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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

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

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

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

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


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An amazing article, really well written. Keep up the good work. I recommend this to all network engineer. This is the...

01/21/2019

Thank you for your greats share, in our part we faced some problems obout inter-Enode B handover ou Not happened Inte...

01/18/2019

Hi aazizk, Can you post an article about the RFC 2544 suite in which the latency tests are run to check for conforma...

01/14/2019

Thank you for the good article. Could you explain what happens in the case of "Dedicated bearer activation"?

01/09/2019

very good article. one place to viist to understand DHCP in detail...

01/08/2019

PLZ WHICH TOOL TO SIMULATE LTE SECURITY

01/03/2019

why we do not consider PRACH when calculating the DL throughput

12/31/2018

Thanks for this explanation. I have a query. Why Activate dedicated eps bearer context accept is not piggybacked wi...

12/29/2018

good explanation Thanks

12/26/2018

I would like to use the grapic in this post (showing 4G versus 5G architecture, in a forthcoming book. Of course, I...

12/20/2018

In lte a UE can have max 11 bearers, 3 SRBs and rest 8 DRBs. Out of the given 8 DRBs what is the max value of default...

12/18/2018

Great information..Thanks for sharing..! I also found some other future technologies that would help for better Secur...

12/18/2018

One question. Let's assume that after SRVCC (done by MSC-S enhanced for ICS, but has no GSM radio access) and ca...

12/14/2018

Very nice information about the PDN connection and it is a better option to make a good communication architecture. F...

12/07/2018

11/29/2018

Hi Chris, I visited the page but could not find the document. Could you advise me on this issue. Thank you.

11/26/2018

Thank you for NB-IoT explanation. I would like to ask how can eNB determine the number tones that will assign to UE?...

11/20/2018

I must appreciate it, well written and explained.

11/20/2018

Very good explanation. Do you have similar call flow for MO VoLTE call?

11/16/2018

Very good call flow explanation. Thank you for sharing.

11/14/2018


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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

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REPORT

SDN/NFV: Strategies and Progresses in Network Operators

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11/16/2018

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16	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 1. Overview of LTE Handover
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10	EMM Procedure 1. Initial Attach - Part 1. Cases of Initial Attach
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6	LTE Identification III: EPS Session/Bearer Identifiers
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