As more service providers move toward 5G, they need a scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure that they, and their customers, can rely on. The standalone 5G Core eliminates the hardware-centric, centralized architectures of the past and embraces a cloud-native, distributed infrastructure for building and operating networks. The approach uses microservices, running on a service-based, containerized architecture that enables service delivery all the way to the far edge of the network. This creates the faster, more reliable network performance that customers demand.
[1] “Cloud Native networking for a 5G era” report, ABI Research, (March 2020), page 13 https://www.abiresearch.com/blogs/2020/04/06/cloud-native-networking-5g-era/