5G 2030

China’s five-year plan for 2016–2020 and the Made in China 2025 initiative both identified 5G as a “strategic emerging industry”, with goals for Chinese companies to become more competitive and innovative in the global market, and avert the country’s prior reputation for low-quality and counterfeit goods .

For T-Mobile, Cisco provided technology for user plane function, session management function and policy control function. He said 5G gives Cisco an opportunity to help its customers move from legacy appliance-based architectures to cloud-native virtualized infrastructures as they update their core networks .