[Banana] How many links can be BANANA'd together?

Dave Dolson <ddolson@sandvine.com> Tue, 18 July 2017 11:04 UTC

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In the 3GPP/IETF meeting, I'm hearing a 5G end-user device may connect to up to 8 slices.
In contrast, I think some BANANA documents have explicitly referred to 2 slices.

My opinion is that BANANA should in theory permit any number of links.
And thinking of primary/secondary links might be problematic too. More of a symmetric approach to links seems appropriate.


David Dolson
Senior Software Architect
Sandvine