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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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+========
+Abstract
+========
+
+This document describes how to install O-DU High, it's dependencies and required system resources.
+
+.. contents::
+ :depth: 3
+ :local:
+
+Version history
+---------------------
+
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| **Date** | **Ver.** | **Author** | **Comment** |
+| | | | |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2020-12-04 | 1.0 | Radisys | Cherry Release |
+| | | | |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This document describes the hardware and software requirements along with guidelines on how to install and configure the
+O-DU High.
+
+The audience of this document is assumed to have good knowledge in RAN concepts and Linux system.
+
+
+Preface
+=======
+
+Before starting the installation of O-DU High, the source can be built or docker image can be downloaded.
+
+
+Hardware requirements
+=====================
+
+Following minimum hardware requirements must be met for installation of O-DU High
+
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **HW Aspect** | **Requirement** |
+| | |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **# of servers** | 1 |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **CPU** | 5 |
+| | |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **RAM** | 8G |
+| | |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **Disk** | 500G |
+| | |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+| **NICs** | 3 |
+| | |
++--------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+
+
+
+Software installation and deployment
+==========================================
+
+This section describes the installation of the O-DU High on the reference hardware.
+
+Libraries
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- GCC version 4.6.3 and above
+
+- LKSCTP
+ - Ubuntu : sudo apt-get install -y libsctp-dev
+ - CentOS : yum install lksctp-tools-devel
+
+- PCAP:
+ - Ubuntu : sudo apt-get install -y libpcap-dev
+ - CentOS : yum install libpcap-devel
+
+