Feature Description
The converged core solution provides an advanced, cloud native, converged control plane with the capability to support 4G and 5G devices, and use cases.
Important | This release supports only the cloud native integrated S-GW and SMF instance with S5C and SGW-C functionalities. |
The converged core network supports the following converged control plane and user plane functions.
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Converged Control Plane Function:
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Integrated SGW and SMF network functions as a single deployment, under a single Kubernetes namespace, to support 4G and 5G devices from E-UTRAN/NR (Converged Core gateway)
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Support for logical network functions (data only)
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Converged User Plane Function:
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Integrated UPF and SGW-U functionalities as a single network function
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Simultaneous support for N4 and Sxa interfaces
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Terminate multiple control planes in a single deployment
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Converged Core Refactoring
With the converged core support, the changes to the SMF architecture have resulted in modifications to the configuration maps, helm charts, Ops Center configuration, common naming formats, and so on.
The following list describes the high-level changes related to refactoring in the documentation.
CLI Enhancements
The endpoint CLI command is enhanced to include the new interface keywords.
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endpoint gtp [ interface s11 ]
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endpoint pfcp [ interface sxa ]
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endpoint protocol [ interface sxa ]
Deprecated CLI Commands
The following commands are deprecated in 2021.01 and later releases.
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k8 smf local [ etcd | datastore | tracing ]
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deployment [ app-name | cluster-name | dc-name ]
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RCM configurations under Active Charging Services:
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accelerate-flow
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tethering-detection
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statistics-collection
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port-map
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edr-format
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subs-class
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service-scheme
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host-pool
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trigger-condition
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subscriber-base
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trigger-action
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Namespaces
The namespace keyword option is added to the following commands to display the output pertaining to the respective SMF or SGW namespace.
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monitor subscriber supi supi_id namespace [ smf | sgw ]
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show subscriber all namespace [ smf | sgw ]
Naming Formats
Common naming formats are introduced in this release, wherein the pod names, statistic names, message names, and procedure type names with the smf and n4 prefixes are removed.