It requires a complete overhaul of infrastructure to make it ready for software-based technology.
The true 5G experience, however, is offered by the standalone network, which is a complex deployment. Non-standalone is a mix of 4G and 5G and works on the LTE network system. There are two types of globally accepted 5G networks – non-standalone and standalone. It is a new mobile network standard that is touted to deliver data transfer speeds in the ballpark of one gigabit per second at a lower latency rate, and with higher throughput capacity, for more active simultaneous connections. What we call a network congestion basically is the result of a network getting overloaded beyond its throughput limit. Throughput is a network's capacity to handle active connections simultaneously. A lower latency rate translates into a faster connection speed. These happen due to high latency rate, which causes a delay in the exchange of information. Voice lag during internet calling and skipped frame rates during online gaming sessions are two examples that explain the concept of latency rate. It is the total time taken for a piece of information to move from one location to another. Therefore, the higher the data transfer speed, the more the volume transferred every second. For instance, if a broadband connection has 100Mbps speed, it can handle up to 100 Megabits of data every second. The data transfer speed is the maximum volume of information transferred between two systems every second.
These are the basic parameters that define 5G. To understand 5G better, it is important that we know about data transfer speeds, latency rate and throughput.