Volta Networks on Tuesday announced its full support for the Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG), an open approach to build out 5G transport networks.
The requirements were created by the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) Open Optical & Packet Transport (OOPT) project group and has gained significant traction in the telecommunications and networking industries. DCSG is critical to the development and deployment of 5G technology on a global scale and enables a series of technical features and new services. Volta said its solution is fully tested, DCSG compliant and generally available now for customer deployments.
Volta Networks said it has completed all required testing on its Volta Elastic Virtual Routing Engine (VEVRE) in order to meet DCSG requirements, including testing in tier-one service provider labs and in the TIP PlugFest, which verifies interoperability among different products.
The company has also conducted testing with several equipment vendors, including Edgecore Networks. Unlike other virtual routing approaches which are limited to x86 platforms, Volta is the only vendor to support multiple virtual routers on an ASIC-based platform.
The extensive testing demonstrates Volta’s support for key features including IEEE 1588 Precision Timing Protocol (PTP), segment routing, hierarchical Quality-of-Service (QoS) on ingress and egress, traditional routing protocols, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). DCSG is critical to enabling 5G transport networks to support RAN disaggregation as well as new 5G services such as network slicing, Radio Access Networks (RAN) Sharing and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC).
David Hutton, Chief Engineer at the Telecom Infra Project
There is great momentum behind TIP's DCSG solution with a number of commercial deployments happening across the world. This has only been possible because of partners like Volta which are fully committed to develop open and disaggregated solutions through collaborating with the wider industry ecosystem.
Michael Ward, Vice President of Business Development – Software at Edgecore Networks
Edgecore and Volta Networks are committed to bringing the benefits of open networking to customers, so thorough interoperability testing of Volta’s software with our switching hardware is important to verify DCSG compliance.
