Vice President, Security, Carriers and Enterprise Networking, Will Townsend shares his insights from the recent 5G Techritory telecommunications event in Riga, Latvia.
. I recently returned to the event as an advisor and speaker. From my perspective, the event has gone far to demonstrate Latvia’s position as a mobile telecommunications leader in the European Union. The country boasts an impressive fiber deployment that serves broadband services to more than 70% of households, ranking it as one of the densest deployments in the world. That’s an important statistic, because fiber also provides needed backhaul for next-generation 5G networks and services.
to support personal travel, business commerce and military logistics and defense. Rail Baltica is a fully electrified and sustainable rail system that is bringing together countries from all around the European Union and other parts of the world. Given the project’s electrification, 5G should factor heavily into its communications and command and control systems.
I personally led two sessions at the event, first to discuss some of the business challenges and successes tied to 5G, then to do a deep dive on Open RAN that examined security, integration, supply chain, performance and sustainability considerations.