Archive for December 2017
The first formal 5G standard was approved in Lisbon this week. This is for the Non Stand Alone NSA 5G New Radio NR. This part of the standardisation was prioritised, following mobile operator and other industry pressure, to allow earlier large scale trials and commercial deployment of the new 5G RAN possibly as early as 2019.
Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, CTO Deutsche Telekom said “It is crucial that the industry now redoubles its focus on the Standalone mode to achieve progress towards a full 5G system, so we can bring key 5G innovations such as network slicing to our customers.” It is understood that the next key milestone that of Stand Alone SA specification providing new end to end 5G could be completed as early as June 2018.
You can see from the many smiling faces of the folks at standards RAN#78 in Lisbon pictured below that they are happy with their effort which their Chairman Balazs Bertenyi said was “an impressive achievement in a remarkably short time, with credit due particularly to the Working Groups”.
