Converged Core Deployment

The converged core deployment is based on the converged control plane and unified user plane infrastructure for all use cases.

In the converged core deployment, all 4G and 5G capable UEs are anchored on the 5G core (SMF) with SBA interfaces towards policy and charging functions.

The converged core deployment has a Converged Ops Center. The Ops Center allows to configure the cnSGW and SMF services along with other microservices. A single product helm chart is used to install components.

The following figure illustrates the Kubernetes deployment for the converged S-GW and SMF network function.

Kubernetes Deployment

The protocol layer services are shared across SMF and S-GW. That is, the GTP end point terminates the S11 interface and S5/s8 interface. Similarly, the PFCP (protocol) end point terminates the N4 and Sxa interfaces.

The SMF and S-GW services are deployed as distinct pods and the session processing is segregated. Both the service pods use CDL for storing subscriber sessions.