2-Open RAN Use Case - Dish Anazon Private 5g

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Dish's 5G Network Architecture: Cloud-Native 5G RAN (5G O-RAN) and 5G SA Core on AWS

2021.05.11 | Harrison J. Son (son@netmanias.com) & HFR (my5G@hfrnet.com)


 On April 21, DISH, the 4th largest mobile operator in the U.S. announced that it would host  Dish has been performing PoC verification with AWS so far, and plans to build a
cloud-native 5G RAN (5G O-RAN) and 5G SA Core software on AWS, a public cloud, to commercial network from LA by the end of this year. It plans to cover 70% of the
build a commercial 5G network for the first time among major U.S. operators: running all American population by June 2023.
5G network functions except RU in the public AWS cloud. Implement both public and
private 5G networks. PoC: NF software from 5G vendors selected by Dish (O-RAN: Altiostar/Mavenir, 5G
 Dish 5G Vendors: Fujitsu(HFR), MTI, Altiostar, Mavenir, Nokia, Allot, Palo Alto, Netcracker, SA Core: Nokia, Security: Allot/PaloAlto, Automation & Orchestration: Netcracker,
Amdocs, Intel, Qualcomm BSS: Amdocs) on AWS (AWS Outpost, AWS Local Zone, AWS Region) verification

Public 5G network/Private 5G network (Network Slicing) 5G NF (CNF)

Thousands of AWS Outposts # of AWS Local Zones in the U.S.: # of AWS Regions in the
located in Dish's network Currently 4, 15 by the end of the year U.S.: 6

Altiostar Altiostar OSS BSS


Mavenir Mavenir Nokia Nokia
5G O-RAN
AMF,
DU CU UPF SMF,...
RU
5G RAN DU 5G RAN CU 5G UPF 5G Core CP
5G RAN RU
NFVI NFVI NFVI
Japan Fujitsu (Korea HFR)
Taiwan MTI AWS Outpost AWS Local Zone AWS Region

In Dish network AWS infrastructure on Internet


Dish's Public Cloud 5G Network on AWS
Network Slicing (Separation of traffic between companies by allocating slices for each corporate customer)

Private 5G network (On-Premise) References


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AWS PR, DISH and AWS Form Strategic Collaboration to Reinvent 5G Connectivity and Innovation, 2021.04.21
FierceWireless, Dish makes a splash, picks AWS to host 5G RAN and core, 2021.04.21

Rakuten, Japan's fourth mobile operator, also implemented all 5G network functions in software except RU, which is a
hardware. The difference is that Rakuten built its COTS server/virtualization platform in its data center and installed
DU/CU 5GC NFs such as DU, CU, UPF, and 5GC CP on COTS servers, but Dish hosts all NFs except RU on the AWS infrastructure.
It is also different in that Dish hosts NF not only in Dish's data center but also in AWS's data centers (AWS Local Zone
RU NFVI and AWS Region). In other words, Dish's construction cost is cheaper than Rakuten, and Dish and customers of Dish
5G O-RAN AWS Outpost take advantage of the advantages of cloud, Scale Up/Down, ML/AI service, and Cloud Partner Eco of AWS provided by
AWS.
Netmanias One-Shot, 일본 이통사 Rakuten의 Fully-Virtualized, E2E Cloud-Native 5G SA Network Architecture,
Customer on-premise 2020.08.27

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