Nokia said it will make the first ever demonstration of a 5G network running on commercial platforms as part of its showcase at 5G World, which runs from June 29-30 at the Olympia Conference & Exhibition Centre in London. Nokia will show AirScale working together with its Cloud Packet Core, running on a Nokia AirFrame data centre platform.
Via product and technology demonstrations as well as keynote sessions, Nokia will explain how it is accelerating the development and standardisation of 5G and providing the technological means for operators to prepare their networks.
Nokia said full 5G services are expected to go live by 2020, enabling unprecedented levels of coverage and capacity as well as increases in speeds, enhanced energy efficiency and reductions in latency. 5G networks will provide ubiquitous connectivity for the 46 billion connected devices that Bell Labs Consulting estimates will be in use, it said. The include autonomous cars, industrial automation and remote robotics, smart cities and personal healthcare.
Nokia Bell Labs will demonstrate a new concept in Network Slicing, which will create and automatically map capabilities for the radio, transport, core and application layers into a discrete network slice.
Using cloud orchestration, new services can be created instantly and delivered to meet the specific and diverse demands of any customer or application, such as providing low-latency support to control machines in a factory, or providing extreme high-speed broadband to enterprises and homes.
