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
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.
Is Verizon's Fixed Wirelss Access service of 5G a more cost efficient broadband deliverey model than Fibre to the Home?
Monitoring and observability across hybrid clouds is complex and requires avoid stove pipes by working in a multi-cluster environment.
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
This is a fantastic list of Cloud Native networking technologies. Because it is curated it is updated frequently. It is making my life much easier. https://jimmysong.io/awesome-cloud-native/ And the tutorial list for old guys is especially useful
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
Moving to cloud licencing models, including SaaS, does not become less difficult and with the possible proliferation of services can become difficult for the Enterprise to govern. As with any type of licence agreement the Enterprise must know the agreement they have signed, the implications of the licensing model and the interaction on other 3rd… Continue reading Enterprise Architect’s Guide to Cloud Licencing Models
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.
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