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7 THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN 6

MONETISE IT

LAUNCHING 5G
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5G will also create a paradigm shift in monetisation from
volume to quality. Their new network capabilities will allow
service providers to tailor networks to partners and services
in order to introduce new offerings and increase the value of
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HYBRID NETWORKS ARE HERE TO STAY the existing ones.
Evolving to offer new services based on 5G related
Virtual elements will still coexist with non-virtualised capabilities such as edge computing and network slicing will
network infrastructure for the foreseeable future,
Open 5G: FIRST YOU NEED TO BUILD YOUR NETWORK require flexible monetisation models, payment methods and
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AND YOU NEED TO DO IT FAST
creating a complex hybrid mobile network.
This will impact the need for the modernisation of the
even paying entities.
Yosi Mor-Yosef, service providers’ operational systems. Let’s take
Monetisation is not only about billing and charging. Partner
onboarding, quick offer creation, order fulfillment and an
Recent research by IDC, commissioned by Amdocs, found that 66% of
inventory as an example: network physical resources
Product Marketing service providers estimated that they will be first to their market with like a gNB will need to be maintained in an inventory
enhanced digital experience will all play a key role in service
5G. Well this math doesn’t work – they can’t all be first. But it does providers’ ability to leverage 5G’s promise for new revenue
Director, Amdocs reveal the importance that operators themselves place upon being
along with their related logical resources such as link,
circuit and port numbers. In addition, virtual network
streams from all those lucrative new use cases.
first, and being fast.
Open Network, This desire to be first runs up against the fact that 5G technology by
resources like the v5G core will need to be tracked and
managed alongside the physical network in an active
nature will require massive densification of the network as the need for
outlines the key considerations wider spectrum bands requires, in turn, higher frequency. 5G will also
inventory, together with the IT cloud infrastructure

for operators as they prepare lead to the addition of many components to the network across radio,
backhaul and the core.
to launch 5G. That means that to get to the true benefits of 5G first, the traditional
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5G IS NOT JUST ANOTHER
WIRELESS EVOLUTION
We know that 5G will provide speeds, latency,
capacity and support for numbers and densities
of devices we couldn’t even imagine a few years
back. Yet what’s more interesting than 5G’s raw
technical features is its potential to transform the
telecoms industry.
5G gives service providers the ability, for the
first time, to create new lines of businesses
across areas as varied as manufacturing, utilities,
healthcare, smart cities, transport, media,
gaming and entertainment. Successful 5G service
providers will be the ones that recognise the
greater opportunities that 5G technology can
offer. They will be open enough to work with
new partners and create new business models
to quickly build new revenue streams that will
provide a return on their huge 5G investment.
To build, launch and operate these new kinds of
services, though, they will need to develop new
operating models.
approach of rolling out the network won’t scale. Service providers will
need different kinds of tools and practices that leverage automation
and experts to drive faster and more cost-effective deployments.
Service providers should consider using vendor-independent
planning and deployment tools and expertise from companies like
Amdocs that have no commercial interest in increasing the number of
elements in the network.
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VIRTUALISATION IS KEY – IF NFV DIDN’T EXIST IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN INVENTED FOR 5G
5G is all about moving away from closed, monolithic and dedicated
appliance architectures, to open, modular distributed networks that
are software-defined, virtualised and cloud-based. 5G will leverage
SDN and NFV running in a cloud computing environment to benefit
from their dynamic, rapidly configurable set of network capabilities.
This also opens the door for new players to enter domains that
were dominated by the largest vendors, helping CSPs to pay less for
the 5G infrastructure but more importantly to manage the network
in a much more efficient way. Yet this proliferation of vendors could
create its own set of challenges and requires the right software to
orchestrate and manage all the pieces in this distributed virtualised
multi-vendor network.
needed to support them.
It’s not just inventory: to plan operate and assure
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GO OPEN – HERE’S HOW
the network service providers will need provisioning,
orchestration and fulfilment solutions all to support
Open 5G is Amdocs’ solutions suite designed for service
providers starting their journey to 5G.
a hybrid network. The solutions and services suite help providers to adopt an
open 5G architecture that will support the simple integration
of partner technologies creating a comprehensive
5G IS ABOUT SMART
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NETWORK OPERATIONS
ecosystem of capabilities that enable the introduction of
new 5G-based use cases.
Open 5G is based on open APIs and open-source software
5G will enable service providers to launch a high number
such as Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) and
of services uniquely tailored to numerous use cases and
is clustered in three main groups:
specific customer demands. This requires a paradigm
shift in network operations, from static, reactive, manual • Open 5G Fast accelerates 5G network deployment
operations to proactive, automated operations.
In order to get there, the design of services in the 5G
with network planning and placement, densification
and roll-out, integration and acceptance, and
network will have to include closed-loop models and end-to-end optimisation. It includes automation
policies that will autonomously operate and assure the tools for advanced 5G related technologies like MIMO
service on every level. This way, pre-defined service intent optimisation, visualisation and analysis of 5G site/cell
together with real-time service performance will drive data and more.
optimisation or service repair autonomously. Service
• Open 5G Smart drives automation and intelligence to
providers will have to upgrade their operational and
the service layer using network orchestration,
assurance tools to ones that understand the true service
autonomous operations, slice and edge
experience at any given time, and seamlessly connect
management solutions.
these tools with the orchestration and fulfilment systems
so as to close the loop of the entire service lifecycle. • Open 5G Monetise supports the introduction and
Getting to full closed loop operations will obviously be monetisation of new 5G services with a charging
a long-term journey that will evolve as service providers platform, rapid partner onboarding, agile catalogue,
go deeper into 5G. and digital user engagement.