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clrmoney
1/4/2018 12:04:48 PM User Rank Platinum
5G Embrace Cloud
5G will be an advancement for a lot of companies and it will be with Cloud and working together will create magic when it comes to how people do businesses and their products etc.
DHagar
1/4/2018 5:11:48 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: 5G Embrace Cloud
@clrmoney, good vision! And I believe that GSMA has a great understanding with identifying interoperability as being a key "enabler" of market development.
batye
1/4/2018 10:54:38 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: 5G Embrace Cloud
@clrmoney the way I see it if everything get done right at the end 5G will only be developing more and more...
Shaunn
1/5/2018 6:10:54 PM User Rank Platinum
5G Embrace Cloud
Common standards make everything better. Standardizig the Cloud will definitly allow for scaling. Maybe as a side affect, common standards will help us embrace the cloud better in general as well.
Ariella
1/8/2018 10:27:03 AM User Rank Author
Re: 5G Embrace Cloud
@Shaunn yes, it's difficult to progress without common standards to keep people on the same page with clear points of comparison.
Ariella
1/8/2018 10:27:04 AM User Rank Author
Re: 5G Embrace Cloud
@Shaunn yes, it's difficult to progress without common standards to keep people on the same page with clear points of comparison.
I wonder about surge capacity
In any kind of realtime service from internet down to sewers, one of the economic complexities is that typically you have revenue depending on average capacity usage but performance has to be evaluated on surge capacity -- e.g. storm sewers have to be built for something beyond the maximum known rainstorms, electric companies have to be able to supply power for beyond-record heat, social media have to be able to accomodate national crises that everyone wants to jabber about, etc.
If the telcos supply 5G entirely through the cloud, will the necessary feedback reach the actual providers in the cloud? Because where each service provider running its own servers and physical network would have to maintain some awareness of the maximum possible surges and when and how they might happen, if all the providers are actually sharing a finite pool of resources (concealed from them by the fact that they just buy more as they need it), all over the planet -- what happens if there's a universal surge? Will the cloud providers have planned for, e.g., a major international crisis in which large amounts of resources are commandeered for (or shut down by) military activity, the financial markets have a huge amount of money to move out of harm's way, and the media have to inform billions of people through thousands of channels -- all at once?
Re: I wonder about surge capacity
@JohnBarnes: Seems like it will never be economically feasible to plan for such an outlier. You can only plan for known variabilities that happen frequently enough to justify capacity for it. For the extreme demands, rationing is the only way to go IMHO.
mhhf1ve
1/9/2018 1:48:26 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: I wonder about surge capacity
The wireless networks probably won't be able to handle "surge capacity" for quite some time -- unless we develop and implement some kind of technology that greatly expands the bandwidth of electromagnetic spectrum. So in the meantime, I think ISPs will probably just start prioritizing traffic in various ways (now that they're allowed to do so freely).
Researchers have been developing ways to cram more data into wireless signals...
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190408-towards-infinite-capacity-wireless-networks-with-twisted-vortex-radio-waves
Re: I wonder about surge capacity
Kishore,
Well, rationing of one kind or another is usually how we handle above-surge-capacity situations when they happen -- power brownouts, throttling, etc. The only alternative at the time is system failure (a.k.a. shutdowns or things like flooding and paralyzed traffic jams).
In the longer run the big failures lead to expansion of surge capacity via direct or indirect political demand (i.e. if it's a public utility, voters demand that they build more, or if it's supplied by the private sector, some combination of government bribery and arm-twisting forces capacity higher).
Of course nothing would actually prevent some foresight, but it generally takes one or more crashes against the capacity ceiling before anyone gets serious about it. And since there's not much immediate profit in building way over capacity, it's a classic case where the market is not going to solve it by itself.
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