Intel’s 5G Wireless Technology Influences Telecom’s Future

The event-driven networking and capabilities of 5G wireless technology hold the promise for telecom’s future. Like any other technology, this will depend on how the two technologies advance, 5G wireless and event-driven networking intersect the problem-and-opportunity space.

Erasing the differences between wireline and wireless networking is a big part of 5G which enables it to accommodate the exploding mobility of network users. Of all the 5G elements, the 5G New Radio specifications are advancing the fastest. The millimeter-wave applications of 5G are at the head of the group as a replacement for traditional copper loop in fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployments and many operators are already committed to 5G-FTTN hybrid deployments in 2018. Eventually, 5G wireless technology will become a critical component in what will probably still be called wireline broadband.

The next mission for 5G will be supporting IoT, and will be complicated because it’s more than providing simple support for many wireless devices.Security is perhaps the key technical problem. Network slicing, a specific feature of 5G, would provide a way to separate sensor-control networks from other wireless users which will be a giant step in providing security for IoT.

Apart from this, 5G wireless technology must also align cost and business use cases before its benefits, including faster speeds and shared wired and wireless infrastructure uses, can seem worthwhile.To phase out older components and make the transition financially feasible, the breathtaking scope of 5G will have to wait for the orderly evolution of infrastructure. Brand leaders like Intel are working on ensuring that 5G drives the next big change in wireless technology, and even the other emerging technologies like IoT and enabled to take the proverbial big leap forward. Know more here.