NFV Unleashed: 5G Slicing and Kubernetes Applications
Master your skills in NFV and 5G Slicing using Kubernetes applications in this hands-on training. Learn to tailor connectivity for diverse use cases and more, through practical exercises and real-world scenarios.
Lab Architecture
This Hands-On Training consists of an ETSI-MANO Release 15 5G Core Network connected to a radio access network and a UE. The goal is to set up different slicing scenarios for 5G.
Why this Lab?
5G slicing enables telcos and industry 4.0 to provide tailored connectivity for specific requirements and use cases covering low-latency for robotics, high-bandwidth for video analytics, or ultra-reliable connectivity for critical applications. This lab demonstrates how we can leverage NFV, SDN, Network Slicing Management and Orchestration can enable connectivity service providers to create slices on the fly, mirroring cloud models, to enhance innovation while ensuring isolation of resources. You will also be able to explore the standard stakeholders and enablers that are 3GPP, ETSI, GSMA, and Open API.
Lab Objectives
– Understand the basics of 5G core networks, the control and user planes.
– Understand the basics of Kubernetes, your cloud-native NFVI for this lab.
– Explore the ETSI standard relevant to 5G Slicing layer by layer: NFVI, NFVO, TOSCA in ETSI NFV-SOL001.
– Leverage your lab to use the NFVI (Kubernetes) to configure, deploy, and manage your 5G workload.
– Create custom user plane functions (UPF) respecting different verticals needs.
– Try the deployment modes compatible with 3GPP and enabling slicing: centralized and distributed core network, shared or dedicated user planes.
– Write, try, and create deployment manifests of the full stack of 5G CNFs using Kubernetes
Prerequisites
- – Linux basics
- – TCP/IP basics
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