{"id":10201,"date":"2017-05-22T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/futurenetworks\/?post_type=digest&#038;p=10201"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:17:25","slug":"gsma-helping-make-network-virtualization-fit-mobile-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/digest\/gsma-helping-make-network-virtualization-fit-mobile-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA Helping to Make Network Virtualisation Fit for Mobile Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 640px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 105.833px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Michele-80px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 446.167px;\"><strong>By Michele Zarri, Technical Director, GSMA Future Networks Programme <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The GSMA recently released a whitepaper on network virtualisation titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/new-network-virtualisation-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201cConsiderations, Best Practices and Requirements for a Virtualised Mobile Network.\u201d<\/em> <\/a>The document identified the key actions needed to remove the technical barriers slowing down the migration of mobile networks to a virtual infrastructure. In particular, it highlighted six key areas where potential issues may exist, including: management and network orchestrator requirements, virtualised network security, carrier grade NFV and reliability, migration, performance benchmarking and vertical interoperability.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the whitepaper as a lead GSMA organised a 2 day workshop, which was hosted by KT in South Korea, with a number of mobile operators, infrastructure vendors and open source community representatives to agree the actions required to advance the deployment of virtualised networks. The session focused on three discussion points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reliability Framework<\/strong><br \/>\nThe workshop discussed the need to create a reliability framework that helps operators to deploy carrier grade solutions. Also test cases that go beyond what is currently provided by open source initiatives will need to be defined and shared among GSMA members. The workshop agreed to produce a whitepaper covering these aspects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Source Community<\/strong><br \/>\nThe need for the main open source communities (e.g. OpenStack, OPNFV) to take into consideration first and then prioritise operator requirements in their respective development cycle was considered by the workshop participants an essential element for securing the success of mobile network virtualisation.<br \/>\nThe workshop requested GSMA to consider representing the operator community on the advisory board of the most influential open source organisations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network Slicing<\/strong><br \/>\nVirtualisation will enable operators to create dynamic networks with characteristics matching the various requirements of the network user whether that is a person, machine or a company, for example. While network slicing will come to full maturity in the 5G era, the workshop also discussed how to facilitate the introduction of this technology in a harmonised manner.<br \/>\nGSMA presented to the workshop a project they intend to launch later in the year and invited members to contribute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Future networks Programme will continue to work with GSMA members as well as standards development organisations and open source initiatives to facilitate a timely deployment of network virtualisation technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Future Networks Programme plans to hold a further workshop once the reliability framework whitepaper has been finalised to discuss the progress of the activity and plan next steps for this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>You might also like:<\/h2>\n<div class='posts' role='list'>\n      <div role=\"listitem\" id=\"post-9603\" class=\"apost post-9603 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-5g-digest category-digest category-latest-news algolia_discover_type-article\">\n        <div class=\"post_image\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/digest\/new-lte-reports-availible\/\" aria-label=\"Link to LTE Reports Available\"><div class=\"post_image_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fn_LTEreports_650x320_08_17.png\" alt=\"post image\"\/><\/div><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"post_info\">\n          <div class=\"post_image_details_wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"post_details\">\n              <p class=\"post_date_cats\">Tuesday 14 March, 2017<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <p class=\"post_title\">LTE Reports Available<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/digest\/new-lte-reports-availible\/\" class=\"shortcode_button\" aria-label=\"Link to LTE Reports Available\">Read article<\/a>\n      <\/div><\/div> <!-- END apost -->\n      <div role=\"listitem\" id=\"post-9456\" class=\"apost post-9456 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-5g-digest category-digest category-latest-news algolia_discover_type-article\">\n        <div class=\"post_image\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/digest\/5g-era-will-bring-boundless-connectivity-intelligent-automation-1\/\" aria-label=\"Link to The 5G Era will bring boundless connectivity and intelligent automation\"><div class=\"post_image_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5GReportNEWAvailible650x320-1.png\" alt=\"post image\"\/><\/div><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"post_info\">\n          <div class=\"post_image_details_wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"post_details\">\n              <p class=\"post_date_cats\">Sunday 26 February, 2017<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <p class=\"post_title\">The 5G Era will bring boundless connectivity and intelligent automation<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/digest\/5g-era-will-bring-boundless-connectivity-intelligent-automation-1\/\" class=\"shortcode_button\" aria-label=\"Link to The 5G Era will bring boundless connectivity and intelligent automation\">Read article<\/a>\n      <\/div><\/div> <!-- END apost --><\/div> <!-- END posts -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michele Zarri, Technical Director, GSMA Future Networks Programme The GSMA recently released a whitepaper on network virtualisation titled, \u201cConsiderations, Best Practices and Requirements for a Virtualised Mobile Network.\u201d The document identified the key actions needed to remove the technical barriers slowing down the migration of mobile networks to a virtual infrastructure. 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