Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece, Ashu Singh, Lead- Solutions Engineering at Tata Communications Transformation Services discusses an effective guide to operationalising and commercialising 5G networks
By 2025, 5G will account for 15% of the global mobile industry – GSMA Mobile Economy Report, Feb 2019
5G is not breaking news anymore, and neither is it hype that you can afford to ignore. Early adopters have embraced the 5G wave and have been busy planning and deploying data-centric networks. Others have been approaching 5G with some restraint, strategizing their move by closely consulting with authorities and facilitators.
Regardless of where they are along their 5G journey, the fact remains that 5G is a game-changing, all-IP solution that can benefit users and CSPs alike. What’s more, 5G adoption is almost always coupled with industry-wide digital transformation, which functions to challenge and disrupt the human-machine connection as we know it.
Meeting the challenges in operationalising 5G
Drawing from experience, TCTS believes that the 5G ecosystem will largely be attributed to open source contributors and vendors who are standardising the reference architectures for its operationalisation – be they the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), OpenRAN, Open CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter), or so on. Among mainstream OEMs, 3GPP, Broadband Forum, and several others are doing great work in developing standards around NG-Radio, fronthaul-backhaul, standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) core architectures, while simultaneously building the technology gears required to run 5G networks.
The main challenge with 5G operationalisation or commercialisation, as always, would be appropriately planning, building and operating networks of highly complex nature. 5G-enabled projects are often intended to enable futuristic and definitive use cases, driven towards greater socio-economic commitments and purposes.
Steps for an effective 5G deployment
About the author
Ashu Singh, Lead- Solutions Engineering, Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS)
Ashu Singh is a leading the Global Solutions for Telco Cloud and Virtualisation at Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) and has been focussing on innovative solutions around next-gen technologies like Network Slicing, SDN/NFV, ML and Blockchain in Telecom. Prior joining TCTS, Ashu has worked for Cisco Systems, Netcracker Technologies and Idea Cellular Ltd. in diverse roles spanning across Mobile Packet Core Engineering, SDN/NFV Solutions Presales and Prepaid Billing Operations respectively. Ashu, holds an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering degree from Army Institute of Technology, Pune, India.
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