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
Rapid.Space Presentation
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.
Data vs. Energy
Cloud and 5G are Military
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
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)
Big Data AI Cloud
used by City of Munich, Woelfel and Deutsche Bank
Smartphone OS for Full Privacy
To know more
ORS
SimpleRAN :
SlapOS :
- https://www.nexedi.com/NXD-SlapOS.Experience?portal_skin=Slide
- https://handbook.rapid.space/rapidspace-Presentation.Introduction.vRAN.Management?portal_skin=Slide
Amarisoft :
SimpleRAN Sucess Cases
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
Thank You
- Rapid.Space
- 147 Rue du Ballon
- 59110 La Madeleine
- France
- +33629024425
- contact (@) rapid.space
For more information, please contact Jean-Paul, CEO of Rapid.Space (+33 629 02 44 25).