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Published inJun 2023
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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
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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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The different 5G deployment options defined by 3GPP

There are 10 different deployment options and sub-options defined by 3GPP in the late drop of Release 15. The main options are Option 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, whereas the sub-options are 3a, 3x, 4a, 7a, and 7x.

Option 2 is SA architecture with a gNB and 5GC. Option 5 consists of 4G Next-Generation eNB (ng-eNB) with 5GC. ng-eNBs are referred to as next-generation since they support 5GC network protocols and are the updated versions of the existing eNBs. Option 3 involves NSA architecture and includes the sub-options of 3a and 3x. The main difference between these sub-options is that some new interfaces have been added in Option 3x – for instance, an S1-U interface between the EPC and the gNB, which didn’t exist in Option 3. Also, the X2 interface between the eNB and the gNB doesn’t exist in 3a but does in 3x.

Option 4 consists of the 5GC and the gNB with an ng-eNB as an NSA architecture and it also includes sub...

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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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