The telecoms industry is in the midst of a generational shift as operators invest in the transition from LTE to 5G. And unlike previous upgrade cycles, this move is about a lot more than macro cells and fiber, although that’s certainly a part of it. For 5G, operators and their ecosystem partners are undertaking massive small cell densification efforts to usefully deploy new mid-band and millimeter wave spectrum. Virtualization is moving from the core network out to the radio access network and a distribution of compute power from the data center out to the network edge will be key to realizing the latency benefits 5G will enable.
