Dell EMC CTO John Roese laid out a vision of the transition to 5G where the technology exists in small, mostly industrial pockets around the world for the first couple of years before becoming pervasive enough to make real inroads in the consumer space: what he described as a 5G transition that is, at least initially, a “geofenced world.” But those first deployments won’t be mere testbeds, he said — they’ll be fully commercialized offerings serving specific use cases.
“Because we don’t have pervasive 5G, we’ll have very carefully placed 5G infrastructures,” Roese said during a morning event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which also included Constantine Polychronopoulos, VP and CTO for telco/NFV at VMware.
