Arunava Ghosh
Hello I am Arunava Ghosh, currently working as a senior architect in Mavenir Systems private limited, Bangalore.
I have 18+ years of rich experience in the embedded telecom domain. A masters degree holder in communication systems. Have worked on various areas such as Linux kernel network stack protocol layers, virtualization, fastpath on intel dpdk, secure boot using TPM, network driver developments on Linux, VxWorks os for x86 & PowerPC architectures. Have been involved in architecture and design for RAN NodeB, eNodeB on UMTS/WCDMA to LTE, LTE advance and 5G in ORAN.
In the recent years have been working on cloud native solutions for distributed & split 5G RAN containerized architecture handling challenges with respect to security threats, server & container security hardenings, provide platform solution for non terrestrial networking, synchronization and various other aspects to provide smooth and rich experience for 4G & 5G end users.
While not working, I like to travel with my family, ride bike, listen to good music, play sports such as cricket, watch movies & cook up various recipies.
Session
Over the last few years, the Telco space has seen a great amount of change in the way their workloads are deployed. Starting from purpose-built hardware appliances, they evolved into virtualized network functions, and now containerized network functions (CNFs).
Some of these containerized network functions are deployed on the Far Edge, away from a centralized datacenter, and come with their ownset of requirements and challenges for a successful implementation.
In this session, we will highlight the areas where CNFs add special requirements to Kubernetes/OpenShift, and the strategies put in place to tackle these challenges in real-life deployments.
Some of the topics we will cover:
- Overview of CNF-based RAN architecture
- Special requirements for Distributed Unit (DU) CNFs
- OpenShift functionality for Telco Edge deployments
- Reducing complexity for RAN deployments using a Reference Design Specification
- What’s next for RAN containerized deployments on the edge