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Below you will find a selection of our latest blog posts that are designed to give you an insight into trending topics and general mobile technology concepts.
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5G Architecture

This blog has been updated and the new article can be found here. With the advent of a new cellular technology comes the realization that for many mobile network engineers, a whole raft of new acronyms and concepts will have to be learned. 5G is no ...
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21st February 2020
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Private 5G Networks

There is an updated version of this blog available here: Private 5G Networks: Where Things Stand in 2026 Private 5G networks are a topical area at the moment, no doubt fuelled by the successes of LTE in private network deployments. This is ...
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3rd January 2020
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10 Challenges for 5G

5G is here and depending on where you are in the world, it’s potentially been with you for some time now. For the majority of mobile service providers however, the journey has only just begun or may not even be on the horizon. Challenges for 5G ...
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20th December 2019
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5G ATSSS

In LTE, the capability to utilize both 3GPP and Non-3GPP access networks has been there from the early days of the technology. As LTE matured, so too did the techniques available for manipulating how data should be split and transferred over each ...
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27th September 2019
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5G V2X and Autonomous Vehicles

Future vehicles will not only be connected, they will also be autonomous. These connected and autonomous vehicles will need an ecosystem capable of supporting new workloads and meeting real-time demands. This ecosystem will include not just the ...
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13th September 2019

MEC and 5G

If the media driven hype around 5G is anything to go by, it’s going to be a matter of time before we’ll be queuing up to have hair transplants performed by a remote surgeon (at least I will be anyway), or having pizza delivered by a 5G connected ...
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8th July 2019
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Delivering 5G Voice Services - Part 1

As Standalone 5G deployment continues at a relatively slow pace, a key aspect of the network which must be addressed is the notion of voice services and 5G, termed VoNR (Voice over New Radio). Before 5G, voice was essentially delivered via the CS ...
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25th February 2019
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What is VoWi-Fi?

The term VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi) can be used to describe a number of scenarios in which a telephony service is supported using the wireless technology Wi-Fi. Examples could include using the applications Skype or FaceTime on a mobile or tablet ...
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21st February 2019
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Background to NSA

In terms of initial deployments for 5G networks, the general consensus in the mobile telecoms industry was that standards-compliant 5G networks were expected to be deployed by around 2020. However, for many in the industry 2020 wasn’t early enough; ...
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29th November 2018
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