Under 5G Wi-Fi, Carrier Networks Need Better Alignment, Deutsche Telekom Says
As 5G is launched, consumers shouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Wi-Fi and wireless networks, Deutsche Telekom’s 5G Executive Program Manager Antje Williams told the Broadband Forum’s quarterly meeting in Berlin, said a Wednesday news release. “When you…
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look at the amount of challenges and traffic that has to be transported in the future, we will not manage that with just the mobile network,” Williams said. “Today, a much bigger portion of whatever is transported runs through fixed line networks and we strongly believe the solution for the future has to be a combination of the two, or access-agnostic networks. This means that when using the networks, consumers shouldn’t see a difference between mobile access and Wi-Fi access.” Standardization of the two networks is now separate but “to become one network, we need more alignment,” she said.