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5G technology: Speed not its only revolutionary feature
5G is coming soon to various parts of the world to power your connectivity through your wireless devices. With its groundbreaking speed of around 10Gbps, which is about a 20 fold increase from its preceding 4th generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, it will enhance the whole experience of how you communicate with the internet and people connected to it. Such high speeds will improve use of connected devices and intra-communication amongst them, video and game streaming, data processing to reach decisions and send signals in real-time, and some more of such capabilities. However, the speed of 5G isn’t its only groundbreaking selling factor.
Network Programmability & the opening up of the 5G platform to APIs
Communication service providers (CSPs) have a massive opportunity to spawn new business models with the advent of 5G. There will be new purpose to the network for any CSP. It will seize to be just a conglomerate of connectivity infrastructure. Instead, the network will take new meaning as a programmable platform that can be used by stakeholders external not only to the CSP itself but also the telecom industry. Programmability here includes the ability to abstract, encapsulate and expose internal capabilities and accept a set of instructions via APIs, and…
