Ajit Pai of the FCC Upends the 5G Debate Dear Daily Prophecy Reader, The fifth-generation (5G) wireless plot thickened last week. Visionary Chairman Ajit Pai of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) launched plans for March 26 hearings on a revolutionary 5G breakthrough: open virtual cloud-based technology. By moving the 5G "control planes" to software in the cloud, Pai hopes to circumvent the fears of foreign domination of 5G hardware such as routers, switches, transceivers, and antennas. As Pai declared: "The FCC has taken aggressive action to promote American leadership in 5G… One way to advance this priority is through the development and deployment of more secure, cost-effective 5G network components. Virtualized radio access networks (vRAN) could help us do that." Ajit Pai meet Gilad Garon, the American-Israeli champion of vRAN and CEO of ASOCS corporation which has been working with such US firms as ATT, Cisco, and Intel to develop world-leading cloud-based 5G. At the World Mobile Congress at Moscone Center late last year in San Francisco, ASOCS with its ingenious team from Rosh Hayim, Israel, leaped to the head of the parade to 5G networks. 5G is presented as some established standard for new wireless deployments. But in fact, it is a jumbled jamboree of new technologies on the frontiers of mobile and fixed wireless. The New Rules of 5G Promising such conflicting boons as low latency for the internet of things, 20 gigabit-per-second broadband for video streams, 60 gigahertz-band broadcasts for Telco "content" plays, network virtualization and adaptive central control, 5G is a catchall label for the ultimate wireless network. It is also a political passion-pit: an establishment campaign to reconcile the wildly divergent needs of "national champion" telcos, virtual self-driving car touts, high-velocity drones and weapons, virtual reality game devotees, internet of things, telepathic phones, and data center deep yoga learning and analytics. By providing the bottom layers of processing for the actual wireless signals, ASOCS won a position in the lead 5G standards consortia, such as TIP (Telecom Infrastructure Project), which is backed by Facebook and led by Intel and leading European Telecoms. ASOCS is also a technical leader in the more detailed XRAN (Exchange for Radio Access Networks) championed by ATT, Cisco, and Intel. The techies from Rosh Hayim took advantage of carriers and equipment makers distracted by teeming regulations from the politicians (and by in my view self-defeating attempts to exclude all gear from China as if communism infects technology like a virus). From Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), to "network neutrality" pettifoggery, to government anti-trust rules, to national security "Trojan Horse" paranoia, to California Privacy Act nincompoopery, the generals, lawyers, lefty fixers, and politicians are all crowding in with their big hats, mouths, and scant knowledge. As a result, carriers such as ATT and Verizon retreated into ambitious content plays. Google contrived its do-it-all-yourself broadband gambits such as Google Fiber and "Loons." These vain ventures illustrate the proposition that big companies can launch endless projects with little or no commitment to their success. Under nimble and sure-footed network entrepreneur Garon, ASOCS now holds the crucial keys of hardware and software integration to make it all work for enterprises and customers. |
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