Whatever is ultimately deployed to telecom networks will have inevitably undergone extensive testing. So what’s going on in test is a pretty good idea of what’s coming next. Through a set of in-person roadshow events, Spirent has been sharing unique insights from its work on cloud-native 5G networks, and early scoping of 6G, to better inform telcos and suppliers on the ongoing transformation of telecom. Appledore was invited to the Basking Ridge, New Jersey event.

This report combines our takeaways from Spirent’s findings, with previous predictions and perspectives from earlier Appledore reports on 5G, enterprise private networks, security, cloud-native telecom and continuous integration, development and test. The result is a highly insightful view on the state and trajectory of 5G.