Samsung, HPE, Openet demonstrate 5G standalone core
Summary
Samsung, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Openet have collaborated on a 5G Standalone (SA) Core demonstrating multivendor interoperability. The partners say the demonstration shows the power of taking a multi-vendor approach to providing a 5G SA Core and how it can enable network slicing with dynamic policy and charging rules. With this multi-vendor solution, Samsung’s 5G SA Core enables operators to select innovative network functions offered by numerous IT vendors. At this week’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Summit in Amsterdam, Vodafone called out Samsung as an outstanding vendor for 5G NR. Sprint also said this week that it is releasing an OpenRAN 5G NR request for information, with the results expected in the first quarter of 2020 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.