Virtualized 5G Networks Will Mix "Inside" and "Outside"

Virtualized telecom networks are going to “look” quite different from the legacy “closed” networks of yesterday. As native 5G networks, for example, are virtualized, they also will use public cloud infrastructure “inside” the core network. 

source: Heavy Reading 

Half a decade ago, the new virtualized core might have been described as including the traditional “telco” functions as abstracted using network functions virtualization or software defined network approaches. 

The point is that the abstracted functions were still supported “inside” the telco’s core network, with end user customer premises equipment “outside” the network, and “applications” supported either “inside” the telco domain or “outside” in the form of applications supported by third party computing platforms. 

source: Intel 

The Amazon Web Services “Wavelength” infrastructure, however, locates AWS computing facilities “inside” the telco network. AWS services are integrated into the other 5G services, for example, but represent a move of AWS computing services “inside” the telco network.

source: AWS