Nokia and SK complete portable RAN for public safety LTE
Nokia and SK Telecom have announced the completion of a portable public safety LTE system designed for first responders in the field.
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Huawei and Telefónica begin work on “no cell” 5G RAN
Huawei and Telefónica have announced a joint effort to explore the requirements and potential solutions for the 5G RAN, including a “no cell” approach.
Nokia and Telecom Italia to find fresh ideas for RAN, SON and SDN
Kit vendor Nokia Networks and operator Telecom Italia have become incubation partners after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to scout for new technology, with fresh ideas about how to use emerging networking technologies.
Huawei demonstrates 3.6Gbps speeds with new RAN tech
Chinese kit vendor Huawei has claimed another first for 5G by using new radio access technology in a live field environment.
ITU, ETSI set standard to measure RAN energy efficiency
The United Nation’s ICT body the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have agreed a standard to measure the energy efficiency of radio access networks (RANs). The ITU said this is the first such standard and claimed it will unify energy efficiency evaluations of live RANs and the interpretation of results of such assessments.
Samsung upgrades C-RAN baseband unit centraliser
Samsung Electronics sent out a timely reminder that it has many more strings to its bow than smartphones with the launch of C-RAN2.0. As the name strongly implies, it’s an updated version of the original C-RAN product, which serves to allow the aggregation of baseband units (BBUs) from base stations to more centralised locations.
Huawei, Telenor sign deal to supply RAN across Europe, Asia
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a five-year agreement with Norwegian telco Telenor to supply radio access networks (RAN) across Europe and Asia. Under the deal, called the Global Frame Agreement, the two partners will focus on modernising existing 2G and 3G networks and further technological advancement to 4G for all Telenor subsidiaries. Huawei and […]
Industry giants form mobile edge open networking group
A consortium of operators, infrastructure vendors and IT vendors have collaborated to develop an open architecture and API for delivering content and services from the mobile edge. Nokia Networks, Vodafone, IBM, Intel, NTT DoCoMo and Huawei are all supporting the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) working group at standards body ETSI.
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