The public metaverse is years away from being practically deployed, and to do so will take some fundamental changes to 5G and hyperscaler infrastructure, say stakeholders. But metaverse technology — the integration and overlay of physical and digital “twins” — exists today and is being used to solve practical problems, like how to cover a city optimally with 5G coverage capable of supporting a public metaverse infrastructure, in the first place. Being able to flawlessly digitally recreate a real network is also driving innovations in distributed cloud architectures for Communication Service Providers (CSPs).
