Cisco, NTT partner to simplify private 5G connectivity

Cisco and NTT have partnered in the past to bring private 5G services to market. For example they support a managed private 5G package that uses Intel hardware to integrate private 5G into their preexisting LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructures. 

“From a high level, the private cellular networks market continues to demonstrate potential as enterprise and industrial organizations continue to invest in wide-area, grid-based implementations across mines, utility grids, and railways as well as local area implementations including manufacturing plants, warehouses, and ports. Local area instances include deployments both underground and indoors,” IDC wrote in a recent report. 

“Many enterprises considering private cellular networks are holding back investment until solutions can deeply integrate well with existing IT and network infrastructure. For example, to address demand, there is a push within some vendors to integrate at the network management layer to deliver a unified, single-pane approach from which to define policy, security, and traffic using the same platforms currently in place for other networks,” IDC stated.

“The idea is to integrate where it is feasible, so as to avoid simply overlaying another network, thus driving complexity and costs up,” IDC stated.