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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

Price: $695 (Single license) | $2,995 (Corporate license) • Author: Harrison J. Son @ Netmanias •...

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

Top 6 Skills Required For Service Provider 5G/Fog Transformation

Here ‘s a question if you are in telco/service provider industry. You know about virtualization a...

03/25/2019

5G, SDN/NFV

WiFi in 60 GHz Band will Provide Teragraph Network for Urban Backbone

WiFi, a widely used technology for internet connectivity over wireless access. WiFi uses unlicens...

12/23/2018

Wi-Fi

Shift of Enterprise Business from MPLS to SD-WAN

Software defined WAN (SD-WAN) is foreseen to bring a landscape change in the enterprise businesse...

12/16/2018

MPLS, Network Protocol, SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

Extending SD-WAN to Wireless LAN

Wireless LANs are quickly becoming the primary connection option in most organizations. Employees...

12/10/2018

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV, Wi-Fi

Six Years Of NFV - Why So Pessimistic?!

NFV is an Operator-led industry; Sharing lessons learned and driving the industry forward is a co...

12/01/2018

SDN/NFV

Understanding Road blocks for Telco’s NFV Commercialization, an Architect’s perspective

CommSP’s shift towards virtualization started since 2012 but 5years down the road still we do not...

11/24/2018

SDN/NFV

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

5G QoS

02/08/2019

5G Traffic Flow

02/08/2019

5G Protocol Stack - User Plane/Control Plane

02/08/2019

5G Network Architecture - Service-based/RP-based

02/08/2019

Edge in Mobile Network - Evolution of edge location and edge service

01/16/2019

4G, 5G

Technical Poster: Evolution of FTTH Access Network – Software-Defined Access (SD-Access): CORD, SDN/NFV and VOLTHA

12/05/2018

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul, Gigabit Internet, SDN/NFV

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


NEW COMMENTS	VIEW ALL

Hi, very usefu posts, I have a question regarding dedicated bearer , if there are more than one QCI 1 profile wi...

03/25/2019

Not able to register since my company email id has "." Eg. sasi.reddy@Ltts.com

03/22/2019

Hi, In Step 14, Should'nt it be ReceiveS5 TEID (UL) instead of Receive S5 TEID (DL) on the S-GW ? Or did i miss...

03/21/2019

Very useful information and thank you very much to netmanias for sharing such a good notes

03/14/2019

Wow very nice summary! What about Meraki? Why it's not considered in SD-WAN solutions?

03/13/2019

A one-estimate cloud demonstrate does not fit all, so a multi-cloud approach is picking up energy, which enables clie...

03/12/2019

Thank you very much. A very useful guide when comparing with live traces.

03/11/2019

This is a very good two-page showing the 5G fucntional architecture. A very useful reference as I start my career wit...

03/11/2019

Nice conprehensive diagrams. Great effort. Much appreciated.

03/11/2019

why we need to know NAT behavior ? and when client use this test ?

02/25/2019

can u pls explain why the Router R1 does not learn the mac of the server 1 and update in the ARP table , but only l...

02/22/2019

nice

02/22/2019

i'm working in Qos of iptv in 5G network so what's advice which one of Qaulity I have to start :)

02/22/2019

This is really a very informative article about Secure Internet Gateway. Thanks for sharing it. Check out similar...

02/21/2019

Where do i search how many PDN connection does the UE have in wireshark

02/18/2019

Very clear, nice article

02/16/2019

Your documents simplified a number of cocepts for me

02/12/2019

Hello Michelle, I hope you are still there to answer some questions ;) The network deployment obligations shows, for...

02/10/2019

Hello Sir, kindly let me know which tool to use to simulate LTE authentication protocols. At present, I have starte...

02/07/2019

Very, very gooood. Big Thanks !!!

02/05/2019


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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

KT 5G, 10 Giga Network

SK Telecom 5G B2B Services

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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

• Published : 2017.04.24

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

• Published : 2017.03.20

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

• Published : 2017.03.06

SK Telecom's Massive IoT Deployment

through LoRa for Small Things

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NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

Nokia's D-RAN/C-RAN Evolution Architecture

KT Network Architecture - Current

KT 5G Network Architenture

Network Architecture Evolution from 4G to 5G

5G network as envisioned by KT - Analysis of KT's 5G network architecture

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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Everything 5G: 5 Highlights from Samsung at MWC 2019

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02/27/2019

SK Telecom Participates in MWC Barcelona 2019 to Showcase Leading 5G Technologies

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KT Corp. Reveals New 5G Services in South Korea

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SK Telecom Achieves the World’s First Live TV Broadcasting over Commercial 5G Network

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KT Corp. Launches 5G Service with AI Robot in S. Korea

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12/13/2018

SK Telecom Opens the New 5G Era

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SK Telecom to Lead New ICT Innovations based on 5G-AI Convergence

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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
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16	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 1. Overview of LTE Handover
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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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