Telecommunications company Telstra and Ericsson have introduced a 5G standalone automated and orchestrated services for enterprise featuring interworking with fully automated 5G network slicing, Local Packet Gateway, and 5G enterprise routers with network slicing capabilities delivered by Cradlepoint.
In what both companies claim a world first, Telstra and Ericsson have deployed an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in the commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory.
These capabilities provide Telstra customers with services that can deliver network characteristics such as throughput, latency, and resilience required to support digitised operations and processes.
Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in its commercial 5G network. This Australian first deployment was on display last week at Telstra Vantage via a 5G remote controlled car demonstration that shows how users can benefit from 5G bandwidth, low latency, and data localisation.
In the live demo, the Local Packet Gateway powered the video feed of the remote driving demo onsite, avoiding looping the video back through the mobile network.
The solution’s data localisation leverages edge computing in virtual and hybrid 5G private network environments.
It delivers bandwidth, data security, low latency, and creates a more efficient network overall.
The Local Packet Gateway delivers a small footprint, edge user plane which brings network user traffic management closer to its source so Telstra’s enterprise customers are able to keep traffic on, or close to their premises.
Cradlepoint has delivered its 5G enabled routers and adaptors (e.g E3000 branch router, R1900 vehicle router, W2005 outdoor adaptor, W1850 indoor adaptor) powered by Cradlepoint Netcloud to manage these 5G network capabilities.
“In the past it took a long time to deploy and scale new service constructs in our network. Now, with 5G’s service-based architecture combined with automation via network orchestration, we are able to work with our customers to imagine and deploy new differentiated services quickly and scale them economically,” said Telstra executive product enablement technology Shailin Sehgal.
“Ericsson has developed its Orchestration and Local Packet Gateway solutions to help forward looking customers such as Telstra deliver sought-after enterprise services via automated network slicing and edge use cases,”
Ericsson head of Australia and New Zealand Emilio Romeo
Ericsson and Telstra will both participate in a live panel discussion on Achieving end-to-end network slicing to unlock 5G opportunities on-stage at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen on 21 September.