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| UPF Deployment Guide |
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| - Each Site has one or more UPFs dedicated for use case |
| - Each Slice supports only 1 UPF |
| - UPFs can be added during runtime and UP/CP form PFCP association |
| - Edges can run on different versions of UPF. Changes are always backward compatible |
| - Option to Install only 4G or 5G or both |
| - Multiple UPF (user plane function) options available to meet the needs of different applications BESS-UPF, P4-UPF |
| - Many UPFs can connect to same control plane. Control Plane selects UPF based on |
| various criteria - DNN/Slice (5G), Apn, IMSI, ULI(4G), Slice IDs |
| - IP address allocation supported at Control plane and also at UPF |
| - UPF Attach/detach to SD-Core. UPF Pools created based on enterprise need. |
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| Option1: AF_PACKET Mode UPF |
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| - Refer Aether in a box (AIAB) for this mode. |
| - AIAB has all default values and its good example of how to use AF_PACKET mode |
| - If performance is not the concern then this option should be considered |
| - AF_PACKET mode is easy to deploy and does not need to do extra installations on K8s node |
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| Option2: SRIOV and DPDK enabled UPF |
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| - This option should be preferred if performance is utmost important |
| - Please refer to `UPF Installation Guide <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-BT7XqVsL7ffBlD7aweYaScKDQH7Gv5tHKt-sJGuf6c/edit#>`_ guide for more details |