Chapter 6
Emerging Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: Segment Routing
As discussed thus far, mobile communication networks have evolved significantly since their introduction in the 1970s. In the same timeframe, transport networks have gone through technological advances of their own and have brought the latest transport technology into mobile communication networks (MCNs) to provide reliable and effective connectivity between cell sites and the mobile core. These mobile transport networks have evolved from T1/E1 in the early days of MCNs, to ATM and Frame Relay in the second generation, and finally to an all-IP transport in the third and fourth generations of mobile networks. With more recent enhancements in the radio access network (RAN) ...
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