LSC-Large scale convergence, a 5G way- By Saurabh Verma, Fundarc Communication.

LARGE SCALE CONVERGENCE - 5G WAY.

MEC, Mobile Edge computing, is the kingpin of ‘Large scale convergence’. As the five fingers in a palm are not same, and not need to be, so there are different technological requirement to provide a complete hand to the connectivity systems. This actually embarks upon the need for the convergence at the access network.
This convergence not only going to cater multiple technologies but various aspects of application demands, those are unique to each application, in terms of performance, business model, revenue, mission critical, customer satisfaction, customer retention and many more which define it for the large scale convergence (LSC).
This LSC will be contingent upon Mobile edge computing i.e. MEC in short. This is because of the ‘large scale’ requirements , which need to be catered in flexible, scale able  and well defined way and that is also the way the MEC itself will be defined. Therefore both are mutually inclusive things and also most of the application delivery and operational logic will move to the edge.

There are many radio access technologies are emerging under the 5G standardization, or standardization of technologies towards 5G, mostly like NR-New Radio, mmWave, Wi-Fi, LTE, LTE-A, LTE-U, MuLTEFire, massive MIMO, LAA, LWA, LWP .

Each technological approach has its own way of addressing the challenges and also its limitations and constrains. Therefore for the application we have to be selective in terms of technology, infrastructures and operational requirements. That is about -- We need to take holistic approach for deploying and delivering the application, A complete end to end vision and  A top to bottom approach. That is where the concept of 'Network Slicing looms out.

more on NS tobe later.......but the zist is --

This ‘Large scale convergence’ will be contingent upon MEC and this will facilitate the network slicing for better application or service deployment and delivery in cost effective or business ready manner.

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Path to 5G, CRAN Field trial from tear-1 operator--Case Study brought by EXFO.

C ran-field-trail-exfo cstudy060-v2_en from Saurabh Verma

WiFi & LTE convergence at network level using 3GPP LIMONET standards

A descriptive Note on conceptualizing 5G and its enabler technologies

5G is there for discussion among techno guru's and technology evangelist in every next upcoming forums and expositions. It remained to be so for the time to come and industry to formulate standards and requirements. As 5G is not about a next phase of 4G, though the advancement on 4G is being termed as 4G pro, 4.5G .....4.9G and subsequently moving to 5G. The picture for 5G is still looming and would take time to emerge with its shades and color's.

Since the discussion is on, just want to revise through my comprehensive writes through my white paper at HCL technology with all relevant insight on 5G.

There is more about 5G in a descriptive note on conceptualization and enabler technologies from HCL Technologies (Authored by Saurabh Verma, follow him https://in.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-verma-50001817)

Whitepaper tipping the_scale_for_5g from Saurabh Verma