5G RuralFirst

Infrastructure

Innovation
Parallel
WIRELESS

5G OpenRAN in the UK

5G Vision and 3GPP Plans

PW 5G native OpenRAN architecture is software upgradable to any release

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| 5G Roadmap | | st 1 : Pre 5G | | nd 2 : 5G Trial | | | rd 3 : 5G Commercial | | | |
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| 5G convergence services | | | | | | | Trial Service (Immersive-autonomous) Development of convergence services | | Early commercialization Promotion of convergence pivot projects |
| Service/ Eco system | | | | 5G trial service demonstration | | | 5G open testbed | | | |
| Technology | | Development of 5G key technologies | | | | | Discovery of top 10 promising convergence technologies | Development of 5G convergence services and devices |
| Standards | Dev. of 5G vision reco. | Dev. of 5G TRP & evaluation reports | | | | ITU candidate Technology submission | ITU standard consensus building | Dev. of ITU radio interface reco. |
| Global | 5G global | 2 st 1 GSGE | nd GSGE | rd 3 GSGE | th 4 | (Seoul) | global 5G event | PyeongChang 2018 | | Tokyo 2020 |
| Events | summit 2014 | 2015 | 2016 28GHz initiative 1 | st 2 | rd 3 nd | (German) | ITU IMT-2020 workshop | | | |

Commercialization Leading convergence market eMBB Enhanced Mobile Broadband Development of B5G key technologies

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March 2018: 5G RuralFirst: Parallel Wireless 5G Deployment

• 5G UK initiative funded by the UK government and led by Cisco

• Cisco Press Release

• Key Points:

– A consortium of over 29 partners

– Focus on providing connectivity to consumers, enterprises, businesses and to enable innovative use cases

– PW Unified architecture across all Gs allows 4G network investment to be extended for 5G

• Sw upgradability to 5G

• Disaggregation of hw and sw

• Customer Testimonial

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Testbed Innovation, R&D, and Research Partnerships

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5GIC

Broadcast Mode

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Industrial IoT

Broadcast Mode Community & Infrastructure

Community & Infrastructure

5G Access Technology

Shared Spectrum

Rural Agri-Tech

What is 5G RuralFirst ?

Review differing rural 5G challenges and inform economics for business models: communities, agriculture, broadcast, local industry.

Demonstrated spectrum sharing and deployment of disaggregated 5G lower cost OpenRAN radios & RAN by Parallel Wireless (Orkney).
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• Radio broadcast over Parallel Wireless enabled 5G (Orkney)

• Renewable Energy/IoT/Security (Orkney)

• Salmon farming/Safety/IoT – monitoring (Orkney)

• Agri-tech: Autonomous farm vehicles, Crop/Soil Condition Mapping, Augmented Reality Veterinary Information (Shropshire & Somerset)

• Test & Connect locations to the Cisco 5G Cloud at DataVita data centre via 5G Network Slices (Glasgow).

• Business model investigations

System Architecture

5G RuralFirst: Rural Coverage and
Dynamic and Shared Spectrum Access
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Parallel Wireless Technology…

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Mix of Radio Technologies (incl. pre-5G)

All orchestrated by PW OpenRAN Controller

• pre-5G

• 4G

• SDR

• 5G NR

• LiFi

• LoRa

• CBRS

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Licensed Spectrum
Exclusive use
Over 40 bands
globally for LTE

Dynamic Spectrum Access

Shared Spectrum
New shared spectrum paradigms
e.g. 2.3GHz Europe (LSA),
3.5GHz USA (CBRS),
Spectrum Sharing Framework (UK)

License-Exempt Spectrum
Shared use
e.g. TVWS,
2.4GHz/5GHz/60GHz global

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Slices:

• Consumer
mobile data

• Connected
health

• Connected
fishing

• Marina safety

Network Slicing

• 5G broadcast

• Home FWA
• Seaport

DataVita Scotland

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Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) Gateway

Ayre of Cara – Option 3x

Easy and Flexible Migration Strategy with 5G Native Architecture

EPC 5GC (NGCN)

LTE NR LTE EPC 5GC 5GC PW PW PW OpenRAN OpenRAN OpenRAN SA Software Software Software (Standalone) Platform Platform Platform

Option 1: SA LTE connected to EPC
Option 2: SA NR connected to 5GC
Option 5: SA LTE connected to 5GC

LTE LTE LTE

[EN-DC] [NE-DC] [NGEN-DC] PW PW PW OpenRAN OpenRAN OpenRAN NSA Software Software Software (Non-standalone) Platform Platform Platform EPC 5GC 5GC

NR NR NR

Option 3: NSA LTE assisted NR connected to EPC
Option 4: NSA NR assisted LTE connected to 5GC
Option 7: NSA LTE assisted NR connected to 5GC

MIGRATION With 5G native architecture MNOs can select ANY migration option based on their timelines and budget STRATEGY

Parallel Wireless, Inc. Proprietary

HNG support for 5G Architecture

NSA today, SA tomorrow

Non-Standalone (NSA) Standalone (SA)

• 3GPP Standards 5G - NSA and SA:

– NSA deployment standards finalized in Dec’2017

– SA deployment standards finalized in Jun’2018

– All other architecture options remain within 5G New
Radio (NR) Work Item Description (WID)

• Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway (HNG):

– Flexible to support all 5G architecture options

– Allows interworking with EPC & 5G CN

– Fully virtualized, scalable & decomposed architecture

5G Migration Options

Option 3/3a/3x

RAN

Option 7/7a/7x

Option 2

Non-Standalone (NSA)
Option 3/3a/3x

Standalone (SA)
Option 2

User Plane Control Plane

HNG simplifies 4G & 5G integration

LTE eNB

EPC

OpenRAN
Controller +
Edge Core

NGCN

LTE User Plane

LTE Control Plane

NR Control Plane

LTE UE (4G)

NG UE (5G)

• HNG simplifies evolution and integration of 4G and 5G networks, for all scenarios

• HNG provides advanced RAN functions, simplifying 4G LTE (eNB) & 5G NR (gNB) deployments

• HNG supports all 3GPP standard interfaces and procedures for 4G & 5G

• HNG can support Core functionality for EPC (4G Core) & NGCN (5G Core)

• HNG will seamlessly work with all deployment options for 5G

Showing our Innovation to Phillip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Government

Survey to Connect the Cows

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Connected Cows (IoT)

Summary

• Parallel Wireless All-Gs (2G, 3G, 4G & 5G) solution, helping
connectivity of legacy and future technologies.

• Small footprint and cost-effective OpenRAN solution allows operators
to deploy the solution in rural areas that would typically be overlooked.

• Support for any transport allows it to be connected it even in the
remotest of communities where satellite backhaul is the only option.

• 5G-native architecture enables:

– eMBB connectivity to help connect unconnected communities.

– IoT to enable innovative use cases within rural communities.