Convergencia IP, clave para el éxito de la 5G

IP Convergence, the key to successful 5G

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5G networks are now being deployed even within private networks. This can be seen in the report “Private 5G here and now“, a survey among IT directors and high-ranking executives. The report shows great interest in these networks and a trend towards 5G networks becoming a business standard. In light of this boom, today, we will focus on explaining how 5G and cloud services will operate over a convergent IP/Optical infrastructure. We will also look at how these services are automating the web. Let’s get started!

Network automation will be “indispensable.”

Most companies have adopted cloud services, and their potential for further growth remains very strong. Growth includes more terminals for cloud services and additional bandwidth for each service. The cloud makes it possible to access services anywhere, which provides greater flexibility.

Because critical services have migrated to a cloud model, the underlying bandwidth performance requirements have increased. Therefore, communication services providers need enhanced visibility of network services performance to satisfy stricter latency specifications.

In addition to automating the network, 5G services are also catalyzing network visibility. 5G is potentiating the need for a massive volume of high bandwidth IP/Optical terminals. Strict latency specifications and improved network visibility are more intensive in the 5G era. 5G and cloud services will operate over an IP/Optical convergent infrastructure.

Because the 5G network requires substantial bandwidth, services providers need better network administration, visibility, and automation. Providers are evolving from a manual, human-operated era to an era of automatic assistance that will ultimately derive in full automation. The challenge for providers is to operate efficiently in a quickly scalable environment.

Future network administration solutions need to align with the broader vision held by communications services providers.

Future network administration solutions need to align with the broader vision held by communication services providers, including:

  • Accelerating revenue streams and taking control over operational costs.
  • Implementing a real integration of multiple-layer network administration.
  • Evolving from reactive network management to a more predictive way of working.
  • Progressing towards the ultimate goal: closed-loop automation.
  • Evolve towards an optimal status of network efficiency.

Abandoning manual processes requires network automation solutions

The administration of multiple vendors and next-generation IP/Optical networks is based on three fundamental areas to abandon manual methods and adopt data-based automated operations:

  • Have more data on the network’s historically opaque optical layer performance.
  • Open APIs that provide a common language for successful communication among multiple layers and providers.
  • An increasingly practical group of applications that use interworking between layers 0 and 3.

There is no question that the successful deployment of 5G technology requires a reliable and scalable network to benefit from the opportunities of this next chapter in digital innovation.

At NGIN Services, we have administration and comprehensive network automation solutions that communication services providers need to have robust tools and infrastructure to provide better services. Contact us and learn more about our value proposal and technological focus.