Building the platform for 5G

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Building the platform for 5GErik Ekudden

Group CTO, Ericsson Commercial in confidence | © Ericsson AB 2017 | October 10, 2017 |


Full Mobility

Cloud Technologies

Programmable Networks

Automation

Global access

agnostic mobility

mm Wave and

Adaptive Beamforming

Flexible spectrum

assignments

Management

transformation

Virtualization, containers

and microservices

Distributed cloud with

edge compute

Network abstraction

Orchestration cross

domains

Multi-layer SDN

Automated Life Cycle

Management

Dev opsXaaS

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Real-time data stream analytics and

insight execution

Cognitive Technologies

Technologies shaping the industry

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5 billion 4G subscriptions 2022 In Europe, 4G/5G will be 95% of subscriptions



The operator 5G industry digitalization opportunity by 2026

Source: Ericsson and Arthur D. Little

Energy &

Utilities

Manufacturing

Public Safety

Financial

Services

Healthcare

Automotive

Media &

entertainment

Public Transport

17%

8%

11%

13%13%

5%

19%

13%

$582BOPERATOR ADDRESSABLE

5G DIGITALIZATION

REVENUES

IN 2026

Adding an addressable

market potential of

34%in revenue growth



driving a comprehensive 5g agenda

5G Doors open for new industry verticals • 5G for industries

Industry Engagements • Leading industry transformation through partnerships

Open Source momentum broadens within the industry• Industry/Customer initiatives

• Ericsson engagements

Establishing the framework for 5G • Standardization

• Spectrum

Key driver in the intelligent transport systems space• Infrastructure, vehicle electronics, operators, car manufacturer, chip

manufacturer, road regulators etc.



Industry Pilots & engagement

Automotive Manufacturing Transport Mining

Develop end-to-end solutions

for future mobility and

transportation services,

impact regulation and

standardization

Audi, BMW, Ericsson, Huawei,

Intel, Qualcomm, Nokia, Orange,

Verizon, AT&T, China Mobile,

Vodafone, DT….(30 partners up

to date)

Evaluate mobile

communication for

underground mining, incl.

safety and increased

productivity

ABB, Boliden, Ericsson,

Luleå University of

Technology, PiiA, Telia,

Volvo, Vinnova and Wolfit

Evaluate 5G and IoT

opportunities to improved the

production efficiency, enabled

by data analytics, cloud and

industrial IoT and more

Chalmers University of

Technology, Ericsson,

SKF and Vinnova

Explore use of 5G for

intelligent transport and

investigate as-a-service

offerings and reduce fleet

operations costs

KTH Royal institute of

Technology, Ericsson

and Scania

SMART VEHICLES,

TRANSPORT CRITICAL CONTROL

OF REMOTE DEVICES

INFRASTRUCTURE,

MONITOR & CONTROLSMART VEHICLES



Use case evolution

Multi-standard network

Cat-M1/NB-IoT

Cloud optimized functions

VNF orchestration

Gigabit LTE (TDD, FDD, LAA)

Massive MIMO

Network Slicing

Dynamic service orchestration

Predictive analytics

5G NR

Virtualized RAN

Federated network slicing

Distributed Cloud

Real time machine learning/AI

Screens

everywhere

Immersive

experience8K

AR

4KVR

On demand

information

Autonomous

control

Technologies

Connected

doctors

and patients

Remote

operations

Process

automation

Cloud robotics and

remote control

Metering and

smart grid

Machine intelligence

and real-time control

Manufacturing

Healthcare

Energy & Utilities

Enhanced Mobile

Broadband

Automotive

AI

New toolsVR

Real-time information

vehicle to vehicle

Monitoring and

medication e-care

Flow management

and remote supervision

Resource management

and automation

On the road to 5G 5G experienceCurrent



Distributed cloud ArchitectureBetter media delivery closer to the network edge

CN UPF

MSP and other

acceleration

VNF’s

Internet

Video

Application

vRAN CN UPF

Network Edge Centralized

MSP (TDF)

Media Processing

Policy &

Charging

3 ms

› AR/VR and 360 Viewport selection

› OTT Aggregation/Caching

› Split-TCP and ARFM for low latency

› Pre population of popular content

› Ad insertion, Repackaging

› Media Processing (4K, HD, UHD, HDR)

› Media Distribution and Storage

› cDVR, Timeshift, VoD

› CDN: Multicast ABR, UC ABR

› TCP Optimization, ABR Shaping

Aggregation site

30- 300 ms

MSP and other

acceleration

VNF’s

Delivery/acceleration candidates:

› AR/VR and 360 Viewport selection

› Split TCP and ARFM

For APP traffic in Edge, candidates:

› Per user access control

› TDF enabled user specific policies

CN UPF CN CP



5G NG COREService Based Architecture

Application

Session

Mgmt

User Plane

N4

N3

N2

N1

N6

User Plane

N9

Authentication

ServerUnified

Data Mgmt

Access &

Mobility

Policy

Control

Network

Repository

Network

Exposure

Nausf Nnef Nnrf Npcf Nudm

Namf Nsmf Naf

Potential benefits: › NR standalone (SA) mode

› Multi-slice UE, single UE simultaneously

connecting to multiple services over

multiple slices with optimized access

and mobility signaling

› Improved QoS concept

› Simultaneous access to local and

centralized networks within the same

data connection

› Mobility on Demand concept

› Preparing for multi-access integration

Data

Network



NFV – now happeningBecoming industrialized

Ericsson +100 customers in 75+ countries, 25 live commercial networks

TelefonicaLGU Plus

Telstra

Digicel

SwisscomNTT DoCoMo

NFVI

SDN

vEPC

vIMS

vPCRF

vUDC

vDSC

vMSP

vBNG

vMSC

NFV MANO

VNFM

Tampnet

Vodafone

Hutchinson

VodafoneWind

Panasonic Avionics

Telefonica

Colombia & Peru

Motorola, Austria

Spark

Tango

Softbank

TeliaSonera

Vodafone Egypt

MásmóvilVerizon

Millicom

Zain RTA

AT&T



NFV Achievements to date

5gPlatform

Container/VM

S

App

Logic

DB

S

Enterprise

Massive MTC

Critical MTC

Mobile Broadband

60G/server vEPG

NW slices on Distributed Cloud

Cloud Native VNF’s Multi VIM

36h VNF & PNF Multi-vendor

DevOps

Dynamic

Orchestration

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