Network slicing is one of the essential elements of the full vision of 5G as an agile network which can be tuned to any user’s requirements in a dynamic fashion. Without slicing, it will be hard for 5G to meet the needs of many of the industries which hope to use it as part of their digital transformations. The demanding, and very diverse, connectivity requirements of sectors such as public safety, manufacturing, logistics or smart cities cannot be met optimally on a general purpose network, but the individual private network model, while important for some scenarios – especially in-building or localized build-outs – is hard to scale, and hard for MNOs to align with their core profit models. Slicing, then,…