The Data Protection Puzzle Piece For Telecoms
Entrust, Friday, July 28,2023
The telecom and communications industry is undergoing unprecedented change. The ever-growing demand for higher connections speeds and lower latency means mobile and fixed-line service providers have had to significantly rearchitect their networks to support new technologies like 5G and IoT as well as wide-scale public projects such as smart cities and autonomous vehicle communication networks.
It's also becoming clear that service providers are taking different approaches to their new network deployment architectures (and in some cases the same provider is taking different approaches dependent on the deployment). Some have opted to simply upgrade their base stations to support 5G and relied on their existing aggregation and backhaul networks to handle the extra network load.
Others have opted for more a cloud-based service approach, allowing telecom operators to make use of the offered services instead of upgrading their existing infrastructure. Further still, many providers are looking at partitioning and sharing a common open access radio network (Open RAN) to reduce installation and maintenance cost while expanding their coverage.