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Moving to Cloud Native

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5G Americas President, Chris Pearson, talks about how the wireless industry is moving towards adopting cloud-native principles such as containerization, micro services, DevOps, control and user plane separation, service mesh, and continuous "everything" for toolchains.

Vodafone Launches 5G Service in New Zealand

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Vodafone New Zealand 5G Service Launch

Vodafone New Zealand has rolled out 5G service in parts of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown in 3.5GHz spectrum. To access 5G, Kiwis need a 5G device from Vodafone New Zealand or selected New Zealand retailers, a Vodafone 5G Ready plan and be in a 5G coverage area. 

BearingPoint/Beyond announces its Infonova Digital Business Platform is now 5G-ready

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New platform capabilities will enable Communication Service Providers to monetize 5G investments at scale, introducing new services and business models quickly and easily

Transformation of CSPs To Access And Service Agnostic Platformers

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Everyone who needed a connection is more or less having it

• The subscriber ownership would change as well with eSIM/vCPE

5G Front-Edge: Access Agnostic Front-Haul & Load Agnostic Edge

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Presentation from Day 2 of Layer123's SDN World Congress 2019 in The Hague, October 2019.

T-Mobile Launches Nationwide 5G Network in USA

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T-Mobile 5G Map

T-Mobile has rolled out 5G nationwide network, covering more than 200 million people and more than 5,000 cities and towns all across the country. 5G on 600 MHz spectrum goes far beyond the limitations of the carriers’ 5G. With clear 600 MHz spectrum reserved for 5G,

5G is now: Meeting the 5G NR testing challenges

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Take a look at where 5G New Radio is today, explore the unique challenges for test and measurement and discover innovative solutions with Rohde & Schwarz.

O2 and Ericsson Start Commercial 5G in UK

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Ericsson 5G RAN

UK Service Provider O2 has launched commercial 5G in several major cities enabled by Ericsson 5G Cloud Core and 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) products and solutions. O2's 5G networks have been switched on in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and Leeds, supporting commercially available O2 5G smartphones.

Nokia and Orange Polska Launch 5G Tests in Lublin

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5G

Nokia and Orange have started 5G testing in the city of Lublin, Poland, as part of the next stage of network trials in the country. Ten Nokia 5G base stations operate in the Ponikwoda, Tatary, Wieniawa and Śródmieście districts.     

T-Mobile Makes Standalone 5G Data Session on a Multi-Vendor Radio and Core Network

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T-Mobile 5G

T-Mobile USA has announced that the operator has made successful standalone end-to-end 5G data session on a multi-vendor 5G next-generation radio and core network, an important step in realizing the true potential of 5G.

Ericsson Demonstrates Live 5G at Google I/O 2019

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Ericsson 5G at Google I/O 2019

Ericsson brought live 5G network coverage for developers from around the world at the annual Google I/O event in Mountain View, California this week. Google had selected Ericsson as 5G infrastructure provider for this year’s developer conference, I/O 2019.

Verizon Starts Offering Commercial 5G Service for 5G-enabled Smartphones in Select Areas

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Verizon 5G Ultra

Verizon has turned on its 5G Ultra Wideband network in select areas of Minneapolis and Chicago last week. Verizon customers can access a commercial 5G network with the 5G-enabled smartphone, the moto z3 combined with 5G moto mod. 

5G NG-RAN and UE identifiers

in 5G, NG-RAN identifiers

- RAN UE NGAP ID: A RAN UE NGAP ID shall be allocated so as to uniquely identify the UE over the NG interface within an gNB. When an AMF receives an RAN UE NGAP ID it shall store it for the duration of the UE-associated logical NG-connection for this UE. Once known to an AMF this is included in all UE associated NGAP signalling.

E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC)

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E-UTRAN supports MR-DC via E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), also called MR-DC with EPC, in which a UE is connected to one eNB that acts as a MN and one en-gNB that acts as a SN. The eNB is connected to the EPC via the S1 interface and to the en-gNB via the X2 interface. The en-gNB might also be connected to the EPC via the S1-U interface and other en-gNBs via the X2-U interface.

Dual Connectivity (DC) and Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC)

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E-UTRAN supports Dual Connectivity (DC) operation whereby a multiple Rx/Tx UE in RRC_CONNECTED is configured to utilise radio resources provided by two distinct schedulers, located in two eNBs connected via a non-ideal backhaul over the X2 interface