Wind Tre is the first operator on the market to launch the stand-alone 5G network in Italy. It is a new generation mobile network, completely independent of 4G and designed to offer advanced services.
“The potential customers are businesses and public administration. Stand alone 5G enables network slicing, i.e. the possibility of segmenting the 5G public network, like a motorway where you can create different lanes to which you can attribute certain potentialities”, explains Mauro Cucci, director of the B2B division of Wind Tre. “You take portions of the network and allocate them to specific functions for private use. You use the infrastructure we have and this ensures that costs are lower than building a network from scratch. For end customers it means zero investments”, he continues.
«The possibility of creating these virtual private networks opens up some interesting use cases: let’s think about live events with a very high density of public participation, such as concerts or large sporting events. There is the possibility, from now on, of reserving a traffic band for that event”, he adds.
Slicing allows you to integrate instant and secure communication services, such as push-to-talk, directly into the mobile network. A solution that can replace Tetra networks in critical areas (utilities, security, transport, including local public transport), offering an alternative with guaranteed coverage even in crowded contexts, integrated with other mobile services. «We think about digital payments during the initiative, about sharing photos and videos. It can be applied to security, to law enforcement communications”, underlines Cucci, explaining that in recent weeks Wind Tre carried out an initial test that “went very well” at a sporting event with hundreds of people.