Open RAN products were present in force at last year’s MWC. Keith Dyer from The Mobile Network highlighted the appearance at last year’s MWC of a wide collection of emerging Open RAN Distributed Unit (DU) products [i]. These demonstrated progress amongst vendors in the softwarisation of many RAN functions, with the processing intensive Layer 1Continue reading “Finding the Optimum Processing Platform for Open RAN Solutions”
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Open RAN: the view on the street
Why should local authorities be aware of Open RAN (open radio access networks) and diversification initiatives that are being encouraged by the government’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) department? Surely the main selling points of Open RAN are relevant to just operators? Most operators are now investing in Open RAN. Open RAN is workingContinue reading “Open RAN: the view on the street”
Diversification, development and dialogue
Real Wireless long ago declared its full support for diversification in all its forms, driven by open and interoperable products. We believe that guaranteeing technology choice is essential for robust supply chains, diverse ecosystems, cost efficiencies, scale and indeed innovation. That’s also a view taken by the UK’s DCMS in its 5G Supply Chain Diversification StrategyContinue reading “Diversification, development and dialogue”
SDN – the quiet revolution
I first became seriously involved in software defined networks (SDNs) more than 10 years ago. At the time I was working with product and standards development teams influencing an ETSI policy document looking at SDN and network function virtualisation (NFV) as separate, but highly interdependent trends. The plan was to turn what was then aContinue reading “SDN – the quiet revolution”
MWC 2020 preview
Some of the headline topics for MWC 2020 appear pretty generic – connectivity in the 5G era and the commercial implications of the (fairly meaningless) industry X concept – reflecting the continuing desire to create the broad church of the mobile ecosystem. However, some aspects of the industry-X concept undoubtedly point to mission-critical themes suchContinue reading “MWC 2020 preview”
Reading the RAN roadmap
The architectures of radio access networks (RAN)s are continually evolving as a result of various technical and economic drivers. We regularly receive enquiries about RAN architecture from our readers and one topic that keeps coming up is the evolution from D-RAN to C-RAN and, inevitably, beyond. A fairly simplistic answer is that the distributed orContinue reading “Reading the RAN roadmap”