5G Standalone

Discover reliable automated service assurance for 5G Standalone (SA) networks and ensure customer satisfaction.

Ensure Premium 5G Standalone Services with a Premium Assurance Solution

When you launch 5G Standalone (SA) services, you must be able to meet customers and their usage demands from day one and beyond. Polystar provides the right tools to manage and optimize your 5G core network, helping to deliver end-to-end customer satisfaction and meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Introducing 5G Standalone: What is 5G Standalone?

5G Standalone (SA) is a 5G network architecture that can operate independently of existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure. Unlike 5G Non-Standalone (NSA), which relies on core 4G LTE functions, 5G Standalone uses a dedicated 5G core network architecture for both signaling and data transfer.

This new network architecture unlocks the full potential of 5G performance, delivering faster speeds, lower latency, and higher capacity for data-intensive applications. 5G SA  also supports advanced use cases, like network slicing, massive Internet of Things (IoT), and ultra-reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC).

5G Standalone versus 5G Non-Standalone explained in a Polystar Illusration

Introducing 5G Standalone: What is 5G Standalone?

5G Standalone (SA) is a 5G network architecture that can operate independently of existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure. Unlike 5G Non-Standalone (NSA), which relies on core 4G LTE functions, 5G Standalone uses a dedicated 5G core network architecture for both signaling and data transfer.

This new network architecture unlocks the full potential of 5G performance, delivering faster speeds, lower latency, and higher capacity for data-intensive applications. 5G SA  also supports advanced use cases, like network slicing, massive Internet of Things (IoT), and ultra-reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC).

Henri  Helanterä, Head of Network Assurance at Polystar

5G Standalone Benefits: Unlock New Services and Premium Offerings

Monetizing your 5G SA investments is a must for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). To meet and exceed the high expectations of early 5G Standalone adopters, you need a reliable and trusted service assurance solution that provides full real-time visibility of the customer experience.

Polystar provides carrier-grade, multivendor 5G SA Customer Experience (CX) assurance for 30+ CSPs globally. Why not join them?

5G Standalone SA Use Cases

5G Standalone architecture allows CSPs to unlock advanced service functions and premium offerings.

Time-Critical Applications
Slice-based Services for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
5G Voice over New Radio (Vo5G/VoNR)

Time-Critical Applications

5G SA’s low-latency capabilities are ideal for real-time media applications, such as live streaming, gaming, and virtual events, all of which require a reliable, uninterrupted connection.

In manufacturing and logistics, standalone 5G SA supports industrial automation by enabling real-time communication between essential networks such as robots, sensors, and machines.

With ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) and massive IoT, smart factories can utilize 5G standalone networks to automate tasks with high precision and minimal downtime.

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Slice-based Services for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)

5G SA core network slicing, allows operators to create virtual networks for specific services.

For FWA users, this means dedicated, high-speed internet access comparable to fiber connections.

Excellent broadband connection quality can be provided during even the busiest times.

Slice-based services with 5G Standalone networks

5G Voice over New Radio (Vo5G/VoNR)

With 5G New Radio leveraging the 5G Standalone core network, operators can provide improved voice quality compared to Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE).

With Vo5G, call setup time is comparably shorter than VoLTE due to the lower latency of 5G NR..

With 5G SA, operators can provide improved voice quality

Why Choose Polystar for 5G SA Service Assurance?

Empower your team to deliver premium 5G Standalone customer experiences.


Experienced and Trusted 5G SA Monitoring and Analytics Vendor

With over 30 years of telecom network experience, we offer robust, real-time performance insights and fully customizable workflows, designed to meet operator-specific needs for complex monitoring and analytics tasks. Our 5G SA Service Assurance solution responds rapidly and scales up to effectively and efficiently serve your business-critical 5G SA assurance processes..

Workflows Guide Users Through Technologies and Services

Ready-made workflows offer comprehensive protocol and interface support, enabling thorough analysis of 5G SA networks and earlier mobile generations, including support for 5G core network slicing. This ensures seamless analytics across evolving technologies and services.

Ready-made Dashboards with Versatile Data Filtering

Interactive real-time views provide focused access to essential 5G SA network and service data, enabling users to analyze key metrics and trends efficiently, and draw actionable conclusions. Ad-hoc queries are supported to cater to situational investigation and troubleshooting needs.

Unified Solution Serves the Needs of Multiple Teams

We provide a versatile solution designed to meet the needs of different user profiles and teams within your business. Centralizing data in a single system ensures smooth communication, collaboration, and task handover, improving efficiency and workflow across different departments and roles. Open APIs and multiple file formats are supported to provide high-quality data to external solutions.

Listen to our Customers


Satish Kalkunte
Assistant Vice President at Starhub

"At Starhub we have used OSIX Monitoring and KALIX Analytics to ensure the quality and customer experience of our 5G SA service since its launch in 2021. Our Core Operations and  NOC & SOC teams value the fast, unified system that provides a comprehensive, end-to-end view of all mobile technologies, including 5G SA."

Polystar's 5G SA Service Assurance Solution Supports Different Roles


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5G SA Core Operations

The core operations team rolls out new 5G SA sites, assuring upgrades and troubleshooting issues. We provide them with:

- Ready-made summary views that provide essential analytics information
- Customized alerts and ad-hoc views to serve operational needs
- Ability to drill down to session-level details to facilitate troubleshooting

 

Standalone 5G device experts

5G SA Device Experts

Device experts test 5G capable models and software versions, and troubleshoot device originating issues. We help these tasks with:

- Device benchmarking identify models and software versions with issues
- Analytics data to distinguish device- and network-originating issues
- Intuitive, easy-to-use dashboards for on-the-fly data filtering deep drilldown

 

5G Standalone Customer care experts

Customer Care Experts

Customer care experts investigate customer issues and are expected to provide prompt resolution, preferably online. We facilitate their work with:

- Ready-made dashboard views to investigate issues affecting individuals and groups
- Guided workflows to facilitate resolution of common issues
- Differentiate device and network issues via drill-down to session-level data

 

 

 

Real-time Network Monitoring and Service Assurance for 5G SA

At Polystar, we provide commercial-grade service assurance for 5G SA to over 30 CSPs globally, ensuring the customer experience needed for a successful 5G launch, and beyond.

Talk to a Telco Experts to discover how we can support you.

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Evaluation of 5G Standalone Service Assurance Solutions

Carefully selecting the right customer experience assurance solution provider for your 5G SA network is crucial to ensure optimal service quality, minimize downtime, and fully realize new revenue opportunities.

Ensure your Service Assurance Solution Delivers the Following:

Get real-time end-to-end 5G SA insights into the customer experience

To focus customers’ service experience as your key measure in service assurance decisions and actions, you need to monitor and analyze 5G SA experience in real time - prioritizing issue resolution based on the number of users the incident is predicted to affect.

Apply a single tool and data to serve multiple user roles

Introducing a 5G Standalone core network and launching the associated services involves multiple teams in the operator organization. The key user groups for 5G SA service monitoring and analytics include core network operations, device management, and customer service. The experts in these teams have specific competencies – and specific requirements for a solution. As 5G SA network roll out, operation and troubleshooting involve cooperation between these teams, the solution should be designed to provide each with ready-made views and workflows to assist them in their daily tasks.

View all mobile technology generations and network vendors across a single pane of glass

Despite the fact that 5G Standalone as a technology is self-contained, it still uses the 4G LTE core and radio as fallback options. A non-technical customer may not be aware of which network the device is using and will just assess the service experience. The network monitoring and analytics tools need to be capable of supporting detailed investigation of problem situations, even in multivendor environments, to guide your team to rapid issue resolution.

Enable adaptability and ad-hoc queries

When a new service or technology is introduced, unexpected situations can be the rule rather than the exception. When resolving unprecedented issues, your experts value a solution that supports initiating ad-hoc queries, filtering data and rapidly drilling down to session level details.

Automate repetitive tasks

Applying automated and self-adaptive alarms enables your experts to be automatically notified when thresholds are crossed. Informative notifications enable teams to take proactive remedial action before the issue affects customers. As repeating patterns are recognized and corrective actions have been verified, the solution should enable automated actions to be applied to make resolution attempts.

Enable data feeds to external systems

Ensure that your Standalone 5G network monitoring and analytics data can be applied to operations, engineering and business systems. The selected system should provide open APIs and support multiple real time and batch data transfer formats.

5G Non-Standalone (NSA) Vs Standalone (SA)


  • 5G SA is a network technology that is evolving across public domains globally. However, currently, most 5G connections in the public domain are really using 5G NSA. 5G NSA relies on existing 4G core networks, which, while offering fast speeds, fall short of providing the full 5G core network functions.

    SA is fully independent, with a native 5G core network, using advanced technologies that enable benefits such as network slicing and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) that support smart cities and automation across multiple industries.

    While 5G SA is a long-term investment, customers can benefit from the full 5G core network experience and make their networks future-proof.

Webinar: Opportunities and Challenges with 5G SA Monitoring

Discover how to ensure seamless Customer Experience Assurance in 5G Standalone (SA) networks.

In this 20 minutes on-demand webinar, Polystar's Senior Business Analyst, Jonas Petersson unpacks the complexities of managing 5G Standalone networks and shares proven strategies to help you overcome them.

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