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title: Navigating the 5G cloud-native transition — key opportunities, challenges and strategies
description: Join this RCR Wireless News webinar to explore how operators view the interaction between the cloud and their macro networks as they transition to cloud RAN or centralized RAN architectures.
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For many CSPs, the 5G focus has turned to the transition to a new cloud-native core, a new service-based architecture and more dynamic service management and orchestration. CSPs are also looking to monetize their 5G investments and improve customer experience by tapping into key 5G cloud capabilities. While doing so will increase the scalability, flexibility and resiliency of their network and the services running on top of it, it will also add more network and operational complexity.

To complicate matters further, as CSPs take on the design, deployment and management of these new 5G cloud infrastructures, they must also navigate the major shift in network function design towards containerized microservices.

This on-demand webinar looks at the opportunities and the challenges associated with this transition to a cloud-native architecture.

Speakers  
Eben Albertyn, CTO, Boost Mobile  
David Martin, Senior Analyst & Telco Cloud Lead, STL Partners  
Bill Clark, Principal Product Manager - Cloud-native 5G Deployment Validation, Spirent Commmunications  
Catherine Sbeglia-Nin, Managing Editor, RCR Wireless News

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