The 5G future — exploring the potential for standalone networks

A panel of tech and telco experts will discuss the future of 5G standalone networks during the coming Comms Connect NZ conference, to be held in Christchurch from 13–14 June.

Josh Bahlman, General Manager of Telco Cloud and CISO at Spark NZ, will deliver the day two keynote, and will join fellow 5G standalone trial participants from Red Hat, Mavenir and AWS on a panel following his keynote.

While many telcos around the world are updating their networks to 5G, their data centres and network cores are still running on legacy, non-5G systems. Spark’s New Zealand trials have been working on 5G standalone networks which are cloud-native (fully virtualised, can run on any cloud service, designed with a micro services approach and architected to address evolving customer needs in a scalable way, while also offering inherent resilience).

Join industry leaders from across the region in Christchurch next month for this and many more expert presentations — see the full program at www.comms-connect.com.au/conference. Early bird conference discounts close on 15 May.

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