Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile Working on Cloud-Based Radio Access Network

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

­Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have anounced plans to develop a centralized, collaborative, Cloud-based RAN (C-RAN). The companies say that the C-RAN will provide a common platform for multi-mode wireless standards such as GSM, 3G, and LTE, and is expected to lower OPEX by up to 50% and CAPEX by 15%.

Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in Asia-Pacific said: "The partnership with China Mobile is directly addressing the challenges of high energy costs, explosion of mobile video and sustainable development. By helping them replace traditional network designs with flexible cloud-like architectures, we are preparing the future and help show the way in terms of technology and economic models."

The strategic partnership for C-RAN will leverage Alcatel-Lucent's recently-announced lightRadio platform.

lightRadio represents a new architecture where the base station, typically located at the base of each cell site tower, is broken into its components elements and distributed through the antenna or the network for cloud-like processing. Additionally the various cell site tower antennas are combined and shrunk into a single small powerful, Bell Labs-pioneered multi frequency, multi standard (2G, 3G, LTE) device that can be mounted on poles, sides of buildings or anywhere else there is power and a broadband connection.

 

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