New Report Highlights How 5G-Advanced Features Can Address the Enterprise Opportunity
15 Novembro 2023 - 6:00AM
The features and functionality of 5G-Advanced means the technology
is primed for enterprise—but only if mobile operators can consider
its applications and turn use cases into practical solutions. This
is according to a new report commissioned by InterDigital, Inc.
(Nasdaq: IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and
development company, and written by market research firm ABI
Research, which highlights why this latest network generation
has not yet realized its potential in unlocking new business
opportunities.
Rapid adoption of 5G over the past three years makes it the most
quickly adopted cellular generation to date. Efforts in the past
four years (2018-2022) have focused on the foundational development
of 5G, laying the groundwork for the new cellular generation and
enhancing network capacity, speed, and latency. Yet operators have
struggled to tap into the enterprise market and to realise the
IMT-2020 vision for 5G, which is oriented beyond mobile
broadband.
The new report, The State of 5G-Advanced: Empowering New
Verticals and Industries, outlines the development of 5G-Advanced
and its new features that will see enhancements to existing 5G
technology over the next three years (2023-2026). These will be
dedicated to the transformational phase of 5G, or 5G-Advanced, and
will improve existing specifications, while also introducing new
features that aim to optimize network operations and pave the way
for innovative enterprise use cases and business models that have
not been feasible with earlier generations. These features
include:
- Extended Reality
(XR), including AR and VR applications, will be enhanced
by 5G Advanced’s promise to enable networks to better identify
diverse applications and content, and thus discern XR applications
and their specific latency and bandwidth requirements. This new
feature adds the flexibility of addressing different requirements
for myriad applications, like lower latency for multi-user
interactions, edge computing, or streaming applications or higher
bandwidth for immersive media.
- Sidelink
Positioning, a precise positioning technology that
facilitates direct communication between devices, and will allow
smartphones, wearables, and other gadgets to connect and interact
with vehicles. It can also enhance accuracy, energy efficiency, and
mapping, particularly for Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM)
applications and is vital for precision-intensive tasks like
robotics, Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) control, and drone
oversight.
- RedCap, or “reduced
capacity”, will broaden 5G’s reach to power-limited devices such as
smartwatches, Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR)
equipment, surveillance cameras, and a variety of IoT devices,
catering to both the business and consumer sectors.
- Passive or ambient
IoT, which aims to connect sensors and devices to cellular
networks without a power source and that could dramatically
increase the number of cellular IoT devices and become far more
appealing to several enterprise verticals.
“The collective research and innovation efforts of the entire
industry have laid an important foundation in 5G, but we must
recognise that it’s not ‘finished’ and has yet to achieve its full
potential,” said Milind Kulkarni, VP and Head of Wireless Labs,
InterDigital. “New features will be standardized in 5G Advanced and
6G that significantly improve capabilities for operators but
importantly, open new opportunities in enterprise verticals.”
Alongside the enterprise opportunity, the report also reveals
that 5G-Advanced will be critical for the monetisation of 5G, as
well as for improving the energy efficiency of, and integrating
automation into, 5G networks.
According to the report, 5G-Advanced will deliver the following
features and improvements:
- New use cases which unlock
new business opportunities, including extended reality
(XR), more sophisticated IoT deployments, and applications that
unlock new use cases that were not feasible with foundational 5G or
prior generations.
- More efficient and
sustainable networks, including developing and
commercializing more energy-efficient equipment that enable mobile
operators to run greener networks.
- Integration of AI and
machine learning, specifically in areas of network
management, radio intelligence, predictive maintenance, and
enhanced user experiences, which will help pave the way for 6G and
fully automated networks.
- Improved coverage and
capacity, through the introduction of non-terrestrial type
communications, mainly satellite, which increase coverage in remote
and rural areas and offer better uplink capabilities to enhance
coverage, alongside advanced massive MIMO for increased
capacity.
Despite new functionality introduced in 5G-Advanced, the report
also warns that the “build it and they will come” philosophy on
which operators have traditionally relied will not be successful in
the enterprise domain unless they can fully understand and embrace
the long tail of enterprise requirements and pain points.
5G-Advanced’s new functionality can help operators address the
enterprise domain, but an additional step is necessary for success:
understanding how to deploy and how to market these capabilities to
enterprise verticals.
“InterDigital has long made significant contributions to
wireless development efforts in 3GPP, ETSI, and 6G forums like the
Next G Alliance, and will continue to develop technologies that
will form the bedrock of new standards that usher in these new
features,” InterDigital CTO Rajesh Pankaj added. “We believe the
operators will capitalize on these capabilities and drive new
applications and use cases that will help us all collectively meet
the ambitions set out in IMT-2020 to support the development of
other industry sectors.”
The biggest priority for 5G-Advanced is to monetize existing 5G
networks beyond the consumer domain and start creating large-scale
opportunities in the enterprise space. Operators that have already
deployed 5G nationwide are well positioned to provide advanced
enterprise functionality using their existing networks, translating
into a faster Return on Investment (ROI), new revenue streams, and
the opportunity to accelerate their public 5G network rollouts
further.
Read the report, The State of 5G-Advanced: Empowering New
Verticals and Industries, here.
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the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve
many of the industry’s most critical and complex technical
challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband
networks, better video delivery, and richer multimedia experiences
years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and
strategic relationships with many of the world’s leading technology
companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on Nasdaq.
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