“mmWave backhaul”

At the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016 Fraunhofer HHI presents the demo: mmWave backhaul

“Hierarchical SDN Orchestration of Wireless and Optical Networks”

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.

“EdgeHaul Millimeter Wave Gigabit Transport featuring a Telepresence 5G Application”

InterDigital (IDCC) presented 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.

Core Network Dynamics (CND) demonstrates OpenEPC at the Mobile World Congress 2016.

OpenEPC 7 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.

The European Commission and the 5G Infrastructure Association have the pleasure to report on the media and industry analyst briefing on the launch of the 5G PPP White Paper “5G Empowering Verticals” at Mobile World Congress 2016.

5G network infrastructures will be a key asset to support the digitalization of economic and societal processes, leading to the fourth industrial revolution impacting multiple vertical sectors. The 5G PPP White paper on empowering verticals depicts innovative digital use cases from most important vertical sectors and how requirements from verticals impact 5G design. It also presents how 5G will open the field to new business value propositions by cementing strong relationships between vendors, operators and verticals. Deploying 5G for vertical markets in Europe by 2020 (the earliest date currently contemplated by the industry) should be a common framing objective.

During the event, Mr. Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner, Digital Economy and Society, and executives from global top technology companies discussed the impact of 5G on digital society and digital economy, as well as requirements from vertical industries, business models, architectures and standardization aspects of 5G.

Panelists:
Moderator Mr Philippe Defraigne, Cullen International
Mr Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Mr Ulf Ewaldsson, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson
Mr Hermann Meyer, Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO – ITS Europe
Mr Wen Tong, Wireless Chief Technology Officer, Huawei
Mr Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Mobile Networks, Nokia
Mr Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice President, Orange Labs Networks, Orange
Mr Karim Michel Sabbagh, Chief Executive Officer, SES
Mr Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research leader, Telenor

Download the Press Release 22-02-2016: 5G Key to Revolutionizing Industry and Society
Download the White Paper: “5G Empowering Verticals”

*Photo held by the “5G Infrastructure Association”

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

Demo:  OpenEPC 7

Booth: Hall 6, Stand 6C10

Demo:  HHI – mmWave backhaul

Booth:  Hall 7, Stand 7G31 

5G-Crosshaul is sponsoring the workshop: On-the-fly services in on-the-fly mobile infrastructures (OSOMI´16)

Topics

• Reconfigurable services in reconfigurable wireless and mobile networks
• Wireless SDN
• Distributed applications in mobile networks, e.g., signal processing
• Reuse of application building blocks
• Role assignment, component placement and scaling, substrate reconfiguration
• Multi-tenancy of wireless domains
• Network Function Virtualisation applied to wireless processing

Date and Venue
5th of July, 2016
The Workshop will take place in Paderborn, Germany

More Information

5G-Crosshaul will organize a panel on “5G Transport Networks: R&D Challenges of Fronthaul/Backhaul Integration” at the IEEE ICC 2016 2nd Workshop Next Generation Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks.

Panelists:
-Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist at China Mobile
-Luis Miguel Contreras, Technological Specialist at Telefonica
-Ali Sadri, Sr. Director, WiGig and mmWave Standard and Advanced Technology at Intel Corporation
-Mischa Dohler, Professor at King’s College London

Date and Venue
May 23, 2016 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
The Workshop will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

More information

The 5G-Crosshaul The integrated fronthaul/backhaul, part of the European H2020 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) Infrastructure, held a Plenary Meeting in Pisa on the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th of December, 2015.

The 3 full day meeting has the following relevant agenda:

• System Architecture
• WP1, WP2, WP3, WP 4, WP5, WP6 and WP7 meetings
• Core Members Board
• Project Board
• CSA Working Groups Update
• Planning of activities and next Deliverables

The meeting in Ericsson, Pisa has more than 50 experts from the 21 consortium members (leading telecom industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and academic institutions) attending to share their visions and opinions in order to advance in the project objectives, milestones and deliverables.

The 5G-Crosshaul project will define and develop the next generation of integrated fronthaul and backhaul networks that will respond to the needs of the future 5G communications system.