How Continuing LTE Evolutions Will Support the Transition to 5G and Customer Demands
By most accounts 5G Wireless won’t be a commercial reality until the 2020 timeframe. Given the diverse use cases it’s looking to address – enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications (IoT), ultra-reliable, low-latency communications – this timing shouldn’t be surprising. 5G demands, however, won’t emerge overnight. In the run-up to 2020, service providers will need technologies to support them.
In this Current Analysis webinar, Peter Jarich (VP, Consumer and Infrastructure) will examine the wireless network technologies and that will help operators scale their networks and meet intense, evolving service demands while waiting for 5G to arrive – and even when 5G is available. What are the key operator use cases for evolving today’s LTE and LTE-A networks over the next 18 months, in the run-up to 5G commercialization? What technologies will operators likely deploy in support of those use cases? How will these network upgrades and innovations support the deployment and commercialization of 5G in the future?
Building on continuing research into 4G and 5G technologies along with some recent survey research into mobile operator demands and buying presence, the webinar will take a multi-faceted view of the topic, considering vendor and service provider perspectives as well and end-user demands.
Whether you network infrastructure vendor, an operator with LTE in place today, an operator still launching LTE, or an end-user looking to understand where mobile networks are headed, please join us to learn how 4G is evolving into 4.5G - and what to do about it.
Presented by
Peter Jarich,
VP, Consumer and Infrastructure
VP of Consumer and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, Peter Jarich manages the firm's syndicated research into the network equipment and software solutions deployed at telecom service providers along with the consumer services, service innovations and connected devices riding on those networks. This role sees Peter directing the company's analysts looking into wireline network infrastructure and services, mobile networks and services, and the competitive environment surrounding tablets and smartphones, including Current Analysis' regular tracking of service innovations, and device marketing dynamics. Peter holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University and a MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
