Telstra and Ericsson announce they have completed building the project’s initial wireless capabilities
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra have announced plans to offer 5G network slicing services to Australian businesses as part of an existing partnership.
The pair said they have completed the first phase of work to enable slice-based use cases such as fixed wireless access (FWA), broadcast, automotive connectivity, stadium and precinct services on Telstra’s 5G network. Stated.
The partners also noted that they have completed building the project’s initial wireless capabilities to fully operationalize and monetize network slicing using Ericsson’s dynamic network slicing solution.
The two main features of this phase are Telstra’s radio access network (RAN) rate control scheduling (RCS) orchestration. This enables network slicing to support efficient utilization of radio resources and creates the ability to automate discovery across the Telstra 5G RAN topology. Integrates Ericsson’s common topology services and his RAN management layer through Ericsson’s discovery and coordination framework.
The companies said they aim to complete the next phase of this collaboration by the end of this year. Ericsson said the next phase of the project will include the development and deployment of features that support more advanced open architectures.
Emilio Romeo, Head of Ericsson Australia and New Zealand, said: “Building these systems with automation as a key feature to reduce complexity and improve efficiency creates a superior service experience, seamless operational excellence, and guaranteed revenue from new business. is the true path to achieving the “model.” ”
“The real opportunity for 5G lies in its ability to deliver premium, reliable and differentiated service experiences beyond standard mobile broadband through network slicing. With Ericsson’s dynamic network slicing capabilities, and offer services that meet the needs of specific customer use cases. As we continue to invest in and develop advanced 5G connectivity for Australia, we see the opportunity to extend this capability to a broader range of customer use cases. , and now we can deliver incredible value from our largest enterprise customers to individual subscribers,” said Shailin Sehgal, Network Applications and Cloud Executive at Telstra.
Last week, Telstra announced that it had partnered with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies to achieve a new world record for 5G uplink speeds of 340 Mbps.
The Australian telco said the achievement will enable Telstra customers to enjoy faster and more reliable data uploads on their 5G standalone (SA) devices. The new 5G SA uplink feature will combine Telstra’s owned mid-band spectrum to create a 140 megahertz channel for transmitting data from devices to the network, the telco said.
This is complemented by a 240 megahertz channel for receiving data from the 5G SA network to the device, delivering downlink speeds of up to 3.6 Gbps and uplink speeds of 340 Mbps, it added.
