The discussion outlines why private 5G adoption in industrial environments has been hindered by telco-centric architectures and operational complexity. It explains how simplified RAN design, LAN integration, deterministic QoS, and centralized operations address coverage, mobility, reliability, and scale across IT and OT domains.
Industrial enterprises increasingly turn to private 5G not as an experiment, but as foundational infrastructure for connected workers, autonomous systems, and real-time control. Yet adoption is often slowed by architectural mismatches between traditional telco designs and enterprise environments.
Industrial sites differ fundamentally from service provider environments. Space is constrained, cabling is expensive, and IT and OT systems must coexist without disruption. Telco-style designs separate baseband units, specialized switching, and dedicated fiber introduce unnecessary complexity and slow deployments.
This session examines why private 5G deployments feel complex and how those challenges can be systematically addressed.
Beyond architecture, the session explores how private 5G accommodates heterogeneous industrial devices through gateways, supports deterministic OT traffic using Layer-2 tunneling, and enforces application-level guarantees with fine-grained QoS and micro-slicing. It also addresses multi-site operations, showing how centralized control with localized data planes enables scale without on-site cellular expertise.
The result is a pragmatic view of private 5G as an enterprise-aligned system: integrated with IT and OT, adaptable to real industrial constraints, and capable of delivering reliable performance across diverse environments.