This eBook about 5G, IoT and AI oriented to business. Revision 20200505 with Sections 1 and 2.

1. 5G, IoT and AI
An overview about strategy
for business
Material collection for self study and
working
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Sections 1 and 2

2. Agenda
5G, IoT and AI. An overview about strategies for business
Sections:
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. The 5G World
4. 5G takes you to the edge
5. 5G, Edge, IoT, and AI
6. Preparing your networks for 5G
7. Moving beyond imagination
8. The Open 5G Network
9. Standards and Software
10. Integrating Open Source Software into Your Business
Strategy

3. 1 Welcome
The reason of this eBook and how to use it. How it is organized. What you will find and knowledge you will learn.

4. Welcome
Let’s start.
Material Organization.
Every section starts with the content and then you will find the EXTRA section (Vale
Added). In where can be found lot of material to complement the topic. This is a reference
and by finding the PDF documents and videos, sure you can go through many other
documents and sources for additional information. This is just one proposal as starting
point.
The reason of this eBook.
Serve as a reference for manager and engineers to improve, enhance and advance in the 5G
knowledge related to a business perspective.
This material will provide you the knowledge needed to put 5G to work in your businesses,
empowering you to lead your teams into the future. It is useful for self study guide and
reference for your own material preparation. With these knowledge, you will be recognized
within your organization as experts on the modernization of business networks.

5. Welcome
Let’s start.
What we learn.
• Discern between the hype and real opportunities of 5G
technologies.
• Where we are in the 5G rollout and what to expect next.
• How 5G will impact your business.
• The technologies driving network modernization.
• What use cases apply to your business for optimizing customer
experience and hyper-personalization and for improving
operational efficiency and scalability.
• The first steps towards building and executing a transition
strategy that prepares your business for the 5G future.
• The importance of open source in 5G. And which open source
technologies are driving innovation for 5G.
• Discuss the first steps you can take to build and execute a
transition strategy that prepares your business for the 5G future
References.
This material is based in edX Professional Certificate by Linux
Foundation “5G Strategy for Business Leaders”. This program is free
and you pay if you want to get your certificate.
You are finding here my notes complemented with additional
material, which is the value added. You can use it for your self study,
material preparation for your presentations and so on.
I recommend you to visit edX if you want to get the certificate.
https://www.edx.org/professional-
certificate/linuxfoundationx-5g-strategy-for-business-leaders

6. 2 Introduction
5G is here. Overview at standards and open source projects.

7. Introduction
5G is here.
Business managers and their technical partners will be
the ones to build the next great innovations based on the
capabilities of 5G. But in order to do so, they require a
fundamental understanding of the market pressures and
a basic understanding of the technologies driving this
shift -technologies like Edge computing, IoT and AI, as
well as improvements to mobile broadband and low
latency.
5G devices and networks are being deployed now and
are expected en masse in the next 12-24 months.
This generation of wireless technologies will
fundamentally change the way we communicate and the
way businesses operate, from virtual and augmented
reality to smart cities and much more.
Businesses will gain new ways to enhance customer
experience, deliver hyper-personalization and improve
operational efficiency, among the many ways that we’re
only now beginning to imagine.

8. Value added
5G is here.
The 5G Guide. A reference for operators. By GSMA.
https://www.gsma.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-5G-Guide_GSMA_2019_04_29_compressed.pdf

9. Value added
Overview of the most important and active
standards & organizations
 3GPP develops protocols for mobile technology.It has created and established 2G and 2.5G standards such as GSM (Global
System for Mobile Communications),GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM
Evolution);3G standards like UMTS (Universal Mobile TelecommunicationsSystem) and HSPA (High Speed Packet
Access); 4G standards including LTE (Long-Term Evolution)Advanced and LTE Advanced Pro, and now 5G standards.
 GSMA is a trade body that represents the interests of more than 750mobile network operators worldwide.
 Cloud Native ComputingFoundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundationcollaborative project that builds sustainable
ecosystems around open source projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture. Among other
things, it develops standards for Kubernetes.
 ETSI (European TelecommunicationsStandardsInstitute) is an independent standardization organization that produces
globally-applicable standards for Informationand Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio,
converged, broadcast, and internet technologies.
 LF Edge is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundationthat aims to build an open source framework for Edge
Computing,unifying Edgeacross IoT, telecom, enterprise, and cloud.
 TM Forum is a global industry association that drives collaboration to build frameworks and toolkits to support the digital
transformation.
 MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) is a nonprofit international industry consortium of over 200member companies, driving the
development of over 60 technical standards, specifications, and implementationagreements that affect communication
services and technology interoperability.
 O-RAN Alliancefocuses on open, interoperable interfaces and RAN (Radio Access Network) virtualization.
 OpenFlowis a communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the
network. The OpenFlowstandard is developed by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).
 International TelecommunicationUnion (ITU) was founded in 1865to facilitateinternational connectivityin
communications networks, allocate global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develop the technical standards that ensure
networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strive to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities
worldwide. Every time you make a phonecall via the mobile, access the Internet or send an email, you are benefitting from
the work of ITU.
 The 5G PPP (Infrastructure Public Private Partnership) IMT-2020 EvaluationGroup is organized under the umbrella of
5G InfrastructureAssociation, with participants from active 5G PPP projects, to perform an independent evaluation of
IMT-2020proposals to support ITU-R WP5D for the finalization of the IMT-2020 recommendationin 2020. This
Evaluationgroup has been recognized by ITU-R as a contributor of an independent second opinion on the Radio Interface
Technologies (RITs), which will be submittedby SDOs (Standards DevelopingOrganizations) to ITU-R to be recognized as
member of the IMT family of systems for mobile and wireless.
 International Mobile Telecommunications-2020(IMT-2020Standard) are the requirements issued by the ITU
RadiocommunicationSector (ITU-R) of the International TelecommunicationUnion (ITU) in 2015 for5G networks, devices
and services. The name IMT-2020 follows the same naming structure as IMT-2000(3G) and IMT-Advanced (4G).
 3GPP TS 38 Series. Technical Specifications for 5GNR.

10.  OPNFV (Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization)is a carrier-grade, integrated, open
source platform to accelerate the introduction of new NFV products and services. The project is
developedunder The Linux Foundationumbrella.
 OpenDaylight is a collaborative open source project hostedby The Linux Foundation, aiming to
promote software-definednetworking and network function virtualization. It is a modular open
platform for customizing and automating networks.
 Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration systemfor automating the deployment,
scaling and managementof containerized applications. It is developedunder the CNCF umbrella, a
collaborative open source project at The Linux Foundation.
 OpenStack is a free and open source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as
Infrastructure-as-a-Service, whereby virtual servers and other resources are made available to
customers.
 ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform)is a platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration
and automation of physical and virtual network functions that enable software, network, IT and
cloud providers and developers to rapidly automate new services and support complete lifecycle
management. It is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation.
 OpenSwitch is an open source, Linux-basednetwork operating system (NOS) for disaggregated
switches. The OpenSwitch platform aims to accelerate the transition to open networking and the
adoption of disaggregateddata center networks. It is an open source project hosted by The Linux
Foundation.
 Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch, designedto enable massive network
automation. It is an open source project hostedby The Linux Foundation.
 The LinuxFoundation NetworkingFund (LFN) is a Linux Foundation initiative that brings together
the top networking projects in an effort to increase harmonization across platforms, communities,
and ecosystems.The LFN projects aim to address major industry challenges and through
collaboration, transform all aspects of the network and accelerate open source deployments.
 ONUG was created to satisfy the need of a user-focus space where the best practices and challenges
of the IT world can be shared with the like-minded people of the digital market & economy.
 Ericsson article. Operators exploring 5G new use cases and businessmodels require that time to
market of new services be reduced at the lowest cost possible. Technologieslike micro services,
Orchestration, containers, NFV, SDN, AI/ML, Automation and Edge will help pave the way.
Value added
Some of the most popular open source
networking projects

11. Thank You
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