[LINK] Erickson: 5G standalone is the platform for new business opportunities with differentiated connectivity

[Stephen Loosley]

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5G standalone is the platform for new business opportunities with differentiated connectivity.

5G standalone

5G standalone (SA) is the gateway to new innovative applications, services and solutions through open APIs, differentiated connectivity and service-based architecture. Take your first steps to 5G standalone today and capture the value of tomorrow’s limitless innovation.

5G standalone explained

5G Standalone takes 5G performance to new heights, bringing new capabilities that deliver a more powerful user experience, enhanced network efficiency, and a world of new business opportunities.

Unlike 5G Non-Standalone networks, 5G Standalone is based exclusively on cloud-native 5G Core and 5G Radio architecture. This flexible and programmable cloud-native service-based architecture means that service providers can upgrade, create and deploy new services in hours rather than days or weeks, without impacting live services.

And the benefits don’t stop there. 5G SA capabilities combined with network exposure, automation, edge computing, local packet core gateway, and network slicing are raising the stakes for 5G service delivery – making networks more programmable, breaking out traffic at the network edge, and providing differentiated connectivity with guaranteed quality of service.

5G standalone: the facts

* Based on the 3GPP New Radio standard

* Simplified RAN and device architecture

* Leverages cloud-native 5G Core

* Supports advanced network-slicing functions


Powerful user experience

Consistent low latency
5G standalone enables ultra-low latency in the milliseconds, supported by lower handover interruption time and other enablers, to deliver close to real-time communication with zero lag.

Better spectral efficiency
Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination, and increased LTE offload to 5G spectrum enables higher uplink and downlink data rates. Ericsson’s 5G standalone software toolkit enhances support for experience-based connectivity with high requirements on throughput, reliability, and latency.

Wider coverage
5G standalone multi-band carrier aggregation, including uplink carrier aggregation, can leverage multiple 5G spectrum frequencies to significantly improve uplink and downlink capacity across wider areas.

5G voice
5G standalone unlocks new 5G voice (VoNR) capabilities to enable near-instant call connections, lower latency voice communication, and higher quality audio through wider bandwidth.


Enhanced network efficiency

Higher energy efficiency
5G SA allow users to spend more time in 5G than 5G NSA, improving the energy efficiency of each gigabyte transmitted.

Advanced device support
Through RedCap device support and reduced signaling of the Inactive State feature, 5G standalone enables reduced device latency, complexity, and battery consumption, laying the groundwork for use case evolution.

Service agility and scale
5G Core’s cloud-native service-based architecture and cross-domain service orchestration means microservices can be scaled, reused and upgraded with minimal impact on running services.

Enhanced end-to-end security
Advanced encryption and identity protection is delivered through the 5G Core-integrated Ericsson Authentication Security Module, providing end-to-end security of 5G standalone networks.


Why move to 5G standalone?

The migration to 5G Standalone architecture offers a world of benefits for service providers, including:

Enables ultra-low latency and faster access to higher data rates

Enhances existing services such as enhanced mobile broadband, enhanced fixed wireless access, and 5G Voice

Opens new market segments through new capabilities and technology support, such as network slicing, time-critical communication, RedCap devices, and edge user plane

Enables service agility and scale through cloud-native, service-based architecture