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SERVICE PROVIDER l ARTICLE l FUTURE 5G: AR, VR AND BEYOND John English, Director of Marketing, Service Provider Solutions, NETSCOUT 5G will provide ten times the bandwidth to ten times the number of connections with latency of less than 2 milliseconds. These attributes will mean that doors start to open for the introduction of high bandwidth services such as 4K and 360-degree video as well augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), along with mixed reality, applications. The robustness and resilience of the technology also makes it suited for mission critical ultra-high availability services such as remote surgery and connected car and assisted driving applications. AR and VR have the potential to revolutionize mobile services but they are reliant on high quality, low latency connectivity to provide a decent user experience. Service providers are working with AR and VR technology providers and the content is the next step needed to truly ignite this part of the market. We will start to see AR-enabled motorbike helmets that utilize 5G connections to bring rich information onto the riders’ visors and there will be a raft of enterprise applications, ranging from relatively simple applications such as helping workers navigates warehouses to collect the right products, to more complex activities such as guiding engineers through complicated repair processes on-site. To assure the high quality experiences expected of AR and VR can be delivered, service providers will need to monitor their 5G networks with virtual probes with smart data technology. For 5G, this introduces a new approach to service assurance that takes into account the requirements of the service being delivered over the 5G network. 5G is a virtualized environment and therefore software-based – or virtual – probes can be utilized to assure the network, providing smart visibility into the performance of individual services. The intelligent visibility provides the insight necessary for the system to make an automated decision that supports a great user experience for the network. For example, providing weather data in the corner of motorcyclist’s helmet visor has very different requirements to serving high bandwidth demands of a graphical engineer to an engineer servicing a power-generating windmill. Intelligence will help service providers deliver the carrier-grade experience of the future – whatever your reality. l ARTICLE l

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SERVICE PROVIDER

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FUTURE 5G: AR, VR AND BEYONDJohn English, Director of Marketing,Service Provider Solutions, NETSCOUT

5G will provide ten times the bandwidth to ten times the number of connections with latency of less than 2 milliseconds. These attributes will mean that doors start to open for the introduction of high bandwidth services such as 4K and 360-degree video as well augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), along with mixed reality, applications. The robustness and resilience of the technology also makes it suited for mission critical ultra-high availability services such as remote surgery and connected car and assisted driving applications.

AR and VR have the potential to revolutionize mobile services but they are reliant on high quality, low latency connectivity to provide a decent user experience. Service providers are working with AR and VR technology providers and the content is the next step needed to truly ignite this part of the market. We will start to see AR-enabled motorbike helmets that utilize 5G connections to bring rich information onto the riders’ visors and there will be a raft of enterprise applications, ranging from relatively simple applications such as helping workers navigates warehouses to collect the right products, to more complex activities such as guiding engineers through complicated repair processes on-site.

To assure the high quality experiences expected of AR and VR can be delivered, service providers will need to monitor their 5G networks with virtual probes with smart data technology. For 5G, this introduces a new approach to service assurance that takes into account the requirements of the service being delivered over the 5G network. 5G is a virtualized environment and therefore software-based – or virtual – probes can be utilized to assure the network, providing smart visibility into the performance of individual services.

The intelligent visibility provides the insight necessary for the system to make an automated decision that supports a great user experience for the network. For example, providing weather data in the corner of motorcyclist’s helmet visor has very different requirements to serving high bandwidth demands of a graphical engineer to an engineer servicing a power-generating windmill. Intelligence will help service providers deliver the carrier-grade experience of the future – whatever your reality.

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