Sprint Launches C3PO – Open Source NFV/SDN–Based Mobile Core Reference Solution
May 15 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Streamlined, high-performance data plane
significantly improves network core performance
Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced the availability of C3PO (Clean
CUPS Core for Packet Optimization – CUPS: Control & User Plane
Separation), an open source NFV/SDN-based mobile core reference
solution designed to significantly improve performance of the
network core by providing a clean, streamlined, high-performance
data plane for the packet core.
“C3PO revolutionizes the network core and it’s part of our
expanded toolbox of solutions to meet the coming wave of data in
the years ahead,” said Günther Ottendorfer, Chief Operating Officer
– Technology, Sprint. “C3PO is an important part of our NFV and SDN
initiative, enabling Sprint to adapt more quickly to market demands
and scale new services more efficiently and cost-effectively.”
C3PO uses standard high-volume server hardware and streamlines
mobile core architecture by collapsing multiple components into as
few network nodes as possible. In lab tests conducted on Dell EMC
DSS 9000 rack scale infrastructure with compute sleds running dual
socket 14 core Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2680 v4, Sprint achieved
1.63 Mpps (million packets per second) throughput. This C3PO
configuration demonstrated high efficiency by utilizing as few as
seven processor cores - with one packet processing core and six
processor cores supporting other tasks such as Control Plane,
statistics, load balancer, operating system and other operations,
for 500,000 subscribers using a typical Sprint traffic model. A
similar C3PO configuration achieved 2.2 Mpps with a similar traffic
model for 50,000 subscribers.
Sprint and Intel Labs Collaboration
The availability of the solution is the result of four years of
collaboration between Intel Labs and Sprint on a joint research
effort to develop optimal DPDK-based data plane nodes and
disaggregated evolved packet core architectures, as well as a
platform for further 5G core infrastructure research.
“C3PO makes traditional mobility architectures and software
designs more streamlined, efficient and scalable,” said Dr. Ron
Marquardt, Vice President of Technology at Sprint. “By combining
Sprint’s real-world operator knowledge with Intel’s research on
optimizing software for standard high-volume servers, we’ve
developed a single solution that provides seven functions
previously located within separate physical elements.”
C3PO addresses bottlenecks in mobile core packet performance by
separating and independently scaling the data plane and control
plane. The C3PO architecture collapses multiple evolved packet core
and SGi LAN elements in a single data plane instance. A serving
gateway, packet gateway, deep packet inspection, child protection,
carrier grade NAT, static firewall, and service function chaining,
or any combination of these functions, can be collapsed into one
data plane instance.
C3PO is designed to be used by global operators and other
third-parties as a reference for commercial applications. Intel
Labs technologists built the next generation core control plane and
data plane virtualized EPC applications, and Sprint developed the
SDN controller enhancements. The EPC application code from Intel is
available via the CORD project in ON.Lab, and the SDN plug-ins from
Sprint are available via OpenDaylight.
For more information, please visit:
https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/MESH_Group_Intel_EPC_TB_FINAL.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7113219/
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served 59.7 million
connections as of March 31, 2017 and is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
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SprintAdrienne Norton,
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