InterDigital, Core Network Dynamics and Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute participated in a milestone demonstration for the H2020 5GPPP 5G-Crosshaul consortium by integrating its EdgeLink™ system into an integrated fronthaul and backhaul trial in Berlin, 27th September 2016.
Arturo Azcorra from IMDEA Networks / Univ. Carlos III Madrid and 5G-Crosshaul Coordinator talks about the 5G Technology and 5G-Crosshaul Project in an Inverview in Radio Exterior, Spain, on September 14th.
Arturo Azcorra from IMDEA Networks / Univ. Carlos III Madrid and 5G-Crosshaul Coordinator talks about the 5G Technology in an Inverview in SER Madrid Sur radio, Spain, on September 8th.
5G-Crosshaul presented four demos in its booth at EuCNC 2016.
Backhaul and fronthaul have come a long way through the generations. When I started out, fronthaul was literally the length of industrial coax cable that you could easily observe running from the bottom of a cell phone tower to the top. Backhaul was always where the excitement was—in all the signal processing smarts surrounding transcoding. This technology existed to condense almighty 64k bit/sec. pipes down to a 16k bit/sec. ones and vice versa.
Today, the story has moved on and converged quite a bit, but the uncoordinated shaping of these spaces in those early days has resulted in two worlds or two heterogeneous technology silos, one each for fronthaul and backhaul. This is not going to fly in 5G, and a fusion is coming that will bring these two worlds together.
Arturo Azcorra from IMDEA Networks / Univ. Carlos III Madrid and 5G-Crosshaul Coordinator at EuCNC2016 – June 2016
Telefónica has been named winner of the LTE & 5G World Awards 2016 (https://5gworldevent.com/) in the category of “Best NFV/SDN Solution” for the work done around SDN applied to transport technologies with end to end scope (from access to core, including wireless and wired technologies).
Part of the awarded work has been carried out in the context of the activities of the 5G-Crosshaul Project.
5G-Crosshaul Workshop on “Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks” took place at EuCNC2016.
09:05-09:20 “5G-Crosshaul Concept and Architecture” – Xavier Costa (NEC)
09:15-09:35 “5G-Crosshaul: a 5G integrated backhaul and fronthaul flexible transport network” – Fabio Cavaliere (Ericsson)
09:30-09:50 “5G-Crosshaul Control and Data planes” – Thomas Deiss (Nokia)
09:45-10:05 “5G-XHaul: Flexible functional splits and network virtualization for future transport networks” – Daniel Camps (I2CAT)
10:00-10:20 Introduction to the COMBO project – Dirk Breuer (DT)
10:30-10:45 “Orchestration of Crosshaul Slices From Federated Administrative Domains: the 5GEx and 5G-Crosshaul approach” – Carlos J Bernandos (UC3M)
10:45-11:00 “5G NORMA: An adaptive mobile network architecture” – Peter Rost (Nokia)
11:00-11:15 “SDN orchestration and virtualization of heterogeneous multi-domain and multilayer transport networks in the STRAUSS project” – Raul Munoz (CTTC)
11:15-11:30 “NetIDE: An Integrated Network Programming Framework” – Tinku Rasheed (CREATE-NET)
11:30-11:45 “Flexible Ethernet Fronthaul” – Volker Jungnickel (HHI)
11:45-12:00 “Bringing Application-awareness into Future Transport Networks: the ACINO approach” – Domenico Siracusa (CREATE-NET)
5G-Crosshaul is organising a Workshop on “Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks” on 27 June at EuCNC (detailed programme here).
-“Fronthaul requirements of 5G mobile networks”, by Thomas Deiss (Nokia), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Bit-Rate Bound Derivation for compressed time-domain fronthaul”, by Chenguan Lu (Ericsson), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Ethernet OAM and SDN: a matching opportunity”, by Luca Cominardi (InterDigital), at the workshop “Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Programmable Software Networks”
-“Fronthaul Performance Demonstration in a WDM-PON-Based Convergent Network”, by Z. Tayq (Orange)
-“Packet Forwarding for Heterogeneous Technologies for Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul”, by T. Deiss (Nokia)
-“Orchestration of Crosshaul Slices from Federated Administrative Domains”, by LM. Contreras (Telefonica)
-“5G-Crosshaul: Towards a Unified Data-Plane for 5G Transport Networks, by L. Cominardi (InterDigital)
-“Innovations Through 5G-Crosshaul Applications”, by X. Li (NEC)
– Fronthaul Compression, by EAB
– RRU/BBU functional split with an Ethernet-based fronthaul, by CND
– Optical Wireless Link: Low-cost short-range optical backhaul, by HHI
– Video demonstration of High Speed Train Testbed in Taiwan, by ITRI
5G-Crosshaul and iJoin project presented a demo at Globecom 2015.