How 5G is Disrupting Cloud and Network Strategy Today

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A primary benefit envisaged of 5G networks is that latency (i.e. delay times for users) will be massively reduced. This would deliver major benefits for many applications providing that the software for those cloud-based applications is located near enough to the users at the edge of the network. This is likely to drive a massive change in the architecture of the cloud and the network industries. This report outlines likely scenarios and identifies some early moves that are starting to play out now.

Description

Format: PDF filePages: 26 pagesCharts: 10Author: Alexander HarrowellPublication Date: June 2015

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • 5G – cutting through the hype
  • A stronger definition: a collection of related technologies
  • The mother of all stretch targets
  • Latency: the X factor
  • Latency: the challenge of distance
  • The economic value of snappier networks
  • Only Half The Application Latency Comes from the Network
  • Disrupt the cloud
  • The cloud is the data centre
  • Have the biggest data centres stopped getting bigger?
  • Mobile Edge Computing: moving the servers to the people
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Regulatory and political impact: the Opportunity and the Threat
  • Telco-Cloud or Multi-Cloud?
  • 5G vs C-RAN
  • Shaping the 5G backhaul network
  • Gigabit WiFi: the bear may blow first
  • Distributed systems: it’s everyone’s future

Table of Figures

  • Figure 1: Latency = money in search
  • Figure 2: Latency = money in retailing
  • Figure 3: Latency = money in financial services
  • Figure 4: Networking accounts for 40-60 per cent of Facebook’s load times
  • Figure 5: A data centre module
  • Figure 6: Hyperscale data centre evolution, 1999-2015
  • Figure 7: Hyperscale data centre evolution 2. Power density
  • Figure 8: Only Facebook is pushing on with ever bigger data centres
  • Figure 9: Equinix – satisfied with 40k sq ft
  • Figure 10: ETSI architecture for Mobile Edge Computing

Technologies and industry terms referenced include: 5G, business, Cloud, Disruption, ETSI, future, GSMA, Innovation, MEC, model, network, Strategy, Telecoms