HPE & Intel

5G-ready 4G networks make 5G a less expensive upgrade

Mar 21, 2017

Angela Whiteford, VP Product Management and Marketing, Affirmed Networks

Angela explains the advantages of Affirmed’s ‘5G-ready’ decomposed 4G network approach. Breaking the 4G network into pieces conceptually, she says, means you can have a centralised control plane and a distributed user plane. That means 5G-style things, like network slicing, can be in initiated in 4G so that time-critical applications can move to the edge to enhance latency.

FILMED AT: Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona

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