Description
This use case will explore beyond 5G ability to deliver sufficient levels of smart connectivity and traffic isolation at acceptable cost levels, while scaling up the service (anticipating scalability scenarios for a city /village). It will explore how to set up many services and applications with logical network (as a Service, LNaaS) contracts to be mapped onto one or a few 5G network slice instances, i.e., the large-scale trial will explore putting up many connectivity contracts (LNaaS SLAs, serving multiple users, devices, and application types) for customers and their media applications with varying QoS, served by many different configurations of network slices. Furthermore, the use case will explore vertical specific Network Applications interaction with network slice capability exposure and platform embedded Network Applications, when scaling up. The LNaaS concepts will evolve the 4G APN-based (and potentially the 5G enabled equivalent) solutions into advanced 5G contexts. This would represent ways of dynamically handling of basic as well as specialized connectivity, along with platform-embedded Network Application components in an engagement service for cities, i.e., the applications, the network slice instance adaptation according to requirements, and the bundling of these with e.g., edge, controllers, customer Network Applications, and integration with enterprise data networks. Exposure of management and self-service would also be part of the service.