Transforming 5G with Open and Disaggregated Network Architectures

Broadband Service Providers are looking for practical approaches to scale their fiber access networks.

Disaggregated RAN solutions inherently offer the flexibility to suit the variety of deployment needs in the case of private networks.

The concept of a slice applies not just to the network, but to the user device or terminal as well. A 5G terminal can support multiple slices simultaneously.

Orchestration, or service management and orchestration (SMO), has been used in the enterprise world for some time to manage a number of virtual machines