5G Standalone: Why, How, and How

Fast?
June 30, 2021

Sponsored by:
Speakers

Gabriel Brown Jonathan Harvey

Principal Analyst – Mobile Networks, VP, Portfolio Management -
Heavy Reading Core Networks, Cloud &
Networks Services, Nokia
Agenda

• Welcome & Introduction – Heavy Reading (10 mins)

• Main presentation – Nokia (30 mins)

• Q&A (20 mins)

SA Launch Progress
Two main reasons to deploy SA and 5G core

1. To modernize core infrastructure – to lower cost of operations via automation

2. To offer new service types – for example, network slicing, edge and critical IoT

Commercial SA deployments scale from 2022 When do you expect to deploy 5G core and standalone 5G?

• Eight operators have launched commercial public 5G SA Already deployed 11%

networks (plus one possible launch to be confirmed).
Within 12 months (by… 32%
• 36 others are planning / deploying 5G SA for public
networks in the near-term. (Source: GSA, April 2021)
Within 24 months (by… 32%
• Widespread device support (including iOS14)
Within 36 months (by… 17%
• 5G SA is very dependent on 5G RAN coverage
In 2024 or later 9%
Source: Heavy Reading’s 5G Operator Survey, February 2021
Key Operator Decisions in 5G Core & SA
Cloud Infrastructure Platform for 5G Core 5G RAN Strategy

• IaaS or PaaS? • NR coverage and uplink limitations?

• Private telco cloud? • NR carrier aggregation?
• Hyper-scaler partnership? • Coexistence with NSA?

5G Core Phasing 5G Service Portfolio

• Which functions to start? • Differentiate from 4G and NSA?

• Multivendor strategy? • Edge cloud dependencies?
• Common 4G/5G core? When? • How to scale network slicing?
5G Standalone: Why, How, and
How Fast?
Webinar
Jonathan Harvey
30.06.2021
Crossing the intersection of telco and webscale world
Diversification
The
opportunity →

to expand Intersection
of Telco & IT Webscale

Telco path
IT path

Legacy core Universal Adaptive Core

5G and cloud 5G
DEV

transforming
OPS

the core and Monolithic Virtuali- Cloud Conver- 5G service Extreme Open DevOps Network
its value core zation native gence based
architecture
automation slicing

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The value of 5G Standalone

Ecosystem
Grow a business
Data exposure

Agile service creation

CPF at any cloud

Unified service Deployment flexibility | latency & efficiency UPF dynamically allocated
delivery
Independently dimension
and scale
URLCC | scalability | robustness | adaptive capacity

Webscale deployment | automation | security

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5G and cloud transforming the core
Public
Network exposure
Hybrid Ecosystem
Grow new business
Any cloud Private Data exposure
On-premises Edge Regional Central

Openness
Agile service creation

Compute and control | CP

1
CUPS
Latency | UP

Any access Network slicing CPF at any cloud

Unified service Deployment flexibility | latency & efficiency UPF dynamically allocated
delivery
Independently dimension
Distributed core and scale
URLCC | scalability | robustness | adaptive capacity

Service based architecture2

Webscale deployment | automation | security
1) Control plane / user plane separation
2) leveraging all advantages of cloud-native applications
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The path to full 5G
Speed
Focus on FWA and eMBB Latency
Openness
Speed
Flexibility
Latency
Openness
SA 2
Flexibility gNB 5GC

NSA 3x

Speed gNB
Latency
Openness
Flexibility eNB EPC eNB EPC

eNB EPC

4G 5G introduction phase 5G full service options

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Smooth evolution towards SA via common 5G/4G core

Shared
5G/4G/3G/2G data Data
SubscriptionPolicy data UDSF UDR
Nokia SDL/One-NDS Layer

HLR/HSS UDM-FE CSCF TAS OCS/OFCS PCRF NEF

gNB 5G-EIR AUSF SBC SMSF CHF PCF
Nokia Registers Nokia IMS Nokia SPS Nokia NEF
signaling
SGSN SP-GW CP NRF DRA BSF
MME SMF NSSF SEPP SCP
Control
eNB
AMF Nokia CMG Nokia CSD Plane
Nokia CMM

Any access SP-GW UP

UPF
ePDG
TWAG
BGW
SGW
User
N3IWF Plane
Licensed Unlicensed Nokia CMG Nokia SBC
2/3/4/5G NSA/SA WiFi, MuLTEfire, LAA

Shared Fixed
Citizens Band Radio Traditional wireline access Single core VoNR Exposure
Service (CBRS) (xDSL) (FTTx) Converged voice Network exposure
LTE, 5G NSA / SA LTE, WiFI and 5G via NEF

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Common control plane serving multiple user planes
Service convergence at the session control level
Shared
Data
Layer

Converged Cloud Mobile Gateway

(BNG-C/SPGW-C/SMF)
Unified session control
function: session management
Control
for wireless and wireline
Plane

VNF /CNF Virtual Physical VNF /CNF Physical

Limitless User
Plane
Right platform for every deployment scenario CMG 7750 MG VSR 7750 SR/s

Wireless User Plane Wireline User Plane

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Network slices for different industry verticals
Fixed Wireless Access
Enterprise
Cloud gaming
Flexibility to meet
Vending CCTV diverse requirements AR / VR
machine

Public safety
Industry 4.0
Sensors
Police

Universal Adaptive Core

Autonomous
Logistics
driving Ambulance

Mission critical services Mobile broadband Fixed broadband Massive IoT

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Seamless service experience using any access
Consumer Business Mobile Mobile Voice over
VoIP VoIP VoLTE/VoNR CS Voice Any Access
OSS/
OSS/ OSS/ OSS/ OSS/
BSS BSS BSS BSS BSS

Application Consumer Business VoLTE /VoNR Common TAS for VoLTE/

layer IN services
TAS TAS TAS cVOIP/Enterprise VoNR TAS 3G VOICE

Core
layer IMS Core IMS Core IMS Core TDM incl.
OneVoIP Interconnect
IP TELCO
IMS Core (Trunking)
EPC 5G 3G
Core
Mobile
Voice
Border OneVoIP (HOSTED)
layer Border Border Border
Border IP-PBX

CVoIP ePOTS Internet VoLTE VoNR

VoIP

Fixed BB Fixed BB 5G Mobile

Consumer Business 4G CS DSL/Fiber ISAM-V WiFi LTE 5G

Different architectures for different voice apps Access agnostic cloud-native IMS for voice:
One architecture for all voice apps
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5G Service capability exposure in practice
3rd party cloud
Consumer IoT Enterprise applications
Gaming IoT Mgmt. • Monetization
app app app
• API mgmt.
• Sandboxing
Immersive entertainment Management & efficiency Self-services & tailoring • Development portal
Requesting higher data rate / IoT provisioning and requesting Provisioning accounts &
lower latency customized attributes delivering customized content

App
NEF service mashup
NEF enablement • Adding new capabilities
• Combine network assets
Web services AI/ML Service mashup Public data sources • Value added applets /
Abstract | combine | program Other cloud applications embedded microservices

NW integration plugins

Integration layer
Load 
• Comprehensive set of pre-
  integrated NW elements
Adaptive IoT is Attributes for NBIoT Managed accounts Context based in CSP networks
higher QoS provisioned applied tailored content • Open for exposure of 3rd
party apps/platforms

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Deploy on any cloud to suit your business requirements
Private, public, hybrid, on-premises readiness
Third-party infrastructure Third-party CaaS and PaaS services

CNFs Orchestration Secure Device

mgmt. Care CEM Orchestration
Orchestration Orchestration Charging
Data plane
NRF SCP NEF IMS NRF NEF
Control plane UDM SMF UDM SMF UDM SMF

User plane AMF UPF AMF UPF AMF UPF

Any realization
PaaS CSF
Nokia
common
VMware Nokia VMware Nokia VMware Nokia Other
services common services common services common services
services services services services

VMware container AWS container Google container Other K8s

CaaS Nokia Container Services service service service

Infra Azure

Private Public / hybrid

Any cloud
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Audience Questions & Answers
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