The xRAN.org — an open source radio access network (RAN) project backed by major operators and vendors — is getting ready to deliver its first specification late this year or early in 2018.
At RANWorld, held in Barcelona last week, there was a clear focus on Cloud and Virtual Radio Access Networks, and specifically how to do it. Can the vendors “open up” to enable market innovation on the radio side. How will a disaggregated RAN be architected? How will it be managed? So here are the things…
Rapid advances in mobile computing power are pushing machine intelligence to the very edge of the network. Known as Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), this development is a critical success factor in the rise of the new 5G mobile networks that will deliver unheard of data speeds to an exponentially larger user base, and all at…
Mavenir, partnering with Heavy Reading, has released a report that assesses the business and technical progress being made by Communications Service Providers (CSPs) as they race to implement network functions virtualization (NFV). It is a transition that Gartner says “will change the way traditional CSPs create, manage and deliver services to their customers.” In the…
Mavenir is in the midst of a reinvention. The company, which makes software to help operators deliver IP-based services like voice, video, and messaging over their LTE networks, is now working on a software-based extensible Radio Access Network (xRAN) architecture that could make hardware-based RAN a thing of the past. Mavenir has been in quite a…
The xRAN Foundation, a consortium dedicated to promoting a software-based, extensible Radio Access Network (xRAN) and to standardizing critical elements of the xRAN architecture, announced that Mavenir became a member BARCELONA, SPAIN – February 27, 2017: The xRAN Foundation, a consortium dedicated to promoting a software-based, extensible Radio Access Network (xRAN) and to standardizing critical elements…
Terrestar will launch a new Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) service offer to the market, evolving to a full 5G Direct to Device (D2D) service by 2025. As the chosen technology supplier, Mavenir will provide the enabling 3GPP standards-compliant Core and O-RAN interface technology. Open RAN implementations, aligned to the O-RAN alliance specifications, are driving the deployment of open, intelligent, and secure networks for both mobile network and satellite network owners.
Nokia and Mavenir have completed interoperability testing between Nokia’s baseband (DU/CU) and an open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) from Mavenir, over the Open FrontHaul interface. The test took place at Nokia’s facility in Dallas.
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Mavenir’s Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR) replaces the physical cell site router with a cloud-native network function (CNF) running on the Open RAN DU server, on common-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. For CSPs this means fewer cell site devices to power, fewer cables and points of failure and more data throughput per watt, lowering operation and management overhead, and liberating rack space that can be used for incremental revenue generating applications.
