Supplement 67 to ITU-T G-series Recommendations (07/2019) - Application of optical transport network Recommendations to 5G transport Summary History FOREWORD Table of Contents 1 Scope 2 References 3 Definitions 4 Abbreviations and acronyms 5 Conventions 6 Introduction and background 7 Reference 5G wireless architecture 8 5G transport network architecture 8.1 Impact of 3GPP functional split and core network deployment on the transport network architecture 8.2 OTN transport network architectures to support 5G 8.2.1 Overview of 5G transport network architecture 8.2.1.1 C-RAN 8.2.1.2 D-RAN 8.2.2 NGC interconnection 8.3 OTN transport network architectures to support 5G in detail 8.3.1 OTN metro-core network domain 8.3.2 OTN metro-aggregation network domain 8.3.3 OTN metro-edge network domain 8.3.3.1 OTN large C-RAN metro-edge network domain 8.3.3.2 Small C-RAN metro-edge network domain 8.3.3.3 D-RAN metro-edge network domain 9 Network slicing support in OTN 10 Frequency and time synchronization in the OTN network 10.1 Synchronization requirement 10.2 Synchronization solution for OTN transport network 11 Survivability techniques in OTN networks to support 5G 12 Conclusion