Qualcomm has been making a lot of noise about Infrastructure 2.0 (I 2.0) in the context of 5G over recent months, but there is still a lot of confusion over a term that is at least 10 years old, with roots going back almost to the dawn of commercial enterprise computing in the early 1960s. Qualcomm’s consciousness-raising over a new take on I 2.0 probably reflects the company’s conviction it now has all the pieces in place to address this at the RAN level, with its new radio unit, distributed unit and distributed radio unit system-on-chip platforms. The next step to achieve a full platform is to deal with the core too. Although Qualcomm does not address core systems directly,…