ZTE has launched the Cloud ServCore, its 5G core product, which is based on the service-based architecture. The product is fully compliant with the 3GPP R15 standard released in September 2017.
The Cloud ServCore consists of 3GPP network function services and common network function services in control plane, meeting the requirements of self-containment, reusability and independent management. In addition, the Cloud ServCore supports service-based interface based on the HTTP/ 2+JSON protocols. Distributed media planes support flexible deployment and high-performance forwarding, and interwork with the control plane through packet forwarding control protocol defined in the standard control and user plane separation architecture.
The Cloud ServCore is based on microservice cloud native architecture. It utilises micro-service components, DevOps tool and containerised deployment to meet the requirements of slices and network functions such as on-demand orchestration, rapid deployment, elasticity and high reliability. This product uses a fully virtualised architecture, decoupled from the underlying cloud platform. It also adopts decoupling of software and hardware and supports hardware and software acceleration to realise a high performance and low latency forwarding network, meeting high speed, low latency, high reliability and other 5G scenario requirements.
