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What is defference between control plane and user plane in UMTS?

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Question added by Kirill Timasov , Senior engineer , Huawei NOC (Ufa)
Date Posted: 2015/01/06
PMP Tarik Al-amare
by PMP Tarik Al-amare , Program Business Manager , Presales Project Manager , Alcatel-Lucent , Thales Group , Currently Nokia

The data plane (sometimes known as the user plane, forwarding plane, carrier plane or bearer plane) carries the network user traffic. The control plane carries signaling traffic. Control packets originate from or are destined for a router. The management plane, which carries administrative traffic, is considered a subset of the control plane.

HEMANT JHA
by HEMANT JHA , NSS ENGINEER , NOKIA NETWORKS

Control Plane handles signalling between nodes and user plane handles user traffic like voice and data.

ankesh sejwani
by ankesh sejwani , RF Optimization Engineer , Ericsson Global(India) Pvt. Ltd.

Control plane is used for signalling b/w network and Ue, while user plane is assigned for actual communication(for Voice and data services) to user based on system capacity,

 

Greg Chapman
by Greg Chapman , Customer Services Engineer , Tektronix Australia PTY LTD

Control Plane is signaling between the hierarchical nodes, determining the path for the user plane, the data being transferred between users

mohamed abas
by mohamed abas , Quality&Acceptance Manager , actel communications

when connecting two devices using interface there is a need for two protocols. First protocol would allow first device to control how works the second one. This kind of protocol is part of control plane. Second protocol would send just raw data from one device to another. This would be a part of user plane.

Mohamed Slim Zouaghi
by Mohamed Slim Zouaghi , Deployment engineer , ORACLE

Control plan is using for signalling anf establishment of the session and the User plan is used for user data in a specific PDP context once a tunnel is created.

Mustaf Mohamed
by Mustaf Mohamed , Senior Radio Network Planning and Optimization Engineer , Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc

Control plane is protocols for which controlling the radio access bearers and the connection between the UE and the network and User plane is responsible for the transfer of user data, such as voice or application data through the access stratum.

BILAL MOHAMED KOLPARAMBIL
by BILAL MOHAMED KOLPARAMBIL , System Administrator , ALOULA GEOJIT CAPITAL

Control plane is used for signalling or control messages and User plane is used for traffic or user path.

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