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5G - Review of 5G technology Readiness and Commercialization

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  • 55 Pages
  • June 2020
  • Region: Global
  • GlobalData
  • ID: 5117249
Summary

"5G: Review of 5G technology readiness and commercialization” is a Global Outlook Report by the publisher 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. With 5G deployments now fully available and mobile 5G deployments underway in all regions, operators are facing the early phase of massive 5G adoption.

This report identifies the technology underpinning the move toward deployment of 5G networks. The report focuses on key developments across the radio, core and transport network domains as well as 5G services. The report also identifies the established and emerging vendors participating in the 5G market and identifies important networking innovations being developed to enable network operators to achieve 5G's full potential.

The report is structured as follows -
  • Section 1: The 5G Radio Access Network. This section discuses about newly developed 5G RAN standards with insights to market requirement behind 5G RAN deployment and explanation to available and emerging 5G RAN technologies. It also provides competitive study of incumbent as well as challengers offering virtual RAN and open RAN solutions operating in this segment.
  • Section 2: The 5G Core. Here we discuses about 5G converged core offerings, 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.
  • Section 3: The 5G Transport Network. Here we discuss the importance of a programmable IP and optical transport network in order to achieve 5G's potential in terms of latency, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
  • Section 4: 5G Services. Here we discuss the importance of managed and professional services provided by infrastructure vendors focused on 5G network design and deployment, training, service creation and monetization, and ongoing operations.
  • Section 4: Key Recommendations. We conclude the report with a set of key findings and critical considerations and recommendations for operators and vendors in 5G market.

Scope

Key findings of the report include -
  • 5G standards enabling more sophisticated 5G services continue to develop. 3GPP release 16 specifications frozen in June 2020 address 'standalone' (SA) network deployments, including the 5G new radio (NR) and a cloud-native core (5GC). A converged core which supports all generations of mobile traffic has emerged and leverages the flexibility of cloud-native technologies to deliver on a broad range of services. Advancing standards will help operators move beyond enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) to support applications that require low latency, higher performance and user plane distribution closer to the end user (MEC).
  • 5G-related radio advancements are helping operators evolve from 4G/LTE to 5G. For example offerings that allow 4G and 5G to share spectrum resources - so-called Dynamic Spectrum Sharing - are becoming commercially available in 2020; and vendors are expanding their roster of radio products with multiple antennas -- massive MIMO (multiple input-multiple output) -- to improve both network efficiency and customer experience.
  • 5G core offerings from a host of vendors, including Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, and ZTE, have advanced significantly in 2019 and H1 2020. As a result, operators have a host of options that can support legacy services on LTE, 3G, or even 2G networks even as they evolve to 5G solutions.
  • 5G transport requirements dictate significant increase of bandwidth to the RRU of 10 Gbps and more; backhaul connectivity to CU will scale to 100 Gbps. 5G advanced use cases have very stringent synchronization and latency requirements as well, and vendors need to offer solutions that fulfill these 5G transport requirements cost-effectively, while also taking into account physical constraints (space and power available). Vendors should also take into account interworking between 5G transport and 5G core, and deploy solutions that serve other network domains as well (fixed access, carrier Ethernet, etc.) to optimize costs of 5G transport deployment and operation.
  • Virtually all vendors of telecommunications software and services provide basic support and maintenance functions for their products. However, vendors are increasingly devoting focus to services specifically related to 5G. These include network design and optimization, training, business consulting and systems integration services in addition to a host of managed services.

Reasons to Buy
  • 5G: Review of 5G technology readiness and commercialization provides a global view of emerging standards for deploying 5G RAN, core and transport elements and related services as well as competitive study of vendors/operators supporting 5G network deployment.
  • This analysis is useful for telecom executives to evaluate emerging portfolios to address 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.

Table of Contents


Executive Summary
Technology: The 5G Radio Access Network
  • 5G RAN Standards
  • 5G RAN Market Requirements
  • 5G RAN Technologies
  • 5G RAN Competitive Landscape
  • Technology: The 5G Core


Key Technologies and Capabilities for Evolution to 5G
  • 5G Core Standards
  • 5G Core Market Requirements
  • 5G Core Competitive Landscape


Technology: The 5G Transport Network
  • 5G Transport Standards
  • 5G Market Requirements
  • 5G Transport Competitive Landscape
  • 5G Services
  • 5G Services Standards and Categories
  • 5G Services Business Context
  • 5G Services Categories
  • 5G Services Competitive Landscape


Key Recommendations
  • Appendix
  • Acronyms and Definitions
  • Companies Mentioned
  • About the Authors
  • Related Research
  • Contact Information


List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1: 5G Radio Standards Timeline
Exhibit 2: 5G Market Requirements
Exhibit 3: Massive MIMO Commercialization
Exhibit 4: Cloud RAN Architectures
Exhibit 5: Huawei Super Blade Site
Exhibit 6: Nokia CEO on 2019 Challenges
Exhibit 7: O-RAN Alliance Members
Exhibit 8: Service-Based Architecture/Metaswitch
Exhibit 9: Service-Based Architecture/3GPP
Exhibit 10: 5G Core Flexibility Attributes
Exhibit 11: Smooth Evolution to Converged Core
Exhibit 12: Agosto Telco DevOps
Exhibit 13: Cisco Core
Exhibit 14: Ericsson 5G Core System
Exhibit 15: Huawei 5G Architecture Vision
Exhibit 16: Nokia Cloud-Native Core
Exhibit 17: ZTE Common Mobile Core
Exhibit 18: Affirmed UnityCloud
Exhibit 19: Samsung 5G Core
Exhibit 20: ITU-T 5G Transport Reference Network
Exhibit 21: ITU-T 5G Transport Reference Network
Exhibit 22: ITU-T 5G Transport Latency Requirements
Exhibit 23: Ericsson 5G Dense Urban Rooftop Install
Exhibit 24: Nokia 5G Anyhaul Solution
Exhibit 25: Cisco 5G Transport Proposition
Exhibit 26: Fujitsu 5G Transport Proposition
Exhibit 27: Amdocs Services and Technology Domains
Exhibit 28: Nokia Services Digitization & Automation
Exhibit 29: Beamforming in Coverage Planning
Exhibit 30: Selected AI Operations Use Cases
Exhibit 31: Selected 5G Vertical Use Cases
Exhibit 32: Netcracker Services Portfolio

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • Affirmed Networks
  • Agosto
  • Altiostar
  • Amdocs
  • Casa Systems
  • Ciena
  • Cisco
  • Ericsson
  • Fujitsu
  • Huawei
  • Infinera
  • Lime Microsystems
  • Mavenir
  • Metaswitch
  • Microsoft
  • NEC
  • Netcracker
  • Nokia
  • O-RAN Alliance
  • Parallel Wireless
  • Rakuten
  • Ribbon/ECI
  • Samsung
  • Tech Mahindra
  • Telecom Infra Project
  • ZTE