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KDDI Picks Cisco’s Virtualized Packet Core for 5G

US-based Cisco Systems announced a of the network – and Control and User pricing,’ said Cisco. KDDI is looking to
collaboration with Japanese telco KDDI Plane Separation (CUPS) architecture, to develop 5G to include a range of innovative
(au) to support the latter’s migration offer improved services to its customer areas such as smart factory, self-driving
to fifth-generation technology. In the base in Japan. The installation of Cisco’s cars, remote control, telemedicine and
press release, the vendor confirmed that 5G virtualized packet core will allow the stadium watching with free viewpoint
KDDI will use a range of Cisco 5G Now mobile operator to ‘accelerate its 5G and video, it confirmed.
portfolio products, starting with the Cisco IoT innovation with enterprise customers,
Virtualized Packet Core – at the heart offering more flexible and competitive

Cisco Says It Expects Rapid Future Development of 5G Mobile Technology
will be a Boom for Industrial IoT Use Cases

While 5G deployments are nascent, Cisco low-latency communication for industrial said. While the market for IIoT networking
says it expects rapid future development use cases. And there are industrial may be wide open, experts predict 5G and
of the mobile technology will be expand communication buses standardized by other technologies such as Wi-Fi 6 will
industrial IoT use cases. The IIoT IEC, such as PROFINET and Modbus, noticeably alter the mobile enterprise for
includes a broad range of products from Cisco stated. “The industrial IoT market many users. “Clearly there is no single
connected sensors, robots and machinery is among the most fractured especially access technology out there that solves all
to vehicles, building automation, asset amongst the verticals like healthcare and the problems and challenges of networking
tracking and remote agriculture systems. automotive,” said Lee Doyle, principal especially in the industrial arena where
And in the industrial networking realm analyst with Doyle Research. “Large customers have one of every type of
there are wireless access technologies companies such a Cisco, HP and IBM have communications device imaginable, but
including low-power wide-area networks been challenged to address it because it is 5G and Wi-Fi 6 will deliver a whole bunch
(LoRaWAN), Narrow Band-IoT and so fractured. It’s not at all clear any one of of new use cases and address many multi-
others. 5G on the other hand – according them has the overall network architecture access requirement challenges,” said Liz
to a recent Network World article is to handle it all.” Vendors need to show Centoni, Senior Vice President and General
“an umbrella term to describe a set of users on a case-by-case, application- Manager of Cisco’s Internet of Things
standards and technologies for a radically by-application basis what works, Doyle Business Unit, in an interview.
faster wireless internet that ideally is up
to 20 times faster with 120 times less
latency than 4G, setting the stage for IoT
networking advances and support for
new high-bandwidth applications.” In a
recent IIoT white paper, Cisco wrote about
the plethora of networking options open
to the IIoT, noting “prominent examples
include standards from the IEEE family of
networking protocols, like 802.3 Ethernet,
802.1 time sensitive networking (TSN), and
different versions of 802.11 and 802.15.4.
“There is Bluetooth low-energy (BLE), and
an evolving set of cellular technologies
developed by 3GPP, including 3G, 4G LTE
with NB-IoT and Cat-M1 targeting low
cost massive sensor deployments.” The
emerging 5G standards with New Radio
(NR) are targeting new capabilities such
as vehicle-to-everything and ultra-reliable

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