5G is poised to revolutionize connectivity, providing a programmable, intelligent connection between users and cloud services as well as a seamless, ubiquitous and personalized experience across different environments and devices. With one network for all use cases required by the Big Data explosion, from home to enterprise environments, 5G promises to connect tens of billions of devices that are always online, each with their own slice of the network, dynamically established to provide a dedicated profile of priority, security, speed, and latency.
To realize the convergence of cloud and telecommunications services, the 5G rollout requires significant infrastructure changes to the existing network, both for New Radio (NR) access and backhaul as well as in the core, to bridge wireless and wired networking. Changes include more, smarter radio-frequency (RF) devices to increase network coverage and capacity; more intelligence on demand in the network; and localization of functions in the cloud or at the edge, according to the required level of network service.