The DCSG-Odyssey cell site gateway developed by members of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will be demonstrated at MWC 2019 by Vodafone, Adva Optical and Edgecore Networks. Edgecore said the new product should be available for evaluation in Q2 and launch commercially in Q3.
The DCSG-Odyssey hardware is being developed by Edgecore Networks as an open whitebox cell site gateway in collaboration with TIP and mobile operators Vodafone, Telefonica, TIM Brasil, BT and Orange. They have jointly defined a DCSG specification that will enable deployments starting in 2019 to bring cost savings and choice of open disaggregated networking to cell site networks. A request for suppliers to develop products resulted in the selection of Alpha Networks, Delta Networks and Edgecore Networks for the hardware and Adva Optical Networking, IP Infusion and Volta Networks for software.
The DCSG-Odyssey product line includes gateways to integrate connections from 1G and 10G base stations, as well as gateways with 25G and 100G capability to support emerging 5G base stations and higher performance backhaul. The products will support a range of commercial and open source software options, providing network operators with choices for NOS, SDN, and orchestration platforms.
Adva Optical and IP Infusion have announced, and are demonstrating at MWC, gateway software for Edgecore’s DCSG-Odyssey that enables the open disaggregated network model. Adva said that its Ensemble Activator network operating system for bare-metal switches will power the demonstration at MWC. As well as providing a NOS, protocol support, dynamic configurability, and manageability, the DCSG also delivers IEEE 1588 timing with optionial SFP-based GNSS backup.
Infinera also announced that its working on the DCSG project. Powered by Infinera’s Converged Network Operating System (CNOS), a disaggregated carrier-class routing software stack, Infinera will showcase its DCSG solution at Mobile World Congress with Edgecore Networks.
