Tag: network slicing

July 6, 2023

The joint research team of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor JeongHo Kwak at the DGIST and Aerospace Engineering Professor Jihwan Choi at the KAIST have proposed a novel network slicing planning and handover technique applicable to next-generation low-Earth orbit […]

December 22, 2021

On-premise private networking works for some enterprises, and others are likely to see similar benefits from network slicing. The opportunities are expanding for synergy between enterprise, network operators and hyperscalers. A new class of system integration and platform management solutions […]

February 12, 2021

At its inception, 5G was hyped as the new service enabler, promising to revolutionize society and enable everything from IoT and Industry 4.0 to smart cities and beyond. However, up until now, most 5G launches are primarily enhanced mobile broadband […]

March 25, 2020

As the story goes, fully-virtualized, standalone 5G networks will provide tailored slices in support of enterprise services whatever that may entail–handling huge data volumes from sensors, providing high reliability and ultra low latency for precision robotics, or robust campus connectivity […]

March 24, 2020

End-to-end network slicing is key to enable net neutrality in the 5G era, according to Chinese telecom vendor ZTE. ZTE proposes that operators can use the technology of network slicing to work as virtual private network for different types of […]

February 27, 2020

Nokia announced the launch of its new end-to-end slicing network functionality for 4G and 5G New Radio (NR), claiming to the first vendor to offer this capability. In a release, Nokia said that the solution will support connectivity from 4G […]

February 21, 2020

Strategy Analytics, a world-renowned market research and consulting company, recently released a white paper entitled “Driving 5G Monetization with Network Slicing: Potential Business Models”. The report explains that for 5G networks to achieve commercial success, network slicing services are required […]

January 29, 2020

As the 5G digital services race begins, we now find communication service providers (CSPs) at various stages of planning, designing or deploying new infrastructure. The range of potential 5G use cases are huge. Everything from gaming to smart factories to […]

January 14, 2020

Network slicing is not exactly a new idea. As network virtualization implementation has risen sharply in the last few years, organizations have included network slicing in the design and implementation of their virtualized infrastructure. Defining network slicing, particularly concerning its […]

October 24, 2019

Over the last couple of years, the drive toward network automation has gained momentum. Today it’s widely acknowledged that automation is essential to the success and effectiveness of future network operations—and it’s easy to see why. Communication service providers (CSPs) […]

September 18, 2019

The use case for telecommunications technology has changed before our eyes. Today, millions of viewers are consuming content via YouTube, video live streaming platform Twitch, or even playing video games, with young gamers (18-25) in the U.S. spending nearly three […]

December 19, 2018

Two-thirds of organizations plan to deploy 5G by 2020, according to a new survey from Gartner, with the primary goal of supporting the internet of things and video. But Gartner anticipates that operators won’t have true end-to-end 5G infrastructure on […]

October 10, 2018

The long-term goal of network functions virtualization and software-defined networking is to create flexible, programmable converged networks wherein disparate services that would typically require parallel systems reside on a single infrastructure. As the operators move toward 5G, NFV and SDN […]

September 28, 2018

In a previous post, we discussed the near-term deployment drivers for virtualizing at the network edge. Although scalability and cost savings are a near universal goal with all networking technology developments, virtualizing at the edge will be about supporting a […]

August 9, 2018

Ronan Dunne, executive vice president and group president of Verizon Wireless, highlighted how 5G, like LTE, is a technology that will evolve over time as standards are finalized and new capabilities are activated in the network. The long goal, he […]

May 18, 2018

Vertical services equate to new operator revenue, 5G-IA says In an interview with RCR Wireless News during 5G Americas’ 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium in Austin, Texas, Colin Willcock, chairman of the 5G Infrastructure Association, said Europe might not be […]

September 7, 2016

I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to 5G – the technology, major use-cases, likely business models, timelines and implications for adjacent sectors such as IoT. 5G fits into both my own TelcoFuturism analyst/advisory work on the intersections of […]