5G NR Deployment scenarios

In real network deployments, depending on the operator-specific implementation constraints such as location and fiber availability, deployment area density, etc., deployments result in anything between the fully distributed and maximally centralized configuration. Even on one operator’s network, it is common that there are many different sizes of Edge Cloud instances, and combinations of Centralized and Distributed architectures in same network are also common (e.g. network operator may choose to centralize the deployments on dense Metro areas to the extent possible and distribute the configurations on suburban/rural areas with larger cell sizes / cell density that do not translate to pooling benefits from more centralized architecture). However, the maximum centralization within the constraints of latencies that can be tolerable is useful for establishing the basis for dimensioning of the maximum sizes, especially for the Edge and Regional cloud PoPs.