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Deployment of the 5G core is the next big step in 5G networks. It will enable standalone (SA) operation and new service types. This new core will be deployed on software-defined infrastructure and should be automated by design. Automation of the 5G core is required. First, because operators do not yet know which services will take off and achieve commercial success at scale and which will emerge as valuable but niche. And second, because operators must reduce the cost of production to remain competitive and support a diverse services portfolio. The new "Heavy Reading Cloud-Native 5G Core Op...
Rakuten's Tareq Amin: Battling legacy thinking and network complexity 4/22/2021 This is the service provider keynote featuring a conversation between Gabriel Brown, principal analyst for mobile networks and 5G at Heavy Reading, and Tareq Amin, group chief technology officer at Rakuten Mobile. The interview was streamed to an audience of thousands on April 8, during the Open RAN World Digital Conference. During the interview, Amin discussed his ambition to build a new kind of wireless network in Tokyo and, eventually, all of Japan. He noted that the company is very happy with wha...
Date / Time: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 11:00 am New York / 4:00 pm London Overview: sponsored by Fighting fiber with fiber seems to be the cable industry's mantra these days. Even as they complete their rollout of DOCSIS 3.1 and start gearing up for DOCSIS 4.0, cable operators are scrambling to put more fiber in their ever-evolving HFC networks. Thats because fiber continues to be the biggest enabler of mostif not allof the technological, financial, operational, and competitive gains that operators are seeking. Yet, even as they invest more heavily in fiber, operators still face criti...
For operators planning and deploying 5G core networks, the choice of cloud platform is one of the most critical and far-reaching decisions they must make. One of the key choices is between infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The new Heavy Reading "Cloud-Native 5G Core Operator Survey" published in March 2021 identifies a preference for an IaaS model (45%) over PaaS (32%) and vendor-integrated full stack (23%). Larger operators, however, skew toward PaaS. The figure below shows expectations for the type of infrastructure that will run 5G core functions. It sh...