• Whitepaper
• August 14, 2020

Validating NSA and SA Deployment Modes

This paper explores the practical steps of the 5G rollout focusing on the following.

• deployment options for 5G
• why operators are choosing non-standalone mode at initial stages of deployment
• 5G network architecture
• call flow difference between SA and NSA.

Also, this paper will provide an outline of the key points that are required to look for during the validation of the base station and UE.