The term “5G” is rapidly coming into the focus of attention and the telecoms industry is on the way to defining a new set of standards for the 5G systems. Most of the early hype is mainly associated with the “bandwidth-thirst” of the Telecom ecosystem as we can understand from the pilot projects,...
In this part I present rest of the security considerations for 5G IOT on spectrum, security credentials, devices, services, business, user space and more. Once again, on purpose I do not discuss about global activities on 5G IOT and security.
5G is expected to bring several changes in mobile communications system but watch that these changes are not something that will happen couple of years down the road instead they are already happening. First flavor of 5G is expected to be available in 2018 with the complete solution available in...
During the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, 5G pilot service will be offered by means of 8-band CA that combines 8 100MHz carriers, supporting over 10Gbps on devices - more than 33 times faster than the current LTE's maximum 300Mbps.
On June 20th, SK Telecom unveiled its strategies for utilizing the frequencies in 2.6GHz that it acquired at the last auction, and for developing more evolved next-generation network.
On February 15th, with the MWC 2016 just one week away, KT, the official telecom operator of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, showed the world how much progress KT has made in getting 5G mobile networks and services ready for the event it calls "5G Olympics" where 5G trial services will be i...
First of all a Next-Generation Mobile Core (NGMC) should not be designed to support only the 5G Radio Access Network (5G RAN). Korea Telecom’s 5G strategy is for example clearly indicating that KT’s Trusted Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) should be interconnected to the same convergent core network.
Huawei’s “Application Dependent Networking” (ADN) is a severely flawed and totally unjustified idea in which a core network slice is spawned per application, whereas it is in the SGi LAN that per-application Service Chaining would be required.