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Published inJun 2023
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ISBN-139781838980108
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Shyam Varan Nath
Shyam Varan Nath
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Shyam Varan Nath

Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte
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Ananya Simlai
Ananya Simlai
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Ananya Simlai

Ananya Simlai is a Solutions Architect with primary focus on Wireless- 4G-5G Mobility Networks, Cloud Native and NFVI, she is a Trusted Advisor for service providers helping them address their technological challenges thereby enabling them to smoothly transition across technologies like 4G- 5G. She has been a speaker on 5G on international forums and also interacts with CTO teams to design their 5G story. She has published multiple papers on 5G and holds granted patents. She has been instrumental in designing, implementing and successfully rolling out one of the largest 5G mobile networks in the globe. She is currently working as an architect in Google and has previously worked in Vmware, Cisco, Altiostar Networks and Starent Networks.
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Oğuzhan Kara
Oğuzhan Kara
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Oğuzhan Kara

Oğuzhan Kara is a microelectronics engineer with 12 years of mobile technologies experience including 5G NR, VoLTE, LTE-A, O-RAN, IoT, AI and autonomous systems. He is an expert in Radio Access Network (RAN) design and network optimization. He worked as consultant for different mobile network operators such that AT&T, Partner (f.k.a. Orange in Israel), Hot Mobile, and Yota. In 2021, he founded his own telecommunications consultancy company based in London, UK and he is currently providing 5G consultancy services to Qualcomm and Vodafone.
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5G network deployment architectures

In this section, we are going to analyze the details of NSA and SA deployment architectures that MNOs and CSPs will choose for their 5G network deployments.

The first deployment approach is the NSA architecture. With this architecture, mobiles use two generations of radio access technologies, 4G and 5G, simultaneously. Mobiles are connected to the 4G network through the control and user planes, whereas they are connected to the 5G network through the user plane only. In this architecture, mobiles only employ one core network, which is either the 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC) or 5G Core (5GC) network, and are simultaneously connected to 4G and 5G Radio Access Networks (RANs) in order to reach higher peak data rates, which are achieved by combining the 4G and 5G bit rates.

NSA deployments help MNOs provide an Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) service, which delivers high data bandwidth and reliable connectivity. With the help of NSA architecture...

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Shyam Varan Nath

Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte
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Ananya Simlai

Ananya Simlai is a Solutions Architect with primary focus on Wireless- 4G-5G Mobility Networks, Cloud Native and NFVI, she is a Trusted Advisor for service providers helping them address their technological challenges thereby enabling them to smoothly transition across technologies like 4G- 5G. She has been a speaker on 5G on international forums and also interacts with CTO teams to design their 5G story. She has published multiple papers on 5G and holds granted patents. She has been instrumental in designing, implementing and successfully rolling out one of the largest 5G mobile networks in the globe. She is currently working as an architect in Google and has previously worked in Vmware, Cisco, Altiostar Networks and Starent Networks.
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Oğuzhan Kara

Oğuzhan Kara is a microelectronics engineer with 12 years of mobile technologies experience including 5G NR, VoLTE, LTE-A, O-RAN, IoT, AI and autonomous systems. He is an expert in Radio Access Network (RAN) design and network optimization. He worked as consultant for different mobile network operators such that AT&T, Partner (f.k.a. Orange in Israel), Hot Mobile, and Yota. In 2021, he founded his own telecommunications consultancy company based in London, UK and he is currently providing 5G consultancy services to Qualcomm and Vodafone.
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