Tag: 5G

Today, Comcast announced that it will be running its 5G mobile packet core, developed by Nokia, entirely on the AWS public cloud. With this deployment, we have now reached a point in the evolution of the public cloud with capabilities to support network functions, where the 5G mobile core is now a mature and proven […]

Our Global Infrastructure spans 108 Availability Zones (AZs) within 34 geographic AWS Regions around the world at the time of writing. To provide mobile apps with ultra-low latency access to the AWS cloud, we collaborate with telecom operators globally to offer AWS Wavelength. AWS Wavelength Zones integrate AWS compute and storage services within mobile networks. […]

As a leader in software-centric network transformation, Samsung keeps pushing the boundaries of mobile network technologies with its long-term R&D vision. Samsung has been at the forefront of evolving telecom networks from traditional hardware-based to flexible software-based architecture, by embracing a virtual and open approach. Collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring end-to-end virtualized […]

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are embarking on a digital transformation journey of their network operations to deliver new innovative connectivity services to their customers and to expand their traditional customers’ base. To achieve this transformation, CSPs are looking for ways to unify their operating model, and to adopt automation across their operating stack. CSPs want […]

The Communication Service Providers (CSPs) in the telecom industry are looking to find more use cases to leverage. However, a public cloud and 5G core network deployments on AWS are gaining more attention by identifying practical use cases, such as private networks for enterprises, as well as brand new 5G network creation. As emphasized in […]

When Communication Service Providers (CSP) deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 5G network functions on AWS, they are presented with different options for user plane data network breakout through the SGi (for LTE) or N6 (for 5G) interface. 3GPP defines SGi Interface as the reference point between the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway – S-GW […]

Tiny Mile utilize AWS Wavelength to Make Deliveries Faster and at Lower Cost Little pink Tiny Mile robots in Toronto, Canada are leveraging AWS Wavelength on Bell Canada’s 5G network to make deliveries safer, faster, and more cost effective. Tiny Mile  delivers food, snacks and other items to customers, and make sure that speed and […]

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a platform for delivering IP-based multimedia services such as voice, video, text, and supplementary services (for example, call barring, message waiting, ad hoc conferences, and more) to fixed and mobile users. With 5G, which is a framework to connect these users to networks such as IMS, the core network (5GC) […]

Introduction Magma is an open-source, flexible, and extendable mobile core network solution. It is designed to be 3GPP generation and access network agnostic. Magma supports many radio technologies, such as LTE, 5G, and WiFi, and it enables use cases like mobile private networks, fixed wireless access, or mobile edge computing. It is governed by the […]

DISH Network is deploying the first stand-alone, cloud-native, autonomous 5G network. The company envisions a complete cloud-native 5G network with all its functions, except minimal components of the Radio Access Network (RAN), running in the cloud with fully automated network deployment and operations. In this blog post, we describe DISH’s approach to building a scalable […]