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The NFV-based RAN platform helps service providers lay the foundation for supporting multiple access technologies, such as LTE, LTE-Advanced and Wi-Fi, while providing an evolution path to 5G and accelerating time-to-market for new, revenue-generating services.
The effort by Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile is expected to help operators smoothly evolve and meet growing customer demands with a more efficient and effective network structure.
Alcatel-Lucent will demonstrate the vRAN platform at Mobile World Congress Shanghai between July 15 and 17, 2015.
Dr. Chih-Lin I, chief scientist of China Mobile Research Institute said: “The vRAN technology will allow us to deliver new efficiencies across our network as our customers’ data demands change and more devices connect to our network.”
Glenn Booth, senior vice president and general manger of Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE Business Unit, said, “This trial is a prime example of how we are working with customers to develop, test and deploy networks with the highest performance and efficiencies and the lowest costs.”
Meanwhile, in another IoT partnership, China Unicom partnered with Huawei to deploy Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) Pilot based on 4.5G LTE-Machine to Machine (LTE-M).
Rajani Baburajan