Industries
Explore New Uses for 5G
New 5G Americas White Paper Analyzes
Benefits and Challenges of 5G Network Deployments
for Enterprises in Specific Industry Verticals
With global 5G networks providing new
enhanced technical capabilities serving over 429 million connections, modern
industries are examining how 5G wireless cellular connectivity impacts their
businesses. 5G Americas, the voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas
announced the publication of a new white paper entitled “5G Vertical Use Cases,” which provides a deep
dive on the benefits, opportunities, and requirements for enterprise adoption
of 5G.
Said Chris
Pearson, President of 5G Americas, “The 5G architecture allows for innovation.
In 2021, the world approaches 200 5G networks and millions of connected 5G
devices, entities are thinking hard about what the faster data rates, lower
latency, and precision management of connected sensors and devices will do for
– and to – their businesses.”
“5G Vertical Use Cases” is the second white paper
5G Americas has produced this year relating to 5G in the enterprise, serving as
a companion piece to “Private and Enterprise
Networks” published in August 2021. Where the previous 5G Americas
white paper focused on network operating models and architectures, as well as
tools for enterprise private network deployment, “5G
Vertical Use Cases” explains the benefits and requirements that are
specific to certain industry verticals.
The new
5G Vertical Use Cases white paper identifies how 5G offers numerous
innovations, which make it very different from 4G LTE. These innovations
include higher speed and enhanced connectivity through new spectrum, dedicated
resource management with network slicing, highly reliable communication for
latencies less than 10 milliseconds, improved security, a distributed packet
core that spreads core network functions to the network edge, and flexible
service creation and deployment with Service-Based Architecture (SBA).
Additionally,
the white paper clarifies the different factors that all decision-makers should
consider, irrespective of industry, including availability of spectrum,
intended use of spectrum or “spectral determinism”, area of coverage over
corporate buildings, cybersecurity needs, connectivity availability and
reliability requirements, data sovereignty issues, ease-of-use, and liability,
responsibility, and ownership of network assets.
“5G Vertical Use Cases” looks at specific use cases
in the following key industries:
- Manufacturing - perhaps the most
opportunistic and demanding industry for wireless enhancements which 5G
promises to fulfill.
- Mining – which has been using 4G
LTE technology for several years, offering numerous key lessons.
- Utilities - a huge emerging sector
where 4G LTE and 5G technologies can provide benefits at a tremendous
scale.
- Healthcare and Education – which offer immediate
returns for better wireless connectivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Gaming – which can take advantage
of unique aspects of technology such as Multi-Access Edge Compute and
AR/VR.
“5G
technology has opened the doors to a new era of improved, faster network
performance, making innovative connected experiences possible and meeting many
of the current and future needs of businesses across industries,” said Azita
Kia, Sr. Product Manager of Mobility at Cisco, and project lead author and
editor of the white paper. “The 5G wireless ecosystem as a whole continues to
progress as this next generation of connectivity paves the way for new use
cases, applications, and vertical markets.”
Source: 5G America media announcement
