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
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
Not all micro-services can be stateless lambda functions. Some services must maintain state. A good example is the management of autonomous vehicle platooning functions across multiple radio network sites. A challenge for this distributed statefulness is if the stateful micro-services are running in a specific container then how does the SDN controller manage networking to… Continue reading Edge SDN as a Service
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.
How can CSPs migrate their OSS to the cloud?
I am regularly asked why there are so few Cloud OSS, or OSS as a Service, options when AWS / GCP and Azure all have IoT plays. I have also wondered why no systems integrator has deployed ONAP on AWS (or other). The following are the main reasons why I think such an option has… Continue reading 12 Reasons Why Cloud OSS hasn’t happened so far
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