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Over the next ñve to 10 years, we’ll see a quantum leap in technology. Delivery trucks will be replaced by
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òying drones. Physicians will examine patients using high-deñnition video from halfway around the world.
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Household appliances will call in their own repairs. And all of this will be enabled by a “5G” network: the bands
most powerful, eôcient and intelligent network the world has ever known.

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For the communications service providers that are intending to deliver this experience, however, the future
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might not look so rosy. Many are still struggling with the demands of “4G” LTE build outs that are pitting the át into 5G?

demands for more capacity against a backdrop of shrinking customer revenue and increased competition
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from “free” applications, such as Skype, WhatsApp and FaceTime. 5G sounds exponentially more expensive
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from “free” applications, such as Skype, WhatsApp and FaceTime. 5G sounds exponentially more expensive
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as it is expected to support 1,000-times more devices than 4G with 100-times faster speeds and 10-times
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lower latency.

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While this may sound daunting, in reality many of the requirements for 5G are already addressed in
NFV and SDN investment looks
current-day network initiatives, such as network functions virtualization, software-deñned networking, strong, though service assurance
service orchestration and virtual probes. So, in fact, many CSPs may be further along the 5G migration path remains crux
than they realize.
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The creation of a 5G network requires the transformation of key areas in the network: the radio access Telecom workforce adjustments
network, the core network and the service creation layer. While radio access standards and available needed for move to devops model

spectrum are still a work-in-progress, today we have a good understanding of the core network and service
creation requirements for 5G, based on the types of use cases being considered and believe that there are
5 key considerations when undertaking this transformation:

Create a common ‘composable’ core

The 5G core requires a signiñcantly more òexible core network than the 4G/LTE core; one that can deliver a
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controlled and secure experience across heterogeneous access technologies and manage
connectivity/mobility for a dizzying array of mobile devices. It must also be able to scale dynamically to
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account for highly variable application and traôc types, preserve identity and security end to end and
support legacy interworking, while reducing cost and complexity. 5G will rely upon NFV and SDN to create a
“composable” core that decouples the user and control planes, moving services and applications closer to
the network edge, while enabling CSPs to aöordably achieve high bandwidth, low latency requirements with
unlimited scale and òexibility.

Enable network ‘slicing’ to support diⒼerent service types

The concept of network slicing has captured a lot of attention in the industry because 5G mobile networks
will need to be many things to many diöerent types of endpoints and sessions. For instance, HD
videoconferencing in a telemedicine application will have very diöerent session requirements than a
wireless machine-to-machine device communicating its hourly status.In a 5G network, CSPs will need to
slice their network resources into many diöerent types of services, each with unique requirements around
quality of service, security, latency, etc. With a NFV/SDN architecture, CSPs can support network slicing on-
demand on a per-customer or per-application/use case basis.

Optimize the network for the ‘internet of everything’

One of the most compelling use cases for 5G technology is the “internet of everything,” which will bring with
it billions of connected wireless sensors that will share space on the same communications network as
more proñtable consumer and enterprise data traôc. This creates a conundrum: how to prevent millions of
M2M devices, which are expected to run the gamut from low-revenue services like connected homes to
high-revenue services like connected cars, from negatively impacting subscriber services, such as high-
deñnition voice communications and streaming video? The answer lies in creating a network architecture
that can eôciently handle diöerent categories of traôc, speciñcally high-bandwidth downloads.

Ensure support for new mobile services

5G will improve the revenue òow to service providers – provided they can identify and create those services
that will drive business decisions and improve the overall subscriber experience. In order to do this, service
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(and more diöerent types of traôc) without escalating their capital expense/operating expense costs. On Operators accelerate NFV adoption for faster agility
the wireless access side, the ability to leverage existing Wi-Fi networks and deploy short-range, high- and openness
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the wireless access side, the ability to leverage existing Wi-Fi networks and deploy short-range, high- and openness
bandwidth access points instead of radio access network towers will go a long way toward mitigating the
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cost of ubiquitous mobile broadband. Within the network, CSPs will look to virtualization and the cloud as
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central to reducing capex costs, while service orchestration, virtual probes and network analytics will help
to drive opex costs down.

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