The 3G4G Blog

When talking about mobile networks, we generally talk about disaggregation and virtualization of the RAN rather than the core. The 5G Core N...

We have covered some detailed webinars and presentations on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) but people have often asked us to add some bas...

Since the industry realised how the 5G Network Architecture will look like, Network Slicing has been touted as the killer business case that...

Over the last couple of years, I keep on coming across Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA). A simple way to explain is that the standard model of ...

The National Governors Association (NGA) in the USA is the voice of the leaders of 55 states, territories, and commonwealths. On May 24th, t...

I come across a question relating to the different type of RAN architectures once per month on an average. Even though we have covered the t...

When we made our little Open RAN explainer , couple of years back, we never imagined this day when so many people in the industry will be ta...

The premises of virtualization is to move physical network functions (PNF in hardware) into software and to design them in a way so that the...

Cloud native is talked about so often that it is assumed everyone knows what is means. Before going any further, here is a short introductor...

Apis Training has a new webinar on 5G Core. It's embedded below. It covers lots of ground from Network Architecture options to Slici...

ETSI Security Week 2018 ( link ) was held at ETSI's Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, South of France last week. It covered wide variet...

Its been a while since I wrote about 5G security in this fast changing 5G world. If you are new to 3GPP security, you may want to start...

What is the next step in evolution of SON ? Artificial Intelligence obviously. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in the...

Its been nearly 2 years since I last blogged about ETSI Security workshop . A lot has changed since then, especially as 5G is already in...