The Critical Requirements of a Cloud Platform for the 5G Core Network
Cloud NFV platform (Cloud Platform) is a sort of service based on hardware, providing computing, networking and storage capabilities.
For 5GC (5G Core Network), the critical requirements of Cloud Platform includes five elements: 1.Openness
Decoupling deployment and resources sharing are needed for cloud platform, which help explore the innovative open mode combining standardization and open source in 5GC.
2.Reliability
As for the reliability of IT DC (Data Center) and infrastructures, telecom services supported by 5GC has higher requirements.
3.High-efficiency
The efficiency requirements of Cloud Platform involves two aspects: services performance and operation resilience. The former one requires the Cloud Platform to achieve the demand of 5GC service-based interface signaling processing, edge concurrent computing, massive throughput. The latter one consist of the capabilities of rapid deployment of services and flexible inter-data center network.
4.Conciseness
The network function of 5GC is divided in detail based on diverse requirements, which requires Cloud Platform to deploy network slices and network reconsitution in a flexible and concise way.
5.Intelligence
Cloud platform is able to acquire information from the massive data in network, managing the key data center resources of multi-industry, multi-subscriber and multi-scenario. Intelligence is also introduced to offer intelligent operation, throughput forecast, break down identification, automatic recovery and so on services for network operators and network slices tenants of 5GC.
