BBWF Your Role in 5G: What it means for you

BBWF Your Role in 5G: What it means for you

September 3, 2018

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Via Broadband World Forum - 3 September 2018 - Trying to digest the vast amounts of information related to 5G is like drinking from a fire hydrant, which is why we've created this report ahead of Broadband World Forum 2018. In this report, Adrian Pennington asks is 5G the Holy Grail for operators it seems to be and what will its impact be on different types of operator.

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Throughout the report, Cartesian's Principal, Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos, shares his thoughts on 5G and its potential impact. Including:

On the role of a fixed-line operator in providing backhaul to small cells:

Having infrastructure in proximity to future small cell demand creates a competitive advantage that allows fixed operators to serve these small cells very economically.

On fixed-mobile convergence:

Converged operators will be able to use their combined assets to a greater extent to serve customers end to end. This will allow them to invest more into their platforms, putting more emphasis on the quality of their services, making them more flexible, more agile, allow more innovation and a faster time-to-market.

On mobile broadband and mobile operators:

Mobile operators have the opportunity to offer a managed end-to-end, customer broadband experience that is seamless inside and outside the home. They can leverage the NFV platforms they've been building and extend network functions to include wireline ones, allow for flexible service design and faster time to market. On the enterprise side, there is even greater opportunity

Read more insight in the 26-page report.

> Download the report from the BBWF

LINK:	https://www.cartesian.com/bbwf-your-role-in-5g-what-it-means-for-you/...
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