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RADISYS SOLUTION BRIEF | Software Defined Wireless Access Professional Services
Evolving 4G and 5G RAN
The mobile service providers are grappling with increasingly
complex megatrends. From 4G cloud RAN (C-RAN), 5G New Radio
(NR), CBRS private LTE, NB-IoT, to multi-access edge computing
(MEC), there are opportunities and challenges abound.
As service providers globally reimagine the Radio Access Network (RAN) to usher in the next era of
enhanced mobile broadband supporting streaming video and active device location tracking services;
ultra-low-latency mobile communication supporting mission critical applications; and massive machine
communications to drive mass adoption of IoT; they are embracing the concepts of unbundled, software
defined, and programmable RAN.
Software Defined Wireless Access
Services
Software-Defined Proprietary
Vendor lock-ins, slow time to market and high
innovation cost
Integrated control and data, proprietary
interfaces
Pre-programmed control logic and
fixed network resources
Integrated RRU & BBU with
high cost last mile transport
Embedded
Fixed
Integrated
Unbundled
Programmable
Flexible
Open white box hardware and software
(NFV, SDN) efficiencies
Disaggregated control / data,
Open APIs
Programmable based on real
world network conditions
Deployment architecture
and front haul agnostics
Traditional
RAN
Next
Generation
Open
RAN
Software
Modularity
Application and
Network Adaptability
Deployability and
Manageability
Platform
S O L U T I O N B R I E F
