INSIGHT ISSUE 03 | 2021

32 Enabling the Digital and Energy transition Latency in 5G Experience — The target latency for 5G digital business transformation is in the realm of 10-20ms (Figure 3). This can be achieved by carriers for their municipal customers by deploying CORD, hence mitigating buffering delays which occur in a large percentage of end devices. The challenge for carriers providing CORD will be to guarantee highly available low latency services, particularly for enterprise customers who will need to depend on the network for mission critical applications. Minimizing latency by hosting applications closer to customers, CORD will enable reliable low latency networks from distributed data sources, across varied infrastructure and devices for FTTx, 5G, and carrier-grade Ethernet network services. Enterprise networks have a few things going for them that makes them easier to install/deploy, manage, and upgrade. Adopting these attributes will improve the ease of future scalability for Telco providers transitioning to CORD. \ Equipment is more readily available and from a wider selection of manufacturers \ Equipment is mostly AC powered with standardized plugs \ Network connections use LAN style cabling that is easily sourced and allows using pre-manufactured cables \ Enterprise network racks and cabinets allow 19" wide equipment rather than 23" wide, making for more efficient use of data center/ CO space 1 Disruptive Analysis, Dave Burstein, STL Partners Figure 3 These networks utilize 25/40/100 Gbps to support the new technologies and information-heavy exchanges to and from the end user. Below are some of the reasons CORD deployments in Telco CO’s are well positioned for speed of delivery: \ Brick and mortar data center-like space already built and available \ Modularization for fast deployment \ Networks can easily support a mixed use of applications A Telco managed edge will be an exchange point for information as current networks are not fast enough to make it to/from the data center to support AI and Industrial IoT applications. Latency is the delay between a user’s action and a web application’s response to that action. The question is, how do we minimize it? This is achieved by locating key compute resources closer to end users. This reduces latency by presenting the shortest round trip “time of flight” through the network. Online Gaming/Interactive Experience — Placing CORD facilities in municipalities where clusters of players are located enhances game experience by reducing player lag disadvantage for regional users. Cost Savings and Revenue Generation — If the handful of most popular shows/movies streaming from a hyperscale facility can be cached in CO-based pods/containers located in remote key markets, all users will stream content more efficiently because streaming sources are disaggregated and closer to all users. This results in far less data back to the cloud which saves and/or generates substantial revenue for transactional businesses. Low Latency Speed of Delivery Ease of Future Scalability Examples where Low Latency is Important:

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