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Publish date: Feb 10, 2022
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Open RAN

“Open RAN” is the movement in wireless telecommunications to disaggregate hardware and software and to create open interfaces between them.

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a global community of companies and organizations working together to accelerate the development and deployment of open, disaggregated, and standards-based technology solutions that deliver the high quality connectivity that the world needs – now and in the decades to come.

Open RAN Groups

Key OpenRAN tenets include :

  1. Disaggregation of RAN HW & SW on vendor neutral, GPP-based platforms

  2. Open Interfaces – Implementations using open interface specifications between components (e.g. RU/CU/DU/RIC) with vendor neutral hardware and software.

  3. Multiple Architecture Options, including

    1. An all integrated RAN with disaggregation at SW and HW level
    2. A split RAN with RU, BBU (DU/CU)
    3. A split RAN with RU, DU and CU
    4. A split RAN with integrated RU/DU, CU

  4. Flexibility – Multi vendor solutions enabling a diverse ecosystem for the operators to choose best-of-breed options for their 2G/3G/4G and 5G deployments

  5. Solutions implemented on either Bare Metal or Virtualized or Containerized Platforms

  6. Innovation via Adoption of New Technologies (AI/ML, CI/CD…)

  7. Supply Chain Diversity

OpenRAN-Reference-Architecture

Parallel Wireless

Baicell

Open Core

Magma is an open-source software platform that gives network operators an open, flexible and extendable mobile core network solution.

Magma Core

  • Magma connects the world to a faster network by providing operators an open, flexible, and extendable mobile core network solution. Its simplicity and lower cost structure empowers innovators to build mobile networks never previously imagined.
  • Allowing operators to offer cellular service without vendor lock-in with a modern, open source core network
  • Enabling operators to manage their networks more efficiently with more automation, less downtime, better predictability, and more agility to add new services and applications
  • Enabling federation between existing MNOs and new infrastructure providers for expanding rural infrastructure Allowing operators who are constrained with licensed spectrum to add capacity and reach by using Wi-Fi and CBRS

Introduction

Prerequisites

AGW

  • 2+ Physical Ethernet Interfaces
  • CPU with 2 GHz clock speed or faster
  • 4GB RAM
  • 32 GB or greater Storage
  • Magma Core AGW

NMS

  • Docker
  • Magma Core NMS

Orchestrator

  • Docker Image
  • Helm Chart
  • Magma Core Orchestrator

Installation

AGW

  • Download and install magma core AGW

    $ su
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magma/magma/v1.6/lte/gateway/deploy/agw_install_ubuntu.sh
$ bash agw_install_ubuntu.sh

NMS

  • Download and install magma core NMS

    $ git clone https://github.com/magma/magma.git

  • Build the orchestrator for NMS using docker

    cd magma/orc8r/cloud/docker
./build.py

Deployment