"A tryst with Industry 4.0" - Telefonica UK calls on FTSE bosses to participate in O2 5G Testbed trials.
Telefónica UK Limited ("O2") today has written to every Chief Executive of companies in the FTSE 100 Index to invite them to participate in O2's 5G Testbed trials, ahead of the UK's expected 5G launch from 2020.
The call for applications was today made by Mark Evans, O2's CEO. We "Fundarc-comm (xgnlab) termed this initiative "A tryst with Industry 4.0". Very intelligent and prudential move from telefonica, setting the larger perspective and truly in interest of 5G.
Under the ground-breaking 5G commitment, O2 aims to work with a number of FTSE 100 businesses to understand the processes and use cases that would benefit from 5G.
Apart from benefiting 5G development, this would range from improving efficiencies in supply chains and production processes to unlocking new 5G enabled revenue streams and enhancing customer experience.
The commitment comes as O2 states its belief in 5G 'to transform every corner of life and society' whilst making it accessible for businesses and consumers alike.
progress. This nation will thrive on the potential power of 5G."
O2, is the UK's principle campaigner for Mobile Britain. Speaking of the 5G opportunity, Mark Evans said: "Mobile, and specifically 5G, is one of the UK's most powerful opportunities to strengthen our economy, enrich our society and outperform on the global stage. Our national Testbed commitment is testament to this belief and we are excited by the value it could create for UK Plc."
Do We know that 5G is about 10Tbps/Km2 volume density?
The emergence of smallcells, being the enablers, has taken a mandatory part in network architecture. From an operator point of view, smallcells were taken in network deployment scenarios for better spectrum re-usability and drawing more bits per unit of frequency.
The main forces for emergence of smallcells were capacity enhancements, coverage solutions, and spectrum efficiency through its re-usability. Within 4G itself, the technology has evolved to support the densification of smallcell networks through evolved interference management techniques like eICIC or FeICIC, self-organizing techniques know as SON etc, and also the SON advancement techniques based on predictive analysis like robust mobility etc.
5G is towards ultra-dense networks to cater to the need of high data volume as targeted in the range of 10Tbps/Km2. Highly dense smallcells, better to say here access point or AP, covering a cell area in the range of only few meters, would be exaggerating the challenges of interference management and robust mobility management.
The techniques used for densification at LTE advance level, would not be fitting, rather it would be handled through novel techniques like Cell virtualization for robust and efficient mobility, and also for interference management through resource distribution.
The formation of virtual cells is a dynamic process here, and would be user centric. Each virtual cell will be constituted of a master AP and one or more slave APs. The master will be at the helm of control at each virtual cell and would be coordinating to each other, i.e. coordination between masters of each virtual cells for handover etc.
Also the channels used for coordination among master APs would again be on the self-created backhaul over the air only. The techniques like beam forming & nulling, Massive MiMo,mmWave for better penetration and higher throughput would take their course in the overall ultra-densification of networks.
Why confused over IOT? Go through 3GPP standards terms and understanding.
Thought to put about 3GPP IOT specs, good for revision and understanding of terminology behind technology.
From MEC to MAEC a forsighted ETSI vision or rethinking?
MEC, known as Mobile Edge Computing has come up in mainstream, when ETSI started working on it with an ISG (Industry Standard Group) formation. The whole concept has started with the incorporation of cloud computing in 3GPP network architecture, with some of architecture network function being transferred to cloud computing environment and there were conspicuous impact of transportation delays among network functions. ETSI got a foresighted vision of putting some of cloud computing functionality near the system, much in the propensity of edge of the network to provide delay sensitive or first respondent kind of functionality in close proximity. This whole thinking brought up edge computing ushering in the whole network end to end architecture in 3GPP network, specifically focused to LTE adv or LTE adv pro, in recent time.
In early stages of technology adaptation the major impact on 3GPP networks came on radio access networks and concept of C-RAN has been the prominent outcome in industry, where most or much affable RAN functionality was put over edge computing and radio front end is kept as bare metal as possible. This also brought up front haul in consideration while defining and deploying such architectures.
In 2016 ETSI re-evaluated the importance of MEC and asked its ISG to extend it work for two more years to assess the Edge computing, in its applicability not only to 3GPP but also to other access technologies, not limited to wireless but in area of wireline too. This also forced ETSI to redefine and re-name it as "Multi Access Edge Computing" or MAEC, which going to cater multi access technologies and their functionalities on edge. Also in line of having MAEC role in End-to-End architecture, even the core network functionalities are also being thought of, to bring and coordinate within the edge.
Industry has widely accepted the MAEC, and with the most buzzing 5G now days, it is being taken as a prominent player in defining and deploying next gen mobile network architecture.
Will come with our white paper on it soon…with notion "MAEC impact"……….just wait.
ETSI NFV ISG, "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Architectural Framework," ETSI, DGS NFV 002, December 2014.
From Techopedia - An Introduction to Blockchain.
Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger. It is an official record-keeper that can be used to verify data transactions over time in a way that is both open and virtually unbreakable. It works by recording transactions (blocks) on multiple specialized servers around the world, creating a distributed record of transactions (the chain) that can be verified against one another to determine authenticity. The only way to tamper with a blockchain is to break into every server containing a copy of the chain at once – not an impossible feat, but extraordinarily difficult for even the most sophisticated hacker.
But how, exactly, should the enterprise implement blockchain? As an open-sourcesolution, it is available in a variety of community-based and industry solutions, each of which targets a specific set of use cases or capabilities, says Enterprise Times’ Charles Brett.
Ø Gigabit LTE and WiFi 802.11 ax can do much better, specifically for Asian market, rather having immediate focus on #5G.
ABI Research forecasts LTE will grow from approximately 30% of global mobile subscriptions in 2017 to 50% in 2024. The most advanced LTE service, Gigabit LTE, is expected to near two million subscriptions globally in 2017, which is less than 5% of LTE Advanced Pro subscriptions in 2017. Gigabit LTE devices, launched in 2017, will far exceed the subscription numbers, as few cell sites are expected to reach Gigabit LTE speeds in 2017. Gigabit LTE is a pivotal piece of an advanced 4G mobile network that can support an operator’s mobile service goals over the next six to eight years and beyond. “Gigabit LTE is a specific configuration of the LTE Advanced Pro standard and is expected to account for 70% of LTE Advanced Pro subscriptions by 2026,” says Prayerna Raina, Senior Analyst at ABI Research.
Ø Before jumping to #5G, focus on core, slicing, operation & management and orchestration capabilities.
Ø NSA mode is for good beginning to incorporate #5G, A large scale convergence will be there...that's means multiple technology at access and unified core.
SA mode emerge to change the paradigm of cellular completely.... note it. its gonna take long time for cellular services but may come for FWA cases in recent time.
The 5G NRM specifications family includes 4 specifications: TS 28.540 and TS 28.541 for NRM of NR and NG-RAN, TS 28.542and TS 28.543 for NRM of 5G core network.
NF measurement job control service The management service for creating and terminating the measurement job(s) for the NF(s).
NF measurement job information service The management service for querying the information of the measurement job(s) for the NF(s).
NF performance data file reporting Service The management service for reporting the NF performance data file.
NF performance data streaming service The management service for providing streaming of NF performance data.
NSSI measurement job control service The management service for creating and terminating the measurement job(s) for the NSSI(s).
NSSI measurement job information service The management service for querying the information of the measurement job(s) for the NSSI(s).
NSSI performance data file reporting Service The management service for reporting the NSSI performance data file.
NSSI performance data streaming service The management service for providing streaming of NSSI performance data.
NSI measurement job control service The management service for creating and terminating the measurement job(s) for the NSI(s).
NSI measurement job information service The management service for querying the information of the measurement job(s) for the NSI(s).
NSI performance data file reporting Service The management service for reporting the NSI performance data file.
NSI performance data streaming service The management service for providing streaming of NSI performance data.
Network measurement job control service The management service for creating and terminating the measurement job(s) to collect the network performance data that is not specific to network slicing.
Network measurement job information service The management service for querying the information of the measurement job(s) to collect the network performance data that is not specific to network slicing.
Network performance data file reporting service The management service for reporting the network performance data file that is not specific to network slicing.
Network performance data streaming service The management service for providing network performance data streaming that is not specific to network slicing.