Cisco unveils new networking roadmap for carriers hitting the limits of current technology

By Etan Vlessing SAN FRANCISCO – The march to 5G promises the newest and fastest networks where wireless carriers can offer next generation applications like VR, better and faster online gaming, driverless cars and improved VOD and TV to consumer and business subscribers. But how to get the Canadian carriers and service providers from here – current 4G LTE networks – to future 5G and more G deployments as Moore's Law slows and the operating cost and complexity of Internet plumbing grows? Cisco, insisting it has tackled the network challenges slowing the race to 5G (which needs significant, deep, fibre...