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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

Is the traditional IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) fitting into 5G World?

All these years, IMS is predominantly used for delivering Voice & Video based multimedia services...

07/01/2019

5G Orchestration - The missing brick

With many operators starting to launch 5G, it became clear that Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)...

06/26/2019

Core Network Migration Paths to 5G

As Evolved Packet Core (EPC) played a key role in 4G LTE, 5GC is the new 5G core network (5GC) de...

05/31/2019

Comparison of Commercial 5G Network Architecture: KT vs. SK Telecom

We analyze the current state of 5G network construction of KT and SK Telecom and the difference o...

03/29/2019

5G, IoT, KT, SK Telecom

Progression from 4G to 5G

This article discusses such use cases, shortcomings in 4G to realize these use cases and how 5G p...

03/26/2019

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

KT 5G Network Architecture: 5G Core, 5G RAN and 5G Edge Cloud

06/13/2019

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul, CDN, IPTV, IoT, KT, LTE, SDN/NFV

MEC Concept and Deployment Architecture in 4G and 5G Network

05/22/2019

5G, IoT, KT, SK Telecom

KT 5G and 10Giga Network Architecture

03/29/2019

5G, Gigabit Internet, IoT, KT

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


NEW COMMENTS	VIEW ALL

excellent overview!!!

08/24/2019

very good, thanks

08/24/2019

My thoughts excatly... Offline charging is done using diameter protocol Rf interface .... it can be referred in offli...

08/22/2019

Thank you for sharing on voice call. I really apperiate it

08/07/2019

What is the purpose of GTP-U/ data plane between S/PGW-U and S/PGW-C?

08/01/2019

We mainly use Microsoft Visio as a drawing tool.

07/24/2019

Distributed Unit

07/21/2019

Excellent Article. Is it possible to know which editing tool you have used to draw such a beautiful detailed expl...

07/16/2019

Thanks for reading!

07/16/2019

Good information. One query, High data rate is one of the reasons we are coming to 5G, considering that, Why we nee...

07/14/2019

Thank you for sharing this information, i have one additional query about the UL packet routing at eNB level, if the...

07/12/2019

Thanks for sharing such a nice article to understand the basics of CUPS.

07/06/2019

Interesting one. I was wondering about PFDF a lot. Can we leverage on this for day to day URL whitelsinting for zero...

07/02/2019

I think Diameter and GTP-C part all will go away. Instead of that it will be all HTTP2.0/RESTFUL API and will be base...

07/01/2019

Hi Netmania , Thanks for this document , really meaningfull document . I have one query , When UE is in connecte...

06/07/2019

Digital Unit (Baseband Unit BBU)

06/07/2019

I have a question: For PDN type IPv6, does SAEGW allocate a unique /64 prefix to each UE (which would mean 2^64 - 1 I...

05/31/2019

Does that mean that QCI in LTE is replaced by QFI in 5G NR ? Any comparison possible between NSA & SA deployments? T...

05/29/2019

Hi all, Does UE AMBR decides the max num of ues that can be attached?If yes please do say how.

05/23/2019

Very useful visuals, thanks

05/22/2019


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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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REPORT

SDN/NFV: Strategies and Progresses in Network Operators

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

• Published : 2017.03.20

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

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SK Telecom's Massive IoT Deployment

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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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07/01/2019

SK Telecom Joins Hands with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung Electronics for Advancement of 5G and Evolution to 6G

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06/18/2019

SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics and Cisco Sign MOU for 5G Smart Office Business

SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics and Cisco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on June 5, 2019 to promote 5G-based smart office business. Und...

06/07/2019

SK Telecom and Microsoft Sign MOU for Comprehensive Cooperation in Cutting-Edge ICT

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05/13/2019

KT Launches World’s First Commercial 5G Network

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04/12/2019

SK Telecom Announces the Beginning of the Age of Hyper-Innovation with 5G

SK Telecom today held a press conference at its Seoul headquarters to announce the beginning of the age of Hyper-Innovation with 5G. The company in...

04/03/2019

SK Telecom and Samsung Completed 4G-5G Network Dual Connectivity Test: 5G + LTE Aggregation = 2.63Gbps

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) and Samsung Electronics today announced that they have successfully completed the network device interoperability test applyi...

03/14/2019

SK Telecom Unveils ‘5G Mobile Edge Computing Open Platform’

SK Telecom today announced that it has built ‘Mobile Edge Computing Open Platform,’ which is capable of significantly enhancing the response time i...

03/14/2019

Everything 5G: 5 Highlights from Samsung at MWC 2019

MWC19 is officially underway and attendees have been flocking to see the very latest offerings Samsung Electronics has on show. This year’s iterati...

02/27/2019

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

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02/24/2019

KT Corp. Reveals New 5G Services in South Korea

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LTE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS

25	LTE IP Address Allocation Schemes II: A Case for Two Cities
24	LTE IP Address Allocation Schemes I: Basic
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
19	EMM Procedure 7. Cell Reselection without TAU
18	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 3. S1 Handover
17	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 2. X2 Handover
16	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 1. Overview of LTE Handover
15	EMM Procedure 5. Periodic TAU
14	EMM Procedure 4. Service Request
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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