This is perfectly captured. So true. Though most of them know some one have not put it for publishing. It is nice that Netmanias have done it.

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Very well written and excellent article highlighting the issue of back-haul explosion. MEC will surely free the backhaul from Operator's Intranet, but the 5th generation of traffic, which would be Internet of Many-Many-Things, would also mean that other parties need to run their applications on virtualised servers. For example, even if the Operator manages to terminate the 'Smart Power' traffic at RAN, it still needs to be routed to a remote server located in the grid's premises, unless the utility company decides to go cloud.

This boils down to a very fundamental question - what would motivate others to match the fast moving wireless evolution? For a utility company, it would bring efficiency in energy distribution, but does such incentive exists for all? Or, will the telco define a common cloud architecture to facilitate every partner’s application? Much to think and much more to be standardised in this fast developing space…..

Good summary

Have to agree, well written article

Fronthaul and backhaul explosions requirements for 5g makes current 4g just a small begining of a larger global connected world....

Very well explained , it's a delight to read such a document . I always love reading Netmania's stuff as these guys are so good in presenting and explaining the things and most importantly are doing a Great and good job of spreading knowledge with timely latest updates and in an authentic way.

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Very Interesting and updated blog on 5G networks architecture. Thank you for sharing.

Migration from current networks infrastructures to 5G needs to be carefully studied and detail the migration plans in taking into consideration minimization of major hardware replacement and impacting network serviceability.

Nice Article!!! Very Much informative for engineers who want to excell in Telecommunciation field!!!

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Nice ! Successfull commercial implementation hurdle will hinge on fronthaul and backhaul advancement and if the C-RAN is going to be distributed or centralized. Distributed C-RAN with NFV will be the way forward.

Excellent article! This explosion will certainly be more critical in wide area countries like Brazil!

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Really Most of my basic concepts cleared by Netmanias .. Thanks for that . Really wonderful content.

Great document indeed. Can you please show the calculations as to how you arrived at the following two statements? (1) "Each RRH has two antennas (2T2R) and has LTE channel bandwidth (BW) of 20MHz. So, the capacity of CPRI interface is 2.45Gbps.", and (2) "For example, if BW is 20MHz and an RRH has 16 antennas, then 19.66Gbps of CPRI capacity is required between BBU and the RRH."?

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