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                                        Q.FGNS
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                                        Subject/title:
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                                        Signalling requirements for fine-grained network slicing orchestration and management in bearer networks
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                                        Status:
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                                        Under study [Issued from previous study period]
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                                        Approval process:
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                                        AAP
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                                        Type of work item:
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                                        Recommendation
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                                        Version:
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                                        New
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                                        Timing:
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                                        Q2-2026 (Medium priority)
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                                        Liaison:
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                                        OIF, SG13, SG15, SG17
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                                        Supporting members:
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                                        China Telecom, China Unicom, MIIT China, CICT, China Mobile
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                                        Summary:
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                                        Scenarios in various vertical industries have differentiated SLA requirements for bandwidth, latency, and reliability, bringing a large number of different bandwidth, data security isolation, deterministic low latency and highly reliable bearer requirements for bearer networks. However, the existing FlexE standard has a granularity of 5Gbps. If 5Gbps slices are deployed in the network to meet the needs of a large number of fine-grained bandwidth services, the utilization of network physical resources will be extremely low, and large-scale deployment in operator networks is not possible. Therefore, it is necessary to study how to provide customers with fine-grained network slicing that accurately matches service bandwidth (M bit/s-level), delay and security requirements in bearer network.
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                                        First registration in the WP:
                                        2024-05-20 10:23:31
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                                        Last update:
                                        2025-08-18 18:05:43
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