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Private Enterprise Networks

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5G is a critical enabler for enterprise digital transformation

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Enterprises want mobile connectivity services now

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This is a big opportunity

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Aether

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ReliableConsistent performance at different

network loads

SecureEnable SIM-based security, and provide platform for the enterprise to control its own trafficSupport High Capacity

Support for not only consumer devices, but also massive IoT

Edge servicesLocal connectivity to edge services which may require back-end connectivity to public clouds

Aether: Enterprise-5G/LTE-Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service

ManagedEnable managed connectivity and edge cloud services while empowering enterprise with control of their own traffic, subscribers and apps

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How do we get there?

Distributed cloud principles

Disaggregation & virtualization

Software-defined networking

New radio, new generation mobile core

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Disaggregation and virtualization

RANgNB

App

Mobile Core

10Mobile core control-user plane separation (CUPS)

Mobile Core UP

Disaggregation and virtualization

RANgNB

App

Mobile Core CP

11Mobile core functional disaggregation

Mobile Core UP

Disaggregation and virtualization

RANgNB

App

Mobile Core CP

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Mobile Core UP

Disaggregation and virtualization

RAN

App

Mobile Core CP

RUDU CU-UP

CU-CP

RAN disaggregation

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Mobile Core UP

Disaggregation and virtualization

RAN

App

Virtualization

Mobile Core CP

RUDU CU-UP

CU-CP

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Mobile Core UP

Software-defined networking

App

SDN infrastructure

Mobile Core CP

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ONOS

ControlApp

ControlApp

CU-UP.p4*

CU-UP Control

Mobile Core-UP.p4*

Mobile Core-UP ControlRAN Control

* In the future

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Distributed cloud

RU Edge cloud Central cloud

Central cloud

Network functions orchestrated to run scalably and elastically across multiple clouds

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Aether leverages prior ONF projects

ONOSSD-RAN

TrellisKubernetes

XOS

Aether Management & Control Platform

Edge Cloud

Edge CloudInfrastructure

InfrastructureControl & Management

Access Services

Edge Apps

Managed Platforms & Services

Central Cloud

Access Service Mesh Control

Stratum

OMEC

Third Party Applications

Click on project names for more info

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Aether: Enterprise-5G/LTE-Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service

Enterprise

Employees

Employees

Production LineProduction Engineer

Sensors

Meeting Room

Enterprise Datacenter

Surveillance

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Aether: Enterprise-5G/LTE-Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service

EnterpriseEnterprise 5G Edge

Management & Control

Enterprise Control Portal

Third-PartyEnterprise App

Central Cloud

Mobile CoreControl Plane

Mobile CoreUser Plane

Employees

Employees

Production LineProduction Engineer

Sensors

Meeting Room

Enterprise Datacenter

Surveillance

Small Cell

Small Cell

Aether Edge

Third-PartyEnterprise Edge App

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Aether: Enterprise-5G/LTE-Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service

Mobile Core User Plane

Factory Automation Inference

Enterprise App Local

CDN Local

Mobile Core User Plane

Factory Automation

Machine Learning

Enterprise App Remote

Mobile Core Control Plane

Enterprise Control Portal

CDN Remote

Enterprise Database Local

Enterprise Database Remote

Enterprise Safety Inference

Enterprise Safety Machine Learning

Mobile Core User Plane

Mobile Core User Plane

Enterprise Edge Cloud Public Cloud

Mobile Core User Plane

Connectivity-as-a-Service

Public Cloud ML Apps Plug-and-Play

Enterprise Apps’ Components Hosting

Enterprise 5G Edge-as-a-Service

Network Slicing

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Aether: APIs for third-party edge applications and platforms

Enterprise Apps and Platforms

Aether API Gateway

SDN Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure

5G/LTE Connectivity

AWS APIs Azure APIs GCP APIs Aether APIs 3rd Party APIs

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Aether in operation

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Aether is operational today

Google Cloud

SPGW-U

RAN CU

ONOS

SPGW-U

RAN CU

ONOS

SPGW-U

RAN CU

ONOS

SPGW-U

RAN CU

ONOS

SPGW-U

RAN CU

ONOS

RAN Emulator

MME SPGW-C HSS

AetherManagement &

ControlONF Menlo Park

ONF Tucson

Intel Labs Hillsboro

More Sites

CBRS

CBRS

CBRS

CBRS

CBRS

CBRS

Operational today(iPhone 11 and Google Pixel 4

phones, CBRS dongles, IP cameras connected)

Operational today

CI/CD

Operational today

ONF Demo Edge Band 7

Operational today

(AT&T Atlanta, Infosys Dallas, Tech Mahindra Dallas, Accelleran Antwerp, GSLab Pune,…)

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Aether supports multiple networks, multiple clouds simultaneously

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Aether Edge

COTSOpenFlow SwitchVPN Router

OCP Servers

Management Switch

GPU Kit

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Aether Connectivity

CBRS Small Cell(Sercom, Accelleran)

Band 7 Small Cell(Accelleran)

CBRS Handset(iPhone 11, Google Pixel 4)

Band 7 Handset(Samsung)

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Aether and eSIMs allow for dual private-MNO network connectivity

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Aether supports multiple spectrum bands

Woojoong Kim & Jeremy Ronquillo, ONF

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Aether Edge at Intel Labs Hillsboro

Christian Maciocco, Intel Labs

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Aether management and control platform

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Aether allows for global monitoring of all edges

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Aether can use satellite backhaul – as primary or as backup

Pingping Lin, Jeremy Ronquillo, ONF

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ONF-Inmarsat partnership for Aether satellite backhaul

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Aether satellite backhaul performance

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Enterprise Edge Apps on Aether

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Google Cloud

Infosys

Microsoft

ONF

Aether applications: expect this to grow fast

CDN

ML-driven GPU-based smart spaces

Azure IoT platform integration:ML-driven object identification

Google AI Platform Integration:ML-driven foot traffic counting

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ONF’s CDN application on Aether

CBRS Phone

CBRSSmall Cell

Aether Edge

RANCentral Unit

Mobile CoreUser Planes

Aether Controland Management

PlatformEnterprise

Control Portal

Mobile Core Control Plane

Google Cloud

CDN Local

CDN Remote CDN Archive

Aether ONF Menlo Park Edge Site

Aether Intel Labs Hillsboro Edge Site

Aether Demo Edge Site

Licensed BandSmall Cell

Microsoft Azure

Mobile Core Control Plane

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ONF’s CDN application on Aether

Local content

Remote content

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Microsoft’s object identification application on Aether

Camera

CBRSSmall Cell

Aether Edge

RANCentral Unit

Mobile CoreUser Planes

Aether Controland Management

PlatformEnterprise

Control Portal

Mobile Core Control Plane

Google Cloud

Image ClassifierService

Azure IoT Edge

Aether ONF Menlo Park Edge Site

Aether Intel Labs Hillsboro Edge Site

Aether Demo Edge Site

Licensed BandSmall Cell

Microsoft Azure

Mobile Core Control Plane

Azure IoT Hub

Video Collection

Azure Cognitive Services

Display

Raspberry Pi

Camera Capture Display

Azure IoT Edge

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Microsoft’s object identification application on Aether

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Microsoft’s object identification application on Aether

Sercom CBRS dongle

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Infosys’ GPU-based smart spaces application on Aether

CBRSSmall Cell

Aether Edge

RANCentral Unit

Mobile CoreUser Planes

Aether Controland Management

PlatformEnterprise

Control Portal

Mobile Core Control Plane

Google Cloud

Camera Capture

Inference Engine

Aether ONF Menlo Park Edge Site

Aether Intel Labs Hillsboro Edge Site

Aether Demo Edge Site

Licensed BandSmall Cell

Microsoft Azure

Mobile Core Control Plane

Learning Engine Dashboard & Analytics

Camera

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Infosys’ GPU-based smart spaces application on Aether

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Google Cloud’s foot traffic counting application on Aether

ONF Mobile Team

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SD-RAN and Aether

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SD-RAN

Disaggregation

CU

RRC

PDCP

RLC

MAC

PHYScheduling

DISAGGREGATION

RU

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PHY-LO

PHY-HI

MAC

RLC

Scheduling

Packet & Signal Processing Radio Resource Management Control

Option 7.2

Option 2F1

Open Fronthaul

CU-C

CU-U

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PDCP

RRC

PDCP-U

SDAP

PDCP-C

RRC

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SD-RAN

Disaggregation

RF Front End

D/A ConversionPHYMACPDCP

RRCCore Network Control Plane

Core Network User Plane

control

RLCScheduling

CENTRAL UNIT(CU)

DISTRIBUTED UNIT(DU)

RADIO UNIT(RU)

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SD-RAN

SDN control of the RAN

RF Front End

D/A ConversionPHYMACPDCP-U RLC

Scheduling

RAN Real Time Control

RRC

Near-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)

SDAP

PDCP-C

CU-C

CU-U

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ONOS RIC

~10 ms~100 ms10-100 ms

A1>> 1 sLatency for Control

Real-time

O1

O-RAN COMPLIANT SB - E2

RAN APPS(Radio Connection Mgmt, Mobility Mgmt, QoS Mgmt, Interference Mgmt, 3rd Party Apps,

Trained Model)

O-RAN COMPLIANT NB - A1

Non-Real-Time RIC

NB CORE API (R-NIB, Flow Objectives, Intents)

DISTRIBUTED RIC NEAR-RT CORE(R-NIB management, Notifications, High-availability & Scale-out)

E2

ONF O-DU

ONF O-CU-C ONOS

CU-U.p4

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F1-CF1-U

Third-partyO-RU

OpenFronthaul

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SD-RAN architecture

Aether Edge

Open Fronthaul

F1-UF1-C

E2E2

Near-Real-Time RIC

O-CU-UO-eNB

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Aether Control and Management Platform

Non-Real-Time RIC

O-CU-CE1

O-RU

O-DU

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ONOS RIC

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Takeaways

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Aether hosts edge components of IoT and ML

platforms of Azure and GCP, and allows for

seamless operation of all apps that leverage these platforms and their APIs

Aether edge uses enterprise’s existing backhaul

and may also use a satellite

backhaul

Aether enables multi-cloud

connectivity to all public clouds

Aether’s mobile core control is

centralized and provides

connectivity-as-a-service

Aether managesand controls all enterprise

edges as a managed-service

Aether seamlesslyconverges private network connectivity and on-prem edge cloud to empower

enterprise digital transformation

Aether is O-RAN architecture consistent and already hosts an

ONOS-based RIC

Aether is ONF’s Enterprise-5G/LTE-

Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service

Key takeaways

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Aether ecosystem

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Thank you