Connectivity Platform to Deliver Sync as a Service for 5G Digital Enterprise

Abstract

In the digital transformation era, 5G is expected to meet high quality and reliable services. To cope with rapid urbanisation, current enterprise architectures and underlying technology infrastructure are rapidly advancing to the digital enterprise. Digital enterprise will be deployed with clusters of small cells and Customer Premises Equipments (CPE). In 5G era, realisation of such digital enterprise requires key stakeholder like Neutral Hosts (NHs) to rapidly deploy small cells or CPE clusters. With the advent of technologies in 5G like Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), the digital enterprise are expected to meet requirements in terms of real-time capabilities, reliability, rapid coverage and seamless connectivity. The key challenge is to provide a good synchronisation network. To achieve all these requirements, 5G needs to have precise time, phase and frequency sync requirements. The paper address the importance of advancement of business towards digital connectivity platform models that can integrate different stakeholders and consumers by facilitating interactions between them. The paper presents Synchronisation (Sync) as a Platform Service that enables timely and efficient delivery of distinct services to the users in a digital enterprise use case scenario.