Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: For years, 5G wasn't able to deliver on its high-speed, low-latency promises. Things have changed. Today, 5G is finally delivering on its performance promises. A big reason for that, proclaimed Arpit Joshipura, the Linux Foundation's general manager of Networking, Edge, and IoT at ONE Summit North America, a networking trade show, is 5G's open-source networking foundation. Joshipura said, "The industry has surpassed the tipping point when it comes to leveraging open source for enabling digital transformation. Leading organizations are using our projects' code -- which continues to evolve and mature -- in real-world deployments to scale."
How big a tipping point? According to Joshipura, 5G deployment is now over 50%. And according to some analysts, by 2030, 5G will reach $7 trillion -- that's trillion, not billion -- in economic value. Behind all this, Joshipura said, "is a radical shift toward open networks and frameworks. This continues irrespective of economic and political headwinds. Indeed, open source is probably the only area that hasn't been impacted because of its ability to cross borders and boundaries to do what needs doing." The Linux Foundation is working on an End-to-End, 5G Super Blueprint to bring together a wide variety of open-source networking programs and projects.
"While still a work in progress, it maps out a way to bring together multiple open-source and cloud-native projects into a relatively simple 5G deployment map," adds ZDNet. "It's designed so that any telecom can put together a high-bandwidth, low-latency, scalable, and cost-effective digital networking infrastructure all the way from end-user devices to the edge to cloud applications."
How big a tipping point? According to Joshipura, 5G deployment is now over 50%. And according to some analysts, by 2030, 5G will reach $7 trillion -- that's trillion, not billion -- in economic value. Behind all this, Joshipura said, "is a radical shift toward open networks and frameworks. This continues irrespective of economic and political headwinds. Indeed, open source is probably the only area that hasn't been impacted because of its ability to cross borders and boundaries to do what needs doing." The Linux Foundation is working on an End-to-End, 5G Super Blueprint to bring together a wide variety of open-source networking programs and projects.
"While still a work in progress, it maps out a way to bring together multiple open-source and cloud-native projects into a relatively simple 5G deployment map," adds ZDNet. "It's designed so that any telecom can put together a high-bandwidth, low-latency, scalable, and cost-effective digital networking infrastructure all the way from end-user devices to the edge to cloud applications."
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The article conflates low-latency with deployment and market share, while an open source foundation may have helped with the latency issue, clearly it had no influence on cell tower deployment or market share.
Hasn't 5G had the same open source networking foundation when it was foundering, or did the telcos all switch their networking foundations after 5G deployments started happening.
Re: Lie of the day (Score:2)
explain how open source helped
Apps! Apps! Apps! To quote a leading scholar in the IT biz. Maybe if we can sucker you into giving up your WiFi, mesh network, or hard wired connection in exchange for our $29.95 per month per device fee, you'll buy some of our 5G stuff to run our cool remote sensing IoT device.
Re: Lie of the day (Score:2)
It certainly has delivered on those promises, if you read between yhe lines. Exchange wide area cellular coverage for spotty low latency, high bandwidth. So some autistic little freaks can play DnD. We have arrived. I get 1 bar of 4G at my house. It's doubtful 5G will i,prove that, seeing as how the upper bands don't penetrate foliage as well.
Our power company was converting its meter reading to GPRS (low bandwidth, who cares about latency) until the telecoms pulled the rug out from under 3G. Can't read me
Sorta strange claims. (Score:1)
Sorta strange claims. We did 100% opensource/mostlyopen hardware LTE (read: 4G) four years ago, and the only thing that limited bandwidth was the spectrum and how much one'd like to pay for the hardware (connectivity and the rest are the same for 5G)
This 5G is just like the hydrogen hype: let's sell some new shit, so people forget how some older shit still is entirely adequate for their needs.
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This 5G is just like the hydrogen hype: let's sell some new shit, so people forget how some older shit still is entirely adequate for their needs.
This has been my observation. I switched to a 5G plan back in July and all I seem to have gotten for my trouble is a 5G badge on my phone. I can't tell the difference between 4G and 5G myself. But when I run a speed test on the 5G network, it actually comes back about 20% slower than my old 4G service.
Undeserved praise (Score:4, Informative)
Listen, I do love me a good "Open Source Saved the World" article as much as the next Slashdot reader, but give me a break. Open Source has had as much impact on the deployment of 5G utilization as my farts impact climate change.
The reason why 5G has achieved the deployment levels, or lack thereof, it has, is as follows:
1) Low-Band 5G was so similar to 4G that carriers could keep all their antenna towers, just swap out some tower circuit hardware and upgrade some software, and bam, you had 5G.
2) US carriers made the wrong investment, putting WAY too much money into the utter failure that was millimeter-wave (high-band) 5G, when the carrier signal couldn't propagate through walls, windows, or even sacks of water otherwise known as human beings, and required distribution towers every city block.
3) Because US carriers made the wrong investment, the only practical high-speed 5G solution, otherwise known as mid-band, had hardware solutions dominated in the industry by Chinese manufacturers. And who knows what the hell types of surveillance the Chinese are programming inside its hardware.
In fact, it's because of reason #3 that open source has found some success within this industry. Because when the code is fully transparent, you can feel reasonably assured that it's not sending all your data to Papa Pooh across the Pacific.
Re: Undeserved praise (Score:2)
Because when the code is fully transparent,
The baseband code is not. I suspect that all that gas been open sourced is the networking SDK running on top of it. So every Tom, Dick and Harry can go into business writing cool apps.
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Yep. 5G is worse in my rural area. Even celullar phone services are crappier. Others and I didn't have this problem with old 3G and even 1X for Internet. I'd rather have reliable slow Internet connections. :(
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US carriers made the wrong investment, putting WAY too much money into the utter failure that was millimeter-wave (high-band) 5G
I thought they put all the money into marketing...
Errr LOL (Score:3)
No, sorry. Don't take credit for something you are not involved in. It's great that open source underpins some of 5G's rollout, but it has nothing to do with either speed or adoption. The former is inherent in the design and most of the underlying technology is built on very much closed source code, the latter is related to time (adoption of new radio technology that is cheaper for operators to run goes without saying).
It's great you're a part of it, but you have nothing to do with its success.
Re: Errr LOL (Score:2)
Exactly.
5G was coming no matter how bad it was/is. (Score:2)