Cisco to help Telco's in riding network infrastructure with 5G

Telecom operators will need to flatten their networks, transform data centers, and provide self-provisioning and billing services to customers as they prepare to jump into 5G.

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CISCO has technologies that are helping operators on multiple fronts. But on top of that, we are truly presenting ourselves as a monetization partner, but in terms of the technology, I think there are three major transformations we believe that telcos need to undertake as they move into 5G,” Cisco (Asia Pacific & Japan) President Sanjay Kaul at a virtual event said.

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“In traditional networks, any small change from a service perspective is a six-month project in the telco because they need to fix the back end of OSS, BSS… Then you should give people a self-provisioning, self-billing kind of environment. So these are the three largest changes that need to happen to the 5G,” he added.

5G globally is ramping ahead quickly and as we know that there are almost 2.2 billion connections expected by 2024, which will be 27% of the total telecom population. As of now, almost 140 operators have started providing 5G services. This is in about 59 countries, the initial use cases are out, it's more about enhanced mobile broadband,” said Prashant Singhal, EY Emerging Markets TMT Sector Leader.