Common use of Berlin Platform Clause in Contracts

Berlin Platform. In its current state, it consists of outdoor and indoor 5G cellular equipment from various vendors utilizing mainly the Private network spectrum 3.7 to 3.8 GHz band n78. Indoor coverage includes a distributed MIMO cell installation from Huawei and Nokia covering the entire underground parking deck, which is also used by other departments for autonomous driving activities. Another Nokia Macro cell is located on the roof to provide outdoor coverage in the vicinity of the building. Throughout the laboratory floor, Huawei micro remote radio heads are installed providing coverage to the lab environment. In addition to the “big” vendor RAN we also have SDR based gNodeB from Amarisoft and ETTUS USRP supporting OpenAir and srsRAN software stacks. To cover O-RAN use cases, the USRP based setups can be used in addition to small cells from NodeH. The networks are configured as 5G SA with Slicing and RAN Sharing enabled to support multiple core networks at the same time. As core network the Fraunhofer FOKUS developed Opene5GCore is used most of the time. Open5GCore supports very flexible NF deployment models that range from classic all-on-one cloud models to very distributed setups, which include multiple UPF at various network locations. The Standard 3GPPP interfaces are exposed due to the modular design of the Open5GCore, thus experimenters can access or intercept these interfaces. However, other (open source) cores are also available and can be activated for specific PLMN (MCC/MNC). The Playground basically operates multiple standalone Operators, each with its own pool of sim cards, which can be produced on demand. For the UE side, the playground has mobile phones from several vendors interconnected to multiple indoor locations and accessible via ADB remote control software. In addition to the consumer mobile phones embedded modem M.2 cards and CPE Devices are available. In addition to the fixed installed RAN components, so-called Nomadic Nodes are available. These refrigerator-sized mobile racks include compute, network, and storage resources together with RAN equipment from Nokia or Huawei and power supplies. These Nodes can be used to implement and validate nomadic ad-hoc private network scenarios. From the infrastructure side, the playground components are interconnected with operator grade 100 Gbit switches that operate in a redundant leaf-spine architecture. Dedicated Isolated network setups can be created by management software and further delegated to individual projects. Compute and Storage resources are managed by VMware hypervisor which provides virtual machines to the projects utilizing the Playground. In addition to the six VMware servers bare-metal servers can be added to the infrastructure to support special use cases which rely on direct hardware access. The nomadic nodes rely on a single server with the Proxmox hypervisor to host VM and container-based services. In addition to the redundant 1 Gbit internet uplink via the DFN, the testbed also has a direct fiber connection to a German-wide Wireless Access Network (WAN) fiber loop. By using a 96-channel Carrier grade Dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) system from Nokia, this WAN link can be used to connect remote locations across Germany. By using two of these DWDM systems, a 900 Km loop is configured which can be used to simulate remote locations in the same testbed. To cover NTN use cases, a Starlink antenna is also available in the playground. This allows the experimentation with different spilt scenarios where some components of a 5G system are moved into a various edge (virtual) data centers. These (virtual) edge data centers can be interconnected using the Satellite or long-range WAN links to simulate different distances.

Berlin Platform. In its current state, it the platform consists of outdoor and indoor 5G cellular equipment from various vendors utilizing using mainly the Private network spectrum 3.7 to 3.8 GHz band n78. Indoor coverage includes a distributed MIMO cell installation from Huawei and Nokia covering the entire underground parking deck, which is also used by other departments for autonomous driving activities. Another Nokia Macro cell is located on the roof to provide outdoor coverage in the vicinity of the building. Throughout the laboratory floor, Huawei micro remote radio heads are installed providing to provide coverage to the lab environment. In addition to the “big” vendor RAN we also have SDR based gNodeB from Amarisoft and ETTUS USRP supporting OpenAir and srsRAN software stacks. To cover O-RAN ORAN use cases, the USRP USRP-based setups can be used in addition to small cells from NodeH. The networks are configured as 5G SA with Slicing and RAN Sharing enabled to support multiple core networks at the same time. As core network the Fraunhofer FOKUS developed Opene5GCore Open5GCore is used most of the time. Open5GCore supports very flexible NF deployment models that range from classic all-on-one cloud models to very distributed setups, which include multiple UPF at various network locations. The Standard 3GPPP interfaces are exposed due to the modular design of the Open5GCore, thus experimenters can access or intercept these interfaces. However, other (open source) cores are also available and can be activated for specific PLMN (MCC/MNC). The Playground basically operates multiple standalone Operators, each with its own pool of sim cards, which can be produced on demand. For the UE side, the playground has mobile phones from several vendors interconnected to multiple indoor locations and accessible via ADB remote control software. In addition to the consumer mobile phones phones, embedded modem M.2 cards and CPE Devices are also available. In addition to the fixed installed RAN components, so-called Nomadic Nodes are available. These refrigeratorFidge-sized mobile racks include compute, network, network and storage resources together with RAN equipment from Nokia or Huawei and power suppliessupply. These Nodes can be used to implement and validate nomadic ad-hoc private network scenarios. From the infrastructure side, the playground components are interconnected with operator grade 100 Gbit switches that operate in a redundant leaf-spine leaf spline architecture. Dedicated Isolated network setups can be created by management software and further delegated to individual projects. Compute and Storage resources are managed by VMware hypervisor which provides virtual machines to the projects utilizing using the Playground. In addition to the six VMware servers bare-servers, bare metal servers can be added to the infrastructure to support special use cases which rely on direct hardware access. The nomadic nodes rely on a single server For the 6G-SANDBOX project, the installation of additional servers with the Proxmox hypervisor to host VM and container-based servicesvirtualization system is planned. In addition to the redundant 1 Gbit internet uplink via the DFN, the testbed also has a direct fiber connection to a German-German wide Wireless Access Network (WAN) WAN fiber loop. By using a 96-channel Carrier grade Dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) DWDM system from Nokia, this WAN link can be used to connect remote locations across Germany. By using two of these DWDM systems, a 900 Km KM loop is configured which can be used to simulate remote locations in the same testbed. To cover NTN use cases, a Starlink antenna is also available in the playground. This allows the experimentation with different spilt scenarios where some components of a 5G system are moved into a various edge (virtual) data centers. These (virtual) edge data centers can be interconnected using the Satellite or long-range WAN links to simulate different distancesA secondary Starlink antenna used for nomadic applications is planned in 2023.