Embracing Open RAN in a
hyper-speed 5G evolution
Gary Lee, Associate Vice President
Telco Solution Department, QCTAgenda• Open RAN Evolvement• vRAN on Cloud Solutions• O-RAN Plugfest​ Participation

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Open RAN Evolvement
Technology Evolvement• vRAN on Baremetal to vRAN on Cloud• RAN + Edge computing converge• FPGA Accelerator to eASIC

Ecosystem Evolvement
Community drive the ecosystem
O-RAN Alliance membership
2018: 12 operators
2019: 22 operators, 105 contributors
2021: 30 operators, 277 contributors

10 working groups, 4 focus groups• Define the specification• Develop the software• Test the interoperability• Work with global ecosystem• Accelerate commercialization• Accelerate development anddeployment

to promote policies
that will advance theadoption of open andinteroperable solutionsin RAN

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About Quanta Cloud Technology
Quanta Computer
Parent Company

ODM | ENGINEERING | SUPPLY CHAIN• Established in 1988
• The world's largest laptop ODM manufacturer• One out of every three laptop PCs in the world is manufactured by QUANTA• Named one of the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators in 2019, 2020, and 2021

Quanta Cloud Technology
Subsidiary

ENTERPRISE | CSP | TELCO• No.1 vendor for CSPs
SwitchServer

Storage

Integrated
Rack4

QCT Global Footprint
Quanta Cloud Technology
Japan 株式会社
東京都港区芝大門2-5-8
芝大門牧田ビル3F
Seattle, USA•
Established in 2015
SanJose,USA sales force &•Dedicated
technical support for local
customers

Beijing, China
Seoul, Korea

Düsseldorf, Germany

Tokyo, Japan
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Hangzhou, China

Singapore

Shibadaimon

Established Offices:• USA: Silicon Valley, Seattle• Taiwan: Taoyuan• China: Beijing, Hangzhou, Chongqing••••

Japan: TokyoKorea: Seoul
Germany: Düsseldorf
Singapore5QCT Journey to 5G
QuantaCloud
Technology

QCT
TelcoDivision

2012

QCTEdge

1st QCT
NFVI

2016

QuantaGrid Servers
QuantaVault Storage Servers
QuantaMesh Switches

QTec Lab

NGCO
Ecosystem

2018

2019

2017

QCT 2nd Gen
Server Platform

1stO-RAN
Plugfest
in Beijing

JoinedO-RAN
Alliance

QCTuCPEQCT5G Core

Japanese
Operator
Commercial
Launch2020

1st 5G NR
n79 SA
network

JoinedOpen RAN
PolicyCoalition

QCT5G Lab
n79 SA
Rollout
in Taiwan
and Japan

2ndO-RAN
Plugfest
in Berlin

2021

QCT 3rd Gen
Server Platform

6Enterprise 5G Overview
QCT play as the 5G Infrastructure role7
Powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Open RAN. We have it all CoveredCore NetworkNationalCURegionalCULocal

CU
DU

DU

RRU

RRU

CU
Cell Site

DU

DU

RRU

RRU

QCT DU/CU Product Portfolio
Open RAN Centric Design
Environmental Robust

Integration. Optimization

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Validation Ready . Deployment ReadyAccelerator

NIC Card
Extend the connection for openRAN

Boost the Capacity of the DU

QCT validated NIC card that can support time synchronization for
fronthaul connection.

QCT Validated FEC Accelerator to provide Ready to deploy DU system.

• Edgewater Channel• Westport Channel• Tacoma Rapids DP• Clifton Channel• Salem Channel• STS1• STS2• STS3• N3000• ACC100• Lisbon
ACC1009

QCT Open vRAN on OpenShift 4.7 Container Platform
with OpenNESS Operator
Features & Value Proposition
RAN Evolution: Disaggregation and Virtualization

Resource Management

RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) non-RT
Service Management & Orchestration Framework
A1 O1

•

O2

Automation of infrastructure provisioning& load balancing (FEC accelerator, NIC, etc.)

RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) near-RT
Applications Layer

O-RAN Alliance

Streamlined Deployment•

E2: btw RIC near-RT and O-CU/O-DU

Multi-RAT
O-CU Protocol Stack

Automation of installation andconfiguration

O-CU-CPRRC

O-DU

PDCP-CF1O-CU-UP
SDAP
PDCP-URLC

Open
Front Haul

Easy Monitoring

O-RUMACPHY-Low

PHY-HighRF••O-Cloud+
QuantaEdge
EGX63IS-1U

Telemetry (ex. temperature, voltage, etc.)
Cluster monitoring

CU/DU Containerization•RT-Kernel for DU, SCTP, DPDK/SR-IOV I/O,
hardware acceleration for DU L1 (FEC)
PTP synchronization, …etc. under future planning

QuantaGrid
D52Y-2U

Current scope
End-goalDisaggregated and interoperable vRAN applications(ORAN-compliancy)

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vRAN on Wind River Architecture for Intel Select Solution
Performance Validation of FlexRAN on Wind River Studio with QCT 3rd Gen Platform as DU

vRANIntel FlexRAN L1

Hi-PhyWorkload-Optimized
Performance

Use Case: mMIMO 100MHz 64T64R

Virtualization Platform

Benchmark Tools
Latency: Memory Latency Checker (MLC),
Cyclictest Performance (Wake-Up Latency)

FEC Accelerator

NIC Card

System-level
Benchmarking

DU

Stability and Accuracy: Jitter
Network Performance: Packet Processing
Performance (DPDK L3 FWD)

EGX63IS-1U
Network Function
QCT NFVI Ecosystem Partner
QCT Hardware System

Network PerformanceAcceleration

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QCT Footprint in Telecom Business•2nd O-RAN Plugfest participation•

1st O-RAN Plugfest participation•Germany

QCT Servers actively deployed inJapanese Open RAN NetworkJapan

USChinaSpain•TIP Open RAN projectgroup Ribbon••Taiwan•

3rd O-RAN Plugfest participation

Operator lab test collaboration
for Open RAN project
Field Trial for LATAM Open RAN
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O-RAN Plugfest
2019
1st Plugfest in Beijing

Plugfest

QCT Contribution• Limited of 5G UE• The first time realize multivendor integration

Validate open fronthaul option 7-22020
2nd Plugfest in Berlin• COVID-192021
3rd Plugfest in Taiwan

Micro cell scenario based on FH
split option 7-2 and cloudification

N78 end to end test withmultivendor

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AccreditedandValidation
Community Participation and Test
QCT Server in TIP MarketplaceYear
1st Plugfest. 2019

RuralSolution
Intel 2nd Gen Xeon SP

D52BE-2U
EGD21L-WT

Suburban

2nd Plugfest. 2020

Rural
SuburbanUrban

D52Y-2UTIP Community
Lab TestIntel 2nd Gen Xeon SP

D52Y-2U

EGX3IS-1U

3rd Plugfest. 2021

Validate open fronthaul option 7-2FEC Accelerator: Intel N3000

Micro cell scenario based on FH
split option 7-2 and cloudification
FEC Accelerator: Intel N3000

Intel 3rd Gen Xeon SP
N78 end to end test with
EGX3IS-1U
multivendor
FEC Accelerator: Silicom Lisbon ACC100

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