Summary

"5G: Review of 5G technology readiness and commercialization", is a Global Outlook Report by GlobalData that gives an overview of the emerging 5G standard and the main market requirement trends worldwide with a competitive insight to players driving 5G deployment. Paving the way for deployment of 5G equipment beginning later in 2018, led by operators in Korea, Japan and the U.S., significant hardening of standards related to both radio and core innovations has taken place recently.

While pre-5G, pre-standards deployments have defined the 5G era thus far, significant hardening of standards related to both radio and core innovations took place in 2018. Building a 5G core will be crucial to enabling 5G-related features such as network slicing, but the Service-Based Architecture (SBA) represents a radical change in network design. The reference architecture for SBA is well-defined but the transition will be rocky.

Scope

- The 5G Radio Access Network: Newly developed 5G RAN standards with insights to market requirement behind 5G RAN deployment and explanation to available and emerging 5G RAN technologies. Inclusive of competitive study of incumbent as well as relatively new players or challengers operating in this segment.
- The 5G Core: Review of newly developed 5G core standards with insights to market requirement behind 5G core deployment and explanation to available and emerging 5G core technologies. It also provides competitive study of incumbent as well as relatively new players or challengers operating in this segment which is further sub-segmented into IP services infrastructure and evolved packet core.
- The 5G Transport Network: Importance of a programmable IP and optical transport network in order to achieve 5G's potential in terms of latency, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
- Key Recommendations: Key findings and critical considerations and recommendations for operators and vendors in 5G market.

Reasons to buy

- This report provides a global view of emerging standards for deploying 5G RAN as well as core network and trends in terms of market requirements, as well as competitive study of vendors/operators supporting 5G network deployment.
- This analysis is useful for telecom executives to evaluate their position vis-à-vis the major growth opportunities in 5G and make informed decisions about partner identification, strategic investments, value proposition and growth strategies to rapidly grow their 5G networks.

Companies Mentioned
Affirmed Networks
Altiostar
ASOCS
Athonet
Cisco
Connectum
Core Network Dynamics
Corning
Ericsson
ExteNet
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Huawei
Infinera
Mavenir
NEC
Netcracker
Nokia
Radisys
Samsung
SpiderCloud
Vmware
ZTE