Cisco foresees large investments by telecom operators in 5G technologies in 2020, the company’s CEO Chuck Robbins said on a conference call with investors.
“We expect that is still a year out before many will start [investing in 5G]and probably see it in earnest into 2020 to be fair,” the executive said.
“Starting at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, we heard operators in earnest begin and engage in discussions around what network requirements would look like for the infrastructure to support 5G assuming that they’re going to add lots of high speed connections at the edge it will require high performance networks with quality of service and network slicing and all those things,” Robbins said.
