Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst, ZK Research

Juniper Networks Open RAN solution at MWC23

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In this video, Juniper’s Natarajan Krishnamurthy provides a demo of its Open RAN solution. This includes detail on Juniper’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), Service Management and Orchestration and O-RAN security. RIC use cases include tenant/slice aware admission control, traffic steering and energy savings. Juniper has a number of partners in Open RAN including VodafoneUK Parallel-TW and keysight.

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You’ll learn

  • How Juniper’s Open RAN solution works

  • Juniper’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) use cases

Who is this for?

Network Professionals Business Leaders

Host

Zeus Kerravala Headshot
Zeus Kerravala
Principal Analyst, ZK Research

Guest speakers

Natarajan Krishnamurthy Headshot
Natarajan Krishnamurthy
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks

Transcript

0:07 all right I'm here now with uh nitrogen

0:09 K I'll just call you that uh you do a

0:12 quick intro on yourself and tell us what

0:13 we're gonna be looking at here yeah I'm

0:15 a president I I'm proud of the product

0:17 marketing for open brand and Smo okay so

0:20 and open around is a pretty new space

0:22 for you guys right being in the ram area

0:24 yes yes we have gotten about a couple of

0:26 years back yes yes

0:29 yeah so what we are talking about is how

0:31 service providers can achieve new levels

0:34 of service agility Automation and

0:37 operation efficiency by unlocking

0:38 intelligence and value in the ram so

0:41 we're focusing mainly on intelligent

0:42 controller and service management

0:43 orchestration I'll start with the Ryan

0:45 intelligent controller so Juniper

0:48 provides a open and interoperable Ryan

0:51 attention controller platform which is

0:52 fully compliant with Oran Alliance

0:54 interfaces and specifications you can

0:56 onboard third-party X apps and R apps

0:58 which gives kind of flexibility and

1:00 choice of suppliers to service providers

1:03 so basically we are covering three use

1:04 cases the admission control and traffic

1:06 steering use case is something that we

1:08 have demonstrated in Vodafone turkey in

1:10 a live commercial Network you would have

1:12 seen the press release last week and we

1:14 have Energy savings which we

1:16 demonstrated

1:17 so I can walk you through one of those

1:19 use cases real quick sure so

1:23 admission control kind of provides

1:24 priority user services in a specific

1:26 category of users let's say Public

1:28 Safety or schools hospitals Etc so this

1:32 was the setup on which we validated we

1:33 have the Juniper near real time brick

1:35 non-real time brick we had X apps and

1:37 our apps coming from juniper and

1:39 parallel Wireless was providing the

1:40 radio network here all right

1:42 so let's start with the use case so we

1:44 have a cityscape we have a rural area we

1:46 have a suburban area here so we first

1:49 start deploying the admission control so

1:51 we are now deploying that mission

1:52 control RF okay we will display deploy

1:54 the admission control

1:58 and the fully automated analyst right

2:01 yeah basically we just need to deploy

2:02 the app so that it's all running and now

2:04 we start the use case

2:07 the tenant that you're talking about is

2:09 a public safety tenant here okay and

2:11 here subscribe for 2000 us as the SLA

2:15 right so

2:18 so we don't have any uh emergency right

2:21 now so the default allocation is 1000

2:23 ues in the Suburban area thousand is in

2:25 the rural area and the number of active

2:28 ues is less than these numbers so

2:30 there's no rejections here let's say now

2:32 I have an emergency so I have an

2:34 emergency in the rural area so you have

2:36 First Responders fire safety personal

2:38 levels coming in so suddenly you will

2:40 see a kind of a spike here right the

2:42 number of active movies in the rural

2:44 area has gone up to thousand and some

2:45 ues are also getting rejected here

2:48 so this is where Rick kind of comes into

2:50 picture so the RF gets triggered by an

2:52 external admission server or it can

2:54 detect that this ues are getting

2:55 rejected and immediately increase the

2:57 allocation that is available for one

2:59 area from 202. and those are

3:01 automatically automatically yeah so

3:03 which means of course you can that's

3:05 been a big problem Wireless operators in

3:07 the past right it's right is is uh they

3:09 run out of spectrum and you know and

3:11 then the service quality goes down and

3:13 yeah absolutely yeah right and the

3:16 number of rejected ues come to zero so

3:19 now your emergency situation has gone

3:21 away you go back to your default

3:23 allocation of thousand each so basically

3:26 you're able to kind of dynamically

3:27 allocate network resources without

3:29 trying to kind of over provision at any

3:31 place yeah and that was the norm before

3:33 you either ran with poorly provisioned

3:36 or you over provisioned right in which

3:38 case your network has been utilized most

3:40 of the time exactly right and your

3:43 automatically optimizing it based on the

3:45 real-time data and applications once

3:47 developed you can run it any you don't

3:49 need to have vendor specific

3:50 implementation because this is open run

3:51 right

3:53 so I will uh

3:55 I'll go back to another use case I think

3:58 um at this time I'll go to yeah I'll go

4:00 to the service management orchestration

4:01 demo sure just to give you a brief

4:04 overview of what it is about

4:07 so let's look at why do you need this

4:09 new approach to service management

4:11 orchestration so basically the

4:13 management and orchestration of Telecom

4:14 networks is becoming more complex

4:16 primarily because of the following

4:17 reasons one is evolving architectures

4:19 service providers are moving from closed

4:21 monolithic systems to open virtualized

4:24 architectures

4:27 and with 5G and Oran your network is

4:30 your services are going to be delivered

4:31 from thousands of clouds and tens and

4:34 thousands of its sites unlike where

4:36 we've had physical Network functions

4:37 earlier

4:38 and service providers also want to kind

4:41 of spin up custom services on demand

4:43 something that they want to spin up

4:44 something for a few hours or so and be

4:46 able to deliver them under slas and

4:48 share the money as to surprise

4:50 so to simplify this complexity Juniper

4:53 has come up with this Quran service

4:55 management organization system which is

4:56 fully component to 3gp TMF and open

5:00 Trend standards so we it implements ran

5:03 Netflix life management function which

5:04 is uh 3gp defined we have the non-real

5:07 time brick the near Rail tamrick and we

5:09 have the focam and nfo functions which

5:11 actually take care of orchestrating the

5:13 functions on top of this entrepreneurial

5:15 cloud

5:16 so what we are talking about here is

5:18 that we are taking an example of

5:20 Barcelona we have a regional clock we

5:22 have three h clouds with the heater core

5:24 use and we are going to deploy and

5:27 manage slices for an Enterprise and an

5:28 industry here and we will be covering

5:31 the entire life cycle uh starting from

5:34 the preparation phase where you're going

5:35 to onboard Cloud infrastructure Design

5:37 Network slices Design

5:39 Services supplies creation slice

5:42 activation

5:44 monitoring the slice and then slice

5:46 termination so this is what we're going

5:48 to be speaking to customers partners and

5:50 industrialists like you for the next

5:52 three days at Barcelona so happy to take

5:55 any questions yeah and so how's this

5:57 being received so far

5:58 it's been pretty good we had already a

6:00 couple of customers who have been here

6:01 and of course there's going to be more

6:03 discussions that's going to follow Yeah

6:05 well yeah and what I like about this and

6:08 I was talking Ramy about this earlier is

6:10 just that the Rand is an area that a lot

6:12 of people have thought was kind of a

6:13 commodity you're driving a lot of

6:15 innovation into it now to allow it to do

6:17 things that service writers can do

6:19 before so absolutely so all right well

6:21 that was great so thanks appreciate the

6:22 time thanks

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