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Building Transformative Platforms to Scale 5G Ecosystems using Hyperledger - Utpal Mangla & Mathews Thomas, IBM

5G networks are rapidly being deployed globally but face challenges that can be addressed by Blockchain. This is because Blockchain can play an important role in implementing 5G technologies such as edge computing, network function virtualization and network slicing. The session will begin by discussing some key 5G business use cases driving ecosystem platforms including spectrum management, network slicing, infrastructure roll out and security monitoring which will benefit from Hyperledger. We will then discuss the network slicing use case and how a Hyperledger driven Business and Operations Support platform can be integrated with network deployment/management tools (MANO, event monitors, CI/CD, closed loop automation) to orchestrate and operate 5G network with xNF's based core network building blocks (vRAN, 5G core, Transport etc) and applications running at the edge.

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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening team, thank you for joining.

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We are delighted to be here and thanks to the hyperledger global forum for making this happen today, team ibm will be talking about building transformative platforms or scaling 5g ecosystems using the technology of hyperledger, and I will be joined with my colleagues matthews thomas and amandeep singh matthews is a distinguished engineer in ibm and is responsible for leading and building a lot of our hyperledger solutions in partnership with me and amandeep is a senior hyper ledger: technical specialist, infusing, ai and cognitive, bringing five new ecosystems to life.

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Moving on to the next slide.

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Let me first start by talking about the addressable market for 5g the demand and the potential is huge.

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I will not go into the numbers, but it's suffice to say that if you look at any analyst report, if you look at any indicators in the market market and if you look at any disruptive industry data points, the market for 5g in terms of data quantifiable data, as well as growth and the potential to transform and disrupt industries, is humongous.

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Moving on to the next slide.

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There is always a question as we start on: what's 5g what's edge, what are the differences between them and do we need 5g for edge to happen, and I consciously put this slide in the beginning so that it's easily understandable to everybody.

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5G is obviously the transformation from 4g to 5g networks. It's about creation of networks to allow data and information to be processed at a much faster scale and speed. So 5g is the natural evolution from 3g 4g, but at much rapid spay pace than the 4g and that's 5g.

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What edges it brings compute functionality to the edge in the network, 5g edge, is basically at a much higher speed and at a much reduced latency.

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The other feature that 5g brings is network slicing, which enables you to do new and different functionalities which were not possible, but just sticking to the edge. It basically is low latency, giving you the speed to do computing much faster, much quickly at the edge of the network.

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With that, I will handle with your math news and go to the next ride.

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Thanks paul, so what I will be doing is just giving you an overview of the 5g landscape and then I'll. Take you through some specific use cases.

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Now it's very difficult in a 30 minute session to give you a overview of the 5g landscape and and the some of the key use cases. So everything that will be presented here is going to be extremely high level.

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But if you start off with the left hand side, what you have are different sensors moving off to the right. There are different devices cameras, and these would all then be connected to the 5g network.

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The 5g network could be connected to what we call an edge cluster within it within telco terms, would be known as a mech, a multi-edge compute node that could say run in a stadium that could run close to the premise where this specific operation needs to happen, so that we get quick responses.

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Then we have the core 5g network that you see with that cloud and that also has some edge components and that will in turn be connected to public and private clouds.

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The reason for bringing this up is to illustrate everyone that there's a huge opportunity for blockchain here, because you have multiple parties each bringing their specific services to this ecosystem and each of them, or especially the one. Some of the key individuals here need to know what exactly is happening where when and why, in order to ensure that the system operates properly billing and everything else is successfully executed next page, please, let's go ahead and talk about some of the use cases.

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There are multiple use cases here that you see we are in the process of working and.

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Several of these with multiple uh csp partners and customers, because a lot of these use cases are focused on other industries. But what we would I will do is just give a very high level overview of just just a few and then take a bit of a deeper dive into some of the remaining ones. So the basic.

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Behind spectrum management is the ability to manage your spectrum and the ability to lease it out and once others have the ability to temporarily use the spectrum. What what what happens is um you use the key functions of blockchain, such as decentralization um transparency?

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Immutability. Take your pick. All these are very important from a spectrum management perspective, because once you've been allocated that spectrum everybody gets to know about it, it cannot be changed until the next transaction occurs and so on and so forth.

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I'll get into a bit of a deeper dive into infrastructure, network and security, but there are also specific ones around smarter healthcare and sits smarter cities I'll just pick one. A couple of these smarter cities is one that working quite a bit and that's primarily on routing traffic, making sure the traffic is being routed to the appropriate locations and we're able to respond quickly and provide the appropriate services to ensure that the city runs smoothly, and this becomes even more important when first responders have to respond to a specific issue.

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Worker safety is where you'd like to ensure that a worker is safe and if they ever say, enter into a danger zone or do an activity that is dangerous within a fraction of a second you'd like to know that, but blockchain needs to capture all these transactions, because these are legal and other issues and that's where blockchain comes in. Let's move to the next one, I'm on.

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So let's take a couple of these uh just from from a very high level perspective. uh Slice is a very important concept in 5g and blockchain plays an important role when it comes to slice. So hopefully all of you can see the blockchain icon, that's right out there in the hybrid cloud. So from our implementation perspective is. When you create a slice, it will impact several of the core network components within the 5g network, and so you'll see things such as vdu vcu, core et cetera.

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This you know for for those who are networks, uh specific they'll they'll recognize all of these, but for those of you, don't just consider these as some key components within the 5g network. So when a slice is created using orchestration engine, it has to be go through these multiple vendors create the slice at multiple locations and then on the mac.

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There will also be a a network components running as well as the actual application running so in the example of that worker safety uh use case that I gave that application would actually be running on the mech and would be deployed there. But, as you can see, there are multiple thing parties here, as we deployed you know, everybody would like to understand why what was deployed everybody'd like to understand if there was a failure where it happened?

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Why did it happen and then, as we're running, am I meeting certain slas and if I'm not meeting them, you know how close was. I was I to meeting them if their issues running running on my mac and this net could be distributed in multiple locations, and this is where in in and aman, where we keep track of all these different transactions and ensure that the appropriate relevant ones are there, so that the billing and everything else happens correctly.

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The next one that we're going to look at on, if you could just go to the next slide, that's just one example of one use case within um five would be security. Security is a big one here, so there are multiple aspects from the security perspective, so you know there could be, um let's say, there's a security violation on your on one of your, your components. Okay, you would like to know immediately about it, and multiple parties could again be involved in this.

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You need to detect, investigate and respond and blockchain would be the transactional, but that keeps a track of all these. All the different parties who are involved in this can find out exactly what happened where and why and what was the remediation and what could be done to rectify it in the future.

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Let's go to the next one, the last one that I'm going to cover briefly is so so far. We've just taken some network specific use cases looked at the 5g network and illustrated how blockchain plays a role. But the other thing to keep in mind is the 5g infrastructure is, is, is a complex infrastructure.

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It requires a large amount of capital investments and, for example, 5g requires approximately 5 times the number of base stations that 4g required. So what needs to happen is this when, when, when we go out and when the csps start going out and doing this with the multiple parties, there's the investments, you know the whole resource tendering aspect of this finding out who's involved. Who would like to broker there's the matching between the resources and then these agreements have to be created which go through the evaluation process.

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There has to be a final settlement process where everybody agrees on. This is what we should do, then there's an execution in terms of the actual deployment of the 5g network, whether it be laying out the radioheads or everything else, putting out the mech and or everything else that happens in between. So as you can see, multiple parties involved here, multiple products, multiple difference of services and agreements that need to happen and blockchain.

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This is one of the areas also that we're working on where blockchain plays an important role. Now, what I'll do is pass it off jamaan? We will actually look at one of the use cases and get into some more details. All your saman.

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Thanks uh matthews, so um in in today's session, uh we're gonna cover example of uh how we are using hyperledger to track the supply chain of our network services, as it is being deployed on the network cloud network edge and also on the applications that we're deploying to the edge and how we are bringing it all together, giving a one single view to different parties involved in this process and how we are managing the transactions related to each and every assets.

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It could be virtual or physical network functions, and also virtual and physical uh application and iot devices that are deployed on the edge on a single uh hyperledger platform, distributed across different clouds.

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So this is an example of an architecture that we used in the the demonstration that you're going to see after this. So you can see how we have divided this amongst three different uh clouds. One is the csp cloud where we are hosting the bss and the oss platform, which includes our service, design, orchestration and operations for network cloud, also our edge application management, which is responsible for deploying application, iot devices in the same layer.

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We have also embedded our hyperledger fabric and the smart contract that is running on the hyperledger fabric, which holds the details of all the agreements and the rules and policies that the supply chain should follow.

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Then we are also uh hosting a blockchain peer node uh on on this cloud, which- and in our case it's all running on a kubernetes environment which we are using openshift for then uh similar blockchain periods and hyperledger layer can also be deployed on the vendor side, which can also be hosted on the csv environment and thus there's a blockchain network created between these peers and the peers that are running on the network cloud as well.

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So on the network cloud, you can see that we have a networking layer on openshift which is running some of the core network functions like 5g core, our uh ims and vcu from the vran, and then we also have our edge analytics and blockchain appear node running on the network cloud then. Finally, on the network edge is where we are deploying the edge network functions uh like vdu, and there could be also a user plane function for the 5g that can be deployed.

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Close to the edge which sits close to the iot and the application layer which we are deploying using our edge management.

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Well, we can have a local database that metrics and equivalents and that can be optionally passed uh via integration uh using rest apis with the blockchain appear running on the network cloud and csp cloud, or if we want to further reduce down the latency, we can also deploy a blockchain pair close to the edge as an optional uh example.

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So before I go to uh example of a video of this live demonstration, I now want to give another uh perspective or another view of this uh use case uh this. This was a more detailed architecture. Example I quickly uh go here.

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I just want to highlight that, but will a flow of this use case will look like so in this case now, let's say we have all the uh network functions and applications on board and ready to be deployed, so we can uh now have our integration done with the bss oss layer, which is hosting an order, management or a service, catalog management, uh software or or a platform which can take requests for new services to be deployed.

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Now this service can be asked as complex as uh this one that we'll see that will have many different network components to be deployed and different applications to be deployed in different network clouds. Now how to manage the life cycle of each and every component that will be deployed as part of the service. So as our orchestrator is deploying, let's say in this example, it will be deploying a 5g core with a network slice on it, it will be deploying ims. It will be deploying our sdn controller to manage the transport layer.

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It will be deploying the vcu and vdu for vran, and then it it will also trigger our edge application manager to deploy I to deploy to smart iot devices or applications at the edge.

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How we are managing all the transaction related to licenses inventory of these different components is where hyperledger is playing a very key role, and also uh not just to pro uh manage the life cycle of this uh uh assets, but also to share insight into this lifecycle across different parties involved in this supply chain. That could be vendors for these different uh network functions and application devices.

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It can also be any other service agents that are involved uh during the installation and provision process, so with that I'll move to uh the demo video to show an example of uh uh this uh use case. So uh this is uh our friend.

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Shirat is actually acting as a let's say, a worker who's in a in a network, edge environment or- or you can say, uh industry example- and we need to now deploy a particular application and a network layer onto that edge to make sure that uh we are applying policies to monitor this worker that he's wearing a a proper hard hat or he's wearing mask at the center for his uh safety.

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So in this case now we go to a particular portal which can uh which, which has a list of services that we can select from, and we can enable on this particular network edge. So here we are going into the 5g service category and then we are selecting a particular network slice example, uh which is being suggested here.

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This service basically will then uh trigger our order management tool that order management tool is gonna, break in the service into subsequent smaller service orders, and then those service orders will be fulfilled uh by the csp working with, let's say, different parties in this example. Let me sorry, let me step back a minute uh on this page, so the service writer can be working with the equipment provider or field agent uh network function providers to provide those these different assets to fulfill this service order for this network service.

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So in this case that would be different licenses involved. There could also be uh any other inventory check to be followed. So if you can see here and I'll go back to this towards the end that all these blocks are basically just transactions being recorded in the process of this supply chain or fulfilling disorder, we jumped ahead a little bit to the last step for today's session, since we don't have enough time.

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So, uh basically, once all the licenses are fulfilled, uh it will then send a request to our network orchestration tool to provision that network slice and index in this example uh and we're just gonna go to the service design of that network. Slice uh will include the following different components and in this case we'll have a 5g code, which is a containerized function that will be deployed on one network cloud and then we'll also have the edge management layer which will deploy the actual worker safety application on the uh industry edge.

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So this that was just an example to show how complex these services can be in the 5g and edge environment and how we can use hyperledger to track the uh details of all these different components, so I'll jump a little forward. So here we can see, as the orchestrator is deploying all these different components and we can see that they are being uh the pods or the containers are being deployed onto different cloud and edge environments.

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All in the back end will be tracked as diff individual transactions uh with the api integration to all these orchestration platform onto the hyperledger here and will be visible to different parties as required on their own dashboards.

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So moving forward a bit so here in addition to the network service orchestration, we also have our assurance platform where uh we may be monitoring different uh network events, as these services are being deployed, any alarms, any other security threats to be monitored and any other uh topology events to be monitored. In this case, we can see that uh now the service is up and running.

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We can also see uh uh any status of a particular uh network component at a particular time, and this is just from the perspective of the orchestration and operation platform, but uh later on, we'll see that how this can be also uh shared from the transactional information from hyperledger onto the dashboard of csp, the enterprise customer and the vendors who are responsible for maintaining this service and operation.

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So just to continue what happened next in this service orchestration is that the edge management also went ahead, deployed the uh policy for object, detection on that worker safety environment, and in this case, as that is getting deployed using rh application management. We will be able to now see that it's able.

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That person on the edge now.

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We want to update this policy to make it uh more unable to detect a particular hard hat or a particular mask in this scenario.

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In this case, we are saying that it's not ready yet, so we are basically going to go back to our orchestration platform. Do an upgrade on the service to add a new object detection model for the worker safety. In this case, we are changing this to a hard hat model now and as we go ahead and deploy this, then we'll be able to see that now the edge application is upgraded to detect uh that particular uh worker with heart, add or a mask on for its own safety.

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So in this case I'm just gonna move further yeah. So now that the application edge is updated uh now we can see that the model is able to detect the hard dat and also be able to detect any mask or any other requirements for worker safety. So this was just an example of how we are orchestrating uh end to end service on our 5g uh and our edge cloud and now going back to the uh transactional uh view. So I'm just gonna go to go here on this page, so this is actually a.

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uh This is not a product uh dashboard. This is actually a demo dashboard that we created for this use case. So here you can, you can see, as the csp was working on, deploying that particular application on our network and the application edge.

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It was working with uh different parties in this supply chain, equipment, provider, field agents to go in and configure those devices at the edge, and maybe with uh vnf providers to provide the network functions and any other uh elements required to be configured.

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So in this case, as basically this was being processed, all the transactions were getting recorded on our blockchain platform. So let's say uh in this case: if I quickly run through a few steps, um let's say: there's a equipment provider who needs to provide that equipment and is accepting the order. So we are also managing any slas that are involved uh in the in the supply chain of this service uh asset. So in this case, let's say that the physical equipment was delivered, but it was delivered with a delay.

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So so uh we can automatically apply these sla uh agreements between the the operation between a csp and equipment provider uh said so that in this case, let's say: if there was a delay, the sla can say that the completion sla was not met, so it may reflect into any billing or policy uh between the csp and this equipment provider. In this.

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In this example, when the sla was meant, the billing was 2000 and if it's not met, it's came down to 1500, just as a very small example of how these slas can be managed further down.

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Let's say that in our example of that video we saw that once the services are getting deployed, uh those iot devices are getting activated and those models are getting deployed. We are also managing the configuration of those devices, so what we are doing is we are actually calculating a device hash uh that maps to the existing configuration of those devices as the edge, and we are storing that mapping it to every asset identity on our blockchain platform or hyperledger platform.

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So in case, let's say, someone goes in and tampers with this device at the edge and I'm just gonna go past a few uh steps. uh We can also show that uh if someone uh like currently the status is authorized, someone goes in and and messes up with the devices at the edge or someone uh is trying to add a security threat to the functions running on the cloud.

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It can be tracked onto the hyperledger platform as a threat, and this status can change to unauthorize and will be easily visible to the equipment providers, and other parties are responsible for remediating that action so again um we're running short on time, but I just want to quickly go and show a quick view of the transactional.

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Viewer as well, and how these transactions can be made visible to different participants in this ecosystem. uh With that I'll conclude, the live demonstration part and uh I'll give it back to utphal for the conclusion and also.

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Thank you very much aman, so team. We typically get a lot of questions on how to start the journey on 5g and edge, how to make sure that it's smooth how to mitigate potential challenges when you get into the journey, and so what we have done here is classified it into four buckets. If you will, the most important thing as you get onto the transformative journey is talent, talent having the right people, the right skills and also having a transformative mindset.

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So that's the first bucket that you see over there and it requires organizations to have the right skills the right set of talents, because the skills for 5g and edge are different than your traditional id skills.

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The second is applying the right technologies to enable the 5g on the edge and what I mean by that is technologies like ai blockchain iot.

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All of those are getting prevalent and in fact, in many cases and in a lot of the cases, all of those combined with the native cloud, the hybrid cloud becomes critical core components from a technology standpoint for success.

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The third are, is the new ways of working.

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The traditional days of the waterfall models are changing it's about, try fast and fail fast, it's about cooperating and co-opting, with potential competitors and working collaboratively with them in an ecosystem, and then the last, but not the most important, is obviously this can be done anywhere in the world as long as it's 5g enabled so the location becomes a non-issue.

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All of these can be handled globally, depending on the csp that we're working with or the geography that we are working with as long as it has the 5g enablement and obviously the technology, the skills can all be provided remotely and virtually with that team, I closed the session. Hopefully it was helpful productive.

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If there are any questions, please put it on the right side on the chat, as well as please feel free to reach out to the moderator after the session is over. If you have any questions and we'll be more than happy to respond to that later on, thank you and bye for now,.