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How does this compare to Magma?

• zdw 5y ago
  Magma is a "throw out a large portion of how 3GPP does things" approach. As a primer, the 3GPP (which is primarily equipment vendors and large telcos - think ITU and standards like ATM) defines a bunch of different "splits" of functionality either in code or implementation, some of which are required, some optional, as in any "made by committee" standard where everyones pet use case is in some corner of the standard. An example document about this from a vendor about splits: https://hub.radisys.com/5g-and-iot/exploring-functional-splits-in-5g-ran-tradeoffs-and-use-cases-2 https://hub.radisys.com/5g-and-iot/exploring-functional-spli... Magma (which is Facebook and more computer networking folks) basically says "Hey, what if we don't do that, and just make our own stack that works, but ignores all the 3gpp standards". The upside is that it does exactly what Facebook wants - wireless using 3GPP technologies without all the baggage. The downside is that some of that baggage is very useful for interoperability, and the splits exist for a reason.