Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

Mon Aug 10 11:05:06 UTC 2020

And for other stuff as well.

adam

From: Shane Ronan <shane at ronan-online.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 2:43 PM
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com>
Cc: adamv0025 at netconsultings.com; North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

Yes they are for 5G core.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 11:28 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com <mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.com> > wrote:

On 5/Aug/20 17:07, Shane Ronan wrote:

> I think you'd be surprised how much of the 5G Core is containerized
> for both the data and control planes in the next generations providers
> are currently deploying.

It's what I expect for new entrants that don't want to deal with
traditional vendors.

I'd be curious to see if legacy operators are shifting traffic away from
iron to servers, and at what rate.

Mark.

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