Track: Programmable Real-Time Networks Keynote |
| The Communications Fabric: 5G, COVID-19, and a vision for the future |
| Two major topics weighing on people’s minds are COVID-19 and 5G. Both are or have the potential to dramatically transform everyone’s lives. This presentation will talk about COVID-19 and 5G through the lens of the global Internet-based wireless communications network. Last year, 2019 was the 20th anniversary of IMS, the underlying technology in VoLTE, VoWiFi, fixed VoIP, and RCS. This technology continues to transform the classic and historic circuit-based PSTN and PLMN into a globally interoperable, multi-access, all-IP solution enabling next generation multimedia communications services. With roughly 2 billion live Internet wirelesss communications users in the world, the technology presents an extreme-scale solution to new avenues of services in telemedicine, work-from-home, and remote education cases, all of which are acting to combat the crises caused by Covid-19. This talk will also explain how Vo5G/VoNR will further enhance future communications services by leveraging new capabilities such as 5G network slicing. While the pandemic may end in another year, some of its impacts on how we conduct our lives will be permanent. And that will include how we work, get educated, and stay healthy. |
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