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Name | Representing |
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| LJ Illuzzi | LFN |
| Ganesh Venkatraman | Kaloom |
| Aarna Networks | |
| Brandon Wick | LFN |
NOTE: This is the weekly technical deep dive call to prep the latest version of the 5G Cloud Native Network Demo for ONE Summit 2021, Oct 11-12. If you would like the meeting invite, please email bwick@linuxfoundation.org and lilluzzi@linuxfoundation.org.
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- Radio reaching Montreal lab
- FlexRAN installation in Montreal lab
- Capgemini Engineering CU/DU installation in Montreal lab - QR code issue
- Re-confirm Capgemini Engineering + UPF is up & running in Montreal lab
- Re-confirm UE is available in Montreal lab
- Re-confirm faraday cage is ready-to-go in Montreal lab. May need faraday cage connectors.
- GenXComm integration
Plan B - Rebaca Video-Only. Core only.
Scope: Show "good" and "bad" slice using video client. Then potentially replace video client with phone.
Blockers/Risks-
- VM availability for Rebaca Abot, media client, media server in Montreal lab - integration issue AMFmitgated
- Rebaca software installation complete on VMs. Integration issues around routing.
9/7: Video client system IP needs to be in IP address of session. Yogendra looking for this. Raja had discussion with Rajat.
9/7: Which connectors/band is the radio supporting? Need to confirm with the UE.
Documentation & Collateral:
Call to Action:
- We’d like to evolve the Daily Standup on Slack to cover each of the items above, in addition to the technical communication currently underway. This will help us stay on track and assure we can deliver the best demo possible. If you are responsible for any of the items above, or if you can lend a hand or ideas, your updates and input are welcome and needed on the Daily Standup.
- Brainstorming- Please offer any ideas you have on what can be delivered as a compelling demo as it pertains to Plan A & B above or any other scenarios you feel are possible. For example, what can we show (besides a phone call) for an End-to-End demo? Or, What can we show (besides video) with and without slicing?
- Brainstorming- What additional risks and blockers do we have that are not listed above?
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Status Check / Open Questions
Slicing:
09/07 both routers 172.26.11.49 and 172.26.11.81 need to have the routing through the Firewall interfaces.
09/03 (Raja Mittra): Initial Registration is Done between ABot gNodeB and Altran AMF. PDU Session establishment is also Done. Will continue on UPF integration and Video Test on Monday.
Next Steps/Workflow:
- Video Server configuration
- Video Client configuration
- ABot installation and config
- Integration with Altran AMF
- Integration with Kaloom UPF - continue Monday 09/06
- UPF Integration -
- Video client / A10 Testing - potential to start
- whats next?
(08/31 Raja Mittra) ABot Installation is done we were trying to integrate with AMF and UPF. I got the details of UPF from Jaime. But waiting for the AMF details. As per the Jamie's diagram I tried integrating with AMF (10.198.7.25:38412) but on the transport layer it is sending Abort in SCTP. So Please share the relevant details for integration.
(08/25 Raja Mittra)- VMs are installed but some issue with internet access on the VMs. But Jamie has provided the solution. Will be working on it to fix the issue. Hope to have ABot installed by 08/26.
Next Steps:
- Video Server configuration
- Video Client configuration
- ABot installation and config
- Integration with Altran AMF
- Integration with Kaloom UPF
- Video client / A10
- Configuration with UPF
Yogendra: "#1. A10 FW is up and running now. Kaloom team need to share the IP details for N6 interface and other IPs belonging towards trusted and non-trusted n/w. #2. SMF and UPF connectivity debugging is ON (Jamie, Rajat, Yogen, RP) are looking into it.
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Step 1 Testing: Video Session. N1, N2, N3 on different VLANs. Proposal: Separate call to cover details. Will also require ONAP Slice integration. Rajendra to schedule (once basics in place). Ganesh: Add to original diagram – meld into 1 picture.
8/31: Raja: But waiting for the AMF details. As per the Jamie's diagram I tried integrating with AMF (10.198.7.25:38412) but on the transport layer it is sending Abort in SCTP. So Please share the relevant details for integration.
8/31: Samir: Beyond Altran, there are several more steps to be done in just a couple weeks. We need attention on these.
9/7: Jacobus. Running ping on trusted, not seeing traffic on untrusted side. Jacobus, Raja, etc will have a separate working session.
RAN:
09/02 Sveto: We have installed the master clock. It is connected with fiber to a NIC (Intel XXV710) in the same server you’re using. The management port of the clock should be reachable on 10.198.7.197. We kept the default admin user and password.
Sam: "I've tested the new ACC100 card installed on the platform and everything is working properly. I'm running stability test with FlexRAN+ORAN-FH and will debug any issues, but we are now ready to integrate with L2. Thanks."
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Amit: CU/DU binaries. Need to fix QR code issue. (Martin helping on this piece). Need the clock for E2E connection.
8/31: Clock installation is being finalized today (completed)
9/7: Sveto: Clock set up and connected. Sam: Will take a look this week to sync with GNB. Per FedEx, Radio should arrive to Kaloom tomorrow. Unknown amount of time to configure. Sam can start on the PTP tomorrow. Louis: Need a workplan for this. Sveto: Radio will be in the data center with the clock (cabling to the same server as NIC). Will likely need to put in a Faraday cage (will depend on the connectors). Hanen will supply the UE (Samsung), as soon as the RU is connected. Once connected, Sam and Hardik will need to do some integration. Once the RU is integrated, everything "Downstream" from there should work and we can start trying the use case (whatever we'll do with it for the demo). Amit: New UEs will require additional integration. We need details for the UE, we have examples about working with other UEs (might save time to use one of these).
Radio:
- Radio Arrival update - delivery ETA is 09/08
- Next Steps:
- radio install. Need cable types and possible other components for conectivity. Potential lead time for connectors for faraday cage.
- Hardik to share documentation about the radio setup with Sveto
- Per Hardik: "We are planning to ship the radio units to Kaloom lab this week."
Emulator/ Rebaca:
From Slack (Yesterday) Amar:
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- Get Rebaca spun up in the Montreal lab — we can discuss this tomorrow
- Show a demo with their video client and server; initially the “bad” slice and “good” slice demos will be sequential
- Then we can show the “bad” slice and “good” slice in parallel
- The visual comparison between "bad" and "good" slice needs to be obivous and compelling.
- We can replace their video client with a drone or something like that over an IP connection (that can be wifi)
- Need remote site for Drone
- What will the Drone exhibit with "Bad" verse "Good"?
Timeline:
Final Testing and Configuration: - (Sept 10 ambitious, keep for now to keep things moving)
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Documentation/Collateral
"Document as you Build" approach provides for accurate collateral and lower LOE
Collateral Ideas-
- Video - Due
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- Shoot various video (
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ONE Summit: -
Louis: Have we made up any ground on our timeline? Is Sept 10th a possibility? Sveto: On the the radio side, we need to make up ground. Anything else. Plan B: Show as fancy a slicing demo as we can (still on track).
Video Capture platform options (Louis)- (Loom, Ezvid, FreeCam)
Other:
REMINDER: "Document as you Build" approach would help expand our options.
NExt Week: Brandon OOO. Louis to lead the call.
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Status Check / Open Questions
ONE Summit Keynote Planning Call:
Seeing up a separate, stand alone call to start scoping out the keynote presentation, e.g.
How do we show the builds/CNF onboarding?
How do we show slicing? What's running on each slice?
How do we show telemetry data?
What can we do with the new radio that we couldn't do before (E2E)?
Currently proposing Friday or Monday. Interested in joining? Take the Doodle Poll here:
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/BeX6MMlb
Slicing / RAN/ Radio:
Getting A10 FW set up. Rajenda: Connecting to UPF and Data Network. Rajat. How to work in the simulator? Need to connect to the internet? Kubecon demo was crossing the cluster. Amar: This same demo we will also use for E2E. Samit: Sending traffic toward A10, Rebaca simulator, vidoe server on internet side fo Firewall. Jamie: Deploying system on Cluster 1/Custer 2. Same GNB address or different? 2 Slices of the same UE? Soumya: UE to slice 1 (high-quality), slide 2 (low-quality). Can be the same GNB. Idea: Same UE. 2 videos at the same time using parallel call flow. Samit checking if video client ca render data from video server at same time. Video server location? Sveto: Do we have enough spare capacity on cluster to run it. Yogendra: Data in cluster 2 (one server)? Raja: We need 3 VMs. What resources can you provide? Sveto/Hanen to check on capacity and if it can be expended (perhaps 1 free UE). How much is required? Boris: We may have resources? Is there a networking diagram? Yogendra showed the latest diagram. Boris+Sveto to connect offline with Hanen. Note: Labs are connect with Turnium SD-WAN. Next steps: Spread into 3 parts. Adding video server. Another option could be LaaS. Latency challenges? What levels of throughput are required for the simulator/video traffic? 400 Mbps. Yogenda: setting up the parameters with Rajat/Jamie. Rebaca VMs require 8 cores and 16GB RAM per VM. Might not be able to run on the clusters. 3 VMs needed (vCPUS). 100G disk size should be good. We likely have enough. Hanen/Sveto to confirm. Networking: Need to connect with core and UPF, A10 FW, and routing. Video client VM. Abot should have 2 interfaces. Is there a diagram for the VMs? Can we share the diagram more widely? Rebaca to share latest for minutes and slack channel.
Yogendra: Slicing updates:# Two slices configuration is now completed in MTL cluster01 for NGC under namespace ns-ngc. Ready for integration with Kaloom's UPF.
# A10 deployment done in MTL cluster01 under namespace ngfw, pod started to comeup, some more changes required for network-attachment.
# Next Steps:
# Kaloom's UPF and NGC config update by respective teams for slice-blue and slice-red.
# Rebeca integration with NGC (respective teams to take this forward).
Yogendra shared a demo network diagram
Sam: I've tested XRAN FH with FlexRAN v21.03 on the Lenovo server at Kaloom's lab and is working properly. There is an issue with the accelerator, so I'm using SW FEC for now. I will send a replacement board to Sveto to swap out the Pomona Lake ACC board. I don't have any UL traffic to test with XRAN FH, but L1 link to FH NIC is good at this point.
We can start the L2 integration when you are ready. Thanks
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- approx 5 minute in total)
- Slicing - Yogendra
- RAN - CU/DU config - Amit, L1 integration with CU/DU
- Radio - photos or video of the lab/cage
- Rabaca dashboard -
- Voice over - Heather/Amar
- Edit video - Louis/Brandon have lead
- approx 5 minute in total)
- Slideware
- Animation
- 5G Cloud Native Topology diagram. Other diagrams available? Jamie has a Network diagram
- Build Guide
Slicing: Core network functions using ONAP + Network functions. Deploy, configure, send traffic (Yogendra lead and work with others).
RAN: CU + DU Configurations (Amit to lead). Same setting up a call (L1 integration + CU/DU), once more details, connectivity + radio support.
9/7: Hi-Res & Low-Res videos + Rebaca Dashboards on performance + Slideware + Diagrams. Do we have a network diagram available? Yes! Jamie has shared it. Will be added to the diagrams page.
Timeline:
Final Testing and Configuration: - (Sept 10 ambitious, keep for now to keep things moving)
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Collateral Development: -
- Slideware/script/video(s)/ animation
- animation
ONE Summit (all virtual): -
One Summit Materials Due
Other:
- REMINDER: "Document as you Build" approach would help expand our options.
- Video Capture platform options (Louis)- (Loom, Ezvid, FreeCam)
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