India, July 9 -- While China operators are running advanced network slicing trials, a senior researcher has warned the technology is a long way short of being commercially ready.

Zhang Jing, a standards engineers at the state think-tank China Information and Communications Technology Institute (CAICT), told a recent network slicing conference the technology still lacked maturity and vendor interoperability.

"There is still a certain gap between network slicing and commercial deployment," Zhang said. The industry had "a long way to go," and requires the efforts of all players in the industry chain.

Right now, there are still no defined approaches or interoperability in key slicing processes, such as coordination between access, transpor...