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Spirent 5G Outlook Report: 5G engagements highlight diverse routes to revenue and capital efficiency

Published on : Saturday 25-02-2023

Spirents more than 2,600 5G engagements to date afford the company a unique, broad-based view of the industrys global 5G pursuit.

 Bangalore, February 24, 2023 – Spirent Communications, the leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, has released its annual 5G Outlook Report, based on analysis and takeaways from over 800 new global 5G engagements in 2022. The 5G 2023: Market Drivers, Insights & Considerations report provides insights from across the 5G ecosystem on the current status of 5G, revealing trends, technology advancements and revenue-generating use cases.

 To capitalise on new 5G revenue and counter inflationary and energy pressures, service providers must discover the new applications and services customers are willing to buy at a premium and deliver competitive performance levels, said Spirents Head of Market Strategy, Steve Douglas. Success hinges on many factors and Spirent plays a key role in how customers unlock new revenue streams while improving productivity, capital efficiency and energy management. We understand our customers need to be not just market-ready, but monetisation-ready and we partner with them in pursuit of these goals.

 The most promising 5G network applications, services and use cases ready for profit include the following:

·         Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) range and competitive speeds doubled in just 12 months with throughputs reaching upwards of 900Mbps on mmWave and ranges beyond 2km.

·         Mobile gaming success zeroed in on KPIs that relate to user perception and acceptable tolerances.

·         Multi-access edge computing (MEC) performance with cloud providers demonstrated less than 20ms latencies but guaranteeing consistency is a work in progress.

·         VoNR on 5G Standalone is getting ready for prime time with Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) beating VoLTE, demonstrating the potential for future immersive collaboration services.

·         Private networks are moving forward as stakeholders recognize the need for a simple set of understandable SLAs, performance and site acceptance metrics that will drive enterprise IT/OT/security team investments.

 Spirents more than 2,600 5G engagements to date afford the company a unique, broad-based view of the industrys global 5G pursuit, from which a number of dominant themes emerge.

 5G Core is on the way, but commercial deployments will be gradual – Cloud-native complexity, multivendor network function integration, assuring high-performance services over disaggregated stacks, security risks and spectrum portfolio migrations demand multi-phase testing. Spirent expects more than 100 5G Core deployments by 2024 and until then, progress will happen steadily behind the scenes.

 Spirents 5G 2023: Market Drivers, Insights & Consideration is available for download.

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