Vodafone Business recently unveiled a new commercial 5G network slicing service aimed at enterprise customers. The customers specifically inhabit venues with a high demand for mission critical connectivity.
The company’s new 5G+ Local Slicing offer gives organisations a dedicated slice of VodafoneThree’s standalone (SA) 5G network across an area of up to 5km², providing guaranteed mobile performance in locations where demand can overwhelm shared mobile infrastructure.
The service targets stadiums, university campuses and sectors including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, transport and logistics. It enables customers to reserve bandwidth for critical applications such as security systems, staff communications, 5G cameras and digital fan services.
Vodafone Business stated the service has already been tested in some of the UK’s most high-profile events, including the coronation of King Charles III and Glastonbury Festival.
In those trials, the company explained it maintained prioritised network performance even as tens of thousands of users placed heavy demand on the local network.
Nick Gliddon, business director at VodafoneThree, noted businesses are increasingly “processing thousands of transactions, deploying AI, running real-time complex logistics, and managing staff communications on mobile networks that were built to be shared, not dedicated”.
“Vodafone Business is first in the UK to make network slicing real for enterprise”, he added.
Vodafone Business further beefed up its enterprise 5G proposition by introducing Network Boost, a new nationwide service that prioritises enterprise traffic in congested areas without requiring a dedicated slice.
Source: Mobile World Live
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