6G Drivers and Vision

whitePaper | April 22, 2022

The 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) was established to serve as the main global forum for addressing, discussing, and evaluating relevant technical, regulatory, and business aspects of 5G for the industrial domain. It embraces the entire ecosystem and all relevant stakeholders, which include but aren’t limited to the operational technology industry (industrial automation companies, engineering companies, production system manufacturers.

whitePaper | August 5, 2021

The third wave of the Internet is marked by substantial growth of more mobile, powerful, intelligent, and automated devices on the emerging edge network. In this environment, IT and OT will be converged and contribute to the increasing volume of data creation. This growth will outpace the growth of the core infrastructure capacity and create congestion points in the end-to-end application delivery chain, causing massive latency. Delay will bring near fatal blows to system stability and the application experience. Security challenges will also increase significantly. These conditions require a new approach—one centered around holistic application distribution and based on a different set of technology design principles. This is the essence of the Edge 2.0 era.

whitePaper | July 8, 2021

Enterprise and residential market dynamics, 5G, and the cloud are driving new applications—and creating new revenue opportunities for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). But these emerging use cases are also creating challenges: new traffic patterns, the move to virtualized and distributed applications, and the need for higher bandwidth and lower latency connectivity to end-users. IP/Optical convergence can play a key role in helping CSPs address these, but where does the path to architecture evolution begin? For every CSP, the journey is unique. With Ciena’s solutions, CSPs can start—and build—from their existing networks to evolve to a more streamlined, programmatic infrastructure that can serve as the foundation for innovation in the distributed services and content era.

whitePaper | December 18, 2019

Edge is a vital aspect of 5G as the weight of bandwidth demand continues to increase. By 2025, the average amount of data traffic that will go through a North American smartphone is predicted to be 25 GB per month, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report, a tenfold jurnp from 2016's average traffic amount. Driving this jump is an increased reliance on streaming, advanced video graphics, and a rise in bandwidth-heavy applications. This means the bandwidth demand on SG will be, by today’s standards, astronomical.

whitePaper | May 22, 2022

This working paper was prepared under the guidance of Tiziana Bonapace, Director of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD), and the direct supervision of Tae Hyung Kim, Chief of the ICT and Development Section, IDD at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The working paper was supported by So Ki Jung, Mike (Seung Chul) Hwang and Choong Bok Lee at SK Broadband of the Republic of Korea. Tarnkamon Chantarawat and Sakollerd Limkriangkrai provided administrative support and other necessary assistance for the issuance of this paper. Christine Apikul edited the paper.

whitePaper | May 10, 2022

The purpose of this document is to emphasize necessity of cross-standardization collaboration to realize E2E Network Slicing Architecture designed from an End-to-End (E2E) perspective, spanning over different technical domains (e.g., device, access network, core network, transport network and network management system) and multiple vendors and to provide guidance on actions in each Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and open source projects.