Deutsche Telekom announced that it has carried out a video call at its first 5G standalone site.
After numerous tests, Deutsche Telekom's technical team has now achieved a breakthrough. The call could be carried out without interruption in a pure 5G environment. The call was made via the standalone antenna in Garching to Bamberg in Deutsche Telekom's first 5G standalone core network and from there to Bonn.
In addition to the stable data connection, very low latency was realized in the live network. In Garching, the response time was 13 milliseconds. These will be further reduced in the future as part of network optimizations.
The 5G technology currently deployed in Germany is based on the 5G Non-Standalone (5G NSA) network architecture. This means that today's 5G offerings are still technically dependent on a simultaneously available 4G network (LTE). With 5G Standalone, the infrastructure in the core network will also be fully upgraded to a new, cloud-based 5G architecture. This further development of 5G is the prerequisite for new application possibilities.
Walter Goldenits, CTO of Telekom Deutschland
True technical innovation is made up of implementation strength and pioneering spirit. Telekom has clearly demonstrated both with 5G. More than two-thirds of people in Germany can already use Telekom's 5G network today.
Claudia Nemat, Board Member Technology and Innovation at Telekom
Our goal is to continue to actively shape the future of mobile communications. 5G standalone is important to be able to use technologies such as network slicing or edge computing.
