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Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway (HNG) Family Data Sheet

Overview

The defining challenge for Service Providers in the next ten years is managing
a much more complex radio network. The next decade will bring more
HETNET GATEWAY concurrent frequencies for a given carrier, goals for much lower latency,
densification requiring a range of radios from multiple vendors (a true HetNet),
Multi-technology (2G, 3G, and a wide range of backhaul techniques to not only evolve legacy networks,
4G, Wi-Fi) multi-vendor
network orchestrator but to match fit for purpose and drive down cost per delivered bit. All of this
requires more intelligent coordination and orchestration in the RAN.
Key Features
• 3GPP Compliant Nominated by the Network Intelligence Alliance as the Best Technical
• Real-time 2G, 3G, 4G,
Wi-Fi SON
Platform based on Network Intelligence for SDN/NFV, by Leading Lights as
functionality the Most Innovative SDN Product Strategy, by LTE Awards for Best LTE Core
• 2G, 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi Network Product, placing 3rd in CTIA’s eTech Awards for Wide Area
gateways NFVs Network (WAN), and winning the Network Intelligence Alliance’s Intelligent
• C-RAN + SON
Open Networking (IOPN) Award for “Best Innovation combining intelligence
• Any COTS
with open networking”, HetNet Gateway from Parallel Wireless is the
Key Benefits
industry’s first 3GPP-compliant, carrier-grade, high-performance NFV- and
• Makes multi-vendor SDN-based RAN orchestrator that unleashes a dramatic cost advantage while
multi-technology RAN
self-configuring, self- enabling operators to both scale and grow their multi-vendor multi-technology
optimizing, and self- (2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi) networks. The functionality on HetNet Gateway includes:
healing 2G gateway (including virtual BSC), 3G gateway (including virtual RNC), 4G
• Much lower overall gateway, Wi-Fi gateway, multi-technology SON for self-configuration, self-
TCO
optimization and interference mitigation, MEC, and it also provides real-time
scheduling capabilities.

Figures 1 & 2. Traditional Architecture and Simplification delivered through HNG

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HNG virtualizes the RAN interfaces to manage the LTE and UMTS cells in real-time via multi-
technology SON while abstracting RAN changes from the core network and the core network itself from
the RAN. The HNG virtualizes thousands of base stations to look like a few virtualized “boomer cells”
to the core with Super Cell/Virtual Node functionality. The HNG virtualizes the radio network resources
such as Wi-Fi APs, eNodeBs and NodeBs and makes them self-configurable, self-optimizing, and self-
healing which helps with the initial installation and on-going maintenance.

HNG also supports X2 gateway functionality for interference mitigation (ICIC and extendable to eICIC
in the future) and inter-RAN mobility; real-time SON for 2G, 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi access and backhaul,
small cell gateway – HeNBGW and HNB GW/virtual RNC, security GW across all gateway
functionality, MOCN, Analytics, IoT/M2M gateway functionality, ePDG and TWAG. HNG acts as
untrusted/trusted Wi-Fi gateway and facilitates seamless handover between LTE and Wi-Fi. Moreover,
these functions interwork with one another, instead of operating in individual silos, to deliver agility and
flexibility across the network.

HNG makes any RAN easy to deploy, scale, & maintain while delivering QoS across any licensed &
unlicensed technologies, in rural & urban locations, enterprise, public safety, even on the cell edge. This
solution uses standard backhaul and orchestrates a resilient mesh across the various backhaul elements.

As a result, higher device density can be delivered and networks can be built or expanded at much lower
cost, making cellular deployments for any market as easy and as cost-effective as enterprise Wi-Fi.

Figure 3. HetNet Gateway: A Unified Architectural Approach

HNG Family Specifications at a Glance

Requirement Support
Dimensions, • Any standard Intel architecture COTS server hardware, compliant with minimum
power, operating Parallel Wireless defined CPU, memory and interfaces requirements
and compliance
Security • IPsec tunnel termination point
• Uses IKEV2 (RFC 4306)

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•Self-Signed Certificate Authentication
•Authentication MD5 and SHA1 for IKEV2 and IPsec
•Encryption DES, 3DES, AES128-CBC, AES256-CBC for IKEV2 and IPsec
•Supports access control lists
•Support of standard X.509 certificates
Virtualized •Super Cell/Virtual-NB/eNB; 2G/3G/4G/Wi-Fi real-time network SON, X2 Gateway;
Network Small Cell gateway/HeNBGW; HNB Gateway/Virtual RNC, Wi-Fi Controller/3GPP-
Functions (VNFs) based trusted and untrusted Wi-Fi Gateway (TWAG/SaMOG, ePDG), Unlicensed
Assist Backhaul (SDN), MEC; IoT/M2M enabler, Enterprise controller, Analytics
• Built in Security Gateway to terminate IPsec tunnels from nodes
• Gateway functionalities per 3GPP specifications 23.830, 36.300, 33.320 and ETSI TS
133 320
• MOCN Enabler (3GPP 23.861): Active RAN sharing
Interoperability • Multi-vendor EPC and RAN with normalized MME, S-GW, X2, and SON;
• Multi-Vendor MSC (via IuCS) and SGSN (via IuPS)
• MOCN for any radio node-AP
System Capacity/ • 5 Gbps – 20 Gbps with IPsec (depends on ordered configuration)
Throughput • Up to 25000 APs (Combination of outdoor, indoor, and in-vehicle cells) (depends on
(Standard) orderable configuration)
Product • Designed for 99.999% availability
Reliability: • 1+1 active/standby redundancy/protection
Resilience and • SW fault containment.
High Availability • Ethernet link redundancy.
• Additional level of network resilience and load balancing with S1-Flex and Iu-Flex
Standards 3GPP Rel 9 compliant (software upgradeable to future releases)
Interfaces • Compliant with 3GPP standards for:
o S1-MME
o S1-U
o X2
o S2b
o S2a
o Iuh
o IuPS
o IuCS
Network • Full-featured operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P)
Management management functionality
• CLI, SNMP, SFTP, SSH, SNMP and NETCONF management interfaces, available
EMS

Recommended HNG Hardware Specifications


HNG runs on COTS x86-64 servers with minimum hardware dependencies. Key dependencies are:
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• Compatible with CentOS 6
• Dataplane NICs should be well supported by DPDK
• Some form of out of band power management API should be available (e.g. IPMI, ILO etc.)

After that, the recommended hardware configuration stems from the performance, network and racking
requirements. For example: number of subscribers, number of CWS, 1G v/s 10G connectivity,
baseT/SFP+, redundant power supplies etc.

Here is one example of a recommended configuration for a reasonably sized production network.

• HP DL360 Gen9 or equivalent 2 socket x86 server


• Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 (18 core), 2.3 GHz
• Total processors: 2
• Minimum 128GB of RAM
• One or two 2x10GbE NICs. Intel X710 or 82599 based NICs recommended
• 4x1GbE NIC
• Minimum 256GB disk space
• Hardware RAID controller
• Dual redundant power supplies

For more information on HetNet Gateway family of products, please e-mail


[email protected].

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