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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 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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Femto Cells

A Femto Cell is traditionally considered to be a customer-owned base station. Typically situated in a house or small business, a Femto Cell, also referred to as a Small Cell, is able to provide targeted network coverage, which significantly ...
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21st February 2019
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V2X

Originally published on 12th February 2019. Some information may have changed since publication as a result of subsequent developments. We recommend checking the latest guidance where applicable. V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) aims to provide ...
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12th 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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5G is almost here…

Unlike previous generations it is predicted that 5G will transform the role that telecommunications technology has adopted over the years. There is an expectation that it will enable economic growth1 and facilitate further digitisation of what will ...
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25th November 2018

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