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The 5th Generation mobile networks, known as 5G, are without doubt one of the most discussed technological trends and comes with new telecommunication standards beyond the currently adopted 4G. Though the standards has not officially been coined, 5G has drawn tremendous attention with the promises of higher transfer speed, wider bandwidth, better reliability, lower power consumption and much lower latency, to encourage the smoother device-to-device and IoT communications.

NFV has dramatically changed the perspective of how network infrastructure is established. The emphasis is the virtualization of network functions on carrier-grade appliances. While communication service providers worldwide are engaging in the transition to SDN and NFV, Virtual CPE (customer premise equipments) is one of the fastest growing use cases among all the real on-site enterprise applications. According to recent survey by iHS Markit 2016, the business opportunity of vCPE is forecasted to go beyond $1.5 billion worldwide by 2020 as service providers will leverage the cost benefits of vCPE to build their SDN and NFV applications.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has become an inevitable trend since European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) introduced it in 2012. It is a new network architecture concept that uses IT virtualization technologies to decouple network functions, such as router, firewall, network address transition (NAT), and domain name service (DNS), from proprietary hardware appliances so that they can run as software on standard servers, switches, and storages. NFV aims to help communication service providers (CSPs) to not only reduce costs but also to enable faster and more flexible service delivery. According to a survey1 , 94 percent of the CSP operators had NFV strategy plans in place.

As IoT (Internet of Things) is deployed in almost every field, limitations are encountered due to the excessive amount of data generated. It has become inevitable that the centralized cloud computing architecture is faced with limitations in bandwidth, data process, storage, latency, and analytics. To bridge the cloud and edge, the distributed approach called “fog computing” is introduced between the cloud and where the data is generated.

Together with Enea software Lanner deliver vCPE solutions optimized for next-gen hybrid NFV architecture and help accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers.

The network ecosystem has undergone a rapid transformation and in recent years, many enterprises are shifting MLPS to direct Internet access for increased bandwidth and cost advantages. However, this shift also exposes enterprises to new cyber threats, which is the main concern when enterprises implement SD-WAN platforms.

The recent successful deployment of 5G MEC and VR devices in the 2018 FIFA World Cup has indicated that the fusion of physical reality and virtual reality will soon emerge, contributed by VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) technologies. In fact, the major sports event also proved that high-quality VR/AR experience can be delivered over the wireless network. Indeed, the deployment of 5G MEC infrastructure has dramatically changed the paradigm of multicast and broadcast for sports and entertainment, by optimizing VR/AR in content delivery.

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