MTN has conducted a proof of concept for a 5G Standalone core fully deployed in Microsoft Azure. It said this was a first-of-its-kind deployment.<\/p>\n
It conducted the proof of concept with all of the 5G Standalone core elements, including the control plane, user plane, and management nodes, deployed entirely in the South Africa Azure Region.<\/p>\n
MTN said the project allowed it to experience the benefits associated with deploying a core network in Azure, including ease of scale and fast deployment time, deploying in days compared to months.<\/p>\n
According to MTN, the experience drove a paradigm shift in network planning considering sustainability, commercial models, automation, and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing one of the first in the world to conduct this proof of concept demonstrates MTN\u2019s desire to keep pushing the boundaries of technological innovation that delivers value to our shareholders,\u201d said MTN group chief technology officer Amith Maharaj.<\/p>\n
MTN said it would use the proof of concept as a stepping stone to drive further innovation in the cloud.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft is equipping industry leaders with ubiquitous computing power to help them realise the potential of 5G networks,\u201d said Tad Brockway, Microsoft CVP Azure for Operators.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Azure, MTN can enrich its digital capabilities and enable organisations across industries to bring modern high-performance applications to their customers faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
MTN says it has has deployed one of the first 5G standalone cores in Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62528],"tags":[469,123,24957,42,84999],"class_list":["post-484583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5g","tag-amith-maharaj","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-azure","tag-mtn","tag-tad-brockway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484585,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484583\/revisions\/484585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}