Specifically, this initiative involves implementing a demonstrator on laboratory infrastructure at the University of Vigo, where three network slices will be deployed to offer differentiated services: low latency, high bandwidth, and emergency response. This will allow, for example, customers to enjoy ultra-high-definition content using the 5G network while ensuring mobile network resources are guaranteed in the event of an emergency in the area.
 
This initiative also aims to begin building customer services that will be marketed through Telefónica's 5G network. In this way, the project will yield key results that will help Telefónica boost the ecosystem, fostering interoperability and standardization of this technology for its commercialization to end customers. Some of the sectors that stand to benefit most from Network Slicing include law enforcement, media and communications, automotive, industry, and the hospitality sector.
 
Cisco will demonstrate the benefits of cloud-native software with the Cisco Ultra Packet Core platform, which is at the heart of service creation and works alongside key technologies such as Network Slicing, NFV and automation through Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) to support specific customer use cases, both for the general public and enterprise, and constituting one of the multiple digitization projects in Spain driven by its 'Digitaliza' program.
 
For its part, Telefónica coordinates the project as a provider of technologies for 5G networks (Network Slicing) and as a promoter of the standards-based ecosystem.
 
Likewise, the University of Vigo is working on the design and deployment of the demonstrator, its validation and the measurement of its performance, demonstrating the benefits, quality and versatility of Network Slicing technologies.
  
This is one of the winning projects of the first call for aid to the development of 5G from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, co-financed by Red.es with FEDER funds and framed within the 5G Galicia Pilot initiative, whose objective is to test the technology of different providers and use the results to define the networks of the future.