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Ericsson claims a world first with transcontinental 5G trial

Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom have announced a partnership to deploy world’s first transcontinental 5G trial network, reports Telecoms.com.

The objective of the agreement will be to provide optimized end-user experiences by providing consistent quality of services and roaming experiences for advanced 5G use cases with enhanced global reach. Ericsson will act as the sole supplier to the project, which will include technologies such as NFV, software defined infrastructure, distributed cloud, and network slicing.

Last October, Ericsson and SK Telecom conducted a successful demonstration of network slicing technology, which featured the creation of virtual network slices optimized for services including super multi-view and augmented reality/virtual reality, Internet of Things offerings and enterprise solutions.

“5G is very different from its predecessors in that the system is built as a platform to provide tailored services optimized for individual customer’s needs, at a global scale,” said Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO at SK Telecom. “Through this three-party collaboration, we will be able to better understand and build a 5G system that can provide consistent and enhanced user experience across the globe.”

Alongside the announcement, Ericsson and SK Telecom also successfully completed a demonstration of 5G software-defined telecommunications infrastructure, using the vendors Hyperscale Datacenter System (HDS) 8000 solution. The pair claims this is a world-first and will enable dynamic composition of network components to meet scale requirements of 5G services.

Software-defined telecommunications infrastructure is one of the enablers of network slicing, which will allow operators to create individual virtualized environments which are optimized for specific users. The demonstration itself focused on two use cases; ultra-micro-network end-to-end (E2E) slicing for personalized services, and ultra-large-network E2E slicing for high-capacity processing.

“SDTI is an innovative technology that enhances network efficiency by flexibly constructing hardware components to satisfy the infrastructure performance requirements of diverse 5G services,” said Park Jin-hyo, Head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom.

Finally, Ericsson has announced another partnership with Japanese telco KDDI with the ambition of delivering IoT on a global scale and providing enhanced connectivity services to KDDI customers.

The partnership will focus on Ericsson’s cloud-based IoT platform to deliver services such as IoT connectivity management, subscription management, network connectivity administration and flexible billing services. The pair claims the new proposition will enable KDDI’s customers to deploy, manage and scale IoT connected devices and applications globally.

IoT represents a significant opportunity for enterprise customers and operators alike, as it significantly increases the amount of data available and also access points to customers worldwide. Research firm Statista estimates the number of devices worldwide could exceed 50 billion, though the definition of what a connected device is or what an IoT connected device is varies.

“KDDI has for a long time been committed to building the communication environment to connect with world operators in order to support the global businesses of our customers,” said Keiichi Mori, GM of KDDI’s IoT Business Development Division. “We believe that by adopting DCP, we will be able to leverage Ericsson’s connection with world carriers and furthermore promote our unified service deployment globally to customers as they start worldwide IoT deployments.”

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Kii and KDDI say their joint platform will make IoT safe on cloud

Secure cloudJapanese telco KDDI is working with Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform provider Kii to create a risk averse system in which enterprises can develop mobile apps.

The KDDI cloud platform service (KCPS) is described as a mobile back end as a service (mBaaS) offering that uses Kii’s software to create mobile and IoT apps on a private network. The two companies have worked together on ways to apply cloud disciplines for efficient sharing of resources, contained within the confines on an Intranet environment. The object of the collaboration is to allow companies to develop machine to machine systems, without exposing them to the public cloud while they are in development.

According to KDDI, the KCPS uses the telco’s Wide Area Virtual Switch to integrate a number of different virtual network layers with Kii’s software. Together they create a new level of fast connections across the Intranet. KCPS also provides a service environment for intranet-conscious customers who need high standards of security and enterprise functions without resorting to the public Internet, according to the vendor.

KDDI claims this is the first instance in which both Intranet and Internet services can work seamlessly with any mobile application developed on the KCPS platform.

KDDI’s application development support will allow developers to build better quality, lower priced applications in a short period of time, it claims. The platform is designed to help developers manage application development, devices and data, while providing essential features like push notifications and geo-location information. KCPS should be compatible with mobile apps on Android and iOS, according to KDDI.

“As the IoT gains mass acceptance, we see tremendous value helping mobile app developers get more IoT devices into the hands of consumers,” said Kii CEO Masanari Arai, “our collaboration will use the cloud to build the backend support of these apps in Japan.”