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In this e-guide: 5G networks will be available soon, and it’s time to prepare your network to take advantage of this high-speed, low-latency technology.
5G wireless technology will represent an even greater leap forward in network performance, enabling enterprises to tap into a broad range of new applications and services.
Read this expert guide for:
• A detailed overview of 5G networks, including use cases
• New products on the market poised to deliver 5G services to enterprises
• A quiz (and answer key) to test your knowledge and preparedness
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The role of SDN in 5G technology and the WAN: Can it scale? p. 8
Verizon 5G rollout could change broadband competition xxxxxxxxxp. 13
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5G Quiz p. 23
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Understand the basics of 5G wireless networks
Jean DerGurahian, Features and E-Zine Editor, SearchNetworking
Wireless networking has improved significantly over the last several years, as enterprises accommodate increasing numbers of mobile devices accessing their networks. The telecommunications industry hopes fifth-generation wireless technology will represent an even greater leap forward in network performance, enabling enterprises to tap into a broad range of new applications and services.
What is 5G?
Building on fourth-generation wireless Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, 5G wireless is expected to carry greater amounts of data over much faster network speeds with submillisecond latency. At peak 4G performance, cellular networks can transport data at speeds of up to 1 Gbps. With 5G wireless networks, however, performance will increase dramatically, with data moving at faster speeds; as fast as 10 Gbps -- equivalent to wireline speeds.
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The reduction in network response times, meanwhile, heralds other significant advancements. As a result, 5G architecture holds significant potential for new technologies -- such as remote online surgery -- that embrace machine learning and artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and the internet of things.
Types of 5G wireless services and how they work
As the commercial deployment of 5G wireless networks gets closer, mobile operators are preparing to roll out two main types of new 5G services. The first is fixed wireless broadband, which will be available in some major metropolitan areas in 2018. The second is mobile 5G cellular, which is expected to be available in some markets in 2019, with the technology for both mobile and cellular users becoming widely available in 2020. Analysts expect operators will have full 5G wireless deployment in place by 2025.
Here's how the two types of 5G wireless services work.
Fixed 5G wireless broadband. These services are designed to deliver last-mile internet connectivity to a business or residence using radio signals, rather than a wired connection directly to the premises. To provide fixed wireless broadband, carriers deploy 5G New Radios in small cell sites, such as on streetlights and telephone poles, to deliver signals to wireless modems
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installed inside buildings and residences. This replaces the need for fiber, cable or other wireline connections directly to a building.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in December 2017 completed standards for the 5G New Radio needed for fixed broadband wireless.
5G mobile services. Operators also plan to offer 5G mobile cellular services, which will be enabled by the next development of Evolved Packet Core LTE-Advanced wireless connectivity. Cellular 5G mobile services can't be rolled out until 3GPP has completed 5G mobile core standards, which is expected later this year, and until 5G-enabled smartphones are commercially available -- expected in early 2019. Analysts expect mobile operators to begin deploying 5G mobile service toward the end of the first quarter of 2019.
5G wireless in the enterprise
The full promise of 5G wireless technology for enterprises remains just that -- a promise -- until 5G standards development is complete and operators have finished rolling out 5G wireless networks. Once 5G radios are installed and 5G-enabled smart devices are available, expect to see enterprises develop more use cases for 5G services.
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Chris Antlitz, senior telecom analyst with Technology Business Research Inc. in Hampton, N.H., said he expects large enterprises in the Fortune 2000 will be among the first to roll out 5G services, beginning in 2020. More widespread enterprise adoption will begin to occur later in the decade -- between 2025 and 2030.
To prepare for the rollout of 5G wireless networks, some enterprises are starting to appoint C-suite leaders and other IT managers to look at potential applications that can take advantage of 5G performance and low latency.
Who will benefit from 5G?
The 5G infrastructure market is poised to grow significantly from $2.9 billion in 2020 to $34 billion by 2026, according to MarketsandMarkets, fueled by demand for mobile data services, the growth of industrial automation and increased use of software in communication networks.
For industries that require low latency and high throughput -- like healthcare, financial services, energy and other field-service organizations -- 5G wireless networks are expected to have a significant impact. Businesses that have specialized communications requirements and manufacturing processes might see benefits first.
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Engineers at a 5G development center in Oulu, Finland, where Nokia was once the dominate employer, are developing 5G use cases. Researchers are working on communication ideas like 5G radio broadcasting, as well as developing healthcare applications, such as rehabbing stroke through virtual reality.
Service providers helping drive 5G development
According to TBR, more than 85% of the funds earmarked for 5G development come from communication service providers in four countries: the United States, China, Japan and South Korea. Operators in these countries have made 5G a priority and are focusing initially on fixed wireless broadband and mobile broadband.
In the United States, Verizon and AT&T, which started 5G trials in some cities in 2017, are building 5G networks that use millimeter wave spectrum as they roll out services in 2018. Sprint and T-Mobile have announced plans to bring 5G mobile services to major metropolitan areas in 2019.
U.S. operators have regulatory hurdles to address in deploying 5G wireless networks. Federal and state rights-of-way access regulations must be established and local permits issued that allow telecommunications companies to install the fiber they need to connect to their small cell sites.
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Providers also will have to purchase spectrum through auctions managed by the Federal Communications Commission.
Through low-latency, high-speed data delivery, 5G wireless networks promise to change how enterprises use advanced technologies to underpin new services and capabilities. Enterprises can expect adoption to ramp up in the decade to come as service providers begin rolling out 5G services and companies develop 5G use cases.
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The role of SDN in 5G technology and the WAN: Can it scale?
Tom Nolle, President, CIMI Corporation
Software-defined networking is one of the two major pillars of network transformation that has emerged in this decade. When SDN was introduced, many expected it to sweep traditional routing -- and physical routers -- out of the network, but it hasn't. And while SDN has earned a place in the data center, SDN in the WAN is still rare. That could change, particularly as network operators begin to deploy 5G wireless networks. It's complicated.
Explicit control of forwarding via OpenFlow -- the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) version of SDN -- is the model most people think of when they think SDN. In the data center -- particularly in cloud data centers, where virtual LANs have to be deployed to build multi-tenant services and applications -- this version of SDN has been widely adopted. That use proves the model works, but it doesn't prove it can scale.
Scalability has been the biggest challenge with SDN in the WAN. If you ask whether the internet can be built on SDN, almost every network operator would be skeptical. If you accept that some IP networks are too big for ONF-
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modeled SDN to work, how big of a network would work? The answer is we don't know. And that's been the problem of SDN in the WAN.
The good news for SDN is 5G technology and other metro-focused changes in networking could build a bridge for SDN out of the data center. 5G has specific features that encourage SDN deployment, including network slicing). The combination of 5G, network functions virtualization, edge hosting, content delivery and streaming makes considerable new deployment likely in metro networks. New or greenfield deployment, particularly when in manageable metro-sized parcels, is the ideal place to introduce new technology, which could be the opening for SDN in the WAN.
Uses for SDN in 5G technology
Mobile networks have become a combination of mobility management and content delivery features. Emerging 5G networks add the need for network virtualization, and network slicing addresses the need for multi-tenant mobile and for hosting additional features to allow virtualization within those network slices. This opens two avenues to SDN in the 5G metro: using SDN for data center interconnect (DCI) and for mobility and content management.
Both 5G and mobile content are credible edge-hosting drivers, as service features and content cache points need to be close to those using the
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service. Edge hosting means network operators will use smaller data centers that are less efficient in handling variable loads, so we can expect them to create a virtual pool of edge-hosting points and deploy DCI on a larger scale. If fat pipes connect edge data centers that use SDN, it's logical to assume SDN in 5G technology would be extended across the DCI links to build resource pools across data center boundaries, which would extend SDN in the WAN.
If mobility management elements of the mobile network, like the 5G version of the Evolved Packet Core, rely on hosted features in SDN-connected data centers, it's fairly easy to see how SDN could be used to implement these elements. EPC technology today is based on tunnels that follow mobile users as they roam among cell sites. SDN forwarding could do the same thing, and the same SDN devices could provide direct connections between mobile content consumers and their cache points. SDN could support a rearchitected notion of mobility and content delivery that uses commodity white boxes, rather than custom proprietary appliances.
SDN could hit metro networks, or not
All of this means using SDN in 5G technology could explode in metro networking, and that mission is where most operator investment will be focused for at least the five years needed for 5G deployment. That happy
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news is tempered by two risk factors, and the result could easily turn out differently, leaving SDN locked in the data center.
The first risk factor that could relegate SDN to the data center is the pace and completeness of 5G adoption. Operators expect even radio-network-focused or 5G-fiber-to-the-node hybrids probably won't roll out in any volume until 2019 or 2020. Complete implementation of the 5G core is likely to take up to four years beyond that, and it's not yet clear just how far that implementation will go. The 5G standard for creating a hybrid 5G and 4G LTE wireless network is the first step toward 5G, but some think it may be the only step taken for a long time, unless major new service revenue can be defined to justify the broader 5G revolution.
The second risk factor is the emergence of network node operating systems like AT&T's DANOS and the ONF's Stratum, which could be used to support SDN, but could also host open, traditional routing and switching software. AT&T's decision to deploy 60,000 DANOS white box devices to host legacy routing software in cell sites shows these open white boxes might be the major risk to the role of SDN in the WAN and in 5G networks. White box legacy routers have the lower capital cost of SDN white boxes, but not the risks of deploying new technology.
ONF's Stratum may be a double-edged risk to broader SDN deployment in the WAN. The ONF launched the formal standards model of SDN. And now that ONF is championing an open-box OS option that could present an SDN
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alternative, it could be an indication that many early SDN supporters now doubt the technology will have universal appeal -- particularly the use of SDN in the WAN.
What might counter these risks? Operators say the biggest problem they have committing to SDN in WAN and metro buildouts is the lack of a mature and broadly accepted standard for SDN controller federation, which refers to east-west or between-controller APIs. Without this, large-scale SDN deployment requires either a highly scalable and available single-controller deployment or some as-yet-undefined higher-layer orchestration of SDN control domains. Initiatives have targeted controller federation for more than five years, but none has won broad adoption.
As network operators deploy 5G, IoT and other edge-hosting-intensive services, there's a window of investment for new infrastructure that SDN in 5G technology and the WAN could ride or be swept away. The long-neglected issue of controller federation may be the most important technical factor in deciding which of these possible outcomes will become reality.
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Verizon 5G rollout could change broadband competition
Antone Gonsalves, Director of News, SearchUnifiedCommunications
Verizon has chosen to temporarily forego standards and launch a proprietary 5G internet service to homes in four U.S. cities. The rush to market could start generating a return from the billions of dollars spent on developing the fifth-generation wireless technology.
Verizon introduced its 5G Home service this week and said it would be available Oct. 1 in select neighborhoods in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif. The service provider promised a baseline speed of about 300 Mbps, which is significantly higher than Verizon's current fiber optic service, Fios.
Customers covered in the Verizon 5G rollout could experience speeds close to 1 Gbps if they are in a favorable location relative to Verizon's 5G small cell site that broadcasts the wireless signal to the home.
Verizon plans to charge wireless subscribers $50 a month for the 5G service and nonwireless subscribers $70 a month. Verizon won't charge for
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the first three months of service or for the 5G router and its installation in the home.
The promotional deal makes the 5G offering similar in pricing to the internet service Verizon currently provides through its Fios product, which delivers speeds of only about 100 Mbps or less, said Tom Nolle, principal analyst at technology consulting firm CIMI Corp., based in Township, N.J., in a research note.
"I think Verizon will be moving to normalize their pricing across FiOS and 5G, which could give Verizon users the best internet bargain out there today," Nolle wrote.
Verizon 5G rollout using nonstandard gear
The home and cell site gear used in the Verizon 5G rollout are temporary. The company plans to replace the proprietary 5G equipment with devices built around universal standards set by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Verizon will replace the equipment as suppliers deliver standard gear.
Verizon is willing to forego standards initially to be quick to market with 5G internet services and to start generating revenue as soon as possible, said Rajesh Ghai, an analyst at IDC.
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"This is a brand-new service for Verizon -- incremental revenue," he said. "They're not going to eat into anything they're already selling. They don't have to get their existing customer base to adopt it."
Because 5G is a fixed-wireless technology, Verizon can compete against cable companies and rival AT&T without having to bring a cable connection to homes or apartment buildings.
"If you have broadband deliverable to homes over the air, then it becomes a lot faster for a customer to provision the service," Ghai said. "You get the box from Verizon, and it's ready to go."
Indeed, Verizon has made ordering the service easy by launching a website for would-be subscribers.
Verizon 5G rollout includes TV over IP
Verizon's handling of TV over IP (TVoIP) through the 5G service is also significant. Subscribers get Google's YouTube TV at no charge for the first three months and then have the option of continuing the service for $40 a month.
The offer shows Verizon is experimenting with TVoIP without having to buy a content provider. "If they like what happens, they could shift FiOS to TVoIP
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too, and drop a lot of cost along the way," Nolle said. Also, Verizon could collect user data and website activity on the 5G service and use the information in other applications, such as ad selection.
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Juniper unveils Penta chipset for 5G infrastructure
Antone Gonsalves, Director of News, SearchUnifiedCommunications
Juniper Networks has introduced for its MX Series edge routers two chassis and a chipset designed for carriers rearchitecting their networks to deliver 5G services to enterprises.
The MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform, unveiled this week, includes the MX10008 and the MX10016 Universal Chassis and the Penta Silicon. Juniper is aiming the 5G infrastructure products at carriers adopting software-based networking as the infrastructure underpinning next-generation services.
Carriers' network redesigns include making their infrastructure more programmable to configure and deliver services faster. To support that effort, Juniper introduced Penta, a 16 nm packet-forwarding chipset that consumes 0.5 watt per gigabit, which is half the amount consumed by Juniper's current Junos Trio silicon.
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Penta's high speeds triple the bandwidth of Juniper's MX960, MX480 and MX240 routers. For security, Penta supports MACsec and IPsec encryption to protect data traveling through a carrier network.
"As networks move to 5G, encryption is going to be a critical component that will have to be done at scale," said Donyel Jones-Williams, Juniper's director of product marketing management.
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Benefits of new MX chassis in 5G infrastructure
The MX10008 and MX10016 chassis are a variant of the PTX and QFX Universal Chassis introduced last year. Collectively, the products span the "entire routing spectrum," Jones-Williams said.
"Any kind of routing that you need can be done with a single chassis type," he said.
Juniper designed the 13-RU MX10008 and the 21-RU MX10016 for edge routers. The chassis can deliver maximum speeds of 19.2 Tbps and 38.4 Tbps, respectively. Juniper offers a variety of line cards and software to address networking use cases as carriers build 5G support into their data centers and WANs.
5G is the latest iteration of cellular technology engineered to boost the speed of wireless networks to as high as 20 Gbps, exceeding wireline networks today. The technology could also offer latency of 1
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millisecond or less for uses that require immediate feedback.
In general, carriers are testing 5G infrastructure technology and plan to move it into production gradually starting next year. Analysts, however, do not expect businesses to start buying 5G services until 2020 at the earliest. Industry observers expect the internet of things to be an early driver of the 5G commercial market.
Juniper, which competes with Cisco and Nokia in carrier routing, plans to make the latest chassis available before year-end. The company plans to release Penta-powered line cards for the MX960, MX480 and MX240 in the first quarter of next year.
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5G Quiz Next-generation 5G wireless technology will offer faster speeds and increased capacity. Do you speak the language well enough to take advantage of all 5G offers?
Question 1: What does 5G stand for?
A. Five gigabytes B. Fifth gateway
C. Five gigabit D. Fifth generation wireless
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Question 2: 5G will offer latency of one millisecond or lower. What does latency refer to?
A. The time it takes to reboot a connection
B. The length of time devices will automatically connect to the network
C. The delay between an input and a desired outcome
D. The speed of detecting a disruption to the network
Question 3: To accommodate faster data transmission speeds, 5G has greater bandwidth. What other term is synonymous with bandwidth?
A. Capacity B. Speed
C. Connection D. Strength
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Question 4: To generate high speeds, 5G utilizes the band of spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. What is this band of spectrum called?
A. Millimeter wave B. Lower-frequency spectrum
C. Real-time spectrum D. Radio-frequency band
Question 5: Network slicing is a network management feature that 5G will allow. What does this mean users can have?
A. The ability to set up multiple connection points to one 5G network
B. The ability to create multiple virtual networks within a single 5G network
C. The ability to designate multiple passwords for one 5G network
D. The ability to utilize connections from other nearby networks
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Question 6: 5G will rely on compact, portable base stations that involve minimal power and can be placed in large quantities throughout geographical areas. What are these called?
A. Miniature cells B. Frequent cells
C. Short-range cells D. Small cells
Question 7: A single 5G base stations has the ability to send and receive signals from over 22 times the amount of users, meaning it has massive MIMO. What does MIMO stand for?
A. Message in message out B. Multiple in multiple out
C. Multiple input multiple output D. Message input message output
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Question 8: During the testing phase, 5G broke records of spectrum efficiency. What does spectrum efficiency measure?
A. How many base stations can communicate over one spectrum
B. How many bits of data can be transmitted to a certain number of users per second
C. How many users can connect to one network
D. How many connections can run securely at once
Question 9: Spectrum efficiency and MIMO rely on a system called beamforming. What does this term refer to?
A. A connectivity system that identifies the closest base station for each user
B. A traffic-signaling system that breaks down data into smaller packets for transport
C. A connectivity system that caps the number of users utilizing the network at once
D. A traffic-signaling system that identifies the route of least interference to deliver data to a user
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Question 10: 5G transceivers will incorporate full-duplex technology for data transmission to double the capacity of wireless networks. What does full-duplex mean?
A. The ability to utilize the full capacity of transmission at all times
B. The ability to transmit and receive data at the same time and frequency
C. The ability to incorporate twice the number of transceivers into one base station
D. The ability to become compatible with all types of IoT devices
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1. D, 2. C, 3. A, 4. B, 5. A, 6. D, 7. C, 8. B, 9. D, 10. B
