Converged 5G PCF/PCRF introduction

June , 2020
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Agenda

• Oracle 5G strategy
• 5G Policy Overview
• Oracle converged PCF/PCRF introduction
• Key Capabilities and Differentiators
• Policy Deployment Models and References
• Q&A

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 3rd Party

Oracle Communications 5G Strategy Oracle Product

Oracle Partner

Best of Breed
Services
5G

Network
Packet Routing Policy Database

Voice
Core

CSP On-Prem Cloud IaaS/PaaS

Internet
Best of Suite
5G

Network
Packet Routing Policy Database

Voice
Core
Transport IP
Network CNE(PaaS) Network
CSP On-Prem Cloud Voice/Video

4G/5G
RAN
Cloud Service
4G/5G Network Core SaaS
4G EPC IoT
5G Core
Routing Policy Database

Security Analytics AI ML

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Three Option - Go To Market
Best Of Breed – Customer can choose any single or multiple NF
of 5G Core from Oracle

Best Of Suit – Customer can choose any of the following set of

NF of 5G Core from Oracle
• Converged Policy
• Routing and Selection
• Converged Database

E2E – Oracle can partner with any vendor to provide E2E 5G

core

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 Oracle 5G Network Functions (NFs) Oracle NF - GA
Oracle 5G NF - planned
Cloud Apps Oracle Partner NF
Security 5G Analytics IoT Apps Monetization
ORACLE / 3rd PARTY Apps

Cloud Tech Big Data AI/Analytics Machine Event Hub

Learning (Kafka)
ORACLE

SCP NRF NEF PCF UDM UDR HSS

5G Network AMF SMF UPF BSF SEPP CHF
SLF NSSF SCEF PCRF AUSF UDSF AAA
Functions
ORACLE / 3rd PARTY 5G Core Routing & Selection Policy & Charging Database
(Data plane and Mobility)

Cloud Native
Platform Docker Flannel Calico Fluentd Prometheus Grafana Kibana Elasticsearch Jaeger
Kubernetes Helm Jenkins MySQL
ORACLE / CSP Orchestration Runtime Observability DevOps Storage

Cloud CSP On-Premise

Infrastructure
ORACLE / CSP
Security Analytics AI ML COMPUTE STORAGE DATABASE SECURITY INTEGRATION

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Cloud Native Environment
(logging) (tracing) (metrics)

(collection)

Observability and
(storage)
Analysis

(visualization)

Orchestration and
Management
(container orchestration) (automated deployment) (image storage) (ingress load balancer)
(secrets storage) (chart storage)

Runtime +
(container runtime) (cloud native network) (cloud native storage) MySQL Cluster CGE
How has the role of Policy Function evolved from 3G/4G to 5G

• 5G policy framework has expanded its Network Slice QoS

functionality Selection Framework
• Coherent and unified policy across the network
rather than a fragmented view Service Policy Access
Chaining/SDN Framework Selection
• In addition to 4G, the 5G policy framework
encompasses the following functionality:
– Front end to subscription information relevant for
Charging Analytics
policy decisions in User Data Repository
– Network access selection Edge
Mobility
– Mobility Management related policies (e.g. RFSP Computing
index)
– UE Route Selection policy push to the Access and
Mobility Management function
– Influencing edge computing routing UE Access Core
– Integration with network data analytics for smarter,
more dynamic policy decisions
– Event exposure service
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Policy framework architecture in 5G
Service based Reference point representation
(logical only)

5G core network control plane implements a

service based architecture using HTTP/2 and REST
based APIs

Diameter based Rx is still required on the PCF to

maintain backwards compatibility with the P-
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What is the need for a converged PCF/PCRF ?
• Deployment of NSA has extended the life of existing LTE network beyond
2025.Operator will have to choose either to refresh HW or migrate to VM
environment to continue with current PCRF.
• Large scale 5G device availability will also go way beyond 2025
• Cloud native policy solution offers opportunity to avoid multiple platform
migrations and leapfrogs the policy solution directly to Industry defined
target SBA.
• Centralized Policy Solution will benefit operators to consolidate all decision
making in single policy network function.

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 Benefits of Cloud Native PCF-PCRF BENEFITS

• Consistent and unified policy design

Faster Time to Deployment
treating PCRF and PCF as a single
policy solution
• Enables operator to seamlessly add Cost Savings

support for EPC and/or 5GC without

having to re-write existing policies Built-on Open Source

• Operator writes policies specific to the

event being evaluated regardless of Deployment Flexibility
whether the subscriber’s session is
handled by EPC or 5GC Secure Cloud Native Environment

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PCF Architecture Overview
The architecture of the 5G PCF :
• Kubernetes cluster hosting Docker
containers and Calico networking
• Common CNE services to support
operation of the PCF
• PCF Application Services
- API GW (HTTP/2)
- Diameter Gateway/Connector
- Config Service and CM GUI
- NRF Client Service
- PCF Business Logic
◦ SM Service (PA Service)

◦ AM Service
◦ User Service
- Policy Engine
• Data tier
- Dynamic state
- Configuration store

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Supported Policy deployment models
Containers within VMs Containers on Host OS

Physical Server
VM
Physical server
µS
Docker µS
Docker µS
Docker
Docker Docker Docker µS
Docker µS
Docker µS
Docker
Docker Docker Docker
Guest OS (e.g. Oracle Linux)
µS
Docker µS
Docker µS
Docker
VM
Docker Docker Docker
µS
Docker µS
Docker µS
Docker
Docker Docker Docker
Host OS
Guest OS (e.g. Oracle Linux)

Host OS

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Why Oracle for Policy
• Oracle PCRF is a proven, highly scalable, extremely reliable and flexible solution that has
been in live deployments for 12+ years and currently deployed in ~60 Tier 1 operators
• Microservices based, cloud native solution supporting PCF and/or PCRF
• Consistent, intuitive and unified policy design and testing experience to enable you to
rapidly and confidently deploy new services
• Flexible data source framework allowing operators to connect to a multitude of data
sources (e.g. 4G UDR, 5G UDR, OCS, CHF) and retrieve/write data that can be used as
input to policy decision
• Highly available, redundant and horizontally scalable data tier
• Selected by largest US operator for policy (PCF, BSF as well as NRF and NSSF) and Korea
Telecom (see next slide)
• Short listed in numerous tier 1 5G policy RFx worldwide
• In trials/PoCs at numerous tier 1 operators and integrated with multiple
SMF/AMF/NRF/UDR vendors

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Oracle Communications Policy Management

>55 Live Deployments Deep Use Case

35+ Tier 1 operators. Portfolio
40+ countries. Shared Data
Largest live LTE network. Casual use / Promo
5G PCF Speed Boost
5
G Personalized Services
Location
Focus on Cloud
Policy Manager: Core IMPLEMENT
Native
Business Component Environment
Policy is key to Oracle DESIGN
INCREASE
GO to Providing
AGILITY Market
Communications. operators with tools to
Not an ad-hoc add-on to increase service agility
ANALYZE

other network functions. and monetize the

network.
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 Oracle Comms Policy Management Footprint

Reference Accounts
5
G

35+ Tier 1 Service Providers; 50+ Network OpCos; 40+ Countries

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Korea Telecom -5G PCF

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NAM Market Share Summary
NAM CSP 1 NAM CSP 2 NAM CSP 3 NAM CSP 4 NAM CSP 5 NAM CSP 6 NAM CSP 7 Market Share

# of subs (M) 100+ 100+ 100+ 10 10 10 10

SCP Oracle No Selection yet Oracle Oracle No Selection yet No Selection yet No Selection yet 100%

NRF Oracle Other NEP Other NEP Oracle No Selection yet No Selection yet Other NEP 38%

NSSF Oracle Other NEP No Selection yet Oracle No Selection yet No Selection yet Other NEP 50.0%

BSF Oracle Other NEP No Selection yet No Selection yet Oracle No Selection yet Other NEP 50.0%

SEPP No Selection yet No Selection yet Oracle No Selection yet No Selection yet No Selection yet No Selection yet 100.0%

/vDRA Oracle Oracle Oracle No Selection yet Oracle Other NEP Other NEP 95%

PCF Oracle Other NEP Other NEP Other NEP Oracle No Selection yet Other NEP 37%

cnPCRF/vPCR Oracle Other NEP Other NEP Other NEP Oracle No Selection yet Other NEP 37%
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