Empowering industries at the network edge

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

The telecoms industry is going through its most substantial shift since the introduction of IP networks in the 1990s. Function­specific network infrastructure is being replaced by software­based networks and the high bandwidth, low latency capabilities of 5G wireless and fixed fibre are enabling a vastly increased portfolio of services for communications service providers (CSPs).

whitePaper | July 20, 2021

See what Heavy Reading analysts discovered when they conducted research on digital service provider best practices and key considerations for building secure, fast 5G and edge computing networks.

whitePaper | April 12, 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

whitePaper | January 15, 2020

Synchronization in carrier networks has been in use forever, but because of its elevated role in 5G, it is now getting more attention. Mobile cellular networks must be synchronized so that towers (base stations) with overlapping coverage do not interfere with each other causing dropped calls or service degradation. The NodeBs used in Third Generation (3G) cellular communications rely on satellite communications for synchronization, as do the Baseband Units (BBUs) used in Fourth Generation (4G) cellular communications.

whitePaper | January 5, 2020

5G mobile networks will provide even more speed and higher quality than its predecessors. Importantly too, they will also introduce a novel architecture solution that allows the creation of a set of logically independent networks that run on a common physical infrastructure. Each of these logically independent networks (network slices) can be designed to fulfill specific business needs, making 5G a truly smart network. It is anticipated that in the initial phases of 5G, there may be a limited number of standardised slices, however mobile operators will be able to create bespoke slice types where business requirements of customers cannot be met by any of the standardised slices.

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.