ice’s Network Slicing For Norwegian Armed Forces Powered By Mavenir 5G Core

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider building the future of networks, has delivered the full 5G core network for ice to enable a network slicing service.

Norway’s third largest mobile operator, ice, is utilising its new 5G standalone (SA) network to provide a dedicated network slice for the Norwegian Armed Forces, designed to deliver the specific service levels required by military communications.

Essentially an isolated network-within-a-network, the Armed Forces will have exclusive use and control over their slice nationwide. It will be able to establish secure end-to-end communications across the network.

Mavenir President of Core Networks, Ashok Khuntia said the flexibility of network slicing powered by 5G is a game-changer for mobile operators.

“We are enabling 5G use cases in practice, proving that the long-promised monetisation of 5G is a reality. With security, reliability and low latency, 5G is a massive opportunity for the industry,” he said in a statement.

Meanwhile, ice Vice President Service Delivery Platforms, Tore Kristoffersen said: “This deployment of network slicing is realising the true value of 5G. We now have myriad possible new business cases to present to our enterprise customers, which can be tailored to precise service level agreements, ensuring the best and most cost-effective use of resources.

“We are also testing solutions for use in Public Safety services, highlighting the value of 5G and its network slicing capabilities for secure critical communications.”

Mavenir’s 5G mobile core is designed ready for network operators to enable network slicing for providing disruptive services to business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C) or public organisations. 

Dedicated network slices can be designed to meet specified needs and applications, quickly and easily deployed and managed, and used to deliver new and innovative services and applications.

Mavenir’s cloud-native 5G SA network is fully containerised, runs on any cloud service and designed with a microservices approach, giving the flexibility to address evolving customer needs in a scalable way.

-- BERNAMA