As enterprises prepare to move from 4G to private 5G, it’s critical to remember that this is not merely a speed and bandwidth boost, along the lines of how moving from 3G to 4G played out.
As opposed to a simple performance upgrade, private 5G changes the game as organizations can have 5G infrastructure where the spectrum – and hence the network, as well as the data on the network – are owned by, and under the control of the organization. The concept of enterprise-owned (and enterprise-focused) cellular networks is quickly gaining popularity as the combination of the performance improvements of 5G networks and the control and security enterprises need is potentially too good to pass up. IoT/IIoT, VoIP and supporting a massive number of remote sites are just a few of the hardships today’s enterprise networks face.
