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5G is the fifth-generation cellular network, as formally defined by global standards agencies. Since 1980, we have witnessed the arrival of a new generation about almost every 10 years.<\/p>\n
It all started with 1G when the cell phones were as large as bricks and holding them for long would cause strain on the arms. They used to only provide voice communications. Wider cell phone coverage and the new Messaging service came with 2G and then with 3G, mobile phones started getting connected to the internet with slow and limited bandwidth.<\/p>\n
Seeing the value delivery potentials with mobile internet connectivity, the low speed of mobile internet data transfer, and the many lacking features of available phones started to become a pain point for the businesses and the race for higher connection speeds and the new generation of \u201csmart\u201d phones began.<\/p>\n
Around 2009, we saw the arrival of 4G (or as some telcos would call it LTE [Long Term Evolution]), which significantly improved the internet connectivity. Mobile phones started ramping up their competition in adding capabilities, processing power, and storage, turning themselves into what we call them today as \u201cSmart Phones\u201d.<\/p>\n
Features like video calls, multimedia streaming, live video streaming, on-phone graphic processing, and rendering became possible and the competition for stronger and faster smartphones entered a new stage.<\/p>\n
This competition also started kicking a number of other carried devices to the curb, including digital cameras, MP3 players, personal organizers, voice recorders, and even larger devices like desktop scanners, video players, and video game consoles.<\/p>\n
As the demand for more mobile features and capabilities expanded both at the consumer and commercial level, the need for data communications at a much higher speed created the push for the innovations needed to pave the road for the arrival of the latest generation: 5G.<\/p>\n
The world is now embracing 5G and its multitude of use cases are growing in almost every market sector and function, while the 6G is already in the works and is going through the lab phase.<\/p>\n
Compared to 4G\/LTE, 5G provides much higher speed \u2013 estimated as having 10X less latency<\/strong>, 100X faster speed<\/strong>, and 1000X more capacity<\/strong> – using lower latency and uses higher-frequency radio waves and works with smaller, more closely distributed wireless access points instead of large, dispersed cell towers.<\/p>\n 5G allows for higher concurrent connectivity and significantly higher download speeds with unprecedented consistency levels that would allow for Big Data live streaming<\/strong> and on-the-go analytics<\/strong> on them. The speed and capacity of 5G allow for mobile augmented reality<\/strong> (overlaying virtual visual items over a live view of the world).<\/p>\n 5G uses shorter range radio waves, which allow the cell towers to significantly improve geolocation tracking with numerous industrial use cases of IoT devices (e.g., in-field Robotics, Agriculture automation, Drone services, Connected Vehicles, Remote Healthcare, Traffic management, and more). This is only going to grow larger as research shows that by 2023 the number of connected IoT devices would surpass 20 billion.<\/p>\n It is also predicted that the 1 million global 5G subscribers that existed in 2019 will grow beyond 1 billion by end of 2023.<\/p>\n 4G\/LTE enabled a mobile ecosystem of around $4 trillion in new economic value, and we foresee 5G to break that record by 2.5x within the next 5 years.<\/p>\n 5G networks rely on smaller, yet more densely-deployed, antennae, most attached not to giant cell towers but to existing buildings, light poles, and other physical infrastructure. This densifying of the network, allows the signals to be carried faster and more reliably, with bandwidth measured not in megabits but rather in\u00a0gigabits\u00a0per second.<\/p>\n This unprecedented high level of connectivity in speed, density, and capacity will forever shift all existing telecom architectural designs and will create sectors that did not exist before or could not manifest using 4G\/LTE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudification is the process of migrating existing platforms and solutions to a Cloud service provider\u2019s environment to benefit from their global, low-latency, high availability, elastic service capacity and to gain access to their large inventory of ready tools and services covering a wide range of functions, from big data streaming and analytics to Machine Learning.<\/p>\n Cloud services provide the required globally distributed infrastructure and network at a much higher speed of provisioning for a fraction of the cost of ownership that enterprises would incur if they tried to expand their data centers worldwide.<\/p>\n They have revolutionised the way enterprises do innovations by significantly lowering the cost and time barrier for experimentations and enabling teams to set up labs and test their hypothesis in a matter of minutes, record the outcomes and then release the resources that are no longer required back to the Cloud provider and off of their bills.<\/p>\n In fact, the speed at which new data is being created and the sheer volume of it would have completely paralysed enterprises if they did not have access to Cloud data communications bandwidth and big data storage for such low prices.<\/p>\n Two-thirds of the world\u2019s data didn\u2019t exist five years ago, and it is estimated that more than 70 exabytes of data will be generated by 2022 (One exabyte is the equivalent of one billion gigabytes) that is why it is estimated that the investment in Cloudification will surpass $270 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n Cloudification brings several key technological benefits to a network, including:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudification of 5G networks is already underway and has already shown great benefits from orchestrating a scalable, secure, low-latency, globally accessible, software-driven network.<\/p>\n It is predicted that the industry digitalization investment in 5G will exceed $700 billion by 2030 supported by several market sectors, including Retail, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Automotive, Public Transportation, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities, Finance, Media & Entertainment, and Public Safety.<\/p>\n Data usage at a global level is expected to become 10x by 2025 as consumers see value in 5G use cases and will be willing to pay for it.<\/p>\n 5G-powered industrial use cases are expanding and have already engaged in:<\/strong><\/p>\n Cloudification of 5G networks leads to:<\/strong><\/p>\n Cloudification of 5g networks addresses these challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the past 10 years, many Telco\u2019s started moving some of their infrastructures and applications to the Cloud, but it has been only the past couple of years when they partnered with Cloud service providers in establishing integrated 5G solutions on Cloud.<\/p>\n This had led to the creation of Software-Centric infrastructures<\/strong> and\u00a0Developer-Friendly Ecosystems<\/strong> to make innovative 5G applications and to help other industries and verticals to leverage the power of 5G and the Cloud to disrupt their own sectors.<\/p>\n A great advantage of this approach is that it allows developers to use the same programming tools and development environments and even the same APIs to create solutions for the 5G network and Cloud environment. It also allows the consumers of 5G services to customize their network experience on-demand.<\/p>\n This movement has contributed to a leaner product portfolio, higher organizational agility, increased cost efficiency, and the formation of modern, Cloud-Native architectures established on elastic agile IT models.<\/p>\n The Cloud-Native 5G<\/strong> allows for the creation of Slices<\/strong>, which lets organizations have their own Private 5G Networks<\/strong>. This is a new architectural model that was not possible through 4G\/LTE.<\/p>\n This also brings the Cloud\u2019s Service Elasticity <\/strong>to 5G. That is the ability to allocate more computing, storage, and networking capacity as demands go up and to reduce it down when the demand drops, and through that to maintain the best customer experience with the most optimized costing.<\/p>\n This also opens the door to getting access to the wealth of tools and capabilities of the Cloud services, including live big data streaming, analytics, machine learning, and more.<\/p>\n Cloud and 5G have created a solution for establishing Global, Secure, Low-Latency, Scalable Software-Driven Telecommunication networks for a fraction of the cost of traditional deployments that simplify service provisioning and allow the Telecom enterprises to better focus on customer experience.<\/p>\n Another growing use of Cloudified 5G Networks is Edge Processing<\/strong> in the Next Generation Robotics<\/strong>. The spike in demand for live connectivity and high bandwidth required for robots in the field, to allow for Edge Processing and communicating of live data back to the organization, has been growing the need for low-latency network connectivity to strong analytical engines and AI-based solutions which require an integration of the Telecom networks and Cloud service providers.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the past couple of years, we have seen a great push for Democratizing Augmented-Intelligence (\u201cSmart Everything Everywhere\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n Studies predict that by 2030 the combined impact of Cloudified 5G and AI will amplify their impact beyond an acceleration expected from either of them.<\/p>\n The massive growth of data is now matched by the extensive power of Cloud, which can provide the large live feed that AI systems require to provide several uses cases, such as:<\/p>\n Cloudified 5G accelerates AI deployments by Distributing Intelligence<\/strong> (Geo-Dispersed Smartification<\/strong>) across every existing \u2013 or upcoming innovative \u2013 user experience in every value delivery pipeline.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The current trends and forecast of its growth are predicting that by 2025, Cloudified 5G and AI will improve world GDP by over $3 trillion through reducing waste, lowering production costs, and optimizing outputs.<\/p>\n It is expected to see accelerated growth in all areas touched in the short-term moving to a much higher global economic impact (exceeding $18 trillion by 2035).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the time of writing this article, Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/strong> is leading the charge in Cloudification of 5G while the other providers are in a variety of stages of catching up with the needed depth and breadth of needed technology.<\/p>\n AWS provides the needed infrastructure and tool for incorporating 5G technology in a variety of use cases and provides a large set of solutions to support them.<\/p>\n AWS has been working closely with a growing list of telecommunications and Digital Media Service Providers in many countries since the inception of 5G. Some of the most prominent partners with AWS are:<\/p>\n AWS has also established a close working relationship with Ghost Robotics<\/strong>, a manufacturer of durable, continuous use, highly rugged, yet easy to deploy legged robots and is expanding its presence into field operationalized Robotics where sensory and analytical data needs to be in continuous bi-directional flow to support Edge, IoT and live cloud-based AI-enhanced analytical support.<\/p>\n AWS has introduced the use of the Graviton2<\/strong> processors which are built for compute-intensive applications and can deliver high performance and lower power consumption (40% better pricing performance compared to traditional x86 CPUs). They provide the best-in-class computing units for 5G applications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fortunate arrival of 5G at a time when Cloud computing was already a wide-spread practice in both private and public sectors created a combined paradigm-shifting force that is now ramping up towards a complete revolution in our existing connectivity models and is accelerating toward innovative ways that we are yet to envision and implement.<\/p>\n The 5G is here to lift and launch all ideas that 4G\/LTE could not embody due to its limited speed and capacity and to shorten the cycle of creativity and monetization of ideas.<\/p>\n All industries and their sectors are either already affected or are going to see positive impacts from the next generation of connectivity. Whether these impacts would properly align towards equal opportunities and facilitation among all nations will yet to unfold into the future.<\/p>\n The world as we used to know merely a couple of years ago will go through such significant changes in this decade that would make us wonder how we used to live and work with such old and slow ways of communication, in a world that lacked such strong smart automation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Article written by Arman Kamran, CTO of Prima Recon, Professor of Transformative Technologies, Advisory Board Member to The Harvard Business Review, and Enterprise Transition Expert in Scaled Agile Digital Transformation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5G is the fifth-generation cellular network, as formally defined by global standards agencies. Since 1980, we have witnessed the arrival of a new generation about almost every 10 years. It all started with 1G when the cell phones were as large as bricks and holding them for long would cause strain on the arms. They…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":23801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3352,3490,3480,2],"tags":[301,70,448,67,85],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is Cloudification?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloudified 5G<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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