5G Cellular Networks May Rely on Cloud Computing
The coming 5G cellular networks may rely on telecom cloud computing to meet their full breadth of uses and super-fast data transfers with virtually no latency, said vendor executives in Dallas Tuesday at a Telecommunications Industry Association conference. The link…
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between 5G and the cloud will require carriers and other industries to work closely together, often using open-source software, they said. "We will have to bring a lot more computing power, processing power, to where the demand is" to get to the level of latency and throughput for which 5G is designed, said Pierre Mathys, a director at Red Hat. "It will require time, it will require an industry effort, because let's remember we are talking about the telco cloud, because the benefits are only realized where we are operating in an open context." Nokia Networks' Claudio Frascoli, head of sales-telco analytics, said 5G won't just be for the connected car, but many "use cases" that can't now be predicted. "The only thing we know is that we don't know." He mentioned the potential for surgery, among other real-time 5G applications.