My thoughts on Telecom Blockchain.
At the moment, blockchain is a hot topic and extremely popular in the telecom industry. Over the past year, the need for more and more use cases, proofs of concept, and fully realized enterprises built on blockchain technology have emerged.
Transforming business models is a major power of technology. In this case, it has the potential to disrupt the telecom industry, which, in turn, will lead to more transparency and efficiency. At the same time, blockchain applications are still in their early stages, and the adoption of industry-wide standards is still some time away. To minimize the risk of unexpected disruptions or missed opportunities, telecommunications operators that have deployed new technology in their core and adjacent operations and business processes should take the time to examine the use of the technology. They will be better prepared for further revenue growth and cost savings when the technology has matured and is more widely adopted. A blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger. To date, one of the most popular and frequently debated technologies is blockchain. While use cases, proofs-of-concept, and full-fledged enterprises based on blockchain technology are emerging, the majority of industries have either cause for optimism or concern.
At the expense of confidentiality and processing performance, numerous, decentralized storage has strong integrity and robustness. Transactions are capable of being verified by every member of the network. Transactions are validated using network consensus procedures and encryption technologies. Because trust is never formed from a central authority or an auditor, it grows through a network from individual to individual. Finally, decentralization of storage is proven to be particularly resistant to failure. Even in the event of a significant number of network participants failing, the blockchain will remain available, preventing the network from being down for an extended period of time. Immutable information, recorded on the blockchain, is created with new data. To avoid deletion or reversal of transactions once uploaded to the blockchain, as subsequent blocks are added, it employs a mechanism of record-keeping. Blockchain-unique qualities (Enablers) were cited as motivators behind all of the following use cases.
With initial enthusiasm and support, O-RAN continues to expand and establish itself as the dominant architecture choice. However, will that lead to the O-RAN paradigm remaining entrenched and supplanting the status quo, or will the paradigm only serve as a supporting role in our future networks?
Carrier grade technologies and architectures are years away in crowded metropolitan environments. The meat of this is the O-RAN deployment in metropolitan areas. How far do we have to go before we may possibly reach this goal? If you’re in the market for a 2G-4G technology you can install in rural operations, then rural is fantastic these days as there are no such rigorous capacity requirements. Today, you can perform on several frequencies, and the question then becomes, when will that level of performance be achieved with 5G technology? The short-term goal of 5G is FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) followed by enormous MIMO (Multiple Input & Multiple Output) which also requires a 4G service with multiple frequencies and carrier aggregation with appropriate capacity. Overall, I would say that it’s going to be a long time until we reach this point. However, it could be in the span of a year; maybe 18 months away. First and first, it should be stated that the entire deployment is ready and there are a variety of other Department activities that may be carried out, such as the implementation of indoor systems and pirate networks all at once. Because of the demand, we need to use a lot of frequencies in the city. The other distinction is 5G and massive MIMO (Multiple-Input & Multiple-Output).
Those solutions will take a little more time to become mainstream from different radio enders, but if you classify urban requirements as the need for deploying small cells, the need for deploying millimeter wave, the need for deploying you know some midband frequencies, then the answer is yes, there are solutions available right now that can be deployed using open source capabilities (Multiple-Input & Multiple-Output) Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input & Multiple-Output) is very significant. I believe the carriers must provide a set of frequency requirements for mainstream MIMO (Multiple-Input & Multiple-Output) to succeed. That’s absolutely correct. It will take a little bit of time, but other carriers have the capability to start to have their deployment models in place now. Although there is quite a bit going on open round, there isn’t anything like a real deployment side that I can use today because I still need 2G, I’ll still be eating 3G for a period of time, I still need 4G, and I need 5G and 5G massive mobile and those can be purchased today and I have a checkbook ready to write checks for those who can show me a solution now.
