Deutsche Telekom demonstrated the use of 5G network slicing for mission-critical urban infrastructure with edge IoT solutions company cthings.co. The demonstration took place at the launch of the hubraum 5G Testing Lab in Kraków, Poland earlier this month and featured a smart lamp pole developed by cthings.co and U.S.-based infrastructure and agricultural company Valmont for use in smart city applications.
5G network slicing is a feature of a cloud-native 5G network architecture that leverages the principles behind network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), allowing for flexible, programmable converged networks wherein disparate services that would typically require parallel systems reside on a single infrastructure. In such an architecture, each network “slice” is an isolated, bespoke end-to-end network tailored to fulfill the requirements of a particular application.
