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 eBook: The ROI of Secure 5G

CONTENTS
04 05
Authors The ROI of Secure 5G

06 07
Podcast: 5G Americas President 5G Future:
Chris Pearson Outlines the Road Targeting the Enterprise
Ahead for Standalone 5G

09 12
Security-driven Networking 5G Will be a Necessity, Not Just a
in the 5G Era Luxury

14 17
Demystifying Private 5G Company Spotlight:
Top Submitted Industry Content

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ABOUT THE
AUTHORS
Kelsey Ziser, The 5G Exchange Curator
The 5G Exchange
Kelsey Kusterer Ziser is a senior editor covering SD-WAN deployments at Light Reading. In addition,
as curator at the 5G Exchange, Kelsey acts as gatekeeper for all content submitted to Light
Reading’s authoritative resource of vetted 5G-related information provided by the industry. She also
plays an important role in developing Light Reading’s events program.

Tim McElligott, Senior Analyst

TM Forum
Tim McElligott is a senior analyst at TM Forum. McElligott joined TM Forum in January 2019,
after working as senior analyst at Frost & Sullivan, Editor in chief of Billing & OSS World (B/OSS
magazine), and senior editor at Telephony. He is currently focused on: Industry transformation
and collaboration, open architectures, digital service delivery and monetization, automated service
development and assurance, and network, customer, and business intelligence.

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, Vice President, Global Field CISO Team

Fortinet
Jonathan leads strategy and service relationship programs at Fortinet where he focuses on
emerging technologies and partnerships. With extensive experience working with global enterprises
and nation-states, Jonathan is responsible for developing innovative security solutions addressing
the challenges of digital transformation – from the IoT edge to the cloud.

Steve Alexander, CTO

Ciena
Steve Alexander is currently Ciena’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He has held
a number of positions since joining the Company in 1994, including General Manager of Ciena’s
Transport & Switching and Data Networking business units, Vice President of Transport Products
and Director of Lightwave Systems.

Subhas Mondal, Wipro Fellow and Chief Architect, 5G Initiative

Wipro
Subhas is a Wipro Fellow and Chief Architect of the organization-wide 5G initiative at Wipro. He has
over 27 years engineering experience in Telecom Research & Development. He is a Senior Member
of IEEE. Subhas is a passionate technologist and has developed several solutions & frameworks
in emerging technology areas such as 5G, SDN/NFV, Li-Fi, Cyber Security and AI for Network
Automation. He is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communications
Engineering. Prior to Wipro, he worked for C-DOT as a research engineer and developed a remote
switching product ground-up.

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THE 5G EXCHANGE EBOOK 4TH EDITION

The ROI of Secure 5G

T
he COVID-19 pandemic has impacted
nearly every aspect of life, changing the
way businesses operate, how school-age
children are educated, and could even impact the
future of 5G deployments.

In the fourth edition of The 5G Exchange E-Book,

5G Americas President Chris Pearson examines
how the pandemic could impact the progress
of 5G deployments in North America, and
shares predictions for what the future holds for
standalone 5G.

This E-Book also takes a look at what enterprises

hope to gain from 5G deployments, and how
multi-access edge computing could provide
new avenues of business for enterprises. Use
cases for private 5G networks for enterprises will
also be examined, as well as important security
considerations to address while deploying 5G.

Kelsey Kusterer Ziser

5G Exchange Curator
The 5G Exchange

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Podcast: 5G Americas President

Chris Pearson Outlines the Road
Ahead for Standalone 5G

I
n this podcast, Phil Harvey and I are joined by Chris Pearson, president of 5G
Americas. Pearson discusses how COVID-19 is affecting the progress of 5G in North
America, forecasts for the deployment of standalone 5G and the potential impact of
5G on the IoT market.

On recent earnings calls, many service providers have reiterated their commitment to
deploying 5G, and it appears COVID-19 hasn’t slowed down that progress, says Pearson.

“North America is definitely one of the leaders in terms of deployments, subscriptions

and capabilities of their 5G networks,” says Pearson. “Right now, we’re at 69
deployments worldwide and, by the end of the year, we still expect 200. Some regions
have stated that they’ll be a bit slower in terms of roll-outs, but the US isn’t one of them.”

Pearson also shares predictions for when standalone 5G will emerge and the potential
barriers to commercial deployment.

Listen to the podcast here.

Kelsey Kusterer Ziser

Senior Editor
Light Reading

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5G Future:
Targeting the Enterprise

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash

S
ervice providers have made huge investments Service providers simply cannot afford to let that
in 5G, but there are still major questions happen, especially if they are unable to charge a
surrounding its monetization. One certain premium for consumer services. Failure to address
opportunity lies with enterprises. the enterprise opportunity could leave operators
unable to monetize their 5G investments and
According to an industry survey conducted by TM struggling to offer differentiated services beyond
Forum in 2019 of 143 service provider respondents, connectivity. Making this new vertical leap is no easy
nearly three quarters said they expect to be generating feat, so where should CSPs begin and what tools and
more than half their revenue from B2B services in the ways of working must they embrace to maximize 5G
long term. Figuring out how to tap into the enterprise ROI?
market will be critical to operators’ 5G success.
But CSPs need to act fast, as many companies
in enterprise verticals are toying with the idea of
deploying their own, private 5G networks.

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5G FUTURE: TARGETING THE ENTERPRISE... CONT’D

WHAT DO ENTERPRISES WANT FROM 5G? Service providers simply cannot afford to let that
happen, especially if they are unable to charge a
CSPs’ success in co-creating innovative 5G services premium for consumer services. Failure to address
with enterprise customers and capitalizing on the enterprise opportunity could leave operators
network slicing, and multi-access edge computing unable to monetize their 5G investments and
(MEC) depends largely on what enterprises want struggling to offer differentiated services beyond
to accomplish. This will also determine whether connectivity. Making this new vertical leap is no easy
enterprises see service providers as necessary to feat, so where should CSPs begin and what tools and
helping them accomplish their goal. ways of working must they embrace to maximize 5G
ROI?
Service providers have made huge investments in
5G, but there are still major questions surrounding
its monetization. One certain opportunity lies with WHAT DO ENTERPRISES WANT FROM 5G?
enterprises. CSPs’ success in co-creating innovative 5G services
with enterprise customers and capitalizing on
According to an industry survey conducted by TM
network slicing, and multi-access edge computing
Forum in 2019 of 143 service provider respondents,
(MEC) depends largely on what enterprises want
nearly three quarters said they expect to be generating
to accomplish. This will also determine whether
more than half their revenue from B2B services in the
enterprises see service providers as necessary to
long term. Figuring out how to tap into the enterprise
helping them accomplish their goal.
market will be critical to operators’ 5G success.
But CSPs need to act fast, as many companies
in enterprise verticals are toying with the idea of
deploying their own, private 5G networks.

Tim McElligott
Senior Analyst
TM Forum

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Security-driven Networking
in the 5G Era

Photo by Georg Bommeli on Unsplash

D A DANGEROUS TRADE-OFF
riven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise
of contactless commerce, 5G creates new
possibilities by enabling hyperscale operations, From branch offices to regional and national
characterized by large payloads and millions of headquarters, organizations need both high-
simultaneously encrypted connections. performance networks and strong security. Digital
transformation initiatives and the adoption of data-
For the promise of 5G end-to-end performance to driven decision-making is accelerating computing
become a reality, it must also be secure. Enterprises and networking. Propelled by the speed at which
must be mindful of this when it comes to platform applications, workflows and transactions need to be
consolidation decisions. Consolidation is a must to processed – many organizations have adopted the
reduce complexity – organizations should move from use of a hyperscale data center.
specific point defense products and platforms to a
broad, integrated and automated security fabric.

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A growing number of these high-performance That’s why for 5G mobile networks basic scalability
networks are built using advanced routing and will not suffice. 5G both provides and requires
switching infrastructures. Consequently, traditional hyperscalablilty. This is a whole different entity than
security solutions are being jettisoned because simply providing faster 4G services. 5G carries the
they simply can’t keep pace with new performance potential to lay the foundation for global innovation
requirements and provide adequate protection. across a wide variety of sectors.

The inherent performance limitations of previous

generations of security equipment leads to workflow
FIVE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF THE
bottlenecks, which results in lower productivity and SECURITY-DRIVEN NETWORK:
poor user experience. Enterprises feel forced to Planning and design – In the planning stages,
choose between performance and security, and in everyone must agree that new infrastructures,
many cases security has been deprioritized in favor of applications and devices need to meet and support
business objectives and user experiences. a central security strategy built around a single
To protect their high-performance environments, framework. Want a new cloud infrastructure? It not
some organizations have even replaced their only needs to be secure, but it needs to be built using
enterprise-grade security with VLANs and Layer 4 an integrated security platform to ensure it is part of
access controls lists. Unfortunately, this is a recipe the central framework.
for disaster. These alternatives do almost nothing Access control and segmentation – When new
to prevent attackers from impersonating legitimate devices are added to the network, ensure that they
users, establishing a beachhead and then moving are automatically identified and that rules related
laterally across the network to gain access to to accessing network resources are applied. Make
credentials, systems and data. sure they are automatically assigned to secured
Using a completely different attack method, bad network segments that have been enhanced with
actors could also send massive volumes of requests authentication for increased control and flexibility.
to overwhelm a website. This could bring down Consistent protection for workflows and applications
e-commerce sites and online services, resulting in lost – Data gets shared, cross-referenced, mined and
revenue, negative publicity and possibly even the loss processed; it never stays in one place. Security-
of the entire business. driven networking protects data, applications and
workflows along their entire data path through the
THE SECURITY-DRIVEN NETWORK AND THE implementation of a single, integrated security
CHALLENGE OF 5G framework.

Security-driven networks are designed for the Expanding perimeter – The modern network
acceleration of digital transformation, including the perimeter is expanding outward as organizations
transition to virtualization and the cloud, 5G, the rapid embrace remote working, new network platforms, new
adoption and integration of IoT, and the reliance on devices, and new compute and application models.
applications as a central pillar of modern business. At the same time, the perimeter is expanding into the
network through the adoption of IoT devices and the
5G will prove particularly challenging, as it will bring connecting of networks to support smart systems.
with it unprecedented rises in three key areas: a 10-
fold increase in mobile broadband (eMBB), the support Branch offices and secure SD-WAN – Standard
for a super-high density of connected devices – up MPLS connections limit application performance
to 1 million devices per square kilometer (mMTC) – and dynamic communications. A more modern
and the ability to deliver ultra-reliability with ultra-low approach combines the built-in protections of a next-
latency (URLLC). generation firewall with advanced SD-WAN networking
capabilities. This eliminates MPLS-required traffic
backhauling, prioritizes business-critical applications

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and improves overall user experience without ever The complexity of 5G and the fast-moving nature of
compromising on security. In addition, SD-WAN disaster response means there is no time to manually
determines the optimal network access methodology respond to problems in the network to overcome
to ensure business outcomes and enhanced them. Manual response is no longer tenable – and
experiences. while it’s true that there is an increasing amount of
automation of service assurance by mobile operators,
FULL SECURITY AHEAD simple forms of automation aren’t going to cut it any
more.
As organizations race toward new levels of hyper-
connectivity, they tend to set security aside for the 5G is different from previous network generations,
sake of speed. But the success of any organization is in that so many new technologies and architectural
now dependent on both network and security working innovations are being introduced at the same time.
in unison to be both fast and secure in order to meet While many of these will help create a network that
business objectives and to better serve customers. can be relied upon during disaster response, this new
complexity means we need new tools to examine the
Security-driven networking is an essential aspect network. Machine learning, for example, can identify
of this double mandate. A security fabric-based patterns and be part of the shift from fixing issues
approach integrated into a unified whole empowers to detecting underlying issues – even those that
organizations to embrace innovation without lowering don’t linger in the network for long. This can trigger
performance or increasing risk. Review the critical automated responses to proactively resolve specific
elements of security-driven networking noted above to issues within individual network slices – and the
begin or strengthen your journey to a network that is services they are associated with, making sure that
hyperscale, hyper-speed and hyper-secure. emergency communications stay viable.

ASSURING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS 5G is arriving at a time when emergency

communications is needed more than ever, as
Once these slices are established, then managing
what we consider extreme weather becomes an
all this network complexity comes with its own
everyday threat. The new generation’s feature set
challenges. There is a growing need for dedicated
makes it possible not only to support emergency
service assurance with the ability to oversee and
response, but also create virtual network slices for
analyze every event within its specific context, and
use in those emergency situations. But these new
provide enhanced monitoring capabilities for each
networks also need to be supported in new ways –
slice. But this analysis and response needs to be
simple automation isn’t good enough. Emergency
automated and proactive.
communications, more necessary than ever before,
will only be able to rely on 5G networks if those
networks have intelligent support.

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy
Vice President
Global Field CISO Team, Fortinet

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5G Will be a Necessity,
Not Just a Luxury

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The rollout of 5G is often discussed as merely a method will approach nearly $400B in just a few years – with
for consumers to more quickly download video and the manufacturing sector predicted to comprise a
other content directly to their mobile devices or gaming large chunk of that spend at nearly 18%. That’s a lot of
systems. And while the technology will certainly do that, devices, from sensors on the production line to stock
5G will ultimately enable so much more. management and even transportation conditions, all
requiring a level of connection that needs a highly
It’s time to think beyond the smartphone and to other resilient and stable network, as well as security, to stay
devices or machines that will work mostly in the online.
background, invisible to some but critical to entire
industries and cities. And once 5G’s capacity, resilience
and lower latency enable these devices to work
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
seamlessly, we’ll wonder how we ever lived or worked Another often-cited “killer app” of 5G is the pending arrival
without it. of the autonomous vehicle (AV) era. It’s an era that is
closer than you might think: Daimler, the parent company
Consider the much-hyped next stage of the Industrial of Mercedes, has received approval to test “driverless
Revolution, Industry 4.0, which relies upon the parking valets,” for example. And while the onset of AVs
proliferation of the “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT). sounds like a consumer-grade enhancement, the true
Some researchers suggest that global spending on IoT benefit of the AV era

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will be experienced by enterprises in transport and physical network used by everyone else, but they will
logistics, construction, agriculture and more. offer the same or better network performance as if
obtained from a dedicated network in terms of capacity,
To enable the level of communication that AVs require speed, latency, and most importantly, availability.
to interact with each other and their surroundings, each
vehicle will connect the outside world to their various For example, during emergency situations, network
optical and acoustic imagers, LIDAR-based sensors, slicing will allow telehealth and first responders to be
inertial navigation systems and GPS with wireless given priority on the network over casual browsing
connectivity. Latency will need to be measured in single and texting. Lifeline services can be maintained during
milliseconds or less to allow vehicles to communicate periods of extreme congestion despite 5G being shared.
their intentions as they navigate through a future Network slicing partitions portions of the network
environment filled with combinations of autonomous, for specific customers and use cases and provides
semi-autonomous and human-controlled vehicles. access to additional capacity to ensure their network is
prioritized.
TELEHEALTH
The telehealth experience, where the doctor is remote FORTIFYING THE NETWORK WITH FIBER
from the patient is perhaps the most pertinent and Much of a 5G network’s performance is predicated on
most critical event that 5G will need to support. While the availability of fiber to cell sites along with a change in
these remote consultations were happening prior to the way networks are designed, deployed, managed, and
COVID-19, some telehealth vendors have reportedly seen maintained. The 5G network should run on a platform
a year’s worth of traffic on their platforms in the space built out of well-lit fiber and software, with functions
of a month. Forrester is now forecasting more than a virtualized so that the network itself becomes intelligent
billion virtual care visits in 2020 alone, as people look to and can “self-heal” without any human interaction or
improve their access to healthcare while simultaneously need to visit a tower or microsite, for instance.
reducing office, clinic and hospital visits.
Deploying a network featuring artificial intelligence,
But even as the pandemic subsides, these services will machine learning, and advanced analytics creates a more
become more commonplace as people gain confidence flexible architecture, one that can intelligently identify
and comfort in how effective and convenient telehealth issues such as congestion hotspots. As the network is
can be for them. To ensure a wider variety of diagnoses built on a fiber and software platform, it can be optimized
can be made more regularly, a seamless telehealth to ensure the quality of experience in those areas does
experience will become vital. Video calls will need to not suffer. Best of all, these necessary changes are made
be made in the highest definition possible to ensure swiftly and automatically by the software.
accurate remote diagnoses.
Getting all of this right will take time, continued
We can expect additional biomedical sensors to be investment and innovative thinking. While gamers
incorporated into handheld devices and the transfer of and video streamers may seem like the first to benefit
high-fidelity medical telemetry and imagery between the from 5G, the goal is for people, our enterprises, our
patient and doctor will need to be as quick and error-free organizations, and all of our “things” to be able to
as it would be during an in-person consultation. While our leverage this technology to enable a future of seamless,
mobile networks today have done all they can to get us ubiquitous connectivity.
to this point, 5G will be what enables these scenarios to
be realized at a scale and efficiency like never before.

NETWORK SLICING
Technologies such as 5G network slicing will allow Steve Alexander
network operators to adapt their networks to the local CTO
environment by making them intelligent and responsive. Ciena
These slices create virtual networks out of the same

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Demystifying Private 5G

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash.

P rivate 5G, without doubt, will prove to be

groundbreaking. This will be especially true for
mission-critical applications that demand low latency
and guaranteed quality of service (QoS). But there is
confusion over how private and public 5G networks will
THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE
COMMUNICATIONS AND THE PROMISE
OF 5GLAN
evolve, compete and collaborate. Over the last 2 decades public networks and enterprise
private networks have gone through a major transformation.
Additionally, there are differing opinions – some believe that The dedicated EPABX has disappeared and enterprises have
private 5G will jeopardize public 5G adoption while others embraced a unified communication solution that provides
argue that 5G will replace Wi-Fi. Others believe enterprises email, voice, video and web services over an IP network
will build private 5G networks on their own if affordable alongside a gateway to Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN).
spectrum is available. Many are of the opinion that cellular
networks like 5G are too complicated for non-telcos to build The public land mobile network (PLMN) went through a
and operate. Which of these opinions are correct? While similar evolution starting from 2G/3G that provided separate
there may be no right or wrong answers, there is a need to core networks for circuit switched (voice) and packet
demystify 5G technology before arriving at a dependable switched (data) traffic to LTE networks that provide only a
response. packet switched core. In a 4G LTE network, voice works as
an application using IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Public
switched telephone networks (PSTN) also evolved to provide
Centrex features that essentially enable EPABX functionality
from a Public Telephone Switch.

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The enterprises deploying unified communication networks This would also allow the carriers to focus on providing
today could reach out to public telephony networks using coverage outside the building while the coverage inside
session border controllers as a gateway and to the external the building is provided by the enterprise WLAN. With the
data network (Internet) using a proxy and firewall. evolution of WLAN to Wi-Fi 6, the performance in ultra-
dense areas like airports or stadiums could be effectively
As the world adopts Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6), it is managed with proper frequency planning for the free
now possible to have globally unique IP addresses for all IP- spectrum available at 5GHz band. However, enterprises like
capable devices. This brings a unique opportunity to provide manufacturing plants require a guaranteed quality of service
private IP networks over public networks using 5GLAN that may need a network with licensed spectrum, meaning
features. demand for a private licensed network may arise.

THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBLE DEPLOYMENT

While the 5GLAN standard is still evolving, once all the
issues are resolve, it will provide simultaneous registration
to PLMN and non-public networks of an enterprise with
different access privileges. There are some pressing
OPTIONS FOR PRIVATE 5G:
challenges on identification, discovery, selection and access Option 1: Enterprises build their own network with dedicated
control for the non-public network that will be solved over spectrum of their own or leased from a telecommunications
time. There also are advanced features like time sensitive provider.
networks (TSN) that will enable support for realizing
complex industrial automation use cases. Option 2: A telecommunications provider builds and
operates the private network for the enterprise and provides
With cloud computing in the mix, unified enterprise seamless integration with its public network.
communication has acquired a new dimension enabling the
convergence of voice, video, email and instant messaging Option 3: A telecommunications provider builds a public
under one roof. 5GLAN can provide the connectivity network and provides a dedicated network slice that meets
infrastructure needed to unify all the communication needs the coverage, capacity and quality requirements of the
of the enterprises while also supporting the mobility of the enterprise.
workforce and ensuring security.
Spectrum is a key resource for building a cellular wireless
5GLAN bundled with a network slicing capability has the network and telecom companies are spending billions to
potential to cater to all the use case requirements of an acquire it. If free spectrum is used by businesses, these
enterprise. If a communication service provider offers telecom companies may bleed to death. However, it is
network slicing with necessary QoS support and 5GLAN unlikely that Global System for Mobile Communications
functionality, enterprises well be equipped to meet their (GSMA), which represents over 1,100 companies in the
communication needs using a public 5G network. mobile ecosystem, including 750 operators, will allow this.
The GSMA wants regulators to:

ENTERPRISE NETWORK MOBILITY • Make available 80-100 MHz of contiguous spectrum

per operator in prime 5G mid-bands (i.e. 3.5 GHz) and
Enterprises today have WLAN infrastructure in their around 1 GHz per operator in millimeter wave bands (i.e.
campuses. The WLAN is connected to the enterprise 26/28 GHz).
backbone network that in turn is connected to the internet
over a router and a firewall. When a user moves inside the • Provide 5G spectrum within three key frequency ranges
office premises, their mobile devices like their laptop, tablet (Sub-1 GHz, 1-6 GHz and above 6 GHz).
and smartphone could switch over to the WLAN connection • Ensure that exclusively licensed spectrum remains
for intranet and internet access. If the enterprise and the the core 5G spectrum management approach with
communication service provider come to an agreement to spectrum sharing and unlicensed bands playing a
support EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM or EAP-5G based authentication complementary role.
scheme, the enterprise network could seamlessly route the
The GSMA believes that setting spectrum aside for verticals
user traffic onto the public 5G network while still connected
in priority 5G bands (i.e. 3.5/26/28 GHz) could limit network
to the local WLAN network. This could help address
investments, drive up costs, waste spectrum and jeopardize
the weak coverage areas of public networks inside the
the success of public 5G services. Sharing approaches like
enterprise building and enhance the user experience while
leasing are better options where verticals require access to
reducing the overall cost of build a network.
spectrum.

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In some regions, like the US, free 5G spectrum is already In a mobile-led computing world, with a multi-access edge
becoming available. This is in the form of Citizens computing scenario, businesses will have the ability to
Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) . CRBS can be operated subscribe to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. In other words, they can
in three mechanisms: incumbent access users include get dedicated servers, or a platform or a hosted software
authorized federal users, space-to-earth satellites, service like they own it. Cleary, we can expect very strong
earth stations, etc., who then receive protection against partnerships between telecom companies, cloud providers
interference from the next two categories (Priority Access and technology providers. Just take a look at Amazon
Licensees, PAL and General Authorized Access or the GAA partnering with Verizon and Microsoft partnering with AT&T
users). Notably, 70 Mhz spectrum will be kept aside for PAL , for example. These joint offerings have the potential to
licenses while the remaining will be reserved for the GAA become very powerful, and could be an effective alternative
users. The spectrum under GAA is shared spectrum across to private 5G that are built and operated by the enterprises.
multiple users and therefore a network requiring guaranteed
QoS may not be built with a GAA spectrum. To ensure that there is demand for these joint offerings,
telecom companies will need to up their game. This

THE POTENTIAL OF PRIVATE 5G will entail partnering with enterprises that bring domain
expertise to address how to effectively onboard the vertical
The PAL also allows giants like Google, Facebook and other applications. Telecoms also must ensure network capacity
businesses with deep pockets and planet-sized goals to and quality keeps up with growing demand.
build their own 5G networks by buying spectrum in an
auction. The other outcomes of the current developments around
private 5G could be the increasing demand for Bring Your
The going price is going to be high, leaving incumbents Own Network (BYON). Businesses may want telecom
worried. companies to acquire the spectrum, so they can then build
their own private 5G network. The service provider could
Private 5G is also becoming a reality in many parts of then add maintenance and other value-added services to
Europe. Corporate licenses are being offered in Germany to its catalog for BYON customers through partnerships with
the 3.7-3.8GHz wireless spectrum. These are being used for traditional technology providers and system integrators.
factory automation use cases. For example, Audi and BMW
are experimenting with private 5G that connects automotive As we consider these possibilities, it’s clear we are at
components to network components. Telecommunications an exciting time where the convergence of licensed and
operators in the region are protesting, claiming it drives unlicensed access technologies will foster the evolution
up prices for public spectrum. However, Germany has of private networks, public networks and Wi-Fi 6 networks.
gone ahead, convinced that lowering the dependency on They will collaborate and compete to bring enormous
telecom operators will create unprecedented disruption benefits to the entire ecosystem.
and the inevitable may happen – a rise in networks that are
completely disconnected from the Internet and offer the
highest level of security. Time will tell how it plays out.

Meanwhile, telecom operators will, of course, offer 5G

networks that support a dedicated, secure network for
enterprises that need to offer exceptional customer
experience. Telecom companies are partnering with
cloud providers to provide edge computing and enabling
enterprise customers to host applications for their internal
and external customers. This will transform the way cloud-
based services are rendered to the enterprises and its
consumers.

Subhas Mondal
Wipro Fellow and Chief Architect
5G Initiative, Wipro

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