통신 산업을 위한 테스트와 보증

5G가 전반전까지 도달했음에도 불구하고, 게임은 아직 끝나지 않았습니다. 이제 문제는 5G가 제공할 수 있는 것이 아니라, 운영자들이 5G의 잠재력을 최대한 발휘할 수 있는 방법입니다. 이 보고서는 사설 네트워크, 고정 무선 액세스(FWA), API 지원 서비스를 통한 수익 창출부터 6G의 혁신적인 기능에 대한 준비에 이르기까지, 연결의 미래를 형성하는 전략을 밝힙니다. 2025년 스피리언트 5G 보고서는 급변하는 통신 환경에서 앞서 나갈 수 있는 지침서입니다. 5G 수익화를 주도하는 주요 업체와 혁신에 대한 내부자적 통찰력을 얻고, 업계가 6G로 전환하는 과정에서 무엇이 뒤따를지 알아보세요. 경쟁력을 유지하고 새로운 수익 기회를 창출하는 데 도움이 되는 실행 가능한 전략을 얻으세요.

The Lab-to-Live white paper, produced in partnership with Appledore Research, explores the critical shift required for modern networks to adopt a seamless testing and deployment approach. As cloud-native networks become central to enabling scalable, resilient, and agile infrastructure, traditional testing methods can no longer keep up. Lab-to-Live is a holistic strategy that integrates lab testing, network deployment, and operational monitoring into a unified lifecycle, fostering continuous improvement and stronger collaboration across development and operations. __Key takeaways__ from this research emphasize the importance of agile testing environments and proactive monitoring for cloud-native network resilience. With networks increasingly defined by software-driven applications, ensuring reliability involves rapid fault recovery and a shift from hardware-based resilience to software-based fault tolerance. This approach leverages continuous testing and visibility across all network components to proactively address failures, optimize resource usage, and support multi-vendor environments.

__What O-RAN Deployments will look like and how to make sure they perform__ Open RAN networks are viewed by some as an all or nothing initiative: if they aren't fully multi-vendor and disaggregated in the early days of rollout, then the initiative has failed. The reality is more complex. There are many options for deploying Open RAN, which means providers have a variety of paths they can take to address their specific needs. Deployments are happening in Greenfields with companies like Rakuten and DISH networks, and in Brownfields with companies like Docomo, which are investing in sizable initiatives. There’s been a wave of O-RAN-ready investments, too, with O-RAN-compatible, single vendor type systems. There are many more deployments coming, but there is still a gap between the pioneers and the large scale full multi-vendor nationwide O-RAN deployments. A good area of progress over the last few years has been Tier 1 vendor commitments to include O-RAN in their product roadmaps, which is a big win for operators, brings commercial confidence to the movement, and expands the market for new entrants, as there's more of a footprint of the network for them to deploy into.

Spirent’s FWA Competitive Benchmarking and Optimization solution offers a comprehensive look into the complexities that communication service providers (CSPs) face when deploying and validating 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks. As 5G adoption grows, CSPs are under increasing pressure to ensure that their FWA services not only meet performance expectations but also differentiate from competitors. This solution brief highlights the importance of real-world testing and independent performance analysis to address these demands and highlights several key questions that CSPs must answer to ensure success: - Does the service meet the minimum and maximum performance values as advertised? - How does the customer experience compare to competitors' offerings? - What areas of the network require optimization to remain competitive? - How can CSPs obtain unbiased, third-party validation of their network performance for marketing and operational purposes?

5G is a limitless market opportunity—if you can reduce the risks for end users, your supply chain, and your business. As one recent analyst report reminds us, “Trust is the foundational principle for technology adoption.” Yet trust is an elusive commodity in developing secure 5G use cases. The complexity of 5G security is so overwhelming that it actually creates a new form of risk: inertia. If your business cannot solve the security challenges of 5G, it risks falling behind and incurring the opportunity costs of inaction. At the same time, there is urgent pressure to deploy new services quickly, compounding the risks.

Cloud-native networks offer tremendous benefits – greater agility, faster release time, shorter time-to-market, lower costs, and the potential for telcos to avoid vendor lock-in. As network providers race to take advantage of clouds, how can they ensure that their services operate as promised and their customers enjoy the superior experience they expect? Hybrid clouds require enhanced collaboration with vendors and heightened vigilance against cyberattacks. In this paper, we look at the trends that are driving these challenges, particularly the move to hybrid clouds, and examine how test and assurance needs to evolve to support the agile new services running on cloud-native networks.