Nokia and Bharti Airtel complete successful 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial in India
2024年7月22日 - 4:00PM
Press Release
Nokia and Bharti Airtel complete successful 5G
NSA Cloud RAN trial in India
- First 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial adds to Nokia’s multiple 5G Cloud
RAN references.
- Significant milestone in Airtel’s network evolution,
diversifying portfolio in building scalable networks with agility
and highly automated processes.
- Nokia's anyRAN approach allows operators to evolve their
networks to a hybrid RAN environment with both Cloud RAN and
purpose-built RAN deployments co-existing delivering a high-quality
performance.
22 July 2024 Espoo, Finland – Nokia today
announced that it has successfully completed its first 5G
non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial with Bharti Airtel (Airtel) in
India. The project supports Airtel’s strategy of delivering a
superior customer experience using high-performing networks. It is
expected to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher
network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources
to support end-user services.
The trial took place in an over-the-air
environment utilizing 3.5 GHz spectrum for 5G and 2100 MHz for 4G.
Data calls were successfully performed with commercial user devices
over Airtel’s commercial network achieving a throughput of over 1.2
Gbps. The trial utilized Nokia’s RAN Software for virtualized
Distributed Unit (vDU) and virtualized Centralized Unit (vCU)
running on x86 Hardware with a CaaS layer. The trial also used
Nokia’s L1 acceleration that will enable enhanced power efficiency
and support Nokia’s anyRAN benefits of using common RAN software
with the purpose-built part of the network. This will enable common
functionality and performance across the hybrid network.
The trial marks a significant milestone in
Airtel's overall cloudification journey and supports the operator’s
ambition of bringing cloud networking benefits, such as scalability
and agility, to their network.
Nokia’s anyRAN is an open approach to building
future-ready radio access networks together with an ecosystem of
best-in-class industry partners. It’s designed to give mobile
operators and enterprises a collaborative advantage by offering
them more flexibility in their choice of cloud infrastructure
software, hardware, and technology suppliers. Operators can evolve
their networks to a hybrid RAN approach with both Cloud RAN and
purpose-built RAN deployments co-existing, delivering a consistent,
high-quality performance.
Randeep Sekhon, Chief Technology Officer
at Bharti Airtel, said: “This successful Cloud RAN trial
is a significant step forward in our consistent efforts to
integrate the latest and most efficient technologies into our
network and leverage these to deliver brilliant customer
experiences. This partnership with Nokia has enabled us to pioneer
innovative solutions to upgrade our capabilities in 5G.”
Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile
Networks at Nokia, said: “This successful trial with our
long-term partner, Bharti Airtel supports their ambitions for
building scalable, agile and highly automated networks. Nokia’s
approach to Cloud RAN means that our customers can flexibly evolve
to Cloud RAN with choices in Cloud infrastructure and data center
hardware. This will drive efficiency, innovation, openness, and
scale in their RAN evolution.”
Resources and additional
informationWebpage: Nokia AirScale Cloud
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