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Welcome 1st Time Attendees
2023 LFN Events Plan - Heather
Projects Updates
Upcoming Meetings
Any Other Business
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Rodney- problem statement- how do MNOs deploy 5G standalone both at the edge and the core (aside from greenfield deployments).
Rodney- MNOs and private entities are asking, where do they place edge elements? For what reasons? How do they get it deployed from a physical and logical perspective.
This Use Case builds on the PCEI Use Case (which describes public to private interconnect), and scales to mulitple edge sites.
How are sites selected? What tools are available for site selection. Muddasar asserts that site selection is mostly manual, but may be automated if using commercial cloud.
It was proposed to connect Equinix edge sites to 5G SBP labs to demonstrate multi-access edge compute interacting with 5G infrastructure. Yogen proposes 2 sites with 1 common core.
Capabilities (long list);
Muddasar proposes to demonstrate automated load deployment
Muddasar proposes having an orchestrator be aware of the Equinix edge capabilities via ORAN SMO
Automated deployment of CU/DU
Demonstrate both internal network orchestration for 5G workload as well as industry solution at the edge.
SEDIMENT packaging for Accuknox deployment for 5G SBP use case
Upcoming Meetings
Off Week Deep Dive Meeting
Proposal to use 04/25 as projects deep dive: Edge Placement
Bi-Weekly Status Meeting
SEDIMENT - Brief the team on RA Use Case
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SEDIMENT Project Overview
Can we get a PDF version of presentation and attach to wiki?
Add links to Use Case wiki pages
Potential Next Steps:
Introduce Peraton, Kaloom, IBM. LJ to sent an introduction email
Determine if existing IBM cameras can support RA (create Evidence)
Camera spec sheet
What other IoT devices can be introduced? Does Perton have IoT devices(s) that can be introduced? Peraton using development boards as IoT emulaters.
Temperature sensor
RAP server- remote access to Peraton?
Sprint 1 Planning 3 months
Umbrella goal- NaaS - evaluate above as they applies to NaaS, example RAN, Network. NaaS can become a tenant of these services. (not a separate Use Case).
High Level problem statement:
Hign level User Stories:
Epic/Use Case- Edge placement of network functions (RAN) deployment at the edge. Create a cell site (leveraging Equinix metro site availability) and place CU/DU workloads at the cell site. for slicing Use Case and cell site deployment (edge placement) Use Case. Also include slicing latency at the network edge. Find the characteristcs of the slice, example; maximum number of UEs, maximum number of videos sessions that can be supported; latency at the core and RAN
Operators are looking for methods to place Edge Infrastructure in enough proper places to enable scaling of Edge operations from day 0 to day 3 (full production). This becomes technically challenging, to support day 0 edge infrastructure for a targeted number of UE subscribers with just enough infrastructure to commercially support initial subscribers, but also enough capabilities to scale as subscribers are added. This leads to challenges of physical and logical placement of compute and interconnection. In this Epic, it can explore the current standards state and identify gaps of real world implementations, redundancy and resiliency.
Use Case - Incremental Edge Placement
Scenario - an operator has an existing 5G NSA core for typical retail operations and seeks to support deployment of a 5G SA infrastructure to support a Day 1 customer with some defined number of scheduled subscribers over a defined geography. In this use case it could be demonstrated for a scaled deployment of 100K subscribers incrementally added at 25K per quarter with geographic coverage for North America.
Use Case- Automation. Equinix has a script to deploy Free5GC and gNodeB. We can look into how that fits into automation and auto deployment for an automation Use Case.
Equinix is using gNodeB built into Free5GC
How can KubeArmor be integrated into the automated deployment (Muddasar).
Remote Atestation of IoT devices - SEDIMENT project. Placeholder
Any others?
6/9 Month Sprint Backlog
Use Case- Secure Orchestration- using Enterprise and corporate policies, and well as standards requirements, demostrate the capability to deploy workloads securely, and then create network slices based on an SLA. Define behaviors at Day 0 and Day 1. How does KubeArmor fill the security gaps? Create Epic for secure orchestration, then add Use Stories
Use Case- Overlay networks (Equinix). Demonstrate the mapping of a 5G network slice to where the overlay gateway and controllers are located, and demonstrate how the placement of the UPF or RIC, where the traffic can be broken out to, support the overlay networks. Potential as a User Story in secure orchestration Epic
Lab Updates
UNH-IOL
Will have a gNodeB (Amarisoft) available in March time-frame, that can be shared to the 5GSB. System is already setup in RF isolation chamber. Limited 5G eMBB UE are available as well.
LaaS is online / can be booked / connected to the gNodeB.
Kaloom (Montreal)
RU brought into the lab
SD-Core installed- Next- connect Kaloom UPF to SD-Core
Infrastructure as a Service, network placement and orchrestration as a Service
Contribution opportunity around observability; Equinix would be interested conversations in insert observability features into the framework
Equinix is using gnodeb built into Free5GC
Potential 5G SBP Use Cases
Slicing latency at the network edge. Find the characteristcs of the slice, example; maximum number of UEs, maximum number of videos sessions that can be supported; latency at the core and RAN
Use Case- RAN deployment at the edge. Create a cell site (leveraging Equinix metro site availability) and place CU/DU workloads at the cell site. for slicing Use Case and cell site deployment (edge placement) Use Case.
Use Case- Automation. Equinix has a script to deploy Free5GC and gnodeb. We can look into how that fits into automation and auto deployment for an automation Use Case.
How are KubeArmor be integrated into the automated deployment (Muddasar).
Use Case- Secure Orchestration- using Enterprise and corporate policies, and well as standards requirements, demostrate the capability to deploy workloads securely, and then create network slices based on an SLA
Use Case- Overlay networks. Demonstarte the mapping of a 5G network slice to where the overlay gateway and controllers are located, and demonstrate how the placement of the UPF or RIC, where the traffic can be broken out to, support the overlay networks.
Remote Atestation of IoT devices
Muddasar summarized the Use Cases at a high level-
RAN deployment at the edge
Segregated core deployment- core cloud and edge cloud
Secure orchestration
Work Activities Overview
Establish/Re-establish permanet 5G Network capability in the labs
Must have requirments:
Core
RAN
Automation
Security orchestration
Workplan:
Define a central Use Case(s)
NaaS
Must have requirments:
LFN and LF Edge projects at the core, cloud, & edge
