 23.401 IETF standards
• TS 23.682 • RFC 1034 (DNS)
• TS 24.008 • RFC 1035 (DNS)
• TS 24.171 • RFC 4960 (SCTP)
• TS 24.301 • RFC 6241 (NETCONF)
• TS 25.413 • RFC 6733 (Diameter)
• TS 25.415 CMM-qualified specifications
• TS 29.002 The NFV infrastructure specifications for the CMM
vary based on the engineering required to support
• TS 29.060
the necessary configuration.
• TS 29.118
NFV infrastructure requirements:
• TS 29.168
• Host OS: OpenStack Newton/KVM, VMWare NFV
• TS 29.171 1.5/2.0 ESXi
• TS 29.172 • Packet Acceleration: SR-IOV Intel® 82599
• TS 29.280 or Mellanox M4 NIC drivers, VMXNET3

• TS 29.274 • Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)/Hyper-

Threading
• TS 29.280
NFV infrastructure recommendations
• TS 29.303
• Host OS: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
• TS 32.426
• TS 33.107 Learn more
• TS 33.401 For more information about the Nokia CMM product,
• TS 36.412 please visit: https://networks.nokia.com/products/
mobility-manager
• TS 36.413
• TS 36.414
• TS 36.444
• TS 44.064
• TS 44.065
• TS 48.016
• TS 48.018

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