Aggregated cloud networking for a hybrid cellular network
Various arrangements of a hybrid cellular network system are detailed herein. The system can include a cellular radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of base stations (BSs). Each BS can include an antenna, a physical router; a radio units (RU), and a distributed unit (DU). The system can include multiple pass-through edge data centers (P-EDCs). Each P-EDC is in communication with a different subset of BSs. The system can include an aggregation data center (ADC) in communication with the P-EDCs. The system can further include a breakout edge data center (EDC) executed at an EDC of a cloud computing platform, the B-EDC including a second transit gateway and a virtual router.
1. A hybrid cellular network system, comprising:
a cellular radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of base stations (BSs), each base station of the plurality of BSs comprising:
an antenna, a physical router; a radio unit (RU), and a distributed unit (DU);
a plurality of pass-through edge data centers (P-EDCs), wherein each P-EDC of the plurality of P-EDCs is in communication with a different subset of BSs of the plurality of BSs; and
an aggregation data center (ADC) in communication with the plurality of P-EDCs, the ADC comprising a physical router and a first transit gateway; and
a breakout edge data center (B-EDC) executed on a public cloud computing platform, the B-EDC comprising:
a second transit gateway, wherein the first transit gateway and the second transit gateway each analyze cellular network traffic using a whitelist.
2. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 1 , wherein the first transit gateway and the second transit gateway manage protocols to permit physical routers of the RAN to communicate with virtual routers executed on the public cloud computing platform.
3. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 2 , wherein generic routing encapsulation is used for routing with virtual routers on the public cloud computing platform.
4. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 1 , further comprising a regional data center (RDC) executed on the public cloud computing platform, wherein a virtual router of the B-EDC routes traffic to a second virtual router present in the RDC on the public cloud computing platform.
5. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 4 , wherein data transmitted by the physical router is routed by the virtual router of the B-EDC to the second virtual router of the RDC.
6. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 5 , further comprising:
a plurality of national data centers (NDCs) executed on the public cloud computing platform that communicate with the RDC via a third virtual router.
7. A hybrid cellular network system, comprising:
a cellular radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of base stations BSs), each base station of the plurality of BSs comprising:
an antenna, a physical router; a radio unit (RU), and a distributed unit (DU);
a plurality of pass-through edge data centers (P-EDCs), wherein each P-EDC of the plurality of P-EDCs is in communication with a different subset of BSs of the plurality of BSs; and
an aggregation data center (ADC) in communication with the plurality of P-EDCs, the ADC comprising a physical router and a first transit gateway; and
a breakout edge data center (B-EDC) executed on a public cloud computing platform, the B-EDC comprising:
a second transit gateway, wherein the ADC and the B-EDC of the public cloud computing platform are co-located at the same facility.
8. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 1 , wherein the ADC and the B-EDC of the public cloud computing platform are located at different facilities with a fiber optic connection between the ADC and the EDC of the public cloud computing platform.
9. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 1 , wherein a first P-EDC of the plurality of P-EDCs is located in a geographic region at least 500 kilometers away from a second P-EDC of the plurality of P-EDCs.
10. The hybrid cellular network system of claim 1 , wherein the cellular RAN, the plurality of P-EDCs, the ADC, and the B-EDC are part of a 5G New Radio (NR) cellular network.
11. A method for using a hybrid cellular network, the method comprising:
routing upstream cellular network traffic from a set of base stations (BSs) of a plurality of BSs of a radio access network (RAN) of the hybrid cellular network to a pass-through edge data center (P-EDC) of a plurality of P-EDCs, wherein:
each BS of the plurality of BSs comprises an antenna, a physical router; a radio unit (RU), and a distributed unit (DU); and
each P-EDC of the plurality of P-EDCs is in communication with a different set of BSs of the plurality of BSs,
routing the upstream cellular network traffic from the P-EDCs to an aggregation data center (ADC) that is in communication with the plurality of P-EDCs, the ADC comprising a physical router and a first transit gateway;
processing, by the first transit gateway at the ADC, the upstream cellular network traffic;
routing, by the ADC, the processed upstream cellular network traffic to a breakout edge data center (B-EDC) on a public cloud computing platform;
processing, within the B-EDC on the public cloud computing platform, the processed upstream cellular network traffic using a second transit gateway; and
processing, by a network function of a cellular network core executed on the public cloud computing platform, the processed upstream cellular network traffic received from the second transit gateway of the B-EDC.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein processing by the first transit gateway comprises analyzing the upstream cellular network traffic using a first whitelist.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein processing by the second transit gateway comprises analyzing the processed upstream cellular network traffic using a second whitelist.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein generic routing encapsulation (GRE) is used for routing on the public cloud computing platform.
15. The method of claim 11 , wherein processing the processed upstream cellular network traffic further comprises using a virtual router to route the processed upstream cellular network traffic.
16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
routing, by the virtual router, the upstream cellular network traffic to a second virtual router present in a regional data center (RDC) executed on the public cloud computing platform.
17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the ADC and the B-EDC are co-located a same facility.
18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the ADC and the B-EDC executed on the public cloud computing platform are located at different facilities with a fiber optic connection between the ADC and the public cloud computing platform.
19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the cellular RAN, the plurality of P-EDCs, the ADC, and the B-EDC are part of a 5G New Radio (NR) cellular network.