5G-Crosshaul demos at Mobile World Congress MWC2016

Demo: EdgeHaul Millimeter Wave Gigabit Transport featuring a Telepresence 5G Application.

Booth: Hall 7, Stand 7A71

InterDigital will be showcasing its 5G millimeter wave technologies, including EdgeHaul – a platform for 60GHz Transport. EdgeHaul is a solution for gigabit connectivity for today’s applications such as small cell backhaul, residential broadband, and carrier WiFi cable extension. But it’s also a development platform for the emerging 5G challenges that will demand low latency and multi-gigabit dense networking. To highlight the need to low-latency / high datarate Transport, we will demonstrate a wireless telepresence connection utilizing EdgeHaul. EdgeHaul’s software is built with an SDN framework making it suitable for flexible configurations for network slicing and multi-tenant support. The platform is planned to be extended to support multiplexed fronthaul traffic, and integrated with the 5G-Crosshaul technologies in the near future.

Demo: “Hierarchical SDN Orchestration of Wireless and Optical Networks”

Booth: Hall Congress Square Stand CS50

The CTTC demo proposes the hierarchical SDN Orchestration of multi-technology multi-domain heterogeneous wireless/optical emulated networks. A hierarchical SDN orchestrator is proposed to provision End-to-End (E2E) connectivity through different network segments. The hierarchical approach allows scalability, modularity and more security.

The demo will consist of two emulated network segments: Wireless and Transport Network Segments. The Transport Network Segment will include two Ethernet and an optical domain. An E2E service request will be processed by the proposed SDN Orchestrator in order to establish the necessary domain connections. Network Topology will be obtained at the different abstraction levels. The benefits of hierarchical SDN orchestration become clear in the scope of future 5G networks with technology heterogeneity.

Demo: OpenEPC 7

Booth: Hall 6, Stand 6C10

OpenEPC 7 which will be released later this year running a complete core network in a compact server with latest ARM Cortex technology and 10Gbps interface.OpenEPC is connected to a real LTE cell that standard smartphones connect to.