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Introduction
New applications such as augmented reality, virtual reality and IoT are
creating unprecedented demands for performance, latency, capacity and
scale that next-generation networks must able to meet — and meet within
budget. To meet these demands, next-gen networks will require innovative
and disruptive approaches in how they are architected. The open Central
Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) project offers one approach.
Radisys M-CORD: The Open Platform
for Emerging 5G Applications
S O L U T I O N B R I E F
As the highest source of CapEx and OpEx in the
network, the current Central Office inhibits innovation.
By transforming it into a data center, it offers up a great
vantage point for service providers to enable newer
services. The CORD platform is architected to re-invent
the Central Office as a data center, and it is based on the
three core concepts:
• Cloud Computing – the agility of cloud computing
such as orchestration, scaling and migration.
• SDN – splitting of control and user plane
functionalities and usage of white box switches
to perform user plane functionalities as much as
possible.
• NFV – usage of virtualized infrastructure instead of
traditional proprietary platform solutions that create
vendor lock-in.
