Telstra and Ericsson Introduce 5G Automated and Orchestrated Enterprise Services

The industry-leading capabilities include interworking with fully automated 5G network slicing, delivering network-defined differentiated services to customers; Local Packet Gateway, providing enterprise customers with on-site local data breakout; and 5G enterprise routers with network slicing capabilities delivered by Cradlepoint, a business of Ericsson.

Fully automated 5G network slicing in a commercial network (World first)
In a world first, Telstra and Ericsson have stepped outside the lab to deploy an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in the commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory. Together with the 5G RAN and dual-mode 5G Core, these capabilities enable Telstra to provide enterprise customers with new differentiated services that have the potential ability to deliver assured network characteristics such as throughput, latency and resilience required to support digitised operations and processes.

Local Packet Gateway in a commercial network (Australian first)
Telstra has also successfully deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in Telstra’s commercial 5G network. This Australian first deployment is on display this week at Telstra Vantage via a 5G remote controlled car demonstration that shows how Telstra’s enterprise customers can benefit from 5G bandwidth, low latency and data localisation. In this live demo, the Local Packet Gateway keeps the video feed of the remote driving demo onsite, avoiding looping the video back through the mobilenetwork.