Enables global 5G access and transport, covering all frequency ranges
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| Source: Ericsson. The Ericsson 5G access and transport family. |
Ericsson expects that in 2026, there will be a US$582 billion market opportunity globally as telecom operators leverage 5G technology for industry digitalisation. For operators, this represents potential to add 34% growth in revenues in 2026. Ericsson has found that the manufacturing and energy/utilities sectors represent the biggest opportunity for operators when it comes to revenues created or enhanced by 5G.
“With this launch, we introduce our 5G platform to support the beginning of a huge change in network capabilities, allowing our customers to offer more advanced use cases and new business models to their customers. It is an important milestone enabling operators to continue their evolution journey to 5G,” says Arun Bansal, Head of Business Unit Network Products at Ericsson.
Ericsson’s new 5G platform comprises the 5G core, radio and transport portfolios, together with digital support systems, transformation services and security. The 5G Core System is capable of 5G use cases based on network slices. Network slicing allows an operator to provide dedicated virtual networks with functionality specific to the service or customer over a common network.
Launch highlights include:
Federated network slices for 5G roaming extends this concept to a visited network. This technology will make it possible for an operator to provide a network service globally, ensuring enterprises do not need individual agreements with different operators for a global service experience. Network slice management to automate the setup of service connections and to secure service quality, to save costs and to gain fast time to service.
Ericsson’s new 5G platform comprises the 5G core, radio and transport portfolios, together with digital support systems, transformation services and security. The 5G Core System is capable of 5G use cases based on network slices. Network slicing allows an operator to provide dedicated virtual networks with functionality specific to the service or customer over a common network.
Launch highlights include:
Federated network slices for 5G roaming extends this concept to a visited network. This technology will make it possible for an operator to provide a network service globally, ensuring enterprises do not need individual agreements with different operators for a global service experience. Network slice management to automate the setup of service connections and to secure service quality, to save costs and to gain fast time to service.
5G policy and user data for network slices to ensure users get the right service quality and have data integrity.
Distributed cloud to facilitate short latency applications, such as real-time face recognition, by moving applications and workloads closer to the access. In addition, the 5G-enabled packet core will allow full separation of control and user data, as well as unprecedented capacity and user data rates. 5G transformation services to ensure the migration of the network and operation from legacy to 5G core, virtualised and based on an automated operational model.
One proofpoint has been demonstrated by Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and SK Telecom. The three have jointly built and demonstrated the world's first intercontinental 5G trial network where network slices were made available in the other operator's footprint.
In radio and transport, Ericsson adds mid-band and high-band 5G New Radio (NR) Radios to the world’s first 5G NR radio that the company launched last year. Having radios available for all frequency ranges will bring benefits of 5G communications globally. The 5G radio portfolio will be the first to support the new standardised 5G fronthaul interface called eCPRI.
The support of these new business opportunities and new applications will require delivering terabytes of data throughout the network. To ensure the needed network transport capabilities, Ericsson also introduces optimised transport solutions. MINI-LINK enables speeds of 10Gbps and new rail-mounted fronthaul and router products, enabling a zero footprint.
Ericsson will also be delivering new innovations on the road to 5G via the LTE networks, and 1 Gbps LTE solutions. New products complement the Ericsson Radio System and will increase the energy and spectrum efficiency of 4G networks and app coverage improvements. In addition, new radios will create fast 1Gbps LTE networks.
Dimitris Mavrakis, Research Director, ABI Research, says: “Ericsson’s new product launch is a firm demonstration of its technical expertise in 5G and network functions virtualisation (NFV), adding significant value on top of its existing core functionality. It indicates technology maturity for NFV and 5G core and federated network slicing is a radical forward-looking concept, opening up for new business models opportunities.”
One proofpoint has been demonstrated by Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and SK Telecom. The three have jointly built and demonstrated the world's first intercontinental 5G trial network where network slices were made available in the other operator's footprint.
In radio and transport, Ericsson adds mid-band and high-band 5G New Radio (NR) Radios to the world’s first 5G NR radio that the company launched last year. Having radios available for all frequency ranges will bring benefits of 5G communications globally. The 5G radio portfolio will be the first to support the new standardised 5G fronthaul interface called eCPRI.
The support of these new business opportunities and new applications will require delivering terabytes of data throughout the network. To ensure the needed network transport capabilities, Ericsson also introduces optimised transport solutions. MINI-LINK enables speeds of 10Gbps and new rail-mounted fronthaul and router products, enabling a zero footprint.
Ericsson will also be delivering new innovations on the road to 5G via the LTE networks, and 1 Gbps LTE solutions. New products complement the Ericsson Radio System and will increase the energy and spectrum efficiency of 4G networks and app coverage improvements. In addition, new radios will create fast 1Gbps LTE networks.
Dimitris Mavrakis, Research Director, ABI Research, says: “Ericsson’s new product launch is a firm demonstration of its technical expertise in 5G and network functions virtualisation (NFV), adding significant value on top of its existing core functionality. It indicates technology maturity for NFV and 5G core and federated network slicing is a radical forward-looking concept, opening up for new business models opportunities.”
Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst, Mobile Infrastructure, 451 Research, says: "By gaining access to a broad set of NR radio units, high performance baseband processing capacity and a full set of transport options, operators get the ability to deploy substantial trial networks delivering key insight into 5G operational characteristics and opportunity. This is a vital step that builds operator trust and helps further overall industry progress towards 5G.”
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