Past Events

1a Opening Session  

• Crown Castle hosts welcome: “Our perspective on the Small cell industry and requests for SCF to address”
• Prabhakar Chitrapu, AT&T, Chairman’s welcome
• Richard Kennedy, COO SCF, “Intelligence gained from traction with our recent outputs on 5G FAPI, SCWS and Precision planning with AI/ML”
• Julius Robson, CSO SCF, Workplan status and objectives for this plenary
• Session overviews from Work Item Leads

1b Orchestration, Automation and AI/ML

Part 1: Automation promotion Campaign 45mins: Richard Kennedy, SCF, CSO

• Analysis of feedback from [SCF230] precision planning campaign to inform a follow-up WI.  
• Outline campaign for [233] Road-mapping SON & orchestration for 5G Era as well as the new management/automation works
• Strawman promotion campaign and content
• Discussion: Which aspects of automation/AI should SCF be looking at next? Who are the audience and what sort of messages should SCF be looking to develop in future Work Items? Which members is this most relevant to?

Part 2: [240] Small Cell management for the 5G Era (Balaji Raghothaman, Commscope)

• Member company presentations and views on the scope of this ongoing work item
• How well does this topic match requirements for ongoing work identified in the market analysis in part 1.

1c 5G Small Cell Components, Products, Architectures

[238] Reference 5G Product Configurations, (Vicky Messer, Picocom)

• Proposals for baseline configurations and reference architectures for 5G Small cell products to inform volume component specifications and engineering/operational planning around transport provisioning, capacity planning etc.
• +Further breakout discussions, time TBC

5G FAPI Update, incorporating [224] 5G FAPI P19 RF Frontend API (Samel, Qualcomm)

• Remaining issues to address on P19 RF Frontend API
• Publishing P19 alongside P5 and P7: Timing/messages/audience?
• Proposal to define P4 API
• [SCF222] 5G FAPI P5,P7 (Clare, Intel)

1d 5G nFAPI and Split Option 6

[226] Split Option 6, 7 comparison (Ravi Sinha, Jio)

• Presentation of updated comparison of split options 6 and 7
• Discussion around mapping split options to scenarios. Should we include split option 2?

[225] 5G nFAPI (Ganesh, Radisys)

• Progress update on specification work and current issues to address.

[239] NETCONF/YANG for 5G Option-6 RU (Balaji Raghothaman, Commscope)

• Linking development of the management model to the broader nFAPI work, understanding implications of transport on management model.

2a1 Transportation Vertical Engagement

Cathy Ducker, Corning, Prabhakar Chitrapu, AT&T

• Results of initial scoping and engagement work into next vertical for Enterprise Advisory Council – transportation/logistics and port automation in particular
• Identification of target companies and trade associations for partnership.
• Planned deliverable content.

2a2 Neutral Hosting

[231] Options for Indoor Cellular (Mike, Colt)

• Summary of solutions offerings and illustrative case studies.
• Refinement of solution categories
• Identification of requirements which differentiate between solutions

 2b Edge Computing  

• Rolf Schuster, Director Open Edge Computing Initiative, “Update From OEC”,
  • Overview upcoming edge platform APIs, Importance of converged edge platform APIs for edge application developers, Workstream on edge platform API convergence
  • Importance of edge application developer engagement, Workstream on Global Edge Application Developer Lab
• [234] Edge Computing & SC Networks (Prabhakar, AT&T, Druid)  
• Conclusions and recommended actions from the nearly compete Edge paper [234]

2c Private Networks

• [235] Private LTE/5G & Small Cells (Keyur, Extranet, Neeraj NEC)
• Market and industry verticals use case analysis, barriers and recommended actions to address.
• Private Network Orchestration Architectures, Ravi, Jio

2d 5G Safety

• Share Long list on sources identified, SCF to select/prioritise from the long list
• Agree SCF wording/positioning on the issue
• Is this enough? what else could be done?

Summary and Key Takeaways

• Progress update from sessions chairs: key decisions and next steps
• Updated regular Call timetable and next plenary/events