Webinar: 3GPP 5G Core Network Status

Nov 22, 2017

Georg Mayer, 3GPP CT Chairman

Looking at the next generation core network - fit for 5G.

Topics covered included:

- The 5G timeline
- 5G, an enabler platform for different Services
- The Software & Service Centric Transformation
- Transformation of the Core Network
- Network Slicing
- The Service Based Architecutre

Webinar: 3GPP Broadband applied to Critical Communications

Nov 14, 2017

Erik Guttman, 3GPP SA Chairman

Webinar: 5G RAN status report - After RAN#77

Sep 25, 2017

Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP RAN Chairman

See & hear how the early drop of NR specifications is shaping up.

Paper titles from 5G Americas:

• LTE Progress Leading to the 5G Massive Internet of Things

• 5G Services and Use Cases

• LTE to 5G: Cellular and Broadband Innovation

5G Americas regularly publishes white papers, giving detailed information on the state of play for 3GPP systems uptake in the Americas.

An impressive resource of papers, statistics and presentations is on-line at http://www.5gamericas.org 

5G Network Architecture and Design

Andy Sutton,
Principal Network Architect
BT

January 2017

This detailed presentation, filmed just before the March agreement for an intermediate milestone for the Non-standalone (NSA) 5G NR mode (for eMBB), gives a network operator perspective - introducing the 3GPP 5G architecture now being specified in Release 15.

It was recorded at the Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision to Reality event by the IET.

ATIS

5G Reimagined: A North American Perspective

November 2015

5G-PPP

"5G Vision"

The European Commission and the 5G Infrastructure Association

March 2015

4G Americas

Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions

October 2014

GSMA

A recent GSMA paper looks at how - even before 5G is standardised and available for deployment - Operators can start to build relationships with vertical industries by evolving their existing 4G networks using 3GPP-based technologies.

Download: "Unlocking Commercial Opportunities From 4G Evolution to 5G"

February 2016

NGMN Alliance

5G White Paper

March 2015

GSMA

Understanding 5G:Perspectives on future technological advancements in mobile

December 2014

IMT-2020 PG

The Chinese IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group's White Paper on "5G Vision and Requirements"

May 2014