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Altiostar and SK Telecom Implement Virtualized Radio Access Network and Collaborate on Software Defined RAN Solution
Altiostar today announced that in cooperation with SK Telecom, the
largest mobile operator in Korea, it has successfully completed a field
trial of its vRAN technology in Bundang, Korea. During this field trial,
performance and capacity improvement with key LTE-A features such as
carrier aggregation, uplink CoMP were validated. The trial utilized SK
Telecom's existing transport network.
Altiostar's field-proven vRAN solution is the virtualized RAN solution
with flexible IP/Ethernet Fronthaul and provides all the benefits of
C-RAN (Centralized RAN/Cloud RAN) without increased investments on
transport infrastructure or frequency spectrum.
With Altiostar's vRAN, service providers can maximize the potential of
their spectrum and lower operational costs with a simplified network
design through network-wide inter-site coordination capability for
LTE-Advanced features. In addition, Altiostar's vRAN also integrates
Mobile Edge (News - Alert) Computing (MEC) to improve the mobile subscriber's Quality
of Experience (QoE), reduce churn and enable new revenue streams via
open API interface.
Altiostar's vRAN implements an innovative functional split that allows
baseband functions to run as virtual network functions (VNF) on COTS
hardware at data centers, thereby bringing the benefits of cloud
infrastructure such as resource pooling, auto-scaling, auto-recovery and
seamless session migration to radio access networks.
Altiostar also announced successful collaboration with SK Telecom to
provide Software Defined RAN (SDRAN) solution. The solution is based on
SK Telecom's SDRAN Remote Radio Unit (RRU), which was developed in
collaboration with SK Telesys (News - Alert) and Altiostar's Open
vRAN Development Platform. The SDRAN RRU is fully-managed from
Altiostar Element Management System (EMS) and supports all of the basic
and advanced LTE features such as inter-site carrier aggregation, Uplink
CoMP (Coordinated Multipoint) and more.
This collaboration successfully establishes the feasibility of an "open"
RAN model where the RAN hardware such as RRUs and COTS servers can be
purchased by mobile network operators independent of baseband software.
Representing a new business approach in the AN market, this open
procurement model provides operators' tremendous flexibility in choosing
best of breed hardware platforms for their RAN while reducing costs
significantly.
Altiostar's Open vRAN Development Platform includes all of the RAN
software, virtual baseband unit (vBBU) and drivers needed for any RAN
equipment manufacturer to integrate their RRUs with an established vRAN
solution in a short period of time. Also, with this approach, mobile
operators can deploy vRAN on their existing infrastructure, making use
of their existing, deployed RRUs, thereby reducing development time,
risk and cost.
"This collaboration with Altiostar and SK Telesys establishes
feasibility of SDRAN, a concept pioneered by SKT to bring about
innovation & increased competition in RAN eco-system and help operators
efficiently manage network resources and deliver more services to
customers while reducing costs," said Jin-hyo Park, SVP, Head of Network
Technology R&D center, SK Telecom.
Myoung Hoon Kang, Vice President, Head of R&D Division, SK Telesys said,
"SDRAN architecture opens up the RAN eco-system and provides opportunity
to specialist radio companies like SK Telesys to provide innovative RRUs
to the operators in cost effective manner."
"With Altiostar vRAN, mobile operators can unleash the full potential of
their existing spectrum and cell sites, ready their network for 5G and
receive a significant return on investment when compared to traditional
C-RAN technologies," said Ashraf Dahod (News - Alert), President and Chief Executive
Officer, Altiostar. "We are pleased to collaborate with SK Telecom and
provide them with our vRAN technology so that we can customize a
solution to meet the capacity and data consumption needs of the Korean
telecommunications market."
About SK Telecom
Established in 1984, SK Telecom is the largest mobile operator in Korea
by both revenue and number of subscribers. As of December 2016, the
company holds around 50 percent of the market, with 29.60 million mobile
subscribers including 21.1 million LTE subscribers. It has reached KRW
17.092 trillion in revenue in 2016.
SK Telecom has led the advancement of mobile technologies ranging from
2G to 4G, and is currently setting important milestones in its journey
to 5G. The company is not only leading innovation in the field of mobile
network, but also providing IoT, media, home and platform services.
SK Telecom is determined to play a significant role in the Fourth
Industrial Revolution (News - Alert) by achieving innovations and promoting shared
growth with other players in the industry. For more information, please
visit www.sktelecom.com/en or
contact [email protected].
About SK Telesys
SK Telesys is a leading provider of 4G LTE Repeaters, CPE (including
Giga Wi-Fi and AP), Transmission Equipment and LTE Equipment. It was the
first company in the world to develop Gigabit Wi-Fi and commercialize
the home Femto Cell. SK Telesys is focused on developing a wide variety
of Technologies, including the next-generation 5G at its R&D Center in
Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea.
About Altiostar
Altiostar is the pioneer in virtualized RAN (vRAN) with Ethernet
fronthaul. Its unique eNodeB solution is designed to improve quality of
experience of the mobile network, enhance spectral efficiency and reduce
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Altiostar has developed a wide portfolio
of eNodeB solutions for all the major LTE frequencies and for all
deployment scenarios. The vRAN solution is the foundation for evolution
towards 5G. It provides elastic scalability, low-risk innovation, with a
common NFV+SDN enabled platform. This provides significant cost savings,
using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and LTE-Advanced feature
capability, based on C-RAN architecture. vRAN offers the most efficient
platform to make Mobile Edge Computing a reality and provides a
foundation for 5G. http://www.altiostar.com
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