The new offering combines core, radio, and transport solutions with digital support systems, services and security
Swedish vendor Ericsson has launched a 5G platform which will allow telecommunications operators to implement data-heavy applications like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Ericsson’s new 5G platform comprises the 5G core, radio and transport portfolios, together with digital support systems, transformation services and security.
“With this launch, we introduce our 5G platform to support the beginning of a huge change in network capabilities, allowing our customers to offer more advanced use cases and new business models to their customers. It is an important milestone enabling operators to continue their evolution journey to 5G,” said Arun Bansal, Head of Business Unit Network Products at Ericsson.
Ericsson said that it is launching its first 5G Core System capable of 5G use cases based on network slices. Network slicing allows an operator to provide dedicated virtual networks with functionality specific to the service or customer over a common network, the vendor said.
The vendor’s 5G core system provides use cases based on network slicing, which segments a physical network into several virtual mobile networks and allows dedicated networks to have functionality specific to a customer or to the service being provided.
Ericsson has also introduced federated network slices to the 5G platform, extending network slicing to be provided globally in a visited network.
The new 5G platform also features network slice management,; 5G policy and user data for network slices; distributed cloud for low-latency applications; and 5G transformation services, which allows migration from legacy networks to 5G virtualized, automated networks.
In radio and transport, Ericsson adds mid-band and high-band 5G New Radio (NR) Radios to its first 5G NR radio that the company launched last year. Having radios available for all frequency ranges will bring benefits of 5G communications globally, the company said. The 5G radio portfolio will support the new standardized 5G fronthaul interface (called eCPRI).
