Heavy Networking 651: How Juniper Networks’ SMO Enables Network Slicing (Sponsored)

Welcome to Heavy Networking from the Packet Pushers. Today we’re tackling 5G networks. In particular we’re going to discuss Service Management and Orchestration, or SMO, with sponsor Juniper Networks. As carriers and service providers look to embrace disaggregated infrastructure and software, and drive new business through technologies such as network slicing, it’s critical to have management and orchestration capabilities to coordinate  hardware and software resources in the Radio Access Network, the transport layer, and the network core. This is  a complex technical and operational task with a lot of moving parts. You need to get high-level service requirements from OSS and BSS systems, you have to understand the resources needed to meet those requirements, then go out and automatically provision the requisite infrastructure, including wired and radio network gear, compute, and applications. If you’re operating in an open RAN environment, the software and infrastructure may be coming from different vendor providers. And once the service is assembled and running, you have make sure it’s actually delivering as expected. Our guide to how all this comes together via Service Management and Orchestration is Constantine Polychronopoulos, Group Vice President of 5G and Telco Cloud at Juniper Networks. Show Links: Open RAN – Juniper Networks RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) – Unlocking the True Potential of O-RAN (1:57) – YouTube The Road to Open RAN Success – Mastering Open Ecosystems – Juniper Networks Unlocking Innovation and Value in the Radio Access Network (PDF) – Juniper Networks Juniper Networks Collaborates with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless on Groundbreaking Open RAN Use Case Trial, February 16, 2022 – Juniper Networks