While AR, VR and robotics applications generate the most buzz, Anand Shah says many of those private network use cases are several years out. Currently, computer vision is one of the most widely used private network use cases.

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

September 22, 2021

Verizon's Shah on private networks, now and later

Anand Shah, director of technology and architecture for Verizon, joins the podcast to share insight into industry progress for deploying network slicing, private networks and Open RAN.

"[Open RAN] increases your competition and definitely decreases costs for us, so we're all in there whenever we can save some on costs," says Shah. "The more vendors you include in any formula and the more equipment you include, the harder that equation gets to solve. And it's not that we can't solve it, we can solve it."

In addition to the challenge of coordinating with multiple vendors and technologies for Open RAN, Shah explains how service providers have to consider enterprise customers' needs for network slicing and private networks. He also addresses the debate around whether an enterprise using a private network also needs network slicing.

While AR, VR and robotics applications generate the most buzz, Shah says many of those private network use cases are several years out. Currently, computer vision is one of the most widely used private network use cases, he explains.

"Right now, it's pretty simple. One of the biggest use cases is getting their computer vision or camera uplink feeds into a local MEC or a cloud compute – wherever it is, on-prem or off-prem, etc. Computer vision seems to be a big use case," says Shah.

— Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

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.

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