In the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) ’s latest report, it summarized that operators and enterprises have been continuing to invest in the LTE networks, although 5G developments have gotten about 37% of attention.
Fixing eyes on the information collected by GSA in June, the report identified that 794 organizations are launching or deploying LTE or 5G Private Mobile Networks (PMN) in 68 countries and territories. Of those, the manufacturing sector dominates private network deployments with 140 companies involved with known pilots or deployments.
Education and mining sectors grab the sublines with 80 deployments and 69 deployments, respectively.
The association identified that currently more than 70 operators and 50 telecom equipment vendors have been involved in the PMN projects. In addition, public cloud providers are offering PMN systems, and team up with mobile network operators or network providers.
GSA defines a PMN as a 3GPP-based compliant 4G/LT-5G private LTE/5G mobile network intended for the sole use of private entities (enterprises, industries or governments). It includes 3GPP-compliant based MulteFire and Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS), while excluded from those is data are non-3GPP networks such as Wi-Fi networks, Tetra, P25, WiIMAX, Sigfox, and LoRa.
IPLOOK’s EPC/5GC supports all radio vendors and it is used to deploy Private Networks. It provides a trusted and proven software-based core network platform that can be deployed on COTS hardware or public clouds, enabling lower costs.
Private LTE solution of IPLOOK provides the enterprise with a much higher level of control over services, including the opportunity to deploy additional services, such as IoT, which may not be implemented within the public network, and supports 4G access to facilitate smooth evolution to 5G.
