5G event

1. Contents
• The Infrastructure in Bristol
– Fixed, wireless and mobile
• The Bristol Is Open Pla=orm
– City Cloud, SDN Control, NFV
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BIO Infrastructure
Layout & Key Figures
Wireless & Mobile Net.
Wi-Fi 802.11ac, LTE, LTE-A with
Massive MIMO, 60GHz backhaul
RF Mesh Network
8 Fiber-connected lamppost
with 1,500 photocells and
any-sensor hosUng capability
Compu=ng Infrastructure
HPC facility, commodity compute/
storage, private cloud and edge
compuUng
Op=cal Network
144-fiber core network
connecUng 4 acUve nodes,
full opUcal switching

3. SDN enabled L0/L1 Optical
Switch at any tx rate
OpenStack-managed DC in
a Box
White Boxes (FPGAs) for
users
SDN enabled L2 Switch
10G/40G
BIO Infrastructure
Ac=ve Network Node
Polatis. 192x192 Optical Ports.
Optical back plane of the node.
Mirrorless
Dell. 5U Form Factor. Multiple
1G/10G NICs. Hosting capacity
Multiple connection options
(i.e. PCIe, Eth, etc.)
NEC. 48 ports SFP+. Fully
controlled by SDN (OF 1.3)
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4. WiFi 802.11ac
Meru
NEC 60GHz
802.11ad
BluWireless
LTE
Macro
NEC
Wireless Mile & RF Mesh
Deployment
LTE-A NaUonal
Instruments
RF Mesh
Access Points
SSN
RF Mesh
IoT Routers
SSN

5. Details on the Infrastructure
Emula=on Facility & Staging Network
• BIO EmulaUon Facility is built as a replica of the city network ring (OpUcal/L2/IP)
• This facility is also used as Staging Network to test experiment deployments prior to
migraUon to the city network
• IP devices available: Brocade MLXe-8 and VDX 8770-4 (not yet acUve)
– The IP services on these devices can be bridged to the city network
– They provide a 10G/40G/100G connecUvity soluUon for datacentre-like deployments and NFV tesUng
• Housing/hosUng capability for customer’s equipment:
– Network devices
– White boxes
– Server components (i.e. custom NICs)
• CompuUng capacity adached to deploy virtual appliances (KVM hypervisor)
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6. 16 footway chamber (joint) locaUons dispersed around the ring which provide
physical access to the 144 fibre cable.
These chambers contain all or some of the following:
• BIO Ancillary devices:
– Standard power sockets with in-cabinet circuit breaker
– Fibre terminaUon unit
– CWDM Mux/Demux
– Power over Ethernet
– Media converter (SFP to RJ-45)
– Network management switch
• BIO Network devices:
– Wi-Fi Access Point
– Bluwireless switch and/or relay
– Smart data plane switch
• Customer devices
Details on the Infrastructure
Typical Fibre Chamber Layout at Street Cabinets
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7. The Bristol Is Open PlaOorm
High Level Architecture
Cloud controller
(OpenStack)
BIO City Network
(IP/Ethernet/Op=cal)
SDN Controller & Apps
Network Virtualisa=on
Access Networks
(Wired and Wireless)
IP/L2/OpUcal
IP/L2
Data
City
data
Data Pla'orm
User
data
OpenFlow/
Netconf
Pla=orm point of
access (admin)
Infrastructure services
User authenUcaUon,
Monitoring,
Telemetry,
Network services
Emulated Network
(IP/Ethernet/Op=cal/IoT)
OpenFlow/
Netconf
IP/L2/OpUcal
Custom
data
IoT
Pla'orm
Data
IoT ApplicaUon
IoT Back
Office
Edge controller
(to be designed)
IP/L2/OpUcal
Ver$cal IoT
Applica$on
Data
IP/L2/OpUcal
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8. City Cloud
Concept & Design
• Users are granted a private city cloud project as execuUon environment for their experiments, which is
implemented on OpenStack
– BIO has deployed a single instance of OpenStack distributed around the city
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Resource Type Instance Owner Manager Interface Comments
Virtual machine User User Dashboard, console
Virtual storage volume User User Dashboard
Virtual router User User Dashboard
Virtual network User User Dashboard VXLAN
City network slice BIO BIO n/a
Wi-Fi SSID, city VLAN,
city fibre, RF mesh
City thing User/BIO/3rd Party User/BIO/3rd Party n/a Sensor
Topology User User Dashboard
Atomic
services
DHCP Dashboard
DNS (Designate) API Only
VPN (IPsec) Dashboard
Firewall Dashboard

9. SDN Controller
• SDN Controller and
ApplicaUons should
exist separately
– SDN Controller
should evolve into
an app/
microservices
engine
– SDN Apps should
leverage on app
engine and add
network specific
logic
Wireless
OF13
ODL hydrogen
FlowVisor
OF10
SDN
Apps
IP/Eth
OpUcal
Wireless
IP/Eth
OpUcal
ONOS
Mobility
L2/Vlan
OpUcal
MulU layer
Wireless
OF13/14
IP/Eth
OpUcal
ODL lithium
Net virtualisaUon
SDN
Controller
SDN
Hardware
L2/Vlan
BIO 0.8 BIO 0.9 BIO 1.0
ONOS
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10. IoT Support in BIO
The IoT Back Office Approach
• Systems supporUng IoT:
– Network substrate: RF Mesh, Wi-Fi or any other BIO network collecUng data
– Technology domain services: Services to link the network substrate to IoT pla=orms & data management
– Data Management Infrastructure: Services supporUng the data manipulaUon, analyUcs and visualisaUon
– IoT PlaOorm: Service supporUng development and deployment of IoT applicaUons
• BIO provides the Network Substrate (incl. SDN) and the specific technology domain services
for IoT (e.g. RF mesh device access)
• BIO provides a private cloud to deploy verUcal IoT applicaUons
• Data management capabiliUes and IoT pla=orms can be deployed upon customer request
– Sojware pla=orms and/or applicaUons shall be provided by the customer
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11. Thank You
Joan A. Garcia Espín
Joan.Garcia@bristolisopen.com
@bristolisopen
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