This report sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel evaluates the impact 5G Service Based Architecture (SBA) on Network Slicing. New kinds of Management and Network Orchestration (MANO) are required to ensure that guaranteed End to End (E2E) Quality of Service (QoS) ‘on Demand’ can be delivered efficiently, automatically and at low cost with Network Slicing.

Communications Service providers (CSPs) need vendors who can assist their digital transformation to help them evolve to this new dynamic ‘5G Ready’ environment. New processes and highly automated network and service management are essential to address the complex, highly dynamic nature of 5G SBA Network Slice MANO.

Within 3-5 years, CSPs should begin to reap the rewards from this investment and achieve their goal of offering differentiated services with Network Slicing at price points that will open up major new and profitable markets. To do this they need vendors with proven capabilities to address the service orchestration challenges they face today.

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1. Overview

What is Network Slicing?

2. How 4G handles Network Slicing

3. 5G Service Based Slicing

• 5G Goal is ‘Every Network Function as a Service and Pool of Resources for all Services’

  • 5G defines Mechanisms for Characterizing Service Instances as Slice Types and Assigning them to Slices and Slice Instances
  • Virtualization and Dynamic Assignment are Critical for Profitable 5G Network Slicing
  • 5G Demands a new approach to Network Management and Orchestration

• 5G and Network Slice Management need to go beyond NFV MANO

• Agile handling of Dynamic Slice Management and Orchestration
• New management systems already deliver ‘5G ready’ Network Slicing solution
• 4. Where are we on Network Slicing Roadmap?

• State of Network Slicing

  • Stages of Network Slicing Evolution (2017 – 2026)

  Simplify & Automate to avoid Escalating Costs of Management and Orchestration

  • Intent Based Orchestration
  • Benefits of Intent Based Orchestration
  • Role of the Information Model in Network Slicing
  • Use Case Example of Connected Cars
  • Process for Creating new Network Slice based on Information Model

  5. Revenue Opportunities for 5G Slicing

  Key Markets & Use Cases

  6. Implications

  Business Case improves as CSPs leverage Virtualization and Automation to evolve to Dynamic 5G Slicing