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Verizon Readies 5G Standalone Core to Support Slicing and More

Verizon said today that it has successfully to scale up or scale down network function architecture
completed an end-to-end data session over capacity – to provide the right service • The ability to move workloads to fit use
its new 5G standalone core network. The levels and network resources needed for case requirements
company said it expects to start moving each use case,” the press release explains. The 5G standalone core is “critical for
traffic onto the new core in the second half Other benefits of the standalone 5G core, unleashing the most advanced benefits
of this year, with full commercialization according to Verizon, include: of 5G technology including remarkable
in 2021. Initially, Verizon and other U.S. • Real-time resource management levels of programmability to manage
mobile carriers deployed 5G wireless of radio access network and virtual the advanced solutions and exponential
in non-standalone mode, meaning that network functions traffic that 5G will bring,” said Bill Stone,
the service was underpinned by carriers’ • Advanced analytics of network data to Vice President of Planning for Verizon. “By
previous-generation core network improve network performance building this 5G core with cloud-native
infrastructure. Moving 5G traffic onto • Optimized services between Verizon’s containerized architecture, we will be
a cloud-native 5G standalone core will fixed and mobile networks able to achieve new levels of operational
enable a range of advanced capabilities, • Scalable, more cost-efficient automation, flexibility and adaptability.”
including network slicing, Verizon said.
As Verizon explained in a press release,
slicing will use the 5G core network’s
cloud-native approach in combination with
built-in artificial intelligence and machine
learning, to provide “dynamic allocation
of the appropriate resources.” The goal
is to enable the company’s 5G network
to support a wide range of applications
that require different network capabilities.
The company noted, for example, that an
application involving massive numbers
of Internet of Things (IoT) devices would
need different network capabilities than
an application involving augmented or
virtual reality (AR/VR). Network slicing
also will allow for “automated network
configuration changes, including the ability Verizon 5G Small Cell

Optus Undertaking 5G mmWave Technology Tests

Australian mobile network operator (MNO) (ACMA) to operate and test the technology expected to become available for 5G in
Optus has confirmed it is testing 5G using the 26GHz band at four locations 2021 it’s important that we start testing
millimeterWave (mmWave) technology, in Sydney, including its Macquarie Park this technology now so that we can
including making its first mmWave data headquarters where the initial data call begin to understand how we can best
call, in partnership with Swedish vendor was made this week incorporating a Casa harness its capabilities for our consumer
Ericsson. Detailing the development in Systems mmWave CPE. ‘Technology and enterprise customers,’ said Lambo
a press release, the MNO noted it had innovation and use case development Kanagaratnam, Optus Managing Director
obtained approval from the Australian is a critical component of the work that Networks.
Communications and Media Authority we do and with mmWave technology

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