Agenda
- Rapid.Space
- Threats and opportunities in the digital chaos
- Open Radio Station Applications
- SimpleRAN technology
- SimpleRAN success cases
- SimpleRAN vs. FlexRAN vs. Open RAN vs. O-RAN
Background
Success cases: IaaS & CDN
Success cases: PaaS & Hybrid
Success cases: edge
Threats and opportunities in the digital chaos
The Great Splinternet
Cloud Act (US) • FISA (US) • FCPA (US) • Great Firewall (CN) • Cybersecurity Law (CN) • GDPR (EU) • DMA (EU) • DSA (EU) • Sanctions etc.
How to Attack A Country...
- Cut submarine cables happened
- Shutdown 4G/5G core network happened
- Shutdown OSS/BSS of cloud happened
- Shutdown BPG routing mastered
- Spread Windows virus happened
- Destroy DC with fire happened
- Destroy DC with graphite bombs mastered
- etc.
How can we achieve digital resiliency...
- Supplier
- Made in USA (like F-35) → not enough (like Ukraine)
- Made by Myself
- Architecture
- Centralized
- Decentralized → edge computing, distributed core network
- Software
- Foreign proprietary
- Open Source or Licensed Source
- Hardware
- Single supplier dependency
- Portable, compact and low energy
5G resiliency with ORS and Starlink
ORS : Open Radio Station
2T2R • 40 MHz • 2x1W • eNb • gNB • epc • 5GC • IMS • OSS/BSS • MCPTT
LTE • NR • LTE + NR • plug-and-play • edge node
B1 • B2 • B3 • B4 • B5 • B7 • B8 • B10 • B12 • B13 • B20 • B25 • B26 • B30 • B38 • B39 • B40 • B41 • B42 (N78) • B43 (N78) • B48 • B49
https://shop.rapid.space
SDR Card "Made in Wherever"
Analog front-end (AD) • PA • filters • GPS • power supply PoE • supply network
SBC Card "Made in Taiwan" (Intel i5)
SlapOS (OSS/BSS/Edge/Orchestration) • Amarisoft (eNb/gNb/epc/5gc)
re6st (low latency IPv6 feed network)
Interface radio PCI
Open Radio Station Assembly
Open Radio Station Use Cases
100% software defined 4G/5G
used by 2 out of 5 biggest 5G infrastructure vendors and 1000+ clients
source code available - https://simpleran.org/
Open Source OSS/BSS for vRAN and cloud
Used by Rapid.Space, Teralab (French Ministry of Economy)
https://slapos.nexedi.com/
To know more
ORS
SimpleRAN :
SlapOS :
Amarisoft :
Defense (Airbus)
750+ M€ contract
Public Telco Infrastructure (Viettel)
500+ UEs per cell • vRAN OSS/BSS
Government edge cloud (Teralab)
Open Source (SlapOS) • Open Hardware (OCP)
SimpleRAN vs. FlexRAN vs. Open RAN vs. O-RAN
Dream vs. Reality
|
SimpleRAN |
FlexRAN |
Open RAN Policy Coalition |
O-RAN Alliance |
Lead by |
Amarisoft and SMBs |
Intel |
US govt |
Telcos |
Used by |
Telcos • Defense • Industry |
Telcos • Defense • Industry |
Telcos |
Telcos |
Purpose |
Build an efficient RAN alternative |
Increase Intel CPU sales |
Kill EU/CN vendors |
Open RU interface |
Vendors |
Multiple |
Intel |
Multiple |
Multiple |
CPU |
Any |
Intel |
Usually Intel |
N/S |
HW accelerator |
No need |
Yes |
Usually yes |
N/S |
NDA |
No need |
(?) |
(?) |
Yes |
Sovereignty |
Yes |
No |
Usually no |
N/S |
Performance |
Carrier grade |
Sub carrier grade |
N/S |
N/S |
RU Interface |
CPRI and eCPRI |
eCPRI |
eCPRI |
eCPRI |
Legacy RU |
Supported |
Unsupported |
Unsupported |
Unsupported |
Edge cloud |
SlapOS |
N/A |
N/A |
K8S |
Why SimpleRAN?
- 100% software
- Works on all CPUs (Intel, AMD, ARM, Hygon, etc.)
- No hardware accelerator needed
- Efficient: 4T4R 100 MHz with 4 cores
- Stable: deployed on public networks
- Integrated: from PHY to core network
- Compact: gNodeB/5G size is a few MB
- Complete: built-in carrier grade OSS/BSS
- Edge native: CDN, IoT buffering, etc.
- Sovereign: open source / source code license