Private 5G

<p><br></p><p>The mobile cellular network has its origins in Telco voice networks, but 5G adopts the principles of modern clouds. This book describes how 5G leverages horizontally scalable microservices, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and cloud operational practices such as DevOps. It provides a detailed introduction to mobile networking that is understandable to a general computing systems audience.</p><p><br></p><p>Features:</p><ul><li>Emphasizes underlying concepts, key principles and design choices, going beyond the acronym soup of standards.</li><li>Describes the main open source components used to build a private 5G network and the rationale for their selection.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Walks through the architecture of 5G from the radio to the mobile core.</li><li>Includes sample code used in configuration and operations of a real private 5G network deployed across a dozen enterprises.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>"Private 5G networks are something you can touch, code, and deploy yourself.&nbsp;Armed with the knowledge of how 5G access networks work, and with hands-on experience with open source software, just imagine the places you'll go!"</p><p>- Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University</p>