Ericsson’s latest foray into 5G research comes with the launch of the 5G Exchange (5GEx) project, one of several in which the Swedish vendor is engaged under the European Commission’s 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) R&D program. Ericsson will lead the 5GEx initiative, which aims to enable a unified European 5G infrastructure service market that integrates multiple operators and technologies. Therefore its main areas of focus will be cross-domain service orchestration over multiple administrations, or multi-domain single administrations. Orchestration will be compatible with NFV specifications and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, said Ericsson and will work across multivendor and heterogeneous environments. The aim is to support automated service provisioning with reduced time to market for operators and content providers;…