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5. 5G Packet Core Testing Strategies

Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty1  
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

The shift from monolithic architecture to a service-based architecture (SBA) with applications realized by microservice has created many complex challenges for operators and service providers. On one hand, the shift toward microservice-based network functions (NFs) provides greater scalability and reliability advantages; however, on the other hand, it is expensive to realize and very complex to manage and test.

Testing for 5G core components is a complete game-changer, and the key challenge when it comes to testing is to be able to use existing ...

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