Vamsi Chemitiganti

Last week, we had a great MWC in Barcelona. The key focus was how 5G enables highly immersive experiences for various industrial and consumer use cases.

I will be attending the Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona from February 27 to March 4. MWC Barcelona is the world’s most influential event for the connectivity industry.

For most production deployments, the 5G core should be deployed on a hyperscale cloud provider. This is to ensure scalability and dynamic orchestration of network resources over an infinitely scalable base. This blog post covers the key reasons to do so.

This post discusses the first 5G architecture pattern – where both the 5G Core and the Radio Access Network (RAN) are deployed on the cloud.

Before we dive into the 5 main solution architecture patterns for 5G deployments, let us discuss the key considerations and domains involved in creating an architecture than can accommodate 

This post describes a model for the same, albeit one for AWS. It is to be noted that a 5G deployment will need the support of NEP (Network Equipment Provider) ISVs such as Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung et al. Fortunately all of these leading vendors provide functions that support some variant of the below model.

This post and the next one discuss the next generation of tools for telco service update, we first cover IaC (Infrastructure as code) tools to deploy end-to-end networks

While Network Slicing is undoubtedly key in enabling operators to monetize 5G, the principles of DevOps as applied to network slicing and NF updates are key in helping achieve a competitive edge. 

I would like to round-out 2021 with a final post on a reference architecture that I have been driving towards all year. This post brings together several themes we have covered since 2019 – on the suitability of Kubernetes as a foundation for Telco 5G workloads.