It can be said at present there is no specific technical topics 5G Hotter. This is the nearest Mobile World Congress A theme, and it has occupied a dominant position in other activities, such as Enterprise Connect and I attended almost all vendor activities.
Some suppliers 5G will be positioned as a panacea to solve all network problems, and forecast it would eliminate all other forms of networks. View like this is obviously extreme, but I believe will have an impact 5G network industry, network engineers should be aware of it.
5G is touted as the “next big thing.” You would look at it?
Jeff Lipton:The next thing important thing is the “thing” link and generate actionable insights and background from these things. 5G is one of technical services in this trend. Wi-Fi 6 is another – edge computation, Bluetooth low energy (the BLE), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). All this is very important, each of them has a place.
Do you see in the enterprise 5G shadowing Wi-Fi?
As with all cellular access, 5G is appropriate if you need a macro area coverage and high-speed switching. But for most enterprise applications, which usually do not need these features. From a performance perspective,Wi-Fi 65G and substantially identical in most indicators, including throughput, delay, reliability and connection density. They are not close local economic, Wi-Fi is much better. I do not think many customers are willing to exchange 5G Wi-Fi, unless they need to cover macro or high-speed switching.
5G Wi-Fi and can coexist? 5G and how companies use Wi-Fi together?
5G Wi-Fi and it can and should be complementary. 5G architecture cellular core and radio access network (RAN) separation. Therefore, Wi-Fi can be business radio front-end, and in close connection with the 5G core. Because Wi-Fi economy – especially Wi-Fi 6 – is favorable and the performance is very good, we envision many service providers use Wi-Fi radio front end as its 5G system, which makes sense, as a distributed alternative antenna (DAS) and small cellular system.
5G Wi-Fi and it can and should be complementary.
If a company only consider turning 5G, it will be how to implement and how its usefulness?
To 5G for major indoor access, customers need to upgrade their networks and almost all devices. 5G outdoors provide good coverage, but the cellular signal can not reliably penetrate buildings. 5G will make this problem worse, it depends in part on higher radio frequency. Thus, service providers need a way to provide indoor coverage. In order to provide such coverage, they suggested deploying DAS or small cellular systems – paid by the end customer. Then, the client will connect their device directly to these cellular systems and equipment to pay for each service component.
There are some problems with this approach. First, DAS and small cellular systems much more expensive than Wi-Fi networks. And the cost of the network will not stop. Each device requires a 5G cellular modem, the wholesale price of up to tens of dollars, while end users typically need to spend more than one hundred US dollars. Because there is little MacBook, PC, printer or modem AppleTV has 5G, it is necessary to upgrade these devices. I do not believe many companies will be willing to pay the additional costs and upgrade their equipment to get the most ambiguous benefits.
Economics is a factor 5G Wi-Fi and debate it?
Economics is always a factor. Let the dialogue focused on indoor enterprise applications, because this is some operators intend to use the 5G positioning use cases. We have already mentioned upgraded to 5G will require companies to deploy expensive DAS or small cellular systems for indoor coverage, almost all of the devices to be upgraded contain 5G modem, equipment and service contracts for each payment. Understanding 5G cellular networks and DAS system operation are also important in the licensed spectrum, which is similar to a private highway. For this purpose the spectrum payment service providers billions of dollars, this cost needs to monetize and embed service costs. Therefore, from the perspective of the deployment and life-cycle perspective, Wi-Fi 5G economics are favorable.
5G Wi-Fi and there is no security risk it?
Some people think that cellular technology is more secure than Wi-Fi, but it is not. LTE is relatively safe, but there are also weaknesses. For example, researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa representation, LTE vulnerable to a series of attacks, including data interception and tracking devices. 5G LTE improved safety through a variety of authentication methods and better key management.
Wi-Fi security is also not standing still and continue to develop. Of course, do not follow best practices for the implementation of Wi-Fi, such as those implemented without basic password protection is not the best. But those who configure the appropriate access control and password is very secure. With the new standard – especially WPA3 and enhance the open – Wi-Fi network security is further improved.
It is also important to remember that companies have for security and compliance solutions made significant investments to their specific needs. For cellular network includes 5G, including, companies will lose the ability to deploy the selected security and compliance solutions, as well as most of the visibility of traffic flows. Although future versions 5G will provide a high level of self-defined function called by the network slice, but companies will lose security and compliance needs and the level of customization they currently have.
Discussions between about 5G and Wi-Fi will have any good ideas?
This ignores the controversy surrounding the Wi-Fi and 5G. Each of them has its own position, and they are in many ways complementary. As the need to connect and analyze more and more things, Wi-Fi and 5G markets will grow. If the customer needs a macro coverage or high-speed switching, and can pay the extra cost for these features, then the 5G is justified.
5G is also applicable to industrial customers require some use cases physical network segment. But for the vast majority of enterprise customers, Wi-Fi continues to prove as reliable as the value of safe and cost-effective wireless access technology as it is now.
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