Ericsson recently announced the launch of its 5G platform which combines core, radio, and transport solutions beside digital support systems, services, and security enabling companies to adopt 5G as soon as possible.

An "important milestone" in the journey towards 5G adoption, Ericsson's platform is said to provide an end-to-end system for carriers to evolve from 4G to 5G - by combining the first version of an E2E core network capable of 5G use cases. It is said to be the market's first complete 5G radio system and a 5G core network that can now be connected to 5G NR radio.

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Arun Bansal, head of Ericsson's Network Products business unit, said that with this launch, they are introducing a 5G platform to support the beginning of a huge change in network capabilities, allowing customers to offer more advanced use cases and new business models to their customers.

The company introduced federated network slices to the platform, extending network slicing to be provided globally in a visited network. It also added network slice management, automating and speeding up secure service connection setups and distributed cloud for low-latency applications and 5G transformation services, allowing migration from legacy networks to 5G virtualised, automated networks.

The company's complete radio system is present across all frequency ranges, allowing global 5G communications and supporting the newly standardised 5G front-haul interface known as eCPRI, while its transport solution delivers a mini-link enabling speed of up to ten Gbps and rail-mounted front-haul and router products in order to ensure the capacity to deliver a terabyte of data through a 5G network.

Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom and German carrier Deutsche Telekom demonstrated Ericsson's federated network slicing system earlier this week, making network slices from each telco available to the other across continents. "Federated network slicing will enable seamless platform sharing amongst operators at a global scale for continuous and guaranteed user experience," SK Telecom CTO Alex Jinsung Choi said on Wednesday.