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July 01, 2019 | By Rajarshi Pathak @ Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd
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Fig. IMS in a Telecom Network

In its current traditional on-premises form, IMS nodes require longer deployment cycles and are relatively
non-flexible when it comes to deploying different multimedia services. Also, it uses protocols like SIP &
Diameter to communicate within IMS nodes and EPC.
 This would not be the case with the 5G network which is based on RESTful APIs and discourages dealing
with multiple protocols. With SDN/NFV & Cloud-based deployments, 5G nodes can be developed,
deployed, managed, integrated, auto-scaled like Software & Containers; which is not the case with
traditional IMS framework.

Therefore, Operators have already started moving their traditional IMS nodes & EPC components towards
Virtualized Network Functions.

5G supports a plethora of services around Things, Consumers & Enterprises and rely on SBA, Edge
Computing and Network Slicing to manage the required resources, low latency & high throughput for
treating different use-cases & segments.

4G Operators who have already upgraded their Core network to Virtualized EPC & Virtualized IMS nodes
over Cloud and adopted CUPS feature for separating User & Control planes are in a much comfortable &
cost-efficient position to move towards 5G deployments.

They can leverage their existing Cloud-based & fully virtualized networks to implement a 5G network
integrated with IMS along with the specific features as mentioned in the article (SBA, Network slicing, Edge
Computing, etc.) for enabling FWA, eMBB, URLLC & mMTC use-cases.

Glossary: IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), LTE (Long Term Evolution), EPC (Evolved Packet Core), SIP
(Session Initiation Protocol), VoLTE (Voice over LTE), VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi), RCS (Rich
Communication Services), UPF (User Plane Function), SBA (Service Based Architecture) CUPS (Control &
User Plane Separation), FWA (Fixed Wireless Access), eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband), URLLC
(Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications), mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications)

Rajarshi Pathak 2019-07-16 00:58:31

Thanks for reading!

Bhargavi 2020-02-03 22:05:17

Thank you for sharing, a very simplified insight to 5G, well explained.

Rajarshi Pathak 2020-02-24 12:03:21

Thanks a lot!

Rajarshi Pathak 2020-02-24 11:59:21

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