Features
What is a private network, and what isn’t?
It is important for providers and enterprise customers to establish clarity around what constitutes a private network, and what doesn’t. Read more…
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News
Net neutrality rules will ruin 5G slicing: Indian telcos
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel want India to change existing net neutrality rules to best utilise 5G technology’s main feature, network slicing. Read more…
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SRv6 Flex-Algo powers SoftBank’s new 5G dynamic network slicing
SoftBank completes SRv6 deployment in its 5G network and uses the SRv6 Flex-Algo feature to implement dynamic network slicing. Read more…
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Jio adds network slicing to homegrown 5G stack, will sell as a service
Reliance Jio has developed its own 5G network slicing platform to enable network slicing-as-a-service for private and enterprise 5G services. Read more…
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How can industry benefit from precise and private networks?
To provide a solid foundation for industrial 5G applications, one solution is the deployment of precise and private wireless networks. Read more…
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India’s Jio likely to adopt standalone 5G SA architecture
India’s top telco Reliance Jio is expected to adopt 5G standalone (SA) Option 2 architecture for its high-speed network. Read more…
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ZTE completes China Mobile small-granularity Slicing Packet Network test
ZTE Corporation has completed the test of small-granularity hard slicing in its Slicing Packet Network (SPN), led by China Mobile Research. Read more…
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DevOps crucial to service development and network slicing to play big role
Operators are learning fast that DevOps is crucial to service development and network slicing will play a bigger role than initially thought. Read more…
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DSP Leaders talk 5G, network slicing and enabling technology
The DSP Leaders World Forum is ‘on’ this week, with a focus on 5G and related topics, such as network slicing and cloud native apps. Read more…
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ZTE, China Unicom’s end-to-end slicing of 5G OTT services
ZTE and China Unicom have deployed China’s first commercially oriented end-to-end slicing application of 5G OTT services. Read more…
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Singtel and Nokia to trial 5G network slicing capabilities
Singtel and Nokia today agreed to collaborate on developing and trialling 5G network slicing capabilities, based on a Network as a Service (NaaS) approach. Read more…
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ZTE and China Mobile provision 5G end-to-end network slicing
ZTE Corporation and the Guangdong Branch of China Mobile today have provisioned the MEC-related B2B2C end-to-end network slicing services. Read more…
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Network slicing is great but can existing OSS/BSS support it?
Network slicing is an exciting concept, the big potential roadblock however, falls almost entirely on our existing OSS/BSS. Read more…
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5G WIRE: Toyota 5G robot, network slicing, Smart video call
5G action this day: DoCoMo controls a Toyota robot 10 km away using 5G; Cellcos must transform to capitalize on $66b network slicing opportunity; Smart Communications makes a 5G video call; Fujitsu makes single-panel antenna Read more…
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Nokia’s fixed network slicing solution is open AND programmable
Nokia has launched what it says is a fully open and programmable network slicing solution for fixed access networks. Nokia says the fixed network slicing solution enables operators to not only execute service level slicing, Read more…
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Interoperability key to network slicing opportunity
Network slicing stands to create approximately $66 billion in value coming from the ever-increasing digital requirements of industry verticals, according to ABI Research – but capitalizing on that opportunity will depend on interoperability across multiple Read more…
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China Unicom and Huawei team up for 5G network slicing
China Unicom and Huawei have signed a joint innovation agreement to jointly carry out research, demonstration, and application of 5G network slicing. The two companies plan to develop key technologies and solutions for China Unicom’s 5G Read more…
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Viavi to help China Mobile develop packet slicing for 5G transport
Viavi Solutions has announced a collaboration with China Mobile to help the operator introduce 5G services in China by the end of 2019 in part by helping the cellco to develop its packet slicing transport technology. Viavi will Read more…
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Sorry vendors, 5G ain’t the capex bonanza you’re hoping for: report
5G is here – more or less. The first standards are set, the first live public trials are underway in South Korea for the Winter Olympics, and vendors are already announcing a full line of Read more…
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Vodafone and Huawei trial network slicing for FTTH network
Vodafone and Huawei say they have conducted a successful field trial of fixed access network slicing, which partitions a physical FTTH network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualization of the access network. The Read more…