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radisys.com 32 Radisys Series — Who Disaggregated My RAN? eBook The unique aspect about this cloud platform definition is the inclusion of hardware acceleration abstraction APIs. These APIs (called AAL APIs) cover commonly required functions like encryption, integrity, channel encoding/ decoding, and fronthaul acceleration. An Edge Cloud As 4G and 5G technologies are enabling higher bandwidths and multiple use cases, there has also been a strong trend of co-locating edge computing infrastructure and RAN functions in a cloud environment at the edge. This trend is creating a demand in the market for appropriate hardware and cloud platforms to cater to both RAN and edge requirements. Projects in the LFEdge open source community, especially Akraino, are providing deployment options for these requirements. Virtualized RAN is Here to Stay With COTS hardware and cloud platforms becoming a reality for RAN deployments, operators are now prepared to deal with the nuances of fully cloudified radio access networks. This requires more "IT like" skills in the operations teams and this journey has already begun. Recently there has been a slew of announcements from many RAN vendors about their virtualized RAN products. vRAN deployments are here to stay. The industry forums, open source community and cloud infrastructure vendors are all working to solve the vRAN deployment challenges. One such challenge is the need for deploying and managing vRAN solutions in an automated fashion. Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platforms solve these problems. How do these SMOs deploy and manage cloudified RAN solutions? We'll take a look at that in detail in our next blog.

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