The art of timing is everything in innovation. For ideas that arrive far ahead of market maturity, innovation becomes a game of patience and perseverance – as these insights from early Ericsson Technology Review articles demonstrate.
Successful execution of a new business use case in the digital economy requires the ability to consistently deliver a good user experience. This, in turn, requires the ability to prove that the service delivered in the value chain is in line with the service and application characteristics agreed between all of the stakeholders. Service quality monitoring is a key capability to make such assessments.
Solutions that provide observability for cloud-native telecom applications must be able to handle the dynamic, decoupled and highly distributed nature of telecommunication application components in the cloud-native environment. This requires new approaches to collecting, storing and processing telemetry data using and advancing the de facto standard technologies from the cloud-native open-source ecosystem.
The 6G platform will enable communication service providers to take a major step toward delivering more than best-effort communication. By enabling fast and easy introduction of new exposed services, 6G will be a powerful platform for developers to realize advanced use cases such as immersive communication.
In the future, when most devices are served by the 5G Core network, communication service providers will need an efficient way to manage legacy devices. Ericsson's approach simplifies the network architecture and harmonizes the service offering by creating a hybrid core network that can support legacy 4G and 5G non-standalone devices alongside 5G standalone devices.
Communication service providers are keen to reduce energy consumption, enhance performance and reduce the need for large system configurations and power supplies in mobile core networks. To introduce the necessary application knowledge, we have developed a shim layer that can intercept and configure the relevant energy-saving mechanisms in the cloud environment.
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Intent-based autonomous networks entail new capabilities and interaction schemes that impact the use, exposure and management of services. Our goal is to help communication service providers seize the opportunities that service management evolution presents without the risk of disrupting earlier investments and critical business processes.
Mobile broadband is the most popular means of internet access for billions of people worldwide. Its breakthrough is the result of several innovations: from the early development of mobile networks in the 1980s, the rapid uptake of internet in the 1990s, and the advances of devices in the 2000s. The move to mobile data and a new app economy secured the unprecedented rise of MBB services throughout the 2010s.
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Intelligent automation using rApps has the potential to revolutionize the world of network management and orchestration. augmenting or replacing existing manual processes in order to improve network performance and reduce costs.
Co-packaged optics is an emerging technology with the potential to play a key role in 6G radio-access networks, due to its ability to enable high capacity at low energy consumption. Creating a version of the technology that is suitable for radio applications will, however, require some dedicated development to address network characteristics.
To ease the adoption of 5G technology in industrial applicotions. Ericsson is exploring the use of tools and processes that are well known in the operational technology industry. Our research shows that the Asset Administration Shell is a tool with great potential to deliver seamless 5G network integration.
The availability of discrete, attractive and high-performing extended reality (XR) devices is key to the mass-market success of XR applications, and the process of creating them is well underway. Device developers are working intensively to evolve the device form factor from today's bulky head-mounted displays (HMDs) to lightweight and stylish glasses that will depend on computation offloading to a much greater extent.
As consumer expectations continue to rise and networks grow ever more complex, communication service providers (CSPs) around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the need for intent-based autonomous networks that significantly reduce the need for human intervention.
Massive MIMO is a key 5G technology that is used in most mid-band time-division duplex (TDD) deployments to achieve better coverage, higher user bitrates and increased network capacity [1].
6G research is well underway both in the telecom industry and in academia, targeting commercial deployment of the technology around 2030. Based on the substantial work done so far, the industry has the opportunity to agree on some key architecture principles.
Enhanced capabilities in terms of both functionality and deployment will be essential for mobile networks to provide a good user experience for extended reality (XR) applications while continuing to deliver high-quality mobile broadband (MBB) and voice services.
As the rate of adoption of mobile communication technology around the world continues to rise, the goal of using it to provide seamless global coverage to anyone, anywhere, at any time has become increasingly important. This has led to major advances in both terrestrial and non-terrestrial satellite networking technology.
An always-up-to-date software (SW) base will be a huge advantage for communication service providers (CSPs) by making it possible to rapidly introduce new features and updates that open up new business opportunities, improve efficiency and proactively address security threats. To make it happen, greater automation of SW delivery and operational processes will be essential.
