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Enea Launches Dual-Mode Engine for Faster and Easier 5G Service

Deployment

Enea have launched the 5G Service
Engine (5G-SE), a 4G and 5G dual-mode
convergent platform to enable CSPs to
launch new 5G enhanced services and
seamlessly transition existing 4G services.
CSPs can now deploy Gi-LAN and N6
services simultaneously with both the 4G
Packet Gateway and the 5G function (UPF)
in a multi-vendor cloud-native architecture.
This flexibility means CSPs no longer need
to maintain services within each packet
core, reducing costs and complexity
dramatically to manage dual operations
and the 4G/5G transition. Despite strong
growth in 5G uptake, 4G subscriptions
are still on the rise. In Q1 2022, 4G grew core networks,” said Osvaldo Aldao, Vice seamless transition between both the
by 70 million to reach 4.9 billion, and the President of Product Management. “In radio and packet core. “As we move into
point at which 5G subscriptions could order to get efficiencies, CSPs will have to the true 5G era with standalone networks,
surpass 4G is years away, in 2027. As converge in-line services for 4G EPC and operators want to offer new services
4G’s dominance continues, CSPs need 5G-Core. We have developed the Enea that 5G promises along with integrating
agile architecture that can manage dual- 5G Service Engine with that conviction in existing services from the 4G world,” stated
mode services during the transition. The mind. It helps forward-looking operators Dave Bolan, Research Director at Dell’Oro
Enea 5G-Service Engine meets high- to easily transition existing 4G network Group. “Enea’s 5G Service Engine certainly
performance requirements while providing services and efficiencies and deliver a meets the need for simplifying operations
a reduced physical footprint and ease better 4G and 5G end-user experience.” and offering more value-added services
of deployment through an automated, The 5G-Service Engine also features a for operators’ customers, with the latest
centralized management system. This stateless architecture that uses a common container-based cloud-native architecture
reduces the total cost of ownership and data store for all 5G and 4G subscriber enabling microservices to be offered by the
time to market for new services. “There session information. This facilitates operators.’
is no real ‘standalone’ when it comes to horizontal scalability and provides a

Haiti Backs Satellite Broadband and IoT Trials

Haiti’s National Council of conducted at 20 Civil Protection
Telecommunications (Conseil National Directorate (DPC) sites over a four-
des Telecommunications, Conatel) month period, while a longer two-year
has approved a pilot satellite internet trial will be run at five other locations.
scheme to be run by SpaceX. The Last month Haiti’s neighbor Dominican
project will include satellite broadband Republic became the first Caribbean
and IoT services from SpaceX units country to have commercial satellite
Starlink and Swarm. Tests will be broadband services from Starlink.

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