Telecoms networks have always been required to deliver reliable services. However, the growth in electronic and signals warfare coincides with the increasing significance of telecoms not just to communicate between people but to operate connected services and societies. Natural disruptions also threaten service continuity.
Future networks need to be able to resist attacks and, where those attacks succeed, contain and recover from them with minimal disruption. Resilience, which has always been desirable, is becoming mission-critical for users and as a matter of national security and stability.
In this white paper by ABI Research, authors Dimitris Mavrakis and Malik Saadi explore the new pressures for a resilient 6G, define resilience in the context of a new generation, and conduct a gap analysis to identify missing elements in the resilience value chain.
