Joe Mocerino
Principal Solutions Architect
As Principal Solutions Architect, Joe engages wireless and wireline operators and partners in the mobile xHaul ecosystem. His mobile transport expertise includes fronthaul, backhaul, CPRI, TSN, packet, OTN, and SONET technologies. Joe has designed, developed, and deployed wireless and wireline transport solutions that maximize capacity and coverage for high-value automated operation. A fan of music and fitness, Joe enjoys playing guitar in his home recording studio and cycling.
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What is edge networking? Edge networking consists of the access and aggregation elements of the transport network. In our context, we are referring to the mobile edge network and transport over a fiber optic plan. The mobile edge network is from the cell site to the core. The mobile edge mainly consists of a Distributed
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Network slicing can optimize brownfield and greenfield networks In the last installment of this blog series, we looked at virtualizing the network as a single programmable infrastructure for the many 5G disparate service offerings compared to an overbuild approach. We also reviewed how the white-box approach offers the best performance scaling technique compared with purpose-built
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Edge networks to support 5G need an open, innovative solution ecosystem. And they need flexibility to evolve rapidly as demand and technology change. I’m Joe Mocerino, 5G and edge optical networking expert at Fujitsu. Let’s have an open dialogue about how to build the efficient, scalable edge network you need to deliver today’s 5G services
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This blog is the first in a series that describes the evolution of mobile transport for 5G services and beyond. Unlike 4G networks, 5G encompasses applications that include and surpass faster downloads and fixed wireless access. Many new service offerings are available or being planned thanks to the low latency and significant increase in speed
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Today, there are more than 200 commercial 5G networks worldwide, and the pace of adoption is only moving faster. Yet even as 5G networks and devices become mainstream, the technology continues to evolve. A range of new 5G initiatives are being deployed to achieve greater performance, efficiency and scalability, with centralized RAN (C-RAN) architecture being
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More than just the next-generation wireless technology, 5G seeks to serve as an enabler for a broad range of applications and markets. The vision is the ubiquitous capability to provide every connected human, device, and system a much faster and more reliable wireless experience. These are lofty goals, to be sure, ideas that tend to
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Meeting the stringent performance and service quality requirements of the 5G network is dependent on timing and synchronization technology from RAN to core. These requirements, especially in regards to latency, have driven some Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to lease dark fiber facilities and build their own transport network. But MNOs that lease dark fiber only
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Service providers are rapidly transforming their networks to deliver competitive and affordable 5G services, and cell site densification is one of the key factors in the eventual success of 5G. But deploying fiber and then maximizing bandwidth capacity to so many cell sites can be an expensive proposition. Compared to active WDM-based offerings, Ethernet-based mobile
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If you want to learn more about how virtual routers, or vRouters, will be used to meet the demands of 5G transport and other next-gen services, check out the on-demand recording of the webinar, “Virtual Routers for Flexible, Future-Proof 5G Transport.” Click here to listen to the free recorded session, and you’ll also be able
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With the promise of massively increased speed and capacity, there is a lot riding on the success of next-generation 5G technology. To be more accurate, one might say there is a lot riding on the 5G transport network specifically, given the critical role that transport will play in enabling high-bandwidth, ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency applications
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To deliver on the promise of 5G, this next-generation technology will enable multiple new service streams virtualized through a common infrastructure. With all the different use cases for 5G, these services will have diverse performance requirements, which adds to the challenges of delivering them in an efficient way. To overcome these challenges, tomorrow’s networks will
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With the start of 2019, the era of 5G is officially here… or is it? Are you ready? While a few early market leaders are already hyping 5G services, most service providers are still making plans. And as the build-out begins, the reality of deploying complex new architectures is introducing a variety of challenges. Due
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Part two in a blog series about how Fujitsu is bringing the 5G vision to life As communications service providers (CSPs) prepare to deploy 5G, a number of factors will need to be considered as they plan their radio access network (RAN) architecture. An important aspect of this planning is an understanding of the 5G
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Network operators face seemingly conflicting challenges. They must maximize network assets, reduce costs, and introduce new revenue-generating services—all while maintaining existing legacy services. This may seem like an impossible combination to achieve, but just four key capabilities provide the right ingredients to reconcile apparently conflicting needs and profitably address these big business challenges: Transport legacy
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The tried and true distributed radio access network (RAN) is the standard in mobile architectures. Significant improvements in performance—and reductions in capex and opex—would be required for service providers to consider making substantial changes. But these are no ordinary times. The exploding popularity of digital video and social networking are driving wireless traffic relentlessly higher.