Plugware and SFPs

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:

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.

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:

• 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)

As an early industry virtualization evangelist, RAD established and maintained a dialog with carriers and service providers on the subject of vCPE design and functionalities at the customer edge.

Applying innovation to accelerate the deployment of LTE/LTE-A networks and services. Learn how to upgrade any network to cost effectively support 4G.

An introduction to two way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) of performance in IP networks, including a comparison with other L3 PM methods.

Learn about new developments in LTE/LTE-Advanced and small cell backhaul allowing operators to bring affordable and highly accurate timing synchronization right to the base station, using a IEEE 1588 Grandmaster on an SFP with a built-in GNSS receiver that simply plugs into existing network devices.