5g xhaul

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5g Xhaul
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• Even the current pandemic cant seem to stop the
  rush to 5G. Between November 2019 and October
  2020 worldwide commercial deployments went from
  1,200 to nearly 16,000. The completion of 3GPPs
  5G New Radio (NR) Release-16 earlier this summer
  marked a milestone as it addresses capabilities
  beyond

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• Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) including
  support for unlicensed spectrum, industrial IoT
  and automotive applications, and integrated
  access and backhaul (IAB).
• Know More-5g Xhaul

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• In a new white paper released by RAD, we take a
  look at some newly introduced 5G concepts,
  including the disaggregation of the gNB and the
  transition from backhaul into xHaul (including
  fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul), and what they
  mean for mobile operators, network wholesalers
  and transport providers both from technological
  and business aspects.

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• Its interesting to note that the 3GPP standards
  tend to consider transport as a trivial function
  that effortlessly delivers data over the named
  interfaces with no latency, availability
  failures, synchronization glitches, or other
  degradation.

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• Alas, even well-engineered transport networks
  have limitations and occasionally fail to live up
  to design requirements.

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• Driven by new use cases (with highly distributed
  content and applications) and an innovative RAN
  architecture that mandates new transport
  attributes, 5G xHaul is fundamentally different
  from conventional 4G mobile backhaul.

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• The new requirements include higher data-rates,
  lower latency and packet loss higher
  reliability hard isolation of network slices
  and dynamic connectivity for on-demand services
  encompassing multiple physical and virtual
  components.

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• Other factors impacting the transport network
  include virtualization and edge computing, and
  network slicing. The following table summarizes
  some of the key requirements. These are likely to
  evolve as new standard releases become available

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• The interested reader can find out more in the
  newly published book 5G Radio Access Network
  Architecture The Dark Side of 5G, especially the
  chapter on the new transport network, which was
  authored by RAD.