Wireless operators in today’s market face increasing pressure on the top line as price competition continues to ramp up. At the same time, network performance expectations among consumers remain high as usage continues to grow, leaving operators looking for more cost-efficient network solutions. Over...
Join Monica Paolini, President of Senza Fili Consulting as she discusses the market trends, operator requirements, and technology opportunities driving the transition to a virtualized RAN, through the deployment of C-RAN and fronthaul, and running in parallel to the densification enabled by small cells,...
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Senza Fili's new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the market trends, operator requirements and technology opportunities driving the transition to a virtualized RAN, through the...
A conversation with Philippe Chanclou, team manager Orange Labs
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Philippe Chanclou, team manager at Orange Labs in France, talked to us about how to approach the...
A conversation with Ken Sandfeld, EVP, SOLiD
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Solid wants to ensure that backhaul and fronthaul do not become the bottlenecks in densification efforts. Instead, the company is aiming...
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A conversation with Femi Adeyemi, LTE Solutions Architect, Fujitsu
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Experienced in providing transport and access solutions, Fujitsu offers a comprehensive set of CRAN solutions to give operators...
A conversation with Mike McFarland, senior director of product management and marketing, Airvana
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Airvana has worked on small cells for a long time, historically focusing on...
A conversation with Javier Lorca Hernando, Project Manager for the RAN, Telefonica R&D
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The operators’ view on C-RAN – Telefonica, Spain
Telefonica has been and continues to...
A conversation with Renuka Bhalerao, Senior Product Line Manager, Radisys
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Radisys brings its expertise in developing application software and high-performance hardware to support C-RAN architectures. Radisys...
Network virtualization in the data center and the wide-area network became a mainstream trend in 2014. Discussions around how the network would adapt to support the highly virtualized compute and storage infrastructure in data centers has given rise to network solution vendors – old...
A conversation with Hiroshi Kawai, director, technology development department and wireless technology department technology division, SoftBank
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As part of our upcoming report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN,...
The operators’ view on C-RAN – A conversation with Alberto Bonaventura, Technical Consultant, Oi
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Oi has been active in trialing C-RAN solutions to study the impact they have...
Cloud RAN, sometimes abbreviated C-RAN, has been a topic in macro mobile networks for several years now. Wikipedia describes C-RAN as “a centralized, cloud computing-based new radio access network architecture.” Vendors began actively promoting macro C-RAN products this year, and a new company, Altiostar,...
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