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A Dual Connectivity configuration using the EPC, whereby the master node is a 4G eNB and the secondary node is a 5G en-gNB.

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Root cause analysis is discovering the underlying causes of issues to identify and resolve them. Generally, if a network issue occurs, telecom operators analyze the list of alarms and drill down to plan recovery or maintenance actions. However, this process can take many minutes or hours, from the first incident to preparing a resolution. To reduce the time for solving problems and provide customers with seamless communications service, AI can perform root cause analysis automatically. AI can analyze massive amounts of data and quickly identify problems, quantify the impact on subscribers, and share root cause analysis data with the network operations team. This ensures that any incident causes minimal impact on our end users.

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Pod

The smallest and simplest Kubernetes object. A Pod represents a set of running containers on your cluster. A Pod is typically set up to run a single primary container. It can also run optional sidecar containers that add supplementary features like logging. Pods are commonly managed by a Deployment.

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Refers to systems that provide operations services such as workforce management, trouble processing, dispatch, customer line records, testing, etc.

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Interfaces to the WLAN access network using the SWa interface and interfaces to the AUSF using the Nausf Service Based Interface (SBI) to support WLAN connection using 5G credentials without 5GS registration.

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Provides slice-specific authentication and authorization for a given UE. The NSSAAF acts as a NF Service Producer, while the AMF is the NF Service Consumer.

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An operations center, open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, that oversees and coordinates management of the switching network; it manages the status of the network and coordinates the use of network trunking capacity. In case of problems, the NOC sets restoration priorities and coordinates restoration activities.

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A parameter in mobile networks related to the encapsulation of data from higher layers into frames for transmission on the radio link layer. TTI refers to the duration of a transmission on the radio link.

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Defined in TS38.104 as a requirement for the base station. This requirement applies to the frame timing in TX diversity, MIMO transmission, carrier aggregation, and their combinations. And this requirement is defined due to the frames of the NR signals present at the BS transmitter antenna connectors or TAB connectors not perfectly aligned in time. The RF signals at the BS transmitter antenna connectors or transceiver array boundary may experience certain timing differences in relation to each other.

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The messaging framework in which the analytics or event notifications (carrying raw data for the NWDAF to process) can be distributed around the network. Its operation is not standardized by the 3GPP.

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