Huawei’s Compact RAN solution is designed to simplify the radio access network and provide a more direct path for LTE signals to reach devices.
In this edition of “How it works,” Huawei’s Director of Product Management, Rick Xu gives a broad overview of the company’s Compact RAN solution and Warren Lai, Huawei’s Senior LTE RAN Engineer, demonstrates the impact of the solution on Internet speeds.
As Xu explains, the compact RAN solution makes the network more efficient by pulling EPC functions from the S-Gateway, P-Gateway, MME and HSS and putting them all on one software in the eNodeB. This provides a more direct path to the router, firewall and Internet Xu says.
The solution works with all standard LTE TDD devices. Xu says this makes it easy for wireless Internet service providers to adopt the solution in all their standard LTE services.
“To a device, there is no way they can tell if they are talking to a compact RAN eNodeB versus a standard eNodeB with a complex EPC behind it,” Xu explains, “so that means for the choices of devices, the operator or the Internet service provider, they get to choose any commercial, off-the-shelf device.”
The solution is designed to provide a small-scale and cost-effective solution for fixed wireless broadband access.
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