Last month, Samsung successfully demonstrated the SLA network slice on the current 5G network in Tokyo, Japan. Now, the demonstration seems to be making progress. Samsung Electronics announced that it has been selected as the cloud native 5G independent core network provider by KDDI, a Japanese network operator.
A major advantage of Samsung 5G Core solution is that it supports 4G and 5G at the same time, which makes seamless migration from 4G standard to 5G possible. IT Home learned that Samsung’s 5G Core solution provides geographical redundancy support and ensures the stability and reliability of the network through the overload control function to offset sudden traffic peaks.

Samsung will provide support for KDDI’s 5G SA network in Japan. This new partnership is the result of cooperation between the two companies on various projects over the years. Recently, Samsung and KDDI commercially deployed the Open Virtualization RAN (vRAN) site in Osaka, marking the world’s first commercial MU-MIMO implementation with multi-vendor interoperability in line with the O-RAN standard.
Samsung has helped Verizon deploy 10000 5G vRAN sites in the United States, with the goal of deploying 20000 sites by 2025. Samsung also signed a multi-year patent license agreement with Nokia, which allows the Korean technology giant to use Nokia 5G technology.