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NG-PON2 Solution for 10G Internet Service: SK’s Development & Deployment

07/13/2018

Gigabit Internet, SK Telecom

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

4G, KT, LG U+, LTE, SK Telecom

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

Netmanias recently had an interview via email with Mr. Wayne Cheung, Product Marketing Director a...

08/01/2017

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

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

Netmanias recently had an interview via email with Mr. Gary Kinghorn, Senior Product Marketing Ma...

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

VoLTE Call Setup Flow - PDN Connection (including PCAP)

VoLTE Call Setup Flow - PDN Connection

LTE, VoLTE

Who & How: Making 5G NR Standards

Understanding Key Features of 5G NR Standards and Samsung’s Contribution

5G, New Radio, Samsung

Towards Achieving High Performance in 5G Mobile Packet Core’s User Plane Function

This paper presents architecture for a user plane function (UPF) in the mobile packet core (MPC)...

5G, SDN/NFV, Sk Telecom

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

This whitepaper explores the new 5G core architecture and how it solves the present-day problems...

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

MEC as enabler of Telco’s Digital Transformation - An ETSI ISG Perspective

During the last decade globally Telco’s have seen an outburst of Data traffic almost quadrupling...

09/29/2018

MEC

ROI of End User Experience Management

Measuring the ROI of end user experience investment can be tricky. Most analysis on the business...

08/30/2018

Would eSIM really make roaming easier or cheaper?

So until a couple of years ago, this meant that I had a large collection of local mobile SIM card...

08/27/2018

Roaming, SIM

MEC - Are we getting closer?!

Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) or formerly Mobile Edge Computing is a term that has been trend...

08/16/2018

5G, MEC

Why RCS Failed?

RCS started its journey at the GSMA in 2008 with the promise to allow service providers to delive...

07/10/2018

RCS

Business to Technology - 5G

In this short article I present my views regarding market and business requirements leading towar...

06/21/2018

Telecom regulation and blockchain - is #RegTech the killer application?

One of the most interesting developments in telecoms technology for a while occurred this week –...

06/15/2018

blockchain

Securing zero touch for uCPE deployments

Service providers are working to replace customer premises equipment (CPE) appliances with softwa...

06/07/2018

SDN/NFV, security, uCPE

SK telecom 5G History: Milestone of 5G technology development of SK Telecom

06/26/2018

5G, SK Telecom

Openflow 1.5.1 Packet Header Match Fields

06/11/2018

Openflow, SDN/NFV

Openflow 1.5.1 Flow Table

05/30/2018

Openflow, SDN/NFV

MooD (MBMS operation on Demand) Service Scenario

05/28/2018

LTE, eMBMS

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


NEW COMMENTS	VIEW ALL

Hello, Normally, DNS server address is always included in PCO. If not, UE is only able to access internet using I...

10/20/2018

Hi Team Netmanias, Can you clarfify how MME allocates E-RAB ID or EPS bearer Identity? Is it any way related to QoS?...

10/16/2018

can you explain me GUTI concept and ghummi concept in lte attach

10/12/2018

Hi netmanias team, good explanation ,very nice documents and easy to understand. Can you please share me the document...

10/12/2018

dailed 0722369318 to 0723754688

10/11/2018

Thank you for this summary. But, its more than one year old (which is an eternity in the SD-WAN old :) ). Hope we wi...

10/11/2018

Hi All, How Ue gets SN ID for generating Kasme at Ue side? Please explain.

10/11/2018

so basically there are 4 TEIDs between SGW and PGE per UE? 2 for User Plane(DL & UL) and 2 for Control Plane(UL & DL)?

10/08/2018

The document is pretty helpful! Thanks for sharing such an enormous details article.

10/03/2018

amazing

09/30/2018

Hi, Could you please explain how eNB UE S1AP ID and MME UE S1AP ID are being generated, whether it is randomly gener...

09/27/2018

Fantastic call flow explanation. It would be great if Netmania could provide the actual pcap file so we could examin...

09/27/2018

Thanks! Very informative!

09/25/2018

Hi , Good explanation . I have one question , i got a lot of Attach rejection and when i checked ,all are relate...

09/25/2018

Wonderful ...

09/18/2018

please what do you main by regolatory Approval in the tables of differences

09/17/2018

Telco architectures have been changing so much in the last few years, and as it seems, soon everything will be virtua...

09/17/2018

I would ask if the ack is after each uplink message? ( such as message1, message3 of random access procedure, some of...

09/12/2018

Nice Article, selecting SGW-U base on Apn is a relief :) . Great flexibility to route U-plan base on multiple creterias.

09/11/2018

Hi Netmanias, In Table 5: EPS Bearer QoS Enforcement, MBR enforcements is applied for GBR Bearers only. So, I suppos...

09/09/2018


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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

• Open 5G RAN and fronthaul architecture of SK Telecom

• Milestone of 5G technology development of SK Telecom

5G PROGRESS in KOREA ( - 2018)

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5G COMMERCIALIZATION STATUS - KT

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07/14/2017

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06/13/2017

SD-WAN

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REPORT

SDN/NFV: Strategies and Progresses in Network Operators

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Analysis of Global 5G Development (2) - Korea: KT

• Published : 2017.03.20

Analysis of Global 5G Development (1) - 5G Standardization so far

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SK Telecom's Massive IoT Deployment

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KT Network Architecture - Current

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Network Architecture Evolution from 4G to 5G

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SK Telecom 4G LTE Network

SK Broadband/SK Telecom's Gigabit Internet Access Network

5G POC (Test, Trial) Status in Korea

E2E Network Slicing - Key 5G technology : What is it? Why do we need it? How do we implement it?

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Samsung’s Exynos i S111 Delivers Efficiency and Reliability for NB-IoT Devices

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its new narrowband (NB) Internet of Things (IoT) solution...

08/23/2018

KT Corp. Brings 5G to Indonesia

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08/20/2018

KT Joins Philippines' $1.8 Bln Broadband Project

KT, South Korea's largest telecommunications company, will participate in a nationwide project to drastically improve Internet connectivity in the...

08/17/2018

Samsung Announces Exynos Modem 5100, Industry’s First 5G Modem Fully Compliant with 3GPP Standards

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08/15/2018

Samsung Steps Up Investment for Future Growth, Takes Initiative to Build Innovation Ecosystem

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08/08/2018

KT Corp. Unveils New AI Hotel in South Korea

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08/06/2018

KT Launches South Korea’s First AR Mobile Shopping Service

KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, has launched the country’s first-ever mobile shopping service paired with AR technology.

07/31/2018

KT Builds Digital System for National Identification in Tanzania

KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, completed a new digital system for national identification in Tanzania, marking major progres...

07/26/2018

‘5G City’, Samsung’s Preview of the 5G Era

Samsung Electronics has established the ‘5G City’ to demonstrate certain aspects of the upcoming 5G era, where things will be connected throughout...

07/24/2018

KT Launches World’s Fastest Mobile Service at S. Korea Starbucks

KT, South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, is offering its ‘10 GiGA WiFi’ service at Starbucks’ three major Reserve stores across Seoul.

07/23/2018

KT Drives Global Expansion with Europe’s albis-elcon

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23	LTE Charging I: Offline
22	LTE Policy and Charging Control (PCC)
21	EMM Procedure 10 & 11. Move to Another City and Attach
20	EMM Procedure 8 & 9. Handover and Cell Reselection with TAU
19	EMM Procedure 7. Cell Reselection without TAU
18	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 3. S1 Handover
17	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 2. X2 Handover
16	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 1. Overview of LTE Handover
15	EMM Procedure 5. Periodic TAU
14	EMM Procedure 4. Service Request
13	EMM Procedure 3. S1 Release
12	EMM Procedure 2. Detach
11	EMM Procedure 1. Initial Attach - Part 2. Call Flow of Initial Attach
10	EMM Procedure 1. Initial Attach - Part 1. Cases of Initial Attach
9	Eleven EMM Cases in an EMM Scenario
8	LTE EMM and ECM States
7	LTE QoS: SDF and EPS Bearer QoS
6	LTE Identification III: EPS Session/Bearer Identifiers
5	LTE Identification II: NE and Location Identifiers
4	LTE Identification I: UE and ME Identifiers
3	LTE Security II: NAS and AS Security
2	LTE Security I: Concept and Authentication
1	LTE Network Architecture: Basic

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