Verizon Achieves Successful Data Transfer Over Multiple Network Slices in Commercial 5G Environment

Verizon Achieves Successful Data Transfer Over Multiple Network Slices in Commercial 5G Environment

US telco Verizon has achieved demonstration by establishing connections and passing data over multiple network slices within a fully commercial 5G environment. Verizon says this achievement highlights the potential of network slicing, which enables customers to route their traffic through virtual end-to-end networks customized to suit specific application requirements while optimizing overall network performance to support a wide range of services.

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The capability to implement network slicing is made possible by Verizon’s new cloud-native, containerized, virtualized standalone 5G core. By leveraging this advanced infrastructure, Verizon aims to offer unparalleled levels of service agility, flexibility, and automated scalability to meet the evolving needs of its customers.

Verizon Network Slicing Setup

In this recent demonstration, Verizon successfully registered a 5G smartphone to multiple network slices and effectively transmitted data across the entire network.

According to the statement, the demonstration utilized commercially available smartphones, both virtualized and non-virtualized Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment deployed in real-world scenarios, and Verizon’s multi-vendor 5G standalone core.

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End-to-End Network Performance

This comprehensive test validated the seamless interaction between the device’s chipset, operating system, application, radio network base station, and core network, showcasing a complete end-to-end data transfer process on a virtual network slice.

Verizon plans to make network slicing available with the evolution of its 5G standalone core. To take full advantage of this network-slicing functionality, customers will require 5G network-slicing capable devices.