Real-Life SDN Case Studies — Service Insertion

Heavy Reading Principal Analyst Gabriel Brown joins Sandvine CDO Ambuj Mittal and representatives from Ericsson and Amdocs to explore operators true feelings about 5G Network Slicing and the timing to implement and commercialize it as they look to monetize high-volume 5G and OTT services.

We invite you to watch Maravedis and Siklu in a joint interactive webinar session to review the latest industry trends and practices in the 5G Fixed Wireless Access. You’ll learn about the difference between different 5G bands, understand the use cases and deep dive into the business case numbers and learn how to perform sensitivity analysis.

While most data centers are prepared for current bandwidth demands and maintain up-to-date backbones, some enterprise networks are in danger of falling behind. Increased wireless traffic has already taxed many enterprise environments. Evolving IEEE 802.11 standards such as 802.11ac Wave 1, Wave 2, and 802.11ax — along with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies — encourage more Wi-Fi activity and place significant strain on existing 1000BASE-T systems. This demand has pushed network speed requirements beyond 1 Gb/s. Enterprise networks will fail to meet the growing demand for reliable network performance without the right cabling infrastructure in place.

With the proliferation of 4G LTE across the globe and evolution of WiFi standards to support Gigabit connectivity in building (home, enterprise, high-density venues, etc.), there has been a steady rise in data consumption at the network's edge. This demand for high bandwidth on the radio access has led to growing demand for high-bandwidth backhaul connectivity. The natural choice for backhaul connectivity has been fiber, and networks across the world are extending fiber reach to as close to the network edge as possible. But can a converged infrastructure or fiber++ bring better value to the end consumer and make case for a better economics? In the recent past, 5G and particularly the 5GNR standard, has generated renewed interest in fixed wireless access, with the focus primarily on offering broadband connectivity to homes.