Making sense of the messy private 5G market

Omdia's Pablo Tomasi joins the podcast to explain why the private 5G market hasn't expanded at the pace service providers expected.

Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst for Omdia, joins the podcast to discuss why private 5G has become a "messy market." 

The private 5G market hasn't expanded at the pace service providers predicted, explained Tomasi. However, "the way forward is always going to be about how you are managing the mess, how you are getting strength out of each individual technology, and how to bring everything together and orchestrate it in a secure and better way," he added.

Enterprises also need to consider which services and applications are best suited for private 5G, and which parts of the network should remain on Wi-Fi, for example, said Tomasi.

Click on the caption button for a lightly edited transcript.

Here are a few topics we covered:

  • Takeaways from Light Reading's Network X event (01:08)

  • Why John Deere is building its own private networks without help from service providers  (03:10)

  • Why private 5G networks is a "messy market" (03:38)

  • What is the most popular kind of private network now – fully private, hybrid or network slicing? (09:31)

  • How big is the private network market? (14:12)

  • Whether enterprises want to manage private networks on their own or work with a service provider (20:21)

About the Authors

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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