5G Meets Media and Entertainment: Opportunities and Challenges

It is forecast that video traffic is going to account for 74% of all mobile data traffic by 2024 when 5G ecosystem has been massively deployed around the world. This paper will discuss how 5G is going to shape media and entertainment consumption landscape in the next 10 years, as well as opportunities and challenges for the 5G network to serve the media and entertainment verticals.

The paper first reviews new business and service opportunities that could be enabled by 5G network with high throughput and low latency characteristics. We will then discuss the challenges from several aspects of 5G network and media technologies, including end-2-end wireless network optimization, enabling technologies in video encoding, packaging, and delivery. At last, a set of guiding principles is proposed to address these challenges.

Peng Tan | TELUS Communications Inc. | Toronto, ON, Canada
Jia Liu | TELUS Communications Inc. | Toronto, ON, Canada