Aviation, Cloud-Native, and 5G: Solutions for the Future

Addressing GPS/GNSS spoofing threats in civil aviation

The rising threat of GPS/GNSS spoofing presents significant challenges for civil aviation, jeopardizing safety and operational reliability. Spoofing involves deceptive signals that mislead aircraft navigation systems, disrupt flight paths, delay schedules, and compromise critical safety systems like eGPWS and ADS-B. Spirent’s latest eBook, Protecting Commercial Aircraft Against GPS Spoofing Threats, offers aviation professionals a comprehensive guide to understanding and countering these risks. To enhance resilience, it provides actionable strategies—spanning immediate detection measures, medium-term hardware upgrades, and long-term solutions like LEO PNT services. Leveraging over 35 years of PNT expertise, Spirent empowers aviation stakeholders to adopt robust defenses against evolving spoofing challenges. Download the eBook today to safeguard aviation operations and maintain safety in contested airspace.

Embracing Lab-to-Live for cloud-native network resilience

The Lab-to-Live white paper, created in collaboration with Appledore Research, highlights the transformation needed for modern networks to streamline testing and deployment. As cloud-native technologies redefine scalability and agility, traditional testing methods fall short. The Lab-to-Live strategy integrates lab testing, deployment, and operational monitoring into a continuous cycle, fostering collaboration and improvement across development and operations teams. Critical insights reveal how agile testing and proactive monitoring ensure network reliability in software-driven environments. By shifting from hardware resilience to software-based fault tolerance, CSPs can recover quickly from failures, optimize resources, and adapt to multi-vendor complexities. Download the paper to explore how Lab-to-Live enhances operational efficiency, boosts 5G readiness, and secures future network innovations.

Are you embracing failure for greater reliability?

As 5G networks grow in complexity, operators are embracing cloud-native technologies to deliver scalable, flexible, and reliable services. Cloud-native network functions (CNFs) are central to this evolution and are designed with resilience in mind. Instead of preventing all failures, CNFs assume they are inevitable, focusing on rapid recovery and service continuity. Kubernetes, with its self-healing and fault-tolerance capabilities, automates recovery processes to ensure uninterrupted performance, even under stress. Cloud-native 5G networks can support critical applications like autonomous vehicles and industrial IoT by leveraging microservices, containerization, and automated orchestration. Proactive strategies such as chaos engineering further strengthen fault recovery and optimize performance. Explore these innovations and more in our whitepaper, Is 5G the Harbinger of Cloud-Native Chaos?.

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