RE: Tarana wireless30 Oct 2021 16:21
Olderandwiser there's still plenty to be had from 4G especially LTE. In Africa 2&3G are the dominant networks. South America 3G is 90% of the coverage.
Ethernity products can be used in 4G and later adapted on the fly to 5G.
It's important to understand what 5G is, currently globally there's very little 5G.
There's 5G speed and connection to 5G devices but there's very little edge deployment, very little compute outside of the data center. Generally they have concentrated on speeding the connection to the data center which is missing the point.
5G ecosystems are really starting to deploy now, the open networks will be ultimately scalable and will grow with demand. The DU and CU will relocate, some compute will be possible locally with capacity freed by FPGA based devices from Ethernity removing up to 95% of the CPU workload.
Upgrades from 4-5G will only happen once providers see commercial opportunity. The lower the Capex the more will do it. Ethernity can save up to 80% of Capex over other providers.