Nokia supports private networks with its Cloud Packet Core: The vision for 5G is that it should be an architecture capable of supporting a huge variety of services with very different network behaviors and requirements. Even before the 5G era, however, several variations on LTE are being created to enable 4G networks to look beyond the mobile broadband for which they were designed, and support other types of services more effectively. Critical communications, automotive applications, broadcast/multicast and machine-to-machine connections are four examples, and each has its own LTE technology available or emerging, which can be supported on common infrastructure, but will behave optimally for the particular use case. Vendors and operators will hope to break down the perception, among vertical…