ONF Connect 2019

COMAC, the newest reference design project at ONF, aims to enable access and core networks by developing a modular, cost-efficient platform and components with well-defined interfaces. The project components will include:

- A streamlined, simple and cost-efficient implementation of 3GPP cellular core,
- A converged user plane function (CUPF) that unifies user plane components of fixed broadband network gateway, 3GPP cellular core and virtualized 3GPP cellular radio access that would be hosted at the multi-access edge cloud,
- A suite of control plane functions/applications that would intelligently be engaged to ensure proper, and standards compliant and programmatic control of CUPF,
- Access and Core Controllers that intelligently and programmatically map CUPF with the corresponding suite of control plane applications.

This talk will provide an overview of COMAC, provide preliminary reference design and exemplar platform architectures, and discuss its proposed evolution in stages.