PRIVATE NETWORKS FUNDAMENTALS
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NEC’s Patrick Lopez, global vice president of product management, lays out the four elements of Open RAN Editor’s note: This Q&A is adapted from an interview conducted at the Open …
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mmWave 5G was the subject of some industry skepticism in its earlier days, particularly around the ability to support mobility use cases and the sheer economics of densification required to …
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5GCarriersEnterpriseFundamentalsInfrastructureInternet of Things (IoT)LTENews & Event CoveragePolicySensorsSmart FactoryWired Networks, Fiber
Five thousand private 5G networks in China? BS! Talking definitions, storms in teacups
Someone somewhere said something about 5,000 ‘private networks’ in China. (Forgive me for not having the reference to hand; I am trying to write quickly and cover ground.) The point, …
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Metaverse5GFundamentals
Top 5 metaverse ‘metaplaces’: Ericsson sees consumer and enterprise applications
Telecom companies have a major role to play in delivering impactful metaverse experiences The metaverse is kind of a funny thing. It’s not really real just yet but given what …
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What is 5G RedCap, and will it save cellular IoT? The skinny on the (skinny) new 5G tech
The latest release of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard has, at last, fixed a problem for cellular-based sensor comms with the emergence of a cut-down version of 5G for …
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Open RAN investment grows from less than 1 percent of total RAN spend in 2019 to 3-5 percent in 2022 While there are distinctions between Open RAN, open virtualized RAN, …
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Metaverse for metacasts, metaservices, and metaproducts While the metaverse is still very much a nascent concept, it seems increasingly clear that telecom service providers and vendors ranging from device OEMs …
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Telco CloudFundamentals
How should carriers approach cloud-native network operations for 5G Standalone?
5G SA give CSPs the ability to test, deploy and scale new services at hyperscaler velocity, but the cloud-native design presents operational challenges 5G Standalone (SA) is very much a …
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Telco CloudFundamentals
How should carriers consider cloud-native network automation for 5G Standalone?
Kubernetes as a lynchpin for network automation at scale Zero-touch network automation needs to be employed at every level of the 5G stack in order for 5G Standalone (SA) services …
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Testing and deployment at cloud scale needs cloud-style automation and orchestration. There’s already been gallons of ink spilled in service of lecturing Communication Service Providers (CSPs) on the importance of …
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Telco Cloud5GFundamentals
How should carriers think about cloud-native OSS and BSS for Standalone 5G?
Scaling up to the cloud is about being smarter, not working harder 5G Standalone (SA) requires a fundamentally cloud-native approach. The 5G core is built on cloud-native principles, designed to provide …
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There are four phases of managing a network slice instance: preparation, commissioning, operation and decommissioning. They all require provisioning. When used broadly in IT, provisioning simply refers to the process …
