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Nokia 5G Future X: The Ultra-Optimized Solution To De-Risk Your 5G Deployment

The Nokia 5G Future X solution streamlines 5G network deployment through pre-design, pre-integration, and pre-validation, significantly reducing costs and time to market. It emphasizes tight interworking between network components to enhance performance and reliability while addressing the complexities of 5G technology. This approach allows Communication Service Providers to quickly adapt to diverse use cases and maintain competitive advantages in the evolving telecommunications landscape.

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Nokia 5G Future X: The Ultra-Optimized Solution To De-Risk Your 5G Deployment

The Nokia 5G Future X solution streamlines 5G network deployment through pre-design, pre-integration, and pre-validation, significantly reducing costs and time to market. It emphasizes tight interworking between network components to enhance performance and reliability while addressing the complexities of 5G technology. This approach allows Communication Service Providers to quickly adapt to diverse use cases and maintain competitive advantages in the evolving telecommunications landscape.

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Nokia 5G Future X: the

ultra-optimized solution to
de-risk your 5G deployment

Executive Summary

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The Nokia 5G Future X solution simplifies the deployment of 5G networks.
Built on open systems with pre-deployment integration, the solution
minimizes the need for the time-consuming and costly post-deployment
integration that is a challenge for service providers. Deploying core,
transport, radio infrastructure and IT systems for 5G network roll-outs just
got much easier.
5G is bringing not just an incremental step up in network performance, but a transformation in
capacity, latency, throughput and flexibility that far exceeds anything yet delivered by the telco
industry. 5G networks have the potential to deliver many times higher peak and average data
rates than 4G networks, achieve near zero latency response and be adaptable to support an
extreme diversity of use cases at massive scale.
5G is more than just an innovative radio technology using new spectrum. It introduces a new
approach to network architecture that builds on:
• Densification by deploying mmWave small cells to boost capacity
• Centralization of radio functions on distributed edge clouds for pooling gains
• Placement of core functions, content and services on the same distributed edge clouds
for low latency and high reliability
• Decomposition of network functions, especially the separation of user and control plane
to enable scalability and the use of a common data layer for stateless operation
• Programmable transport, including Software Defined Networking (SDN), IP, optics and
microwave, to interconnect the distributed data center infrastructure
• Automation, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run end-to-end automation and
orchestration
• Network slicing to create new as-a-Service business models for diverse demands.

Tight interworking is the new mantra


However, the highest performance, and thus the best return on investment for Communications
Service Providers (CSPs), will only come when the complex interworking of network domains,
technologies, components and services work together effortlessly.
In the past, CSPs have often treated the core, transport and radio access network domains
independently, with those parts of the infrastructure then needing to be integrated after
deployment. Integration in a multi-vendor environment, including the integration of the telecom
network with the CSP’s IT systems, is highly complex. Post-deployment integration is costly,
time-consuming and risks degrading the quality of the services being delivered.
Cost overruns are a constant challenge for CSPs deploying new technology, even in the initial
phases. And that’s before any consideration of the deployment of more complex and diverse
services to address new vertical market opportunities.

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The potential of 5G will only be unleashed by tight interworking between network elements
within each domain and between network domains. The complexity of 5G means post-
deployment optimization will be too costly, too slow and ultimately unable to deliver the highest
end-to-end performance.
Unless cross-domain design and pre-deployment integration techniques are applied, CSPs risk
wasting new business opportunities. For example, many business-critical applications in
enterprises will depend on ultra-reliable low latency communication (ULLRC) and extreme
network reliability that can only be achieved by the seamless, error-free interaction of radio,
transport, core, data centers and Management and Operations.

Faster deployment, lower costs, higher performance


Nokia’s approach to building a closely synchronized 5G network is founded on its Future X
architecture and is ready today to make the deployment of 5G simple. This is because the
solution is built on three pillars:
• Pre-design: Nokia 5G solutions take advantage of the cloud native and open 5G Future X
architecture to leverage the latest technology developments
• Pre-integration: Nokia 5G products feature comprehensive pre-deployment integration
for faster time to market and lower implementation costs
• Pre-validation: Each use case for 5G is validated before deployment. Performance
evaluation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis are performed jointly with the CSP
at the Nokia 5G Future X Lab.
By completing nearly all integration and testing of the network infrastructure before it is
deployed in a live network, Nokia can reduce the amount of time and cost CSPs expend on their
5G roll out. This helps them to meet tight budgets and extreme customer performance
requirements, while at the same time bringing customized services to market quickly to win a
competitive advantage.

The Nokia 5G Future X solution tightly merges core, transport and radio access networks to achieve the
highest gains in performance, scalability, agility and automation

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Pre-design: cloud-native plus deep adoption of openness
Nokia’s approach brings the benefits of tight integration of solutions from a single vendor with
the confidence and choice that only open architecture can offer.
Taking advantage of open industry initiatives at all layers of the network speeds up the pace of
innovation. With many vendors and operators working to enhance the same code, CSPs can
enjoy an agility not possible when every vendor works on its own proprietary software.
Openness also decreases vendor lock-in as CSPs can mix and match the best components. For
example, third-party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can be brought onto Nokia Future X
solutions quickly as required.
Open solutions are also more transparent and offer high levels of security and quality compared
to less widely-used proprietary code.
Nokia’s deep adoption of openness is already creating field-proven benefits. Third-party VNFs
are being onboarded in less than one month, substantially faster than the six months other
solutions require. Furthermore, once prepared, VNF instances can be created immediately with
full functionality, without the need for workarounds that proprietary systems need.

What is cross-domain design?


Nokia is applying its cross-domain know-how to sweep away inefficiencies created by the
conventional organizational siloes built around the core, transport and radio network
domains.
Take the example of the planning and design of radio sites for a specific use case. Nokia
applies cross-domain tools that assess the needs of not just the radio sites, but the transport
network and edge data centers too.
The first step is traffic analysis using call records to create a 3D map of an urban area showing
call volume and data throughput across buildings and streets, including different levels within
the buildings. This is followed by site assessment based on a huge database of site build costs
such as power deployment, fiber tower costs and more. The result is a radio plan and a
detailed cost/benefit analysis of coverage and costs of every site.
Nokia then applies its data center planning tool which shows where the edge data center
should be placed to serve the sites, taking into account the physical space required, power
needs, cooling and so on.
This joined-up planning based on comprehensive data to calculate site costs provides an
accuracy not achievable by conventional approaches.

Pre-integration: proven time, cost and reliability gains


By avoiding the need for case-by-case amalgamation of network components on site, Nokia’s
focus on pre-deployment integration delivers substantial cost and time savings, as well as higher
end-to-end network performance.

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Experience of using this approach in pe-5G projects with CSPs has shown the following benefits:
• 45 percent reduction in time to market
• 30 percent lower total cost of ownership
• 14 percent higher end-to-end service reliability.

Pre-validated: testing and optimizing the use cases


Nokia has set up its 5G Future X lab to help ensure the use cases behind a CSP’s business case
for deploying 5G will deliver the expected cost-performance ratio. The evaluation is performed
jointly with Nokia customers and addresses end-to-end performance evaluation and TCO
analysis for different applications. It also helps to ensure the highest level of automation for
network slicing to serve a wide array of applications for the different customers of a CSP.

A choice of deployment options


The Nokia 5G Future X solution comprises 5G RAN, core, transport and Management and
Orchestration. Tailored to the specific use cases that a CSP targets and in line with market
development, the initial solution supports Non-Stand Alone (NSA) option NSA-3x followed by
Stand Alone (SA) option SA-2:
• 5G NSA-3x: Most initial 5G deployments will start with option NSA-3x. The Nokia pre-
integrated solution for initial 5G deployment focuses on radio performance and low
latency services for enhanced Mobile Broadband and ULLRC use cases with initial network
slicing
• 5G SA-2: This option is being considered by some early launch CSPs and a wider range of
CSPs planning to launch 5G services later. The Nokia pre-integrated solution provides
network slicing, new QoS control and multi-access. Network slicing is enabled by cross-
domain automation to minimize TCO while running and constantly adapting multiple
slices.
Both initial variants of the Nokia 5G Future X solution can be deployed in their entirety or as one
of six sub-solutions to address specific CSP needs and legacy situation.
By eliminating the need for ad hoc interworking and integration, the Nokia 5G Future X solution
delivers substantial benefits for CSPs compared to the conventional disjointed, isolated systems
currently being offered to the industry.

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Nokia 5G Future X Solution: overview
• Combines Nokia’s end-to-end portfolio in massive scale access, converged edge cloud,
cloud-native core, programmable and scalable Anyhaul transport and process
automation
• Based on cloud-native functionality across domains, enabling virtualized functions to
be rapidly deployed across a distributed cloud infrastructure to simplify service scaling,
speed time to market and deliver cost efficiencies across the radio, core and transport
network
• Leverages Nokia cross-domain services and tools, as Nokia works with customers to
tailor and optimize network design and deployment based on evolving business needs
• Leverages Nokia’s product development processes that ensure security and privacy
are in-built across the network.

About Nokia

We create the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve
communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end
portfolio of products, services and licensing.

From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in digital health, we are shaping the
future of technology to transform the human experience. networks.nokia.com

Nokia is a registered trademark of Nokia Corporation. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or
trade names of their respective owners.

© Nokia 2018

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Product code SR1810029518EN (October)

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