Widespread deployment of 5G wireless infrastructure portends significant advances in connectivity and capacity. However, at the same time this is happening, increasingly bandwidth-hungry consumer devices clamor for more high- and ultra-high-definition video. The result of this “arms race” is that MNOs are, at best, simply treading water. MNOs desperately need mechanisms that will reduce cost on backhaul networks while also alleviating congestion on the fronthaul side.