Standardization

- [Presentor voiceover] Why is that important? … Why is softwareization important? … Well hello, because 5G is not a single, … homogeneous technology. … It is a whole set. A salad of technologies. … Just look at this slide here, … so many technologies out there. … You got totally new ways of handling IUT: … Cloud RAN, mmWave, Ultra Dense Networks, … Vehicular Two infrastructure project, … et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. … How do you manage that? … There's no way you can actually deterministically … program and configure that. … Doing that in software, … to control everything in software and manage it … is the only way forward. … Who is who in the 5G standards world? … You see two families here. … On the top you see the actual standards initiatives. … Something really global here. … And you see 3GPP which is really like the operating arm … of all the tel-co industry. … This is where we standardize all the tel-co equipment. … That's the body which is responsible … for you being able to make a phone call …