This emerging feature—as the term “network slicing” suggests—is a way to carve up cellular bandwidth to create unique, logical, and virtualized networks over a multi-domain infrastructure. These slices can create unprecedented potential for advanced specialized services that can be differentiated across the 5G network.
Network slicing represents a major advance for the industry because it enables new value-added services that are more efficient and cost effective. And this next-generation capability will have much to offer businesses and consumers as well, likely including service level agreements (SLAs) for their most critical data and applications.