Mobile Operators Talk 5G Timelines: Notes from our Microcast

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This episode included exclusive contributions from Telefonica’s Diego R López, Senior Technology Expert, CTIO’s office and Chair of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on NFV, and Strategy Analytics’ Sue Rudd, Director of Networks and Service Platforms. Diego said Telefonica has run experiments to illustrate how having a common data layer helps in containerizing, especially if you’re not able to make stateless functions small enough and independent from their location. Additionally, they’re beginning to explore whether the stateless approach will help to decompose or disaggregate functions so parts of them can be implemented in programmable data devices like the P4-capable chips. “For the services architecture, I think the real push will come from the fixed side over the next two years because that’s where the competitive pressure between cable and telecoms and the central office is, all of which desperately need to lower costs. And Diego also agreed with Sue, saying the holy grail for operators will be the idea that you can now make real mobile and fixed convergence that unifies the network.

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