Transport for Industry 4.0: shared networks and 5G slicing transport aware

Most of the relevant use cases for Industry 4.0 are based on Stand Alone Networks that are delivered on the vertical premises in order to meet latency requirements. In order to reduce total cost of ownership and enable novel use cases, it is very relevant to define solutions that allows to support such use cases in a shared network while assuring the same performance of dedicated network. Qualifying ingredient for realizing a shared network are two: a suitable transport networks based on optical technology combined with slicing technique that is transport aware. This presentation shows a concrete example of a shared networks that is carried out in the framework of the H2020 European project “5Growth” that is based on WDM transport and extends the 5G slicing architecture with the transport. Implementation on a PoC is also reported.