The data is next electricity, it is going
to flow to all your appliances and in your surroundings . 5G is a technology,
which have the vision of sort, that it will address the networks in way, such
that those are going to handle enormous applications, which influence almost
every part of our life, same the way electricity does.
5G is not about a data connectivity only, it is about to
make data a utility, which going to lighten up every industry around, our
house holds, street, vehicles, transportation, health, education, and so and so….
The technology is continuously evolving and setting the
disruption to re-think and re-imagine our new challenges. We are ready today
with high performance computational power, giving us freedom of abstractions, and
we are there with virtualization of our ideas, or re-imagination of network architecture
or data centers.
Some of such achievements have come up with names, like Cloud
Computing, Software defined networking, Virtual network Functions, etc. These felicitations
for abstractions are going to help us, to create the infrastructure, in a way to
address our upcoming or foreseen challenges, and that is where gist of 5G lies.
For access of such infra, we need multiple types of medium
and techniques, and there is the requirement for a large scale convergence at
the access in terms of access infrastructure. Radio for wireless access is
being advancing with new spectrum, and even spectrum re-farming is underway. Also technology
is incorporating dynamic spectrum allocation for scarce spectrum. Industry has
focus on millimeter waves, above 24 GH spectrum, and also below 6 GH as for
Novel radio.
Bringing this to everywhere, in terms of everywhere connectivity
is something we talk about IOT, which is ,more a less, re-imagination of M2M or MTC kind of advancement
in telecom arena.
This all provide the capability to connect anywhere with a
required bandwidth, for data to communicate, and also with a kind of infrastructure, those are highly available and flexible to cater the fluctuated demand.
The new architecture will have salient advantages as for their
management, operation, and deployment etc.
The network will be provided as per the demand and
requirement of hosted application, they are in fact, defined by the application and
there would be end to end slices of the available infrastructures for the sake of hosting the application demand, in terms of capacity, latency, bandwidth, availability etc.
5G is about to explode with so many stuff being accumulated
and we are at the top of it. That’s a beginning of new era in terms of
connectivity everywhere.