Mobile Internet

Service Providers will differentiate themselves by the connected experiences and the cloud services that they enable for their clients.  Cisco is taking a Cloud-to-Client approach, unifying multi-vendor solutions into a single, standards-based architecture.  Because we do service enablement, the services themselves, the 5G core, the IP core, the cloud, etc. – we can truly optimize across the entire service layer.  This delivers traffic engineering for bandwidth management, network control for your applications, flexible network topology support for interactive service assurance, and much more.

Our 5G enabling solutions include the following:

• Cisco Ultra Services Platform: Our cloud-native next generation mobile packet core provides a unified platform for service enablement using a distributed architecture that can extend functions and services as needed, where needed – all the way to the network edge. This is a converged core platform that now supports 5G radio along with the 3G/4G, Wi-Fi and IoT access types (i.e. CAT-M1, NB-IoT, etc.)
• Cisco Policy Suite: This is part of Cisco Ultra Services Platform, but can also stand alone.  This cloud-native solution includes a microservices-based control plane framework.  Cisco Policy Suite has been expand to support the entire 5G/4G/3G scope.  Cisco Policy includes the Network Slice Selection Function to enable Network Slicing over both 4G and 5G.
• Cisco SON now supports 5G radio along with earlier generations of licensed access.  SONFlex is the industry’s first self-optimizing network solutions to support fast customizable SON APIs by service, user and even slice.
• 5G means greater demands for mobile xHaul, and the new Cisco NCS 500 series Access Routers are designed from the ground up to meet and exceed 5G requirements.  The NCS 500 series has the greatest port density and throughput in its form-factor.  It also runs IOS XR, the industry’s most reliable, carrier-class routing OS.  With the NCS 500, you can now operate a single OS from the cell tower to the data center – providing greater simplicity in programmability and operations.  The NCS 500 supports Segment Routing to better deliver on SLAs.  This a low-power consumption router with Zero-touch Deployment for easy implementation.