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Let’s enjoy 4G and Bell
not rush 5G, says Labs
Orange CEO chief
shuns
By Saleha Riaz the company isn’t “deeply 5G hype
committed” to 5G and to the ‘public
The Internet of Things (IoT) private partnership’ of the By Ken Wieland
will become the “internet of European Commission, he said.
everything” with the advent the world better through sensors, facilities these new usages and Bell Labs president Marcus
of 5G, said Stephane Richard, CEO In fact, the company believes that capture and understand specific “shape a greater world,” he added. Weldon, who is also CTO of
of Orange, speaking at the “Road to 5G is different from 4G because it situations and become more aware. Alcatel-Lucent, poured
5G” keynote yesterday morning, will have a “greater and different For instance, autonomous cars will Richard also believes 5G must scorn on competitors’ “ridiculous
explaining his vision for a new purpose” and needs to have communicate not just with other have green as part of its very DNA,
horizon for the IoT era. flexibility so that it can cars but with parking lots, roads and ensuring that all aspects of 5G, marketing” of 5G, refusing to be
accommodate services that have petrol stations. from access networks, data centres
However, he believes that there is yet to be invented. and transport network to connected sucked into the game of headline-
no rush: “4G is a success, let’s enjoy “Our role as operators is to use devices only consume energy when
it. We shouldn’t jump too fast,” he According to Richard, “we will these amazing opportunities to they are being used. speed announcements.
said, adding that the industry must soon have programmable networks,
learn from the lessons of 3G when making them like clouds, providing Mobility IQ gives service providers “We pride ourselves as being the
there was a delay of several years a much more agile platform for (and their business customers) real-
between the launch of the process innovation.” time visibility into network, user most rational,” he told Mobile World
and the actual reality, which led to and business intelligence across
much disappointment. The CEO also believes that Wi-Fi, 3G and LTE networks.
“ironically, the omnipresence of
That doesn’t mean, though, that technology is what will give it a “This transformational new
more human aspect,” as it will sense capability enables service providers
to deliver valuable, new
differentiated mobile services to Daily. “Most of our competitors talk
their customers, while achieving
new levels of operational efficiency,” about 5Gb/s and 10Gb/s or some
said Cisco in a statement.
Cisco boss says half of other number, but they’re not
service providers will be Chambers also took time in his
“irrelevant” within a decade economic growth, as well as improve remarks to claim leadership in telling you the configuration, which
operator and enterprise profitability. network functions virtualisation
(NFV) in terms of the number of is ridiculous.”
“Internet of Everything is a $19 functions it has managed to virtualise.
trillion opportunity based on profits “We have 49, while our competitors The Bell Labs chief argued that
and savings alone,” said Chambers, have less than 10,” he said. “In a year
adding that the number would be from now it will be over 90.” headline-grabbing 5G
much bigger if job creation were
taken into account. be protected. When consumers use announcements can be an
their mobile device to make a
“Governments around the world contactless payment in a store, a unhelpful distraction. “Everyone
are beginning to address the need token is submitted, rather than their
By Ken Wieland Mobile World Congress. for change, adopting broadband account details. now expects the bar in 5G to be
Chambers said technical change, and getting the right [big data]
John Chambers, chief information at the right time, which The Visa chief also pointed to the 5Gb/s, but it’s based on nothing,”
executive of tech-giant Cisco, through the likes of cloud-based and needs to be complete information “interesting role” that mobile
said he expected sweeping virtualisation technologies, was not and not stove pipe,” he said. operators play, especially in the said Weldon (Ericsson
changes in the operator landscape, enough. Changes in organisational developing world, in driving online
with 50 per cent of today’s service structure and business processes Cisco used yesterday’s press commerce. demonstrated 5Gb/s speeds in July
providers becoming irrelevant in 10 were also needed. conference to showcase Mobility
years’ time as they fail to adapt in a IQ, its mobility software as a 2014, with Samsung following soon
fast-moving digital world. He took Cisco as an example. service (SaaS) analytics solution.
“We have changed more in the last Hosted on Cisco Cloud Services, after with a ‘record’ 7.5Gbps demo).
“Success of companies, cities and three years than we have in our
countries depends on getting market entire history,” said Chambers. Weldon prefers instead a much
transitions right,” he told journalists
at a Cisco press conference held at The Cisco boss enthused about more nuanced 5G message. “We
Internet of Everything technology and
big data analytics as ways to boost like to say it’s about the digitisation
of everything, people and
machines,” he said.
For the Bell Labs president, 5G
should not be a “forced leap” in
technology, but draw heavily on
existing technologies. He expects
5G to re-use existing radio air
interfaces – LTE, WiFi and LTE-U –
Visa ready to help partners launch mobile under a common control plane.
payments after work on Apple Pay
Weldon, however, does see the
need for a new interface. “Not
because there is anything wrong
By Ken Wieland handset and platform agnostic, and “There are a lot of similarities with the existing one, but it’s not
allowed our partners to build their between Apple Pay and Samsung
Ryan Mclnerney, global own payment products.” Pay,” said Mclnerney. “They have great for machines, as it requires
president of Visa Inc, worked with the card networks, and
speaking at yesterday’s Visa is also heavily involved with importantly with the bank card devices to constantly synchronise,
Mobile Word Congress (MWC) Samsung Pay, said Mclnerney, issuers, to let customers use cards
keynote on digital transactions and which is set for launch in the US in the way they know and love. which consumes power.”
social interactions, said the huge during the second half of 2015. They haven’t tried to change it.”
effort involved in helping Apple Pay Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs are
get off the ground has put it in a Following Samsung’s recent Both payment services also
position to help others, including acquisition of LoopPay, the service leverage so-called ‘tokenisation’, a exploring a new multi-carrier
mobile operators, launch rival will support Magnetic Secure security standard Visa announced at
mobile payment services. Transmission (MST) technology as last year’s Mobile World Congress. waveform dubbed UFMC
well as the NFC technology
“We are the payment engine supported by Apple Pay. Becoming increasingly popular to (Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier),
underneath Apple Pay, and we had address security concerns around
700 people working on it for 18 Under questioning from mobile and online payments, which they argue has much better
months before its launch last year,” journalist and author David Mclnerney said tokenisation was a
said Mclnerney. “We wanted to Kirkpatrick, the Visa chief wouldn’t “big deal” in driving mobile payments. efficiency than OFDM (orthogonal
build a platform and system that be drawn on differences between
would be scalable, reliable and safe Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, but By substituting the payment frequency-division multiplexing) –
– but not just for Apple Pay, but to acknowledged that LoopPay account information found on a
build a system that had open technology would be an advantage plastic card with a series of numbers the transport mechanism
architecture, was form-factor, in the US where contactless cards that can be used to authorise
and ‘chip and pin’ is not so widely payment without exposing actual underpinning LTE and LTE-
used as it is in Europe. account details, customer data can
Advanced systems – for handling
IoT traffic.
UFMC is one of a number of new
air interface candidates, sharing
similar characteristics, being
explored by 5GNow – 5th
Generation Non-Orthogonal
Waveforms for Asynchronous
Signalling – a research project
funded by the European Union.
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