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eNB
eNB
eNodeB
Cell
Cell
Aggregati
Aggregati
on
on
Network
Network
Backhaul
Backhaul
Network
Network
HSS
HSS
MME
MME
S-GW
S-GW
Serving
Gateway
Policy
& Charging
Rules
Function
PCRF
PCRF
Network
Network
Services
SGi Services
P-GW SGi
P-GW
(SGi-LAN)
(SGi-LAN)
Packet
Gateway
Operator
Operator
Based
Based
Services
Services
Internet
Internet
SG-interface is the 3GPP reference point between P-GW and Packet Data Network.
SGi protocol structure, data content, scope not specified (equal for Gi in 3G networks).
Operator based services like, VoLTE, Mail, Web, RCS-e/Joyn, SMS, MMS not in scope.
Scope here: network services like firewalls, DPI, performance enhancement proxies
for videos, TCP optimization & header enrichment, NAT, load balancers, caching, etc.
This class of services takes care of managing network traffic and network policing.
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Web
Web
Proxy
Proxy
LB
LB
FW
FW
NAT
NAT
Fixed-Mobile-Converged Enterprise
Enterprise Service
Service
Fixed-Mobile-Converged
APN
APN
Mobile
Mobile
Access
Access
Router
Router
ACL
ACL
P-GW
P-GW
MPLS VPN
Operators IMS
IMS offer
offer
Operators
APN
APN
Operators
IMS (VoLTE)
SBC
SBC
Video Service
Service
Video
APN: Access Point Name
LB: Load Balancer
FW: Firewall
ACL: Access Control List
SBC: Session Boarder Controller
IMS: IP Multimedia Subsystem
OTT: Over The Top
APN
APN
Video
Video
Optimi
Optimi
zer
zer
OTT
Video Service
FW
FW
PE
PE
Router
Router
IP BB
to IMS
TCP
TCP
Optimiz
Optimiz
er
er
PE
Router
SGi
SGi
P-GW
P-GW
Router
Router
Interne
Interne
tt
FW/NAT
FW/NAT
Roamin
Roamin
g
g
FW
FW
DPI
DPI
LB/NAT
LB/NAT
HTTP
HTTP
Optimiz
Optimiz
er
er
Performance Enhancement
Proxy (PEP)
Video
Video
Optimiz
Optimiz
er
er
Caches
Caches
HTTP
HTTP
Proxies
Proxies
graphs uni- or
bidirectional
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Mediation Device
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Abstract service
Abstract link
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S
(virtual) service engine
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1
S
S
1
1
S
S
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2
S
S
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3
S
S
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4
S
S
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5
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6
Gx
Gx
Load
Load
Prob
Prob
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GTP Tunnel
SGi
P-GW SGi
P-GW
PEP
PEP
BGP-TE/LS
We may connect all relevant service functions with all relevant sources for
metadata or
We may piggyback metadata information with the IP packets traversing a
service chain.
IETFseems
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Piggybacking metadata
to2013
be more straightforward
than picking
Summary:
Market dynamics accelerate need and demand for more services at an
even faster rate.
With current approaches network service LANs and their service chains
become more and more complex, error-prone, hard to manage and hard to
extend. Its a dead end street.
Vision is to decouple creation of service topologies and their internal
branching conditions from the creation of the associated underlying packet
forwarding (overlay) network.
Operators think in terms of an ordered sequences of network services
(more precisely graphs) selected out of a service pool and define forking
conditions in the service graphs based on metadata sets including user
data, related service classes, type of user equipment in use, network
conditions etc.
(Conditional) forwarding decisions done in a network service node may
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