A conversation with Gilad Garon, CEO and Founder, ASOCS
After the initial work on a programmable SDR platform for mobile handsets, back in 2012 ASOCS decided to shift its focus to the virtualization of the base station. While the ASOCS solution is designed to work in C-RAN centralized environments, the target of the company is to go beyond C-RAN to a cloud-based virtualized RAN, where all baseband resources and layers are pooled in a remote location and virtualized on general purpose hardware.
Gilad Garon, CEO at ASOCS believes that “virtualization [is not] just a cost reduction measure, it is the way that next-generation networks are going to be designed. This requires virtualizing the base station, which was a key component in the data path and in the cost structure of a network, as well as end-to-end services from the evolved packet core all the way to the edge.” In this perspective, ASOCS “took the virtualization challenge from Day One, and aimed at solving it in a disruptive way. We are not about taking legacy or existing architectures and redefining them at L3 or L2 or L4. We have gone all the way down to the core of the virtualization of the baseband,” Gilad added.
Read the full interview or watch the video to find out more about ASOCS’ approach to the virtualization of the RAN.
This conversation is included in an updated version of the Senza Fili report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets”. Download the report.
