Open source telecom

1. Study Notes
Richard Kuo

2. TIP Motivation
• Allows more users to access internet
“Every day, more people and more devices around the world are coming
online… Scaling traditional telecom infrastructure to meet this global data
challenge is not moving as fast as people need it to.”
• Open Source
Facebook is teaming up with telecom companies to both streamline the
process and encourage faster development.
• Software Defined Everything (SDx)
The Telecom Infra Project is initially going to separate the hardware and
software components of network architecture which are usually bundled
together, with the goal of increasing efficiency and designing new solutions.
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3. Telecom Infra Project
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Mission
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is an engineering-focused initiative driven by
operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and other technology
companies that aim to reimage the traditional approach to building and
deploying telecom network infrastructure.
•Founded in February 2016 by SK Telecom, Deutsche, Facebook, Intel, and Nokia

4. Paradigms
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5. Project Groups
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6. Solutions Integration
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7. TIP Community Lab
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8. Data-Model Driven Management
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9. Voyager
• A networking solution for Open
Packet DWDM networks — and
what we believe is the industry’s
first “white box” transponder
and routing solution.
Sub-project:
Backhaul: Open Optical Packet Transport project
group
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10. OpenCellular
from: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1754757044806180/introducing-opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access-platform
• General-baseband computing (GBC): The GBC further
consists of power, housekeeping microcontroller,
microprocessor, timing/sync module, sensors, and
control mechanism. The system is designed to take in
various input power sources: PoE (power-over-ethernet),
solar, DC, and external batteries (seal lead acid) and
internal battery (lithium-ion). The system also has
numerous sensors that monitor things like temperature,
voltage, and current.
• Radio with integrated front-end: On the radio subsystem,
we have multiple options based on a software-defined
radio (SDR) or system on chip (SoC). The SDR and SoC
versions support various open source and commercial
cellular stacks. The system supports two configurations:
as a full network-in-a-box, when the daughter card is
combined with the GBC board; and alternatively as an
access point, when the daughter card is operating alone
(only the SoC version supports this configuration).
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11. Backup Slides
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