Network slicing. Major reductions in capex and opex. A better customer experience. These are all goals of NFV and SDN innovation but progress is slow and the need increasingly pressing.
Here we explore how operators cloudify their networks—while maintaining quality and control through the transition—to...
The use case for telecommunications technology has changed before our eyes. Today, millions of viewers are consuming content via YouTube, video live streaming platform Twitch, or even playing video games, with young gamers (18-25) in the U.S. spending nearly three and a half hours...
Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks.
But its recent work in the Port of Hamburg with Nokia experimented with network-slicing proper, specifically for environmental monitoring, traffic control, and maintenance...
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon the opportunity for new LTE and 5G networks to bring digital advancement.
But networking...
The focus of the wireless industry in 2019 has been heavily on cellular technologies because of the first deployments of 5G networks in markets like the USA and South Korea. These events have, perhaps inevitably, sparked discussion about ‘standard wars’. Will 5G make Wi-Fi...
Slicing should make enterprise networking as simple as electricity supply, and more dynamic, says Vassilis Seferidis, chief executive of Zeetta Networks. Here, he challenges the enterprise market to think bigger about network slicing.
There’s a misconception about network slicing, that it’s a static solution, which...
RAN virtualization changes 5G network economics
LONDON--“One of the challenges as we roll into 5G is thinking the old way. To change economics, to change the speed at which you can deploy, to change the way in which you can be agile to deliver new...
IT modernization for 5G key to hybrid, multi-cloud strategy
With the shift to 5G, early investments in network functions virtualization are paving the way to what will ultimately be an IT-centric network that takes advantage of centralized and distributed compute power to support new types...
Orchestration solution includes automation, assurance tools from CENX acquisition
With limited 5G deployments commercially available in some key global markets right now and operators set to quickly scale out coverage, the early focus is on enhanced broadband, both fixed wireless and mobile, with revenue not...
Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
The Finnish vendor also confirmed that Indian carrier Bharti Airtel will trial its 5G-ready fronthaul solution
Nokia and Korean telecom operator KT have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and trial various 5G technologies, including network function virtualization and network slicing.
The joint work will...
Nokia sees network slicing as key to delivering network-as-a-service
The long-term goal of network functions virtualization and software-defined networking is to create flexible, programmable converged networks wherein disparate services that would typically require parallel systems reside on a single infrastructure. As the operators move toward...
In a previous post, we discussed the near-term deployment drivers for virtualizing at the network edge. Although scalability and cost savings are a near universal goal with all networking technology developments, virtualizing at the edge will be about supporting a range of networking and...
At a basic level, network virtualization is fundamentally the same whether regardless of where in an operator's network it is implemented - be it access, edge or core. Briefly, these foundations include:
The ability to scale-in/scale-out network resources. In order to accommodate and compete with...
Automated network slicing delivers optimal capacity and latency
Ronan Dunne, executive vice president and group president of Verizon Wireless, highlighted how 5G, like LTE, is a technology that will evolve over time as standards are finalized and new capabilities are activated in the network. The long goal, he...
5G networks open up a host of new possibilities for mobile network operators.
Three very distinct initial capabilities are envisioned for 5G networks: enhanced mobile broadband, with high capacity and gigabits-per-second speeds; ultra-reliable and low-latency communications; and massive machine-type communications to support the internet of...
Network virtualization and automation will give way to network slicing
42—in addition to being the answer to life, the universe and everything, it's also how many virtual network slices will be deployed as 5G continues to evolve, according to Henrik Basilier of Ericsson.
In a recent...
Affirmed Networks benchmarks vEPC performance
Network virtualization is most certainly a process, but one that's imperative to the evolution from hardware-driven connectivity to much more flexible software control. While operators approach softwarization differently, many see deployment of a virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) as a...
Network slicing will be an important enabler of the ability to execute on 5G business models. But how networks are sliced will have a big impact on how services are rolled out.
If the full potential of 5G is to be realized, networks will have...
The first 5G networks may be commercially ready by the end of this year. Mobile subscribers are within sniffing distance of lightning-fast 5G, a truly exciting prospect after years of build-up, speculation, discussion and…yes…some hype. 5G will open up use cases and business revenue...
As with 5G and IoT, network slicing security offers a range of challenges that the ICT industry must prepare for
By now, we’ve heard plenty about how the complexity inherent in 5G and IoT networks will result in new attack vectors and additional opportunities for...
In this installment of network slicing 101, we’ll take a look at the basics of network slicing as it relates to both 4G and 5G use cases
Network slicing is often viewed as a single concept within 5G, wholly dependent on 5G networks. However, while...
In this installment of Network Slicing 101, we’ll examine the basics of network virtualization as applied to network slicing.
When we hear about network slicing, one of the most common attributes associated with the concept is the notion that the slices will need to be...
Vertical services equate to new operator revenue, 5G-IA says
In an interview with RCR Wireless News during 5G Americas' 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium in Austin, Texas, Colin Willcock, chairman of the 5G Infrastructure Association, said Europe might not be first to deploy the next generation...
