The ultra-low latency group of 5G use cases, collected under the banner of URLLC (ultra-reliable low latency communications) has been depicted as a catching-up exercise for wireless communications against wired options, especially fiber. But it is more than that, because it opens up use cases in autonomous driving and robotics that cannot be served by wired communications anyway. Beyond that, the low latencies in these mobile scenarios will create new possibilities that will require addressing delay bottlenecks elsewhere in the line of processing, especially in data analytics. This will also play into sectors such as robotics and autonomous driving where almost instant decisions relating to safety have to be made under exceptional circumstances, sometimes in compliance with regulations. In the…