Guy Daniels, TelecomTV (00:04):
Hello and welcome to our new series on defining 6G Networks. I'm Guy Daniels and this is the launch program for our first report. What do vendors want from 6G? This is the first in a series of four reports plus a telecom TV panel discussion, and we're making all of this research freely available to our audience. You just need to be a registered viewer of telecom tv, and if you are not, go ahead and sign up now and be part of our community. Full details below this video. So what do we have in our first report? Well, we've focused on the recent 6G workshop event that was held by the 3G PPP in Korea. And if you want more background to this, there's a brief summary in our preview video. We have closely studied every single submission document to the workshop. There were well over 200 of them and we then divided them into three categories, vendors, operators, and what we are calling community.

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In other words, everyone else. So for the first report, we limited our analysis to the vendor submissions. Here are some stats for you. 36 vendors made written submissions to the workshop and these covered three distinct areas as per the workshop agenda overall, 6G vision views on the ran and views on the system architecture and core network. 77 papers submitted in total. And these covers shown here are just a tiny fraction of all the reports submitted. We summarized each one of them and identified some of their major themes and issues. In fact, you can read these summaries in the report. We have a comprehensive directory section where you can quickly see what each company was contributing. Yes, this is subjective obviously, but it's based on our knowledge of the industry dating back. It pains me to say all the way to the creation of GSM.

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We then created a far more detailed analysis of all these submissions, identifying common themes and areas where opinions differed. We looked at the overall 6G vision. We broke down our RAN coverage to look at spectrum air interfaces and ai, and we delved into the core network architecture and design. We also pulled out references to the lessons learned from the 5G standards process and there were quite a few. And at how implementation and deployment realities of 5G may shape 6G. We touched on use cases and a particular call out here to integrated sensing and communication, which featured in a surprisingly high number of submissions. And we looked at the likely implementation challenges from the complexity of the standardization process itself through migration issues and total cost of ownership considerations. Then we pulled it all together to see if there was an overall way forward, some degree of common ground between all the vendors.

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We're saving our final conclusions and outcomes until the last report of the series where we will focus on the next steps for the 3G PP, its members and the entire mobile ecosystem. Hopefully this has already persuaded you to download the report. Yes, this is just the start of the 6G standards process. Absolutely nothing has been agreed yet, but this is such an important first step. Everything that comes next will be judged against these initial submissions. Will 3GPP find consensus? I'm sure of it. Will everyone be happy? Not entirely, but there really is so much at stake. Operators absolutely do not want to repeat the 5G process as we will discover in our next report. And thankfully, their vendor partners appear to agree. And this is especially true about the split between standalone and nons standalone, but it also applies to the sheer amount of options that were baked into 5G.

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And if you want an early look at how 6G may eventually look at a very broad level, then try these. This is a good starting point. A number of submissions reference this ITU Vision graphic. Lots of usage scenarios, but we are seeing a more simplified approach now from many stakeholders and one that looks at 6G from more of a network angle. ZTE gets right to it, showing its motivation behind 6G, extending functions beyond communications and focusing on performance improvements and also lower total cost of ownership. Samsung and Cisco articulate this evolving view with these diagrams. Samsung puts AI and sustainability at the heart of the new architecture and Cisco doubles down on this with an end-to-end AI native system and a continual focus on energy savings. Ericsson illustrates its view on the core network and ran and the coexistence with 5G. We've seen many versions of this and how best to deal with different radio access technologies as well as the issue around New 6G core or evolved 5G core.

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And Xiaomi is one of several companies that identifies the need for a new architecture plane, a dedicated data plane to sit alongside the user plane and control plane. And finally, for now, Interdigital picks up on the spectrum support showing where they would like to see new spectrum made available. And the FR3 band is one that is regularly cited in these submissions. And perhaps not surprisingly, given the problems of millimeter wave interest in Terahertz has cooled considerably. So many great ideas and concepts. A lot of effort has been put into these submissions. So full credit to all those involved. Please go ahead and download our first report and do let me know your thoughts. Our next report focused on operators will be published in about a week's time. So until then, see you later. And goodbye for now.