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Brief Survey on 5G RAN Practical Deployment Scenario: From 2-tier (4G) to 3-tier (5G)

Brief Survey on 5G RAN Practical Deployment Scenario: From 2-tier (4G: BBU and RRH) to 3-tier (5G...

01/18/2018

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul

Open vs. Proprietary 5G Fronthaul Interface: SK Telecom Case

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01/11/2018

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul, SK Telecom

Pay TV market in South Korea: IPTV, Cable TV and Satellite TV - December 2017

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12/14/2017

IPTV, Korea

Korea Mobile Communications Market Report Q2 2017

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09/25/2017

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Netmanias Interview with Juniper Networks: Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

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08/01/2017

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

Netmanias Interview with Nuage/Nokia - Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

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06/14/2017

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

SDN/NFV: Strategies and Progresses in Network Operators

Distributed vCPE | vCPE on Aggregation Switch or PE | Centralized vCPE | Centralized vCPE – Why S...

04/18/2017

SDN/NFV, vCPE

Korea Communication Review, Q2 2017

Korea Communication Review: The Trusted News and Resource for Korean ICT Market and Technologies

04/14/2017

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul, IoT, KT, LG U+, LTE, SDN/NFV, SK Telecom, Samsung

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

• Content Delivery Network Overview • Content Delivery Network Architecture • Content Delivery Ma...

CDN

Key Industry Challenges and devising new models for Business enablement using End to End Network Slicing

Network Slice is a concept within 3GPP CT and its history can be traced back to R13/R14 with the...

5G, SDN/NFV

5G Core Architecture - Evolution || Use Cases || Services

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5G in Apprehension – The Beginning of New Era

It’s about architecture vision for 5G, which going to be a technology beyond cellular system. It’...

Core Network Evolution - How CUPS changes the Call Flow?

Control and User Plane Separation of EPC nodes (CUPS) is one of the main Work Items of 3GPP Relea...

LTE

Interoperability As A Service - Automate and Simplify Interoperability Process

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Telecoin - A digital identity for the IoT

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PCRF is an important Entity in LTE Network

A important component in LTE network is the policy and charging control (PCC) function that bring...

LTE, PCRF, VoLTE

Security is a many-layered thing*

Layering is a well-known strategy for security. By using layers, we increase the difficulty of pe...

05/14/2018

SDN/NFV, Security

Being relevant, leading and remaining differentiated in the era of AI

In the previous post "Yes, AI could be smart enough to take your job," I mentioned that AI would...

05/09/2018

Yes, AI could be smart enough to take your job

When I was doing my final year project in 1989 at IIT Roorkee, India in a subfield of AI known as...

05/08/2018

Next Generation Mobile Networks Evolution with Convergence, Cloud and SDN

Humongous flood of smart devices and next generation applications and also the reach of networkin...

04/27/2018

LTE, SDN/NFV, Wi-Fi

13 Companies announce NB-IoT Chips

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04/23/2018

IoT, LTE

5G New Radio (NR) Physical Layer

NR is a new air interface that is not backward compatible with LTE, LTE⁃Advanced or LTE⁃Advanced⁃...

04/16/2018

5G, New Radio

Docker Internals

We discussed Containers in the previous post, how they are different and the advantages it has ov...

04/12/2018

SDN/NFV

KT's Strategy to commercialize Mobile 5G

KT officially declared the world's first commercialization of 5G service in March next year. Base...

04/05/2018

5G, KT, SDN/NFV

Breakdown of Operating Revenues by Service (SK Telecom, KT, LG U+)

05/17/2018

Gigabit Internet, IPTV, KT, LG U+, LTE, SK Telecom

LTE Broadcast Live TV Service Workflow

05/16/2018

LTE, eMBMS

LTE-Broadcast (eMBMS) Control & Data Plane Protocol Stack

05/02/2018

LTE, eMBMS

Brands That Use AI To Enhance Marketing (Infographic) 2018

04/20/2018

LTE-Broadcast (eMBMS) Network Reference Architecture

04/09/2018

LTE, eMBMS

Mobile connections in Korea in Q4 2017 – Big 3 operators (SK Telecom, KT and LG U+) and MVNOs

04/02/2018

IoT, KT, LG U+, LTE, SK Telecom

5G Progress in Korea (Updated) - SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ (2015 - 2018)

01/31/2018

5G, KT, LG U+, SK Telecom

Open 5G fronthaul interface - Radio over Ethernet (RoE)

01/04/2018

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul, SK Telecom


NEW COMMENTS	VIEW ALL

The article is good. The Korean mobile breakdown on the same page is excellent.

05/21/2018

Good One!

05/17/2018

Hello and thank you for this deep architecture. Is it compliant with release 14 (3GPP) with ROM(Receive Only mode) an...

05/17/2018

Hi, Is someone familiar with a mobile network operator who launched IPTV services over eMBMS towards a set-top box a...

05/17/2018

Btw, very nice document! Thanks :)

05/17/2018

Hello, Case #11 has the two MMEs (in the two cities) talk to each other, so perhaps adding a dotted line between the...

05/17/2018

Nice representation

05/16/2018

fantastic one

05/16/2018

MSPV stands for MBMS Service Provisioning server, which manages (create/update/delete) the eMBMS service by providing...

05/15/2018

Huge article, thanks.

05/14/2018

Hi Netmanias, Thanks for providing excellent docuementation. In Figure 4. Bearer IDs allocators, S-GW is responsib...

05/11/2018

Thank you for the Knowledge

05/11/2018

Good one

05/10/2018

Waht is stand for MSPV? Is it a 3GPP entity?

05/10/2018

Hi, can you please share me the document on Cell search,System Information derivation and then RACH(Contention based...

05/06/2018

I think a key point will be the horsepower that will needed for all these capabilities. These more powerful boxes mus...

05/05/2018

Thank you for the reply. A couple of years ago, I analyzed some good eMBMS patents, which well read on relevant stan...

05/04/2018

Jio, an Indian telecom operator, broadcasts real-time match on subscriber's smartphone through LTE-Broadcast (eMB...

05/04/2018

Will any service provider commercialize eMBMS any time soon? I heard some US carriers did the test for eMBMS some ye...

05/04/2018

Love it Mr.Chris. As usual presentation is outstanding. Brings back the days of deploying eMBMS :)

05/04/2018


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KOREA ICT RESEARCH REPORT

Open vs. Proprietary 5G Fronthaul Interface: SK Telecom Case

Published: January 11, 2018

Table of Contents

• Abbreviations

• [SK Telecom PR] SK Telecom’s fronthaul technology for 5G adopted as Korean national standard

• RAN architecture: 4G RAN – Problem statements

• RAN architecture: 5G RAN

• 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (RoE, eCPRI)

• Lower layer function split: Radio over Ethernet vs. eCPRI

• Open 5G fronthaul interface: IEEE 1914, xRAN and Telecom Infra Project (TIP)

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: Open fronthaul interface

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (Fx) (1)

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (Fx) (2)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (1)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (2)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (3)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (4)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (5)

• Netmanias comments on SK Telecom’s strategy

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• Milestone of 5G technology development of SK Telecom

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SK Telecom's Massive IoT Deployment

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Samsung Electronics Holds the Final Conference in Korea Completing 5G Standards for Commercialization

Samsung today announced that it hosts 3GPP RAN WGs’ final meeting to complete the 5G mobile communication standards in Busan from May 21st to 25th....

05/21/2018

KT Builds Africa’s 1st Nationwide LTE Network in Rwanda

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05/15/2018

SK Telecom to Acquire ADT Caps

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KT prepares to commercialize autonomous vehicles with a 5G platform

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05/10/2018

KT declares the World's First 5G Commercialization in March 2019

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03/27/2018

KDDI and Samsung Successfully Complete 5G Multi-Device Trial at a Professional Baseball Stadium in Okinawa, Japan

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03/27/2018

SK Telecom Wins ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Enterprise’ Award at GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2018

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02/28/2018

SK Telecom to Invest in ID Quantique, the Global Leader in Quantum-Safe Crypto Solutions

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02/28/2018

SK Telecom to Bring Everything into Realm of 5G

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02/28/2018

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