For Orange, 2022 is a year of preparation, testing and deployment to facilitate commercial launches from 2023, starting with the announcement at the beginning of the month of the use of 700 MHz frequencies, which comes to complement the one that already existed in 3 .5GHz
That is why, in order to continue this race towards the best possible 5G, the group has chosen ericsson as a provider of 5GC core to unfold the 5G SA or autonomous, the best possible 5G. Since its launch in September 2020, Orange’s 5G, like that of other operators, has worked as an extra to give 4G more speed thanks to 5G NSA.
What is 5G Stand Alone
The 5G SA offers Mainly three advantages for the user: Increased upload speed, even lower latency and faster download speed compared to 5G NSA (5G non-autonomous). In the use of 5G NSA, the specification depends on the 4G infrastructure to work.
For businesses, this will provide a solution to the growing need for connectivity that is mostly reliable, but also flexible and scalable. All this without forgetting the importance of security for all kinds of uses in real time.
Orange selects @Ericsson_en as provider of its “core” 5G Stand Alone network (5G SA) in Spain https://t.co/RLFmjrv190 #OrangeRed
– Orange Spain (@orange_es) February 28, 2022
This transition to 5G SA it will be reflected in a greater variety of Orange solutions for mobile private networks. To meet the needs of business customers, a first option is to create a virtual private network on Orange’s public network. A second solution is to create a hybrid private network based on shared equipment on the Orange network and dedicated equipment at the customer’s site for critical flows and data.
To do this, the key to 5G SA will be one of its features called “network slicing”, which prioritizes network resources to cover critical uses or specific needs and offer different levels of quality and security.
Network slicing, 5G slices
«network slicing» is the technology that enables multiple logical networks to be run as virtually independent business operations on a single common physical infrastructure in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This represents a radical paradigm shift compared to current implementations. The 5G network will be able to adapt to the environment and not the other way around.
With these “5G slices«, communications will be more efficient since each user will obtain what they need from the network. On the other hand, operators will be able to generate a broad portfolio of solutions focused on specific businesses and meet their needs more efficiently and effectively.
Each of these channels, or slices, can be configured to deliver the desired performance in terms of stability, latency, bandwidth, or coverage, among other factors. In this type of architecture, virtualization is a flexibility technical facilitator. That is, it allows the network to be aligned as much as possible with the specific needs of different customers.
The technology is already available to learn, test and innovate with companies interested in the sites of Orange 5G Laband can be deployed globally on demand for B2B customers with the private network solutions of Orange Business Services.