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DELL TECHNOLOGIES and 5G Analysis and Strategy to Capture the 5G Mobile Opportunity DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND 5G Analysis and strategy to capture the 5G mobile opportunity November 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................................3 THE DELL TECHNOLOGIES 5G STRATEGY ..........................................................................................................................4 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................................6 1.1 5G NEW DEMANDS ..............................................................................................................................................7 1.2 NEW TRAFFIC TYPES...........................................................................................................................................7 1.3 IOT ...........................................................................................................................................................................7 1.4 AR/VR .....................................................................................................................................................................9 1.5 MISSION-CRITICAL. ........................................................................................................................................... 10 1.6 ENHANCED MOBILE BROADBAND ................................................................................................................ 10 1.7 DATA PLANE PERFORMANCE ......................................................................................................................... 11 1.8 NETWORK EFFICIENCIES ................................................................................................................................ 12 1.9 OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES ......................................................................................................................... 13 2. TELECOM INDUSTRY STATUS ........................................................................................................................................ 14 3. TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES ...............................................................................................................................................17 3.1 AIR INTERFACE ....................................................................................................................................................17 3.2 PACKET CORE: GENERAL ............................................................................................................................... 18 3.3 SDN .......................................................................................................................................................................20 3.4 AUTOMATION, ORCHESTRATION, REPORTING AND ANALYTICS ........................................................20 4. DELL TECHNOLOGIES’ PERSPECTIVE ON 5G ............................................................................................................ 21 5. CONCLUSION: DELL TECHNOLOGIES - POWERING THE CLOUD-GENERATION MOBILITY ERA ................23 A. REFERENCES .....................................................................................................................................................................24 B. ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................................................26 Executive summary The impending 5G transition, with Imagine the future – a scalable, significant advances in bandwidth composable and automated wireless and improved latency and quality network infrastructure that meets the of service (QoS), will enable a new high-performance needs of tomorrow’s wave of services including enhanced demanding consumer, Internet of mobile broadband, connected cars, Things (IoT), and mission-critical drones, smart retail, industrial robots, services and makes it easy to build, and much more. deploy, manage, operate, and assure new end-to-end applications. The new In the last several years, Service era of 5G networks will see not only Provider networks have begun a technology innovations and operational journey towards software-defined innovations, but also business model infrastructure, leveraging the innovations that result in intelligent capabilities of compute, network devices and applications consuming and storage virtualization to drive and generating data like never before. new capital and operational models, These intelligent applications will deliver new services, and improve introduce a new set of requirements overall service delivery economics. – latency, bandwidth, capacity, The new operational imperatives for coverage – that require transformation Communications Service Providers of the entire end-to-end architecture, (CoSPs), can largely be captured in from radio access network (RAN) three core technology shifts: to Operational Support Systems • Leveraging increasing (OSS). The entirety of this software- disaggregation of hardware defined infrastructure – from Cloud and software stacks to shift RAN (C-RAN) to virtualized network workloads towards general functions to software-programmable purpose compute, such as x86. switches and routers, is built on common building blocks of compute, • Decoupling core infrastructure storage, and networking. What used and networking services from to be possible only in science fiction applications and protocols, and movies – flying drones, driverless exposing those services as cars and planes, machine-to-machine a platform to applications. interactions, seamless communication around the globe – is fast becoming • Developing a set of information a reality. models, data models and APIs to transform operations The wireless industry has from bespoke processes and always experienced accelerating associated infrastructure scripts, demand and innovation, from the early to more unified automation days of cellular voice mobility of 1G frameworks that allow service to circuit-switched data of 2G to providers to develop DevOps- high-speed ubiquitous data access style operational processes of 3G and 4G. Every decade, the mobile 5G networks will be the first true industry goes through a major upgrade end-to-end network built around these cycle of their network architecture paradigms, extending virtualization into – from the Radio Access Network the radio access network and network (RAN) to the Packet Core – to deliver edge, virtualizing the network core, and technology innovations that meet the extending end-to-end network overlays insatiable demand of mobile consumers for network and service slicing. and increasing proliferation and capabilities of smart mobile devices and the new generation of applications and services. 3 | Dell Technologies and the 5G mobile opportunity The Dell Technologies • These new services and applications will drive new 5G strategy architectural, technical, and Understanding these technology shifts, operational models, forcing Dell Technologies started executing on things to be done differently a strategy founded on the following from before – from design to guiding principles. Service providers implementation to operations. should consider these suggested principles as the “new realities” to • The new operational model will which they need to adapt in order leverage APIs and software- to succeed in the 5G era: programmability to a level not yet seen in networking, beyond that defined in SDN today, with • 5G is a new foundational the separation of control and user architecture, part of the planes happening not just at the continuous once-in-a-decade macro level (network), but at the re-architecture of cellular micro-level (VNFs). networks. The changes are broader than a mere new access • This new paradigm shift will technology. 5G represents an result in an increased need important architectural pivot. for de-centralization of the Dell Technologies (and, more infrastructure, and cause the broadly, Dell Technologies), boundaries between “network has the opportunity not only switches”, gateways, termination to capture this pivot, but points and “servers” to dissipate to lead in defining the underlying over time. What we currently infrastructure technology. think of as the data plane of a virtual network function running • 5G will be the first end-to- on compute will move to the end architecture which is fully network switches, and what software-defined, from the we currently think of as the radio through the core. Dell network data plane will extend Technologies mastered software- (virtually) into the servers. This defined in the data center, and will yield network switches which we are in the best position to need even more “openness” help our service provider partners and programmability than extend this all the way to edge. they have today, and network- • While more main stream integrated servers to incorporate 5G adoption is likely to be increasingly network-orientated a few years away, this is a accelerators (FPGAs, switch transformation journey, not fabrics, etc.). an overnight upgrade. Dell Technologies is already engaged with leading service providers, network and technology vendors, as well as industry standardization bodies, to drive the architecture evolution, 5G-related incubation, pre- production and proof of concept developments around
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