5G is not just about powerful networks, and low-latency speed. It is an innovation catalyst – revolutionising a new era of Industry 4.0 and other verticals like logistics, transportation, healthcare, and building smart cities and environments.
Businesses can consider the four dimensions to evaluate a use case
Economics
Build comprehensive cost models that will help you evaluate the potential outcome of the total cost of ownership and support your ROI account. It will also help you outline the investment milestones needed and the projected financial commitment to see the project through.
Business outcomes
Examine the crucial points of a use case to the business, such as security and scalability, that are required to deliver the value of the data from the use case back to the business.
Performance
Evaluate workloads and the kind of data traversing the network for the particular use case, and if they require the mobility, latency and capacity that 5G provides.
Operations
Consider the broader ecosystem required to derive the maximum value from your investments for both the short and long term sustainability. Bringing together a 5G use case is not just a matter of connecting endpoints to some location, but requirements around network and endpoint management, and redundancy must be considered to continually increase the value of the solution to the business.