Making 5G A Reality

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 | April 19, 2021

The 5G vision, outlined in successive NGMN White Papers [1,2] sets out a framework for enabling digital transformation for society and across industry, with a wide range of use cases and associated requirements. Commercial deployments of 5G are now progressing around the globe, delivering new capabilities and improved performance for customers. For Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), a set of features that underpin 5G, including disaggregation, softwarization, cloud-native design and operation, autonomous and distributed computing and intelligence, and a multiaccess composable core, are enabling new technologies and business models.

whitePaper | December 5, 2022

In order to make cloud services more efficient and flexible to provide support for business innovation and intelligent transformation in various industries, especially to move enterprises and edge computing to the cloud, many cloud service providers (CSP) are working on the cloud data center architecture innovation and software tuning. Those efforts can eliminate the bottleneck of the infrastructure and make it more efficient and intelligent, thereby bringing users better service and performance, higher stability and security, and better management and control efficiency.

whitePaper | July 9, 2021

At the end of 2019, Heavy Reading surveyed 77 communications service providers (CSPs) on their plans for virtualization overall, and virtualized radio access networks (vRANs) specifically. A lot has happened since then that could throw the carriers off course – like data centers and central offices going zero-touch and lights-out virtually overnight. Heavy Reading checked in with the carriers in Q2 2021 to see how their plans have changed. This report highlights the results of our 2021 survey, comparing and contrasting them with the results from our 2019 survey.

whitePaper | April 13, 2022

5G, the fifth-generation cellular technology, is being deployed around the world. 5G is a transformational technology designed to provide significant flexibility and support a variety of use cases. This paper describes the emerging infrastructure trends of wireless networks for 4G, 5G, and beyond 5G. These trends provide even more opportunities to service providers for network deployments, network customization, and network optimization. These key trends include (i) spectrum trends, (ii) densification & coverage extension methods, (iii) virtualization and cloudification, and (iv) network customization and intelligence.

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

The transformational potential of 5G arises because, unlike previous technologies, it was built to address a wide array of use cases including smartphones, data, and the ultrareliable and low-latency communication needed for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) or augmented reality / virtual reality (AR/VR). It can effectively bring cellular connectivity into enterprise and vertical markets and is meant to deliver.