MULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIESMULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIES
  • 4G
  • 5G
  • Broadcast
  • Education
  • Mobile
  • streaming
  • Software
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Facebook Twitter Instagram
MULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIESMULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIES
  • 4G

    Colorado Opens Doubleheader Weekend by Hosting Swarm Friday

    February 2, 2023

    BSNL Offers Cheapest Postpaid Plan at Rs 199: Check Benefits

    January 31, 2023

    Lamar County Sheriff Inmate Booking Report || Jan. 30, 2023

    January 30, 2023

    Cohere Technologies Receives Funding From Bell Ventures for

    January 30, 2023

    With 5.7% CAGR, Enterprise WLAN Market Size Worth USD 9.59

    January 30, 2023
  • 5G

    Sunil Mittal lauds focus on 5G tech in this year’s Budget

    February 2, 2023

    iQOO 11 5G Review: Does It End Your Quest for the Ultimate Smartphone?

    January 31, 2023

    BSNL moves into the private 5G network space – Developing Telecoms

    January 30, 2023

    Oppo Reno8 T 5G and Enco Air3 set to launch on February 3 in India

    January 30, 2023

    Mafab Communications targets infrastructure sharing to push 5G service

    January 30, 2023
  • Broadcast

    2 former Tigers players joining TV broadcast team in 2023

    February 2, 2023

    Longtime Hawaii sports broadcaster Jim Leahey dies at 80

    January 31, 2023

    BBC Arabic Radio Airs Final Broadcast After 85 Years

    January 30, 2023

    Gracey swaps W Series for SailGP broadcast role

    January 30, 2023

    Lte And 5G Broadcast Market Analysis by Growth Facts and Revenue Figures over 2023 – 2032

    January 30, 2023
  • Education

    How technology will transform global education in 2023

    January 27, 2023

    MassBay Community College Offering Free Computer & Technology Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

    January 27, 2023

    Need to focus on reshaping technology education, says CM Naveen Patnaik

    January 26, 2023

    Tech ed students make cornhole sets for Winter Regatta – WJFW-TV

    January 26, 2023

    Ontario updating curriculum for computer, technological education

    January 24, 2023
  • Mobile

    Nova Labs Launches New IoT Integration Arm, 1663™

    February 2, 2023

    Reforms to enable speedy 5G roll outs, help consumers, Telecom News, ET Telecom

    January 31, 2023

    NXP Semiconductor delivers mixed results as mobile and IoT chip demand falters

    January 31, 2023

    Aalto University starting a new doctoral program with Nokia

    January 30, 2023

    ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING FROM NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM TO EXPAND MOBILE CLINIC COMMUNITY OUTREACH

    January 30, 2023
  • streaming

    Buy or Bootleg: Save Your Favorite Streaming Media by Any Means Necessary

    February 2, 2023

    'The Adam Project' stands out amongst streaming duds – ECM Publishers

    January 31, 2023

    ‘Kidding’ Removed From Showtime Streaming — Full List of Removed Shows

    January 31, 2023

    ‘WWE Monday Night RAW’ (1/30/23) free live stream: How to watch Season 31, Episode 5 online without cable

    January 30, 2023

    Southwest’s Loss, Comcast’s Growth, and Netflix’s Strategy

    January 30, 2023
  • Software

    Azentio Software recognized as a Notable Vendor in Leading Research Firm’s Digital Banking Engagement Platforms Report

    January 31, 2023

    Hackers Use TrickGate Software to Deploy Emotet, REvil, Other Malware

    January 30, 2023

    Updates To ezPaycheck Software Enables Trucking Companies Start Payroll, Mid-Year Easily

    January 30, 2023

    Major government tech contractors use monopolistic vendor-lock to drive revenue: study

    January 30, 2023

    Calibrite launches brand new monitor calibration software suite

    January 29, 2023
MULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIESMULEGEEK TECHNOLOGIES
Home»Mobile»SoftBank : SRv6 MUP Brings Internet Efficiency and Flexibility to 5G Mobile Communications
Mobile

SoftBank : SRv6 MUP Brings Internet Efficiency and Flexibility to 5G Mobile Communications

By mulegeek-March 29, 2022No Comments6 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

More than two-thirds of the world’s population-5 billion of us-now subscribe to mobile services according to the GSMA, an industry organization that tracks all things mobile. It’s hardly surprising, then, that 4G networks are straining to cope with the growth in user traffic-as you may have discovered when trying to use your smartphone in a packed sports stadium. This is why mobile wireless operators like SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) are rolling out 5G mobile technology that is providing much greater bandwidth (capacity) with far higher transmission speeds.

But merely beefing up a cellular network’s communication muscle is not enough in itself to ensure the use of sophisticated new types of network services and applications that are in the offing: services such as multi-access edge computing (MEC) and network slicing.

MEC is a network architecture that brings cloud computing services and applications closer to end users who, metaphorically speaking, are located at the edge of a network. This has multiple benefits, including better security and data management, lower latency, and improved processing performance, given users no longer have to send their data out across the networks for processing. Network slicing is a technique to divide a single network into multiple distinct virtual connections with dedicated computing resources that let network operators “slice” or apportion sections of their networks for specific customer use.

So what is needed to enable these new services to work in a 5G mobile environment?

“First, we need to understand that mobile networks are built on a completely different architecture from fixed networks, which used to be the main way to access the Internet,” says Satoru Matsushima, a Technical Meister at SoftBank Corp. “But with mobile devices making ever more use of the Internet, the existing mobile network architecture is becoming outdated. This is particularly the case with the introduction of 5G.” He adds, “More and more users are using mobile networks as an alternative to fixed networks, as we see with our home broadband service ‘SoftBank Air.’ That’s why we need to integrate mobile technology with the technology of the Internet.”

To help this integration become a working reality, SoftBank has developed a breakthrough technology called SRv6 MUP. To understand what it is and does, it helps to look at its component parts individually.


All about SRv6 MUP

SR stands for segment routing, a data-routing technique that simplifies the management of sending packets of data across communication networks. When segment routing is combined with an Internet address scheme called Internet Protocol version 6, we get SRv6. SRv6 enables a network to encode network instructions and insert them into the headers of the IPv6 data packet addresses. The instructions control the packet processing and inform the network of efficient routes for the packets to follow to their destination. Lastly, we have MUP, the Mobile User Plane architecture that makes it possible to apply and use SRv6 technology in mobile networks.

“Basically, SRv6 MUP helps bring the technology of the Internet to the world of mobile communications by making data routing more flexible, simple and efficient,” says Matsushima.

And those are by no means the only benefits. “SRv6 MUP facilitates the easy deployment of MEC, as well as cutting deployment costs,” says Dr. Ashiq Khan, a SoftBank Corp. Senior Director overseeing Cloud Infrastructure R&D.


Architectures compared

This increased flexibility and efficiency contrasts starkly with the present method of communication used in conventional 5G mobile networks. Today, when a person uses a device such as a smartphone, a signal is first sent to a wireless base station, which then tells the 5G core-the central part of the network responsible for its critical functions like mobility management-to create a tunnel or data network path from the base station near the sender to the central core. Only then can the data transfer take place via a second tunnel to the receiver. All data has to go to the central core first, before being forwarded to their destination. This complexity creates a significant challenge for deploying MEC, where data to and from a sender/receiver needs to go directly to a MEC location and back.

Compare that clunky method to the Internet way of doing things. An email, for instance, is sent from a computer and is forwarded by a network of routers with its destination address (IP address) of the receiver already attached. The routers already know what the ideal route is to forward the data automatically to a router near the receiver. This last router in the journey shunts the data to the receiver’s terminal, which reconstitutes the packets into the email.

Now, with SoftBank’s development of SRv6 MUP, mobile networks too will be able to take advantage of this efficient Internet-based way of communicating. After some refinement, SoftBank plans to implement the technology in its own network shortly. Doing so will eliminate the need for equipment for a network’s mobile core functions, for example, a User Plane Function (UPF), to set up tunnels between senders and receivers.

“Such equipment has to be specially designed and is very expensive,” says Khan. “Whereas SRv6-enabled mobile networks can make use of commercial IP routers, this will cut costs significantly, while also providing smooth connectivity to new applications like MEC.”


Proof of concept

At Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2022 (held February 28-March 3), the communication industry’s annual showcase event of the year, SoftBank led a proof of concept (PoC) demonstration of SRv6 MUP with partners Intel Corp., and Arrcus Inc. The demonstration created an SRv6 network using the Arrcus ArcOS network operating system running on an Intel Tofino programmable Ethernet switch to provide an MUP gateway. The ArcOS also ran on an MUP-Controller server powered by an Intel Xeon processor to provide edge connections.

Writing about the demonstration, Ed Doe, vice president and general manager of the Switch and Fabric Group at Intel, said, “The MWC PoC demo shows how SoftBank’s SRv6 MUP network design can be used to inject IP routing into a 5G network to add the flexibility, efficiency, and throughput to enhance large scale distributed functionality using SRv6.”

Cisco Systems, which supported SoftBank’s earlier world-first commercialization of SRv6, also commented on the PoC demonstration. Clarence Filsfils, a Cisco Fellow, said, “We are excited to work with SoftBank for SRv6 MUP. The cost-efficiency, flexibility and the simplicity of SRv6 network programming will surely help to simplify the mobile architecture toward beyond 5G and will give network operators a greater freedom of choice for their mobile network systems.”

A video of SoftBank’s SRv6 MUP technology can be seen here.

(Posted on March 29, 2022)
by SoftBank News Editors

according all an billion industry information mobile more News of organization press release services SOFTBANK CORP. stock exchange subscribe than that the things | 9434 | JP3732000009 to tracks
Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
mulegeek-
  • Website

Related Posts

Nova Labs Launches New IoT Integration Arm, 1663™

February 2, 2023

Reforms to enable speedy 5G roll outs, help consumers, Telecom News, ET Telecom

January 31, 2023

NXP Semiconductor delivers mixed results as mobile and IoT chip demand falters

January 31, 2023

Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

Categories
  • 4G
  • 5G
  • Broadcast
  • Education
  • Mobile
  • Software
  • streaming

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

Nova Labs Launches New IoT Integration Arm, 1663™

February 2, 2023

Buy or Bootleg: Save Your Favorite Streaming Media by Any Means Necessary

February 2, 2023

Colorado Opens Doubleheader Weekend by Hosting Swarm Friday

February 2, 2023

Sunil Mittal lauds focus on 5G tech in this year’s Budget

February 2, 2023
Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest
  • About Us
  • Cookies policy
  • Terms of services
  • Contact us
  • DIsclaimer
© 2023Designed by mulegeek.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept All”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent.
Cookie SettingsAccept All
Manage consent

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
CookieDurationDescription
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional11 monthsThe cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy11 monthsThe cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Others
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
SAVE & ACCEPT