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Controlled: Indoors, Protected, and Restricted environments. Data Centers, Central Offices, Indoor venues. Operational benefits for installation and maintenance, and reduced need for hardening/ruggedizedruggedised.
Exposed: Outdoors, Exposed, Harsh and Unprotected environments. Expensive rugged equipment
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Custom/Specialised: non-standard hardware designs including specialised components, ruggetised ruggedised for harsh environments and different form factors. Deployed in Controlled and/or Exposed environments. Operationally complex environment.
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CNTT Basic: General Purpose CPU; Standard/Commoditised Design.
CNTT Network Intensive: CNTT Basic + high speed user plane (low latency, high throughput); Standard//Commoditised Design.
CNTT Network Intensive+ : CNTT Network Intensive + optional hardware acceleration (compared with software acceleration can result in lower power use and smaller physical size); possible Custom Design (Please see HW Acceleration Abstraction (url?).
CNTT Network Intensive++ : CNTT Network Intensive + required hardware acceleration; Custom Design.
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HA at edge (at least 2 edge servers): Multiple Controller and multiple Compute Workload nodes
Deployment Locations:
On Premises
Colocation facility
Vendor premises
Customer Premises
External (curb-side, proximity to radio site, etc.)
SDN Networking support on Edge
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