PCF Deployment Architecture

The PCF reduces the deployment complexity by integrating PCRF and PCF in a unified environment.

The following figure illustrates the PCF deployment.

PCF Deployment
Note
  • The PCRF's deployment architecture includes:

    • One Region = Two sites. Each site has one cluster (total two clusters in a region).

    • Noncloud-native deployment along with cloud-native 5G PCF.

    • External binding database is the local database for PCRF.

    • MongoDB is the dedicated session database for PCRF.

  • The PCF's deployment architecture includes:

    • One Region = Two sites. Each site has one cluster (total two clusters in a region).

    • Cloud-native deployment that deployed along with 4G PCRF.

    • Cisco CDL is the dedicated session database for PCF.