My personal experiences of working with Huawei at the UK's largest mobile operator.
My Personal Experience of Working on 5G with Huawei
Category: 5G
Mobile Network Operators and UK Open Banking
Mobile Network Operators have an opportunity to provide a secure UK Open Banking Service using their location services, 5G Network Slicing and Password-less Multi-Factor Authentication
Google Cloud managed Spark & Hadoop for Mobile Network Performance
As a Google Cloud Platform certified architect I really should blog some more about my actual usage of GCP. One of my favourite tools is Dataproc as it provides a managed Spark & Hadoop environment and enables a lambda architecture suitable for complex network event processing and function remediation. A mobile radio network is a… Continue reading Google Cloud managed Spark & Hadoop for Mobile Network Performance
Guaranteeing Network Slices: The Role of 5G WAN Optimisation for Small Cells
The City of Sacramento has deployed 300+ small cells as part of a 5G Fixed Wireless Access deployment with Verizon. These deployments can only provide partial 5G coverage of a city like Sacramento. This is because of the relative transmission range of 26Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum. In fill is required with further small cells and… Continue reading Guaranteeing Network Slices: The Role of 5G WAN Optimisation for Small Cells
A 5G Data Fabric
Implementing a successful 5G deployment means moving to a micro-service architecture. To support the major technical use case of 5G it is important to decouple the micro-service architecture from the data fabric. This article describes some of the key 5G use cases requiring a data fabric.
Economic Analysis of mmWave Fixed Wireless Access as an Alternative for FTT/x
Is Verizon's Fixed Wirelss Access service of 5G a more cost efficient broadband deliverey model than Fibre to the Home?
Monitoring Micro-Service Applications
Monitoring and observability across hybrid clouds is complex and requires avoid stove pipes by working in a multi-cluster environment.
5G and TM Forum Digital Transformation Middle East
I'm talking at the TM Forum Middle East Digital Transformation event https://dtme.tmforum.org/speakers/charles-gibbons/ on 5G. It's great to be invited to share my knowledge of 5G architecture and delivery. I will be covering the roll out of 5G service in the UK and will be specifically covering how knowledge share is critical for successful implementations of… Continue reading 5G and TM Forum Digital Transformation Middle East
BT & EE’s First To 5G Trial in Canary Wharf
BT has started its first live UK trial of 5G based technology in Canary Wharf Square. This is a high capacity zone test as Montgomery Square includes a London Underground entrance and high rise offices. The footfall is in excess of 150k people per day. High capacity zone testing is a critical part of EE’s… Continue reading BT & EE’s First To 5G Trial in Canary Wharf
5G Streaming IT Architecture
A recent TMF article https://inform.tmforum.org/digital-transformation-and-maturity/2018/04/37114/ explains BT & EE's streaming IT architecture provides an event correlation architecture for 5G services. This architecture seems to support real time streaming services across virtualised network functions specifically for 5G.
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