As 5G Standalone (SA) networks mature, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) must contend with escalating complexity across multi-vendor, cloud-native, and hybrid environments. In this webinar, Ross Cassan, Senior Director of Assurance Strategy at Spirent, speaks with Kelly Hill, Executive Editor for RCR Wireless News, and shares actionable insights on how leading operators are leveraging automation and real-time assurance to transform these challenges into strategic advantages. This session dives into the operational upheaval facing telecoms: fragmented visibility across RAN, transport, and core networks; rising expectations for enterprise-grade SLAs; and the shift from long testing cycles to agile, DevOps-driven service delivery. Viewers will discover how CSPs can break down organizational and technical silos with continuous active assurance, unlocking faster fault detection and root cause analysis. Cassan illustrates how closed-loop AIOps and chaos engineering principles are being embraced to create self-healing, performance-optimized networks.

Service providers expect 5G to help power critical business transformation by diversifying and growing revenue streams. The right strategy will support rollout of new services in weeks versus months, with always-on, high-performance, and expansive coverage attracting and delighting customers.

Everything about 5G networks is bigger. For 4G, a large national provider might have a network topology with ten physical data centers. Mobile core functions deployed at these locations represent the edge of the mobile network – the point at which core networks interface with radio networks via IP aggregation and backhaul networks. While expensive, for 4G, a service provider could deploy service assurance probes at each of these locations to effectively monitor all user traffic and signaling.

Hyperscalers and operators offering public or private clouds must ensure three delivery phases are validated for success throughout the solution lifecycle. They are: launch, optimization and operation, with testing and validation requirements extending across all phases.

如今，全世界的运营商都在推出5G MEC服务，但每个人心中都会有这样一个问题 － “到底时延能有多低？”但事实上，这只是我们应当提出的众多问题之一。我们需要知道哪些用户将推动MEC的早期采用，以及5G MEC的时延是否低到足以支撑这些用例的程度。欢迎加入STL Partners首席顾问Darius Singh、金年会市场战略总监Stephen Douglas和金年会移动服务战略高级主管Rich McNally等时延专家的讨论，而他们将通过5G MEC和公有云时延的真实测量结果来回答这些关键的问题，并与您分享新兴用例时延需求方面的深入分析。