Mobile Core Evolution

Frederic Lejay
Sales Specialist Mobility
02.06.2020
Agenda
1. 5G Mobile Core Business Opportunities (5 min)
2. Cisco Mobile Core References and Roadmap (15min)
3. Evolution 3G/4G to 5G Core (15min)
• Network Domain, Subscriber DB Domain, Charging & Policy Domain
• Interworking to existing 4G Mobile Core

4. Automation and Orchestration in Mobile Core (5 min)

5. Discussion (5min)

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5G Mobile Core
Business
Opportunities

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5G will drive new business & economic impact
User experience, business solution & operations re-imagined

Consumer
More Devices & Connections
18 28.5
Billion Billion

More Busy-hour Traffic

2.8 7.2
PetaBytes PetaBytes
Enterprise Industry

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5G Evolution - New Business Opportunities
SP Mobile 2025 Consumer 45% Enterprise 30% Vertical 25%
Revenue mix: Today Consumer 70% Enterprise 25% 5%

Consumers Enterprises Verticals

• Ubiquitous Ultra High Fidelity Media • Nomadic secure Mobile Workers
• AR/VR: entertainment, gaming • Tele-presence, rich UC / UHD
Digitisation benefits (e.g. transport,
• • Lower IT cost and improve agility:
Smart Cities lifestyle improvement) • Cloud speed
• Workflows improvement
• Access convergence
• Transport: connected fleets/infra
• eHealth: remote supervision/reaction
• Manufacturing: automation, JIT supply
• Hospitality: connected staff, assets
• Energy: autonomous grid
• Public Safety: Rich multi-media coms

Service Creation & GTM

eMTC NaaS Models
SP, or eMBB eFWA
Supervisory Data “Slices”
Private 5G where (e) means beyond 4G capabilities Control Acquisition

Critical API
Bandwidth Lower Latency Scale Cloud Agility Cost Reduction
Resiliency Programmable

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5G Demands a New Path to Profitability
Legacy decision factors are reprioritized

3G Coverage &
Subscribers 5G Services &
Massive Scale Massive Capacity Upgrades
Data Plans Experiences 10x ↑ Bandwidth
10x ↓ Latency

Architectural Transformation
Appliance & VM based Cloud Native
Disaggregation + Automation +
Virtualization + Cloud Native

Enterprise Applications
Simple Backhaul Mass Scale Service Edge Mobile Workforce + IoT +
Industrial + In-building

Open New Business Models & Ecosystem

Closed B2C -> B2B -> B2B2X
Fast Fail, Canary
Consumption First

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Cisco Mobile Core
References and
Roadmap

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Cisco Virtualized Packet Core supporting various Use Cases
5 years of carrier hardening
Live SP Country NFVI VIM Cisco VNFs Use Cases Capacity
2015 AT&T Various HP VMware UP Connected Car
Naka Mobile Switzerland Cisco VMware UP MVNO/MVNE
Legos France Cisco VMware UP MVNO

UP: Virtual User Plane Gateways (GGSN, SGW, PGW, CUPS)

Aspider Netherlands Cisco VMware UP M2M MVNE
Verizon USA HP/Dell OpStack UP, PCRF Enterprise, MBB
2016 STC Saudi Arabia Cisco VMware UP Enterprise, IOT
XL Axiata Indonesia Cisco VMware CP, UP Mobile Broadband (MBB) 600Gbps
AT&T USA HP OpStack UP, PCRF, 5G NSA MBB, VoLTE, P Safety, FWA 140M subs
Vodacom South Africa Cisco OpStack CP, UP MBB
Tier-1 MSP Russia Cisco OpStack CP, UP MBB, Corporate
2017 Tier-1 MSP Belarus Cisco OpStack CP, UP, PCRF MBB

CP: Virtual Control Plane (SGSN, MME)

T-Mobile USA Cisco OpStack UP, PCRF MBB, VoLTE 80M subs, 100Tbps
Verizon USA Cisco OpStack UP CUPS, 5G NSA MBB,m FWA
SFR France Cisco OpStack UP MBB 10M subs
Voiceworks Netherlands Cisco OpStack UP MVNO/MVNE Enterprise
Tier-1 MSP USA Cisco OpStack UP, vPCRF VoLTE 40M subs
Ice Wireless Canada Cisco OpStack CP, UP Rural
WG2/Telenor EMEA Cisco OpStack UP IOT, MVNE
Vodafone India Cisco CVIM (OPS) UP,PCRF,FW MBB 30M Subs, 800 Gbps
Tier-1 MSP New Zealand HP>Cisco VMW>CVIM CP, UP, 5G NSA, CUPS MBB, FWA
2018 Tier-1 MSP Australia Cisco OpStack CP, UP, PCRF MVNO, MBB
Tier-1 MSP India Cisco CVIM (OPS) CP, UP MBB
Spark New Zealand Cisco OpStack CP, 5G NSA MBB, FWA
MTS Russia Cisco CVIM (OPS) CP, UP, 5G NSA MBB 45M subs
Korea Telecom South Korea HP OpStack 5G NSA, 5G SA, CUPS FWA, MBB, Enterprise
2019 Xplornet Canada Cisco CVIM (OPS) UP Rural
Rakuten Japan Cisco/Quanta CVIM (OPS) UP, CP, 5G, CUPS MBB, VoLTE 4,000 “edge” sites
KDDI Japan Cisco CVIM (OPS) UP 5G NSA, CUPS MBB
Selection from >115 Cisco VPC deployments
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World 1st Nationwide 5G SA

The World’s First Cloud-native 5G

Standalone Network
Challenge: A multi-year plan to protect against
“ This was a significant
undertaking for us, shifting
from a centralized to a
distributed core architecture
unexpected growth in 4G while leading the market in 5G
across our footprint, and we
deployment
couldn’t have achieved that
Solution: Cisco Ultra Cloud Core with integrated without virtualization. This
architectural flexibility (vEPC/CUPS/NSA/SA/CN) and means we can further our
Any-G support (3G/4G/5G)
5G plans with more flexibility
and agility to deliver new
Taking a new software-centric approach services to our customers.
• Creating a radically new business model
• Unprecedented solution time to market

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Neville Ray, CTO
T-Mobile
”
Getting Started for 5G NOW with Cisco
Ultra Virtualized Packet Core >115 deployments 5G NSA and SA >15 Contracts, 7 Live, >20 Trials Underway

• Largest live vEPC worldwide

(>10Tbps capacity full NFV, moving to 100Tbps)
• World’s First 5G SA on Multi-Vendor
Radio and Core July 2019 Source: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/t-mobile-achieves-a-
worlds-first-with-standalone-5g-data-session

• 5G Network Refresh
Modernize with vEPC and CUPS

• World’s 1st end to end cloud native • And many more….

ready network

• World’s 1st 5G NSA live launch

Q1/2019

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5G Non Standalone (NSA) In Pr
od
since uction
2019

Cisco EPC Fully Supports 5G NSA Introduction Today

NSA (LTE assisted) NR,
EPC Connected • 5G NSA (Option 3/3a/3x) allows reuse of existing 4G EPC and
4G RAN to introduce 5G New Radio (NR) as a supplementary RAT

EPC • Specific new features required on existing nodes as summarized

below:
Option 3/3a/3x

S1-C S1-U S1-U

Xx-U
M S
Xx-C

LTE eNB NR gNB

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Cisco Mobile Core Portfolio Direction
Move to a cloud ready model Building for success in Enterprise

ADC
Ultra CUPS
CUTO

ngUPF
• Cloud friendly (on-prem, hybrid, public)
• Building for 5G verticals / use cases
• Holistic radio, application, middleware,
platform approach
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Cisco Integrated In-Line Services

Service Provider Use Cases PGW/PCEF Services

Enhanced
Encryption is killing HEE/ADC/ Mobile
Analytics &
my special billing I want to launch Tethering Firewall/NAT
Charging
plans. What
special billing
I want to know options do I have plans for
what’s SPI + DPI MN:MN
specific Apps Value-adds
Billing MN:Internet
happening in
my network
Can I provide
These Apps Content
priority treatment CUTO
change every few Filtering/ICAP
to some delay-
months. How do I
These OTT Voice sensitive Apps
keep my DPI
Apps are impacting Signatures up- URL Rating Traffic
my revenues. I want to-date Optimization
to know how you Can I ensure
could help me here optimal usage of • Monetize Services, Optimize Network
scarce radio Usage, increase end-user experience
resources for all my
subscribers • Efficient usage of compute resources
with less complexity in Gi-LAN
(integrated CGNAT/FW)
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Differentiation: Cisco’s Unique RAN Densification
Technology
S1-MME MME Identify & manage large
flows when heavy cell site
S11 congestion

Inbound traffic Internet

RAN Switch
CUTO SAEGW SGi
S1u

Content Aware
Machine Learning Algorithm in real time
Cell Aware manages large flows to increase
subscriber throughput and increase RAN
Subscriber Aware
capacity
Protocol/App Aware

20% 40% 20%

Avg. User Throughput Increase Cell Site Capacity Increase RAN CapEx/OpEx Reduction
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Cisco 5G SA - Portfolio

AUSF UDM UDR NSSF BSF NRF CHF

SMSF NEF AMF SMF PCF AF SCP

Cisco NF
UE RAN UPF
Partner NF

Future Cisco NF
AUSF Authentication Server Function NEF Network Exposure Function Not in portfolio
AMF
AF
Access and Mobility Management Function
Application Function
N3IWF NSSF
NRF
Network Slice Selection Function
Network Repository Function
DN Data Networks PCF Policy Control Function
SMF Session Management Function UPF User Plane Function Cisco optional
N3IWF Non-3GPP Interworking Function (R)AN (Radio) Access Network

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Cisco 5G SA Portfolio
Key Differentiators
SMI Common Execution Environment for CP apps
Common Implementation à 3 Layer Architecture, Telemetry, LCM, CDL, Engineering
Common Components à gRPC, K8s, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, CDL, etc.
Common NF lifecycle, OAM, automation, and packaging option

AMF SMF PCF NRF

• History of Open / Interoperability • Native dual core cnNF (4G/5G)
with RAN Vendors w/ range of combo core options
• Intelligent Paging Algorithms • N4 Enhancements to leverage
history of UPF Inline Services
• Rich configurable local policy
(CUTO, CUSP, Traffic Shaping)
behavior
• AMF Set based on CDL • Leverages history of Tier 1 PGW
deployments & features
• Leveraging 10+ yrs of SGSN/MME
• common EPC/5G LI option
deployments in 50+ countries
r
Car
• Configurable business logic for
• Native dual core cnNF (4G/5G)
resource selection
with combo PCRF/PCF option
• 3GPP based NF profile and
• Fast service creation using
additional enhancements
service-provider-configured
business rules • DNS Proxy capabilities
• Leverages history of Tier 1 • Integrated SLF option
PCRF deployments & features
SA
T1 U ertifie
d • Evolution to Cisco SCP (Rel 16)
ier C

• Extensive integrated IP services: Subscriber • Integrated 3rd pty applications for • Integrated fastpath with Vector • Integrated UP/UPF
Firewall, Tethering, DPI, ICAP, ADC, HE, … traffic opt and TCP optimisation Packet Processing Single VM solution

UPF
StarOS VM for UP apps
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Cisco Next Generation Combo Core

AMF/MME PCF/PCRF cnGW/SMF NRF/SCP

SMI/MDP & refactored/new code

“combo NF”

Rest EP Diameter EP Common Infrastructure, OAM and lifecycle management

Application workers
Common generic services: monitoring, telemetry, tracing
Datastore
Integrated/common OAM
and lifecycle Converged Helm Charts App-specific containers with distinct service configs
(launch, upgrade,
configure, monitor) Logging & configuration Common or distinct shared data layer - option
Monitoring & telemetry
Kubernetes foundation
Dimensioning of composite VNF is an aggregate of both app dimensioning’s
Common Services
StarOS

4G UP 5G UPF UP/UPF

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Container based deployment model VM based deployment model

Deployment models - 2020

ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION Time-to-market infrastructure

micro services orchestration leveraging existing 4G (CUPS)
virtual machine orchestration deployments
• Micro services based 5G control
VIRTUAL MACHINES
plane with common Subscriber
KUBERNETES CLUSTERS Management Infrastructure (SMI)
• Early 5G breadth compared to 4G
AMF SMF PCF

MME SGW-c PGW-c PCRF

UPF SGW-u PGW-u

HARDWARE
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Deployment models – 2021/2022

ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION Bare metal ‘4G & 5G combo

micro services orchestration nodes’
virtual machine orchestration
• Bare metal kubernetes clusters
VIRTUAL KUBERNETES • Smaller foot print deployment
MACHINES CLUSTERS model support

PGW-u PGW-c
• Cloud Hosted Control Plane

SGW-u MME PCF SGW-c

UPF AMF PCRF SMF

Combo UPF Combo AMF Combo PCF Combo SMF

HARDWARE
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 Cisco Mobile Core Evolution Tracks for Enterprise
e
p s a t edg
Gb o re
s i n th e c
Tb p

s
<10m
y
la t e n c
s of
B illio n Phase 2
es
d e v ic

4G Phase 1

Ultra Reliable Low Latency (URLLC)

Enhanced MBB (eMBB) Massive Machine Type (mMTC)
• 5G Stand-Alone (3GPP R16+)
Mobile Broadband, Fixed Wireless Enhanced Fixed Wireless (eFWA)
• 5G Non-Stand-Alone (3GPP R15) • Cloud Native & Automation
Access and IoT
• Mobile Edge Compute (MEC)
• Virtual Packet Core Performance • Performance to 10sGbps
• Open virtualised RAN eco-system • Slicing & Intent Based Networking
& Resiliency
• Hybrid deployment models (On-prem, • Hybrid deployment models (On-perm UP,
• Heterogeneous Access
Cloud EPC, Cloud identity and policy) Cloud CP, NaaS)
• Policy, QoS & Security

Today
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 5G Enterprise Services
Cisco Enablers Incl. 4G/5G Core
5G Collaboration Components
Mobile SD-WAN
Unified Domain Center - Intent Based
Networking

Smart Office & Remote Expert

Across any network – any domain –
Across enterprise WAN, Campus, Service Provider or Enterprise
Cloud & Remote Mobile End-Points
5G FWA
OpenRoaming

Private/Local LTE/ 5G
Wi-Fi 6

Branch & IIoT Routing

Federated Access over Wi Fi & 5G

Managed and NaaS

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Evolution 3G/4G to
5G Core

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5G Migration Paths
Dual Connectivity

Single Connectivity

Option 2
Standalone NR,
NGC Connected
Option 3/3a/3x EPC NGC

NSA (LTE assisted) NR,

EPC Connected NG-C NG-U

EPC NGC
Option 1 M
S1-C S1-U S1-U
Standalone LTE, LTE eNB NR gNB
EPC Connected
EPC M
Xx-U
S Option 7/7a/7x
Xx-C
LTE eNB NR gNB NSA (LTE assisted) NR,
S1-C S1-U NGC Connected
EPC NGC Option 4/4a
M NSA (NR assisted) NR,
NG-C NG-U NG-U NGC Connected
LTE eNB
EPC NGC
Xn-U
M Xn-C
S
NG-U NG-C NG-U
eLTE eNB NR gNB
Xn-U
S M
Xn-C
eLTE eNB NR gNB

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Introducing 5G SA Core (5GC)
• 5GC brings many new capabilities:
- Native support for Slicing and NPN Valuable for new
services
- Extra security
- API based service exposure
- Low latency (also on C-plane)
- New QoS and charging framework .. which is where we
-… expect new source of
revenues!
• BUT doesn’t support legacy stuff (on
purpose to favor innovation!)
- No 2G/3G/CSFB
- No Gx/Gy/Gz (PCC infra to be rebuilt.. This
Available on EPC and
is more relevant than I-RAT!) still required for MBB (at
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least for some time)
 Possible paths from EPC/5G-NSA to 5GC/5G-SA
MBB New 5G services
SA FWA (VR, IIoT, V2X, ..)

Small Legacy (e.g. no need for 2G/3G/CS, simple PCC,..)

1. Migrate all services to 5GC ASAP, focus on feature parity
2. Then leverage 5GC for new services

NSA MBB FWA

Strong Legacy (2G/3G/CS still needed, complex PCC, ..)

1. Start building 5GC for FWA and new 5G services
2. Move MBB to SA later (after 2G/3G/CS sunset, PCC/IMS migration to SBA ..)

New 5G services
SA FWA
(VR, IIoT, V2X, ..) MBB

2019 2020 2022+

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Realistic 5G deployment (early 2020s) New 5G
apps

IMS
EPC 5GC
5GC**
with 5G-NSA Internet
(Option 2)
(Option 2)
(Option 3/3a/3x)
CS
SGW MME

5G 5G
5G
4G 4G
4G-5G I-RAT
3G
LTE-NR DC
I-RAT

MBB stays on EPC with 5G NSA to No Mobility

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Start deploying 5GC for new services
Next Step: Moving LTE RAN to 5GC directly
Option 4 or Option 7? It depends on 5G spectrum

• 5G Spectrum only/mainly in • 5G Spectrum in low/mid bands

mmWave (>6GHz) Progressive 5G RAN extension
Only spot 5G coverage, need to and 3G/4G re-farming to 5G
rely on 4G for full coverage Full 5G coverage but lower 5G
Re-farming 3G to 4G data rate
4G RAN upgraded to connect with Complement 5G with 4G for
5GC as Primary (Option 7) higher bandwidth in low bands
(Option 4)

5G 5G 5G
5G
4G 4G
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 Core and Backend Evolve at Different Rates

3G to 4G was mostly seamless

HLR User DB

SGSN MME HSS SPR

GGSN PGW BSS
PCRF Account

OCS Tarif
5G is brand new
UDM UDR Backend systems
AMF
5GC upgrades are difficult
SMF PCF
Integrating the new network
CHF functions is not trivial
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Selecting the Brain Others are adding
SMF to existing EPC
HSS
Node selection
DNS PCRF

OCS
LTE SAEGW
vCU MME SMF OfCS

AUSF
NRF
5G NSA
AMF UDM PCF

SGW-C S5-C CHF

SMF SMF
vCU
5G SA
UPF Gi Services

IMS/RCS
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UPF
 would be, for example, by IMSI range.
5.2. Interfacing 4G to UDM

New 5G UDM/UDR with Legacy HSS and Repository

In this The
option (3GPP option#6) option
UDM [3GPP
involves option
component
a new #6]
canthe
network UDM from
integrate withENEA
HSS provides
data native 4G interfaces; In this
model a 5G user
store viamanaging
ccess management) functions: accessing
LDAP interface. across 4G radio will have
mobility,The standard interface is their request routed to the UDM
os, keeping datacomponent usingbydiameter
3GPP TSrouting
29.335(fandc ENEA
i abehasedalready
i he diag a a SDM f ); i g

Options
specified
connections.
would be, for example,
achieved by IMSI
interworking atrange.
both protocol and schema EPS Data Integration for 5G
itory level (as schemas can be modified) with the common
The UDM component can integrate with HSS data
data stores
s an equivalent Ud interface for HSS in tothe market.
query for The UDM chooses to
store via LDAP interface. The standard interface is
communicate
ption#5] who are connecting on 4G to radio.
HSS or5GUDR based on subscriber
specified by 3GPP TS 29.335 and ENEA has already
onment (ENEA has an identifier (IMSIprovisioning
adaptable for 4G or subscription permanent id 5.3. Nhss
achieved interworking at both protocol and schema
(SUPI). As in option
e authenticated correctly by HSS via the Ud fork 5.1 Secure LDAP is used to In this option – which is 3GPP option#2 – a new interface point is being defined (Nhss)
level (as schemas can be modified) with the common
communicate and the schema (attribute name etc.) enable communication from UDM/HSS (TS 23.632).
data stores in the market. The UDM chooses to
can be adapted to provide a seamless interface
to which communicate to HSS or UDR based on subscriber
(without change to HSS).
ork hich identifier (IMSI for 4G or subscription permanent id
hich uses (SUPI).5.2aAs Interfacing
in option 5.1 4G Secure
to UDM LDAP is used to IMS
– Separating
make the communicate and the schema (attribute
There is a variation in option 5.2 where the name etc.)
IMS interface is chosen to be kept separate; this
bers. can bemay adapted
be dueto provideforacutover,
to policy seamless interface in this case for IMS capability the ENEA UDM
for example,
(without change towill
component HSS).act as an MME interfacing to the 4G HSS. i.e. all IMS interface will be to 4G
gradually Option 2a: Interfacing 4G to
HSS and therefore a 5GC subscriber who requires service will be interfaced via UDM to HSS
separate 5.2a Interfacing 4G to UDM – Separating IMS UDM
via S6a interface. In respect of this the UDM
common There is a variation in option 5.2 where the IMS interface is chosen to be kept separate; this
will emulate an MME and as such a 5G
option #1 may be due to policy for cutover, for example, in this case for IMS capability the ENEA UDM
session triggers the registration into 4G IMS
component will act as an MME interfacing to the 4G HSS. i.e. all IMS interface will be to 4G
via HSS.
HSS and therefore a 5GC subscriber who requires service will be interfaced via UDM to HSS
via S6aThis
interface. In respect
is an option of thisinterfaces
for native the UDM based The interface (Nhss) we consider this to be in the 2021 timeframe as incumbent vendors
will emulate
on the an MME andoption
deployment as such a 5Gby the
required
Option 3: New Nhss to enable
also required to adopt the interface and upgrade the HSS. ENEA will be delivering t
Option 1: operator.
session Interfacing HSS tointo 4G IMS
triggers the registration communication
interface for the UDM product in Q4 2020. In thefrom
interim UDM/HSS
timeframe we recommend consider
Data Repository
via HSS. other options as discussed (3GPP
in this Rel.16
paper. TS 23.632)
This is an option for native interfaces based
on the deployment option required by the
operator.

Option 2b: Interfacing 4G to UDM,

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separating IMS
 Rx (diameter) in Rel-15
Voice Services in 5G SBI (http) in Rel-16

PCF
• Only IMS voice in 5G
IMS P-CSCF (SIP)
• No CS Fallback
IMS-AGW (RTP) SMF

S5-c
SGW UPF
S5-u

MSC MME AMF

Sv N26
IuCS S1 N3 N2
N3
N2
3G LTE eLTE 5G NR

EPS RAT VoNR

Fallback Fallback
3GPP Rel-16 SRVCC NR to 3G
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 SMS over 5G
SMSF IP-SM-GW

SMS over NAS N21

N20

AMF UDM
N1 N8

UE

• SMS in 5G is supported via SMS over IP/IMS through introduction of SMS

Function (SMSF)
• Each UE is associated with only one SMSF in the registered PLMN
• When serving AMF needs to be re-allocated for a given UE, the source AMF
includes SMSF identifier as part of UE context transfer to target AMF

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Automation and
Orchestration in
Mobile Core

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 The Operation Complexity
• What really matters is how to manage the DEPLOYMENT VIEW
network(s)
UPF
UPF UPF

• Common NFVI for multiple network slices UPF UPF UPF

UPF UPF UPF
SMF UPF UPF UPF
UPF
UPF UPF UPF

Single automation framework

UPF
UPF UPF

• UPF

UPF
UPF
UPF
UPF

UPF
UPF

Common deployment and lifecycle management

UPF UPF
UPF SMF
SMF UPF

UPF UPF UPF

UPF UPF

VM-based or cloud native VNFs for EPC and 5GC

UPF
UPF UPF
UPF UPF UPF
UPF

NFs UPF
UPF

UPF
SMF
UPF

UPF UPF

(and also for transport network, RAN, etc.)

UPF
UPF
UPF
UPF

UPF
UPF
UPF

• Single pane of glass for network UPF

UPF

management
10s locations
Common telemetry across all VNFs SMF
mature orchestration is a key
success factor for deployment
100 to 1000s locations
Single interface for alarm, statistics, KPI UPF

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Cisco Framework for 5GC VNFs and EPC VNFs
Service Assurance (Crosswork + Matrix)

NED NED NED NSO NED NFVO

Move to
CN later ESC
5GC VNFM
(AMF, SMF, PCF, ..)
PGW/ MME/
PCRF Netconf
GGSN SGW K8s cluster API

VM VM
…
… VM VM VM VM VM … VM VM VM VM VM
VIM
Storage / Compute / Switch
• Cloud Native or VM-based VNFs and Bare Metal Evolution
Common NFVI
Single orchestration with NSO (VNF lifecycle & service configuration)
Common integrated management with Crosswork/Matrix (FM, PM)
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Discussion

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Getting Started NOW for 5G
• Mobile Packet Core becomes the strategic service control point for 5G monetisation
• Enables the key architecture attributes of slicing and edge services (MEC)

4G/5G NSA Core

Benefit from Cisco’s
• Cisco 4G/5G NSA EPC is in production today strong experience
• Cisco supports the widest Interoperability in market. and market leading
• Cisco has 5 years experience in virtualized EPC
EPC/vEPC as we
move towards 5G
5G SA Core

• Microservices and Cloud-Native from Day 1, VPP enhanced user plane

• Wide portfolio of 5GC Network Functions (SMF, UPF, AMF, PCF, NRF, NSSF, etc)
• Ready for lab trials, with commercial products 1H2020

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