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Telcom infrastructure including mobile communications undergone tremendous change over last few decades. These changes are linked and leapfrogged but that is about to change as 5G moves in. However, 5G cannot be realized without adequate attention to network synchronization and careful time error budget estimate for the network. Synchronization also need to be understood from historical perspective as it applies to mobile communications and overall telecom infrastructure with highlights and learning from 2G to 4G. The future of telecom infrastructure is the one that brings power of distributed data center with virtual RAN and network technologies coupling this with virtualization and network intelligence to create dynamic, state aware, on demand and service-oriented network, welcome to the world of “Telcom Cloud.” However, challenges remain on such challenge is sync plane issue. Learning in this chapter will help academic, network, and telecom professionals to better understand technological options and appropriate synchronization need to build future telecom cloud network.
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Chowdhury, D.D. (2021). Synchronization for Telecom Infrastructure. In: NextGen Network Synchronization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71179-5_9
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