The scale construction of the 5G network has kicked off, and the "cloud-net-edge-end" four-body synergy will become the end-to-end new technical architecture of 5G networks. The main characteristics of 5G networks are large bandwidth, massive connections, and ultra-low latency. These new network features will give birth to a large number of emerging applications and will further profoundly change people’s lifestyles, all of which are inseparable from the 5G data central network.
The data center may become the powerful technology base of 5G
The 5G network adopts a cloud-based architecture based on the data center, and is carried on an independent telecom cloud network in the data center, and deploy virtualized network elements such as core network through SDN/NFV technology. At the same time, as the user plane network element (UPF) sinks and the MEC (edge computing) business is deployed on a large scale, 5G network elements will be distributed in data centers at all levels, and data centers have become the cornerstone of 5G networks.
In the mobile Internet era, with the explosion of top Internet applications, cloud computing applications have concentrated on industry giants. Large companies in the industries such as operators, the Internet, and cloud service providers have built large cloud data centers to provide public and private clouds and other services. The reason is that the scale benefit of the data center is very obvious, which can greatly reduce the cost of business deployment and maintenance.
Therefore, scale development has been the most important driving force for the development of data center networks in the past 10 years. The explosive growth of traffic has led to the continuous expansion of data center network scale, which in turn triggered a series of changes in network architecture, technology, and operations. Large capacity, scale effect, high reliability and scalability needs to be considered. In the 5G era, this trend will become more obvious and will accelerate its spread to the industries of government, medical, and industrial manufacturing .
Large-scale cloud data centers in the 5G era will be more competitive, not only in terms of cost, but also in terms of security, flexibility, and technological evolution, it will establish a crushing advantage over traditional data centers. The "Matthew Effect" will make traditional data centers and applications gradually disappear, replaced by ultra-large-scale, fast-evolving cloud data centers.