
212 ◾ Mobile Evolution: Insights on Connectivity and Service
of exploitation of technology advancements are feasible, as a result of a decoupling of the realized
functions from the serving software/hardware fabric. In a nutshell, such a functional realization
is an artifact of virtualization.
e two prominent characteristics of the EPS ecosystem are the architectural atness and the
separation, between the bearer plane information, and the control plane information. While this
shift bodes well in terms of resource sharing leading to lower capital expenditures, relative to the
legacy of mobile access networks, the eects of commoditization tend ...