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> Future standards will be even more tight, 5G working assumption is 1 ms HARQ loop.

That's just to the base station, no? How does that in any way apply to what you transmit over your network?

> Where you got the idea that I assume the ENB has to be on other side of the world ?

Because your comment about latency implied that.

>That's just to the base station, no? How does that in any way apply to what you transmit over your network? We are talking about ENB here, core LTE network is already virtualized.

>Because your comment about latency implied that. Goal with ENB virtualization is to have single or few server farms per city, unlike today where ENBs are spread all over the city, and such usecase is still problematic with latencies - been there, done that.

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