Zero-Touch Automation Is Key To Unlocking The Full Potential Of 5G
telecoms.com, Tuesday, November 21,2023
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry's most pressing issues. In this piece Marco Gatti, 5G Product and Solution Manager, Anritsu Service Assurance, extols the virtues of zero-touch automation
Operators are actively experimenting with new 5G capabilities, and theoretically there could be hundreds, thousands, or even millions of simultaneous network slices - dynamically appearing and disappearing, each with its own customer-defined attributes. However, to date most operators continue to limit the number of slices. In the not-too-distant future of 5G Standalone (5GSA), the full spectrum of 5G use cases such as gaming, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and the Internet of Things (IoT), network slicing, and mobile edge computing will become a reality - unlocking revenue-generating 5G business opportunities, some of which will have transformative effects on certain industries like healthcare and property, plant, and equipment (PPE).