Much of India’s digitalisation rests heavily on the network architecture that supports it. Rapid digital transformation, and AI-heavy workloads contingent on 5G network deployment, have reignited debates on efficiency, management and net neutrality.
Traditional mobile networks faced an irreducible provisioning dilemma as the network was designed to serve heterogeneous traffic like consumer broadband, IoT sensors, enterprise applications and emergency communications, which had to be provisioned for peak demand of the most demanding use case. Network slicing converts this static overprovisioning problem into a dynamic allocation problem. The same physical resources can be reconfigured, in real time, to serve whichever workload is actually present.
