Service Providers

In this white paper, RAD’s CTO. Dr. Yaakov Stein and Dr. Yuri Gittik, Head of Strategic Innovations propose an economical solution to address white box CPEs’ key challenges. Specifically, they discuss how to reconcile compelling white box principles with the required plethora of different interfaces and high data rates that were provided by yesterday’s physical CPEs.  

The European Advanced Networking Test Center and Upperside Conferences invited interested vendors to our public multi-vendor interoperability test and showcase at the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress 2017.

Core topics for the current edition were:

NFV and SDN transformation is driving an unprecedented level of change. As service providers start to implement these new virtual network technologies, they face a number of challenges in rolling out and operating hybrid networks. This paper reviews best practices to address these challenges via a pre-integrated, end-to-end, automated and programmable solution.

Real-world progress is being made towards the wide-scale deployment of vCPE-based services as communications service providers (CSPs) overcome some of the hurdles encountered during recent years. This report provides current market outlook for network functions virtualization (NFV) and its most prominent use case, the virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE).

Service providers can quickly introduce new services with the Juniper-RAD scalable Cloud CPE solution, which automates service creation, provides an open framework for third-party VNFs, and offers unparalleled visibility and control via standards-based performance monitoring, traffic management, and troubleshooting tools.

Effective support of advanced applications and services in mobile networks today requires highly accurate distribution of time reference to all base stations, using a Global Navigation Satellite System, or GNSS (e.g., GPS). This paper addresses the increasingly threatening risk of GNSS jamming and reviews best practices for anti-jam protection.

RAD and HP Enterprise’s vCPE solution brings RAD’s award-winning Distributed NFV products into HP’s OpenNFV architecture in a single, integrated platform at the customer edge. This paper describes the joint solution and the various use cases it addresses, as well as provide details of the tests conducted.

RAD, working with Intel^® components, technology and partnerships, has developed a vCPE platform for use at the customer edge. This paper describes the solution, its components and management and orchestration.

The virtual CPE is a prime candidate for initial commercial deployment of NFV, especially in business services.

This paper presents vCPE implementation options available for service providers. It also reviews the various factors that should be considered to avoid pitfalls and ensure optimal bandwidth efficiency, security, survivability, performance, diagnostics, and QoE.

What you will learn:

Network functions virtualization – NFV – has quickly attracted the interest of communications service providers as a means to accelerate service delivery while reducing associated costs. This paper reviews the distributed approach to NFV, discusses phased NFV deployment and introduces critical decision factors for placing such functionalities at the customer edge.

What you will learn:

This paper reviews the various methodologies currently available for ensuring Time Of Day (TOD) synchronization in cellular networks. It also introduces RAD’s revolutionary Distributed GMTM scheme, designed to deliver superb TOD accuracy at a lower cost in LTE and small cell networks, by bringing Grandmaster functionality closer to the base station in a small form factor device.

What you will learn:

RAD has developed an innovative ToP performance monitoring technique allowing carriers and service provides to closely monitor the Timing over Packet distribution in their networks, especially mobile backhaul networks implementing 1588-2008 Precision Time Protocol (PTP), making sure it is working well and supplying the required level of performance.

Ensure profitable Ethernet service delivery by streamlining the deployment, monitoring and maintenance of such services.

This practical guide describes the various test procedures, along with implementation considerations and recommendations for use at turn-up, ongoing monitoring and other critical points throughout the service lifecycle to ensure quality of service and maintain Ethernet COS.

A RAD-sponsored guide to Ethernet OAM standards, including IEEE 802.3-2005 (previously 802.3ah, Clause 57), IEEE 802.1ag and ITU-T Y.1731OAM is a set of functions designed to monitor network operation in order to detect network faults and measure its performance. As Ethernet evolves from enterprise-level LANs to carrier-class networks and services, it requires automated end-to-end management and monitoring by service providers.

• Evolution of the radio access network (RAN)

• Why are RAN timing requirements becoming stricter?

• xHaul evolution and 5G RAN

• Absolute vs. relative time error (clustering)

At MEF 2017, RAD’s CTO, Dr. Yaakov Stein shared technology innovation perspectives, specifically, QoS for rich communications services.